Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA) announced
that it had received a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the DOT’s
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) on vehicle to
vehicle (V2V) communications. The advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM)
for this was
published in August 2014.
The Fall
2015 Unified Agenda describes the rulemaking this way:
“V2V communications uses on-board
dedicated short-range radio communication (DSRC) devices to broadcast messages
about a vehicle's speed, heading, brake status, and other information to other
vehicles and receive the same information from the messages, with extended
range and "line-of-sight" capabilities. V2V's enhanced detection
distance and ability to "see" around corners or "through"
other vehicles helps V2V-equipped vehicles uniquely perceive some threats and
warn their drivers accordingly. V2V technology can also be fused with
vehicle-resident technologies to potentially provide greater benefits than
either approach alone. V2V can augment vehicle-resident systems by acting as a
complete system, extending the ability of the overall safety system to address
other crash scenarios not covered by V2V communications, such as lane and road
departure. Additionally, V2V communication is currently perceived to become a
foundational aspect of vehicle automation.”
This rulemaking may be the first place that NHTSA attempts
to address cybersecurity issues related to automobiles. Based upon questions
asked in the ANPRM it certainly looks like NHTSA has been looking at this as a
potential vehicle for vehicle cybersecurity regulations.
There were over
900 comments received on the ANPRM in 2014. Surprisingly, a large number of
them were from private citizens objecting to V2V implementation because of
perceived health issues associated with electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from
the radio transmissions involved in the communications. It will be interesting
to see how NHTSA deals with those comments in this NPRM.
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