Developing a smart system of communications for cars dubbed as Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), safety of roads will be improved through receiving and transmitting warning signals among cars.

The deputy director of Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) for high-tech industries, Mehrdad Sabbaghi, made the remarks, adding that developing the system using indigenized technology was aimed to optimize traffic management inside and outside cities through linking with cars by roadside equipment and information technology to offer online services such as numbering, paying tolls, reducing pollution and fuel consumption, as well.

He added that launching the system will reduce at least 30 percent of accidents resulting from faults of drivers and 40 percent of accident resulting from road problems.

Sabbaghi went on to say that necessary hardware will be installed inside cars, which will provide cars to be linked with other cars and with roadside safety equipment, as well.

According to him, implementing the plan will integrate data received from cars and provide the cars, which are located within the under coverage area of CVT system, with services.

The IDRO’s deputy director pointed out to the transmittable data through the system to cars, saying that the traffic situation, the blind spots outside sight of drivers, accidents and incidents across the road, probability of frost across the road, sudden stop of front cars and alarms related to the traffic of emergency service vehicles are among information which are offered to cars.

Tracking vehicles, gathering data on traffic and road situations, traffic limitations, and weather forecast are among the most important services of the smart car communications system, he noted.

According to studies of the transportation research center, road accidents imposed losses as much as $18 billion in Iran in 2007. Statistics of the traffic police show that 52 percent of the road accidents were related to faults of drivers and 30 percent were due to bad conditions across roads.

If the smart car communication system, which is being developed jointly by IDRO and Sharif University, is utilized, in addition to indigenizing its modern technology, some $4.5 billion of losses resulting from road accidents will be prevented.