US set to drop proposed vehicle-to-vehicle communications mandate

The proposed mandate to add vehicle-to-vehicle communications to all new cars appears to have been killed by the Trump administration.
The White House and US Department of Transportation are not going to push forward with a mandate that would have required new cars to be equipped with dedicated short-range radios that allow vehicles to send some data — such as crashes, road hazards and weather conditions — to other vehicles, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. No final decision