Toyota onboard DSRC Unit provides drivers real-day close-vicinity traffic data in Japan

In an effort to develop next-generation roads in Japan, Toyota has developed an onboard DSRC (dedicated short-range communications) unit intended to increase traffic safety by providing drivers real-time, close-vicinity traffic data. A roadside DSRC device sends traffic knowledge and other knowledge to help increase driving safety to the onboard DSRC unit; the unit thereupon passes on the info to the driver through the navigation system in written, graphic or other image structure or through voice guidance.

The navigation-system-linked DSRC unit, through the use of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies, including Japan’s electronic toll collection framework, receives a wide range of traffic info via vehicle-infrastructure communications and provides it to highway drivers in visual structure and through voice guidance. It alerts drivers to obstacles they cannot see on the road ahead around curves, such as stopped vehicles and stopped-up traffic. It plus alerts drivers to merging vehicles.

Through such activities, Toyota is reinforcing a wide range of traffic safety measures, including the development of safer vehicles and technologies, while plus participating in the development of traffic environments and conducting traffic safety awareness activities, as part of its efforts to eliminate traffic fatalities and accidents toward the achievement of sustainable mobility.Toyota plans to offer the DSRC unit in Japan on a new vehicle model soon to be launched.

[Source] dhiram