For the past several years, DSRC has been the only V2X technology available. After a long period of multiple large-scale field tests, DSRC based V2X went into production in Japan in 2015 and in the US in 2017 in selected vehicle models. In 2019, VW released its Golf 8 with DSRC based V2X, making Europe’s most popular car the first mass market vehicle with V2X.

1. Ite-V2X, lte X2X

2. For the past several years, DSRC
has been the only V2X technology
available.

3. After a long period of multiple large-
scale field tests, DSRC based V2X went
into production in Japan in 2015 and in
the US in 2017 in selected vehicle
models.

4. In 2019, VW released its Golf 8 with Ite-
V2X, lte X2X, making Europe’s most
popular car the first mass market vehicle
with V2X.

5. The more recent C-V2X technology has
the same purpose of direct
communication link between vehicles.

6. C-V2X is defined by 3GPP based on
cellular modem technology, leading to
fundamentally different non-
interoperable access layer with DSRC.

7. Aside from that, the two technologies
are addressing identical use-cases and
having identical network, security and
application layers.

8. While DSRC-based V2X is deployed in
Europe and Japan, C-V2X is gaining
momentum in other regions.

9. In the US, thousands of Road Side Units
were equipped with DSRC V2X and
OEMs began planning their deployment.

10. The industry is watching the FCC as it
plans to divide the allocated 5.9GHz
band between V2X and WiFi.