Vehicles are connected wirelessly in many ways. What should professional responders know? If you work on the roadways, you need to know about how connected technologies are advancing, and how they affect you as a responder to traffic incidents.
Rapid advancements in technology are making connected vehicles more and more commonplace on the roadways. In fact, some major auto manufacturers have connected technology in their vehicles in 2019.
Connected vehicle technology, which allows vehicles to transmit and receive data, offers many potential benefits for the emergency services. For example, it can help mitigate struck-by incidents by alerting motorists of the location of emergency incidents on the roadway and offering detour information.
It can make the jobs of roadway responders easier by automatically calling 911 in an emergency (for example airbag deployment or crash incident) and providing precise location and vehicle information prior to arrival at a scene.
It can also provide a way for responders to communicate with each other through their emergency vehicles and the vehicles' data.
Although there are data security, privacy, retrofitting, and budget implications to consider, overall there is tremendous opportunity to improve the safety and efficiency of emergency operations on the roadway thanks to connected vehicle technology.
How much do you know about connected vehicle technology? Are you and your response agency ready to take advantage of it? Many agencies are not.
In this program, you will learn the basics of connected vehicle technology, the opportunities it presents for emergency response, the current state of technology development, and how to begin to prepare to integrate connected vehicle technology in your department.
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