UK connected car project aims to halt motorway pileups for good

A new project funded by Innovate UK and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) aims to halt motorway pileups.The project is called Multi-Car Collision Avoidance (MuCCA) and is being led by a consortium including Applus Idiada, Cranfield University, Westfield Sports Cars, Cosworth, SBD Automotive, and Connected Places Catapult. The technology behind MuCCA is a combination of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and AI. Autonomous vehicles speak to each other and an AI helps to make decisions based on their communications to avoid potential incidents. If a vehicle detects an incident, the information is shared with nearby cars. This data helps the AI to determine the best manoeuvres to avoid the incident safely and get back on the correct route.