To make it possible for the bikes of the future to let drivers know that they’re nearby, stakeholders are developing a bicycle-to-vehicle (B2V) communication standard.
Today, when someone says connected vehicle, they are likely talking about a car with vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure communication ability. But at the all-digital CES this week, bicycle companies came together to prove that you don’t need four wheels to participate in the V2X game. V2X, or vehicle-to-something, is a growing field in the auto industry, and Tome wants to make sure that cyclists aren’t left out of the technology advances. To make it possible for the bikes of the future to let drivers – automated or human – know that they’re nearby, Tome is working with SAE Industry Technologies and nine other stakeholders to develop a bicycle-to-vehicle (B2V) communication standard. The gist is that this B2V standard would operate in ways similar to how V2V communications work, with the bike (or a scooter or an accessory, as they’re a part of this, too) sending out standard Basic Safety Message (BSM) signals to automobiles, while also receiving signals from those cars and infrastructure components like street lights.
