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Cars now talk to motorcycles.

Imagine a scenario: the bike intends to overtake the car on the left, as it should be, and informs the vehicle in front of it to prevent it from turning too and an accident occurs. This type of conversation, among others, will avoid a series of occurrences between motorcycles and cars that traditionally penalize the drivers of both wheels.
Ducati, which belongs to the Volkswagen Group and is directly controlled by Audi, introduced Safety Road Map 2025, which passes through the Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication System, with potential for two-wheeled vehicles to communicate with four-wheeled vehicles . The technology demonstrated by Ducati at CES is in line with what was developed with Audi and Qualcomm to accept the C-V2X communication technology.
The solution implies that all vehicles can communicate with each other, sharing intentions and thus avoiding accidents. Starting from a Ducati Multistrada 1260 and a fleet of Audi vehicles equipped with C-V2X technology, the Italian motorcycle brand proved that information exchange will reduce the number of accidents and, more than that, the likelihood of such accidents occur. Here's how everything Works: