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Utah vehicles may be able to communicate with roads soon. Is your community planning for the future.

In a visit to Salt Lake City, Shailen Bhatt, federal highway administrator, said that while technology has transformed many things, there were over 40,000 traffic fatalities in the country in 2023 “because we have not been as courageous, or as quick to deploy technology in transportation.”
The safety improvements could compare to the introduction of ubiquitous technologies like airbags and mandatory seat belts, Braceras predicted.
What if cars, bikes and buses in Utah are able to receive messages from roads to avoid accidents? The state’s infrastructure could send signals predicting a driver may run a red light, lights could change to green when emergency vehicles need to reach a destination faster, or a bridge could tell a car to slow down to avoid an accident.
That’s a technology the Utah Department of Transportation has been working on for a couple of years. It’s on some Utah Transit Authority buses and snow plows and now is poised to expand with newly allocated federal funding. Out of a $60 million funding pool, Utah is set to receive $20 million from the Federal Highway Administration to partner with Wyoming and Colorado in the endeavor.
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