Qualcomm’s Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technology presents a promising solution to India’s severe road safety crisis, with the country recording the highest number of road accidents worldwide. To explore this groundbreaking technology in detail, Arup Das speaks to Hagai Zyss, Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies.
India faces a critical road safety crisis, with the highest number of road accidents globally, making it a collective responsibility for every citizen to address this issue urgently. The importance of road safety is so critical that Union Minister Kiran Rijiju said, “Road safety is very important for every citizen. When you go out on the road, there are many rules to prevent accidents. The highest number of road accidents in the world occurs in our country. This is a matter of concern.”
When you’re behind the wheel, nothing tops human awareness and intervention, but technology is now playing its part to complement and offer additional safety features to the person behind, the other car, and people on the road. Qualcomm Technologies is shaping the world of mobility as Express Drives exclusively speaks to Hagai Zyss, Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, who explains how Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technology will create connected, smarter, and safer vehicles with affordable technology.
What is V2X technology?
Time and time again, we have all said this line — safety is paramount. The downside of the latest and state-of-the-art technology is the cost that’s passed on to the vehicle buyer. Hence, the new features are initially limited to the luxury car segment, and then later they trickle down to the mass market categories. Qualcomm has decided to shake up this age-old mindset and is offering V2X tech that can be customised based on the features equipped in the car, including Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). This new technology does not rely on cellular networks but rather uses direct radio frequency between the two devices or vehicles. This ensures that the vehicle’s connectivity does not rely on infrastructure, which can be a challenge in rural areas.
Zyss decodes this new technology by saying it’s all about creating a connected ecosystem where both vehicles and infrastructure share data that helps in predicting and preventing accidents before they actually take place. For sci-fi movie buffs, this concept will remind them of the movie where the Precrime police department arrests the perpetrator before it happens with the help of the psychic powers of three clairvoyant humans, also called ‘precogs’.
Moving back to Qualcomm’s V2X technology, if the vehicle has ADAS, then it can automatically gently apply the brakes when a pedestrian jaywalks or a vehicle jumps the red light at an intersection. “You can actually understand that somebody’s going to violate it and either alert the driver or even soft-brake the car or…
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