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Volvo has joined the consortium of CAR to CAR communication and promises to introduce this new technology in all its cars by 2016.

The Volvo isn’t the first, several other European car manufacturers have also selected models of their cars talk to one another. However, this is an area of technology where critical mass will be required to affect sizeable benefits for everyday drivers, so any progress in terms of new automakers rolling out similar features is noteworthy.

Volvo’s tech will be present in the 90 series by year-end, including the S90, V90 and XC90, with wireless communication tech built in partnership with Ericsson that can send and receive warnings about road conditions between vehicles, as well as problems with the cars themselves.

The Communication is routed via cloud so that vehicles don’t need to have line-of-sight or other direct wireless connections.

It requires an active Internet connection to work, but Volvo says it’ll also get better over time as a result of data analysis through use. Like other features, it’ll probably also trickle down to lower cost model options after debuting on high-end vehicles.