Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Introduction

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks have attracted undivided attention from the industries and academicians alike during the past decade.The idea of making the cars talk and communicate with each other is a fascinating, technologically challenging idea that has been under intense research. Though various technological advancements have been made over the last couple of years, technology gurus are yet to reach a conclusion about the implementation of this wonderful technology in real time, day to day scenario. Though this idea has undergone extensive testing and evaluations at the simulation level and gave encouraging results, it will take some more real world testing before this dream project becomes a reality and part of our daily routine.

The technological advancements in automobiles have made rapid progress over the past few years and thanks to the cutting edge technologies and extensive research in the field of electronics and wireless communications, the dream of making the cars communicate with each other and transfer data is slowly but steadily turning into a reality. The car manufacturing industries as well as the academicians and researchers have realized the potential of this field and they have been researching and coming up with innovative techniques and protocols to help the idea turn into a reality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqCAVwQv0E 

The prominent car manufacturers have joined hands to form Car 2 Car Communications Consortium. The primary members are:
1) Audi -  http://progress.audiusa.com/ 
2) BMW-  http://www.bmw.com/index_en.html 
3) Daimler -  http://www.daimler.com/ 
4)Fiat -  http://www.fiat.com/cgi-bin/pbrand.dll/FIAT_COM/home.jsp 
5) Honda -  http://www.honda.com/ 
6)Opel -  http://www.opel.de/flash.html 
7)Volvo -  http://www.volvo.com/group/volvosplash-global/en-gb/pages/volvo_splash.aspx 
8)Volkswagen -  http://www.volkswagen.com/vwcms/international_portal/virtualmaster/en.html

The complete list of primary , associate and the research members is provided in the C2C-CC website 

 http://www.car-2-car.org/index.php?id=members