Volvo Tests New Cloud-Based Car-To-Car Warning System

Volvo has joined forces with the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) to test a new form of inter-car road safety communication.

The new system can detect road surfaces affected by snow and ice, and share that information with other cars close by which are using the same stretch of road, all via the ‘cloud’ using the mobile phone network.  

The communication will eventually make winter driving safer and road maintenance more efficient, as parts of the Northern Hemisphere are currently emerging from severe winter driving conditions from last season, particularly the US.