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US To Standardize Car App/communication Device Components

Posted by samzenpus on from the car-speak dept.

coondoggie writes "The U.S. Department of Transportation has high hopes of standardizing the way autos talk to each other and with other intelligent roadway systems of the future. The department recently issued a call for public and private researchers and experts to help it build what the DOT called 'a hypothetical four layer approach to connected vehicle devices and applications certification.'"

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  1. Re:What about makeing the EZ-pass system work for by mattack2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually US *is* an acronym.

    No, it's not. You don't pronounce U.S. as "us". An acronym is when you pronounce it as a word.

    acronym
    noun
    an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g., ASCII, NASA).

    U.S. is an initialism.

    initialism
    noun
    an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g., CPU).