The battle to determine which technology wins out for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications has taken a definite turn toward cellular radio-based systems with an announcement from Ford at CES 2019. The Dearborn-based automaker is the first announce a definitive timeline for introduction of C-V2X communications beginning in calendar year 2022.

For the past couple of years, Ford has been indicating its support for the technology solution championed by Qualcomm in North America and Hauwei in China. This is a definite blow to supporters of dedicated short range communications (DSRC) such as Toyota. Until the emergence of C-V2X a few years ago, most of the industry and regulators seemed to be behind DSRC.
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