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India Rewrites the Rules of Road Safety: Akhilesh Srivastava’s Three-Year Campaign Unlocks C-V2X, the Technology That Talks Cars Out of Collisions

India Rewrites the Rules of Road Safety: Akhilesh Srivastava’s Three-Year Campaign Unlocks C-V2X, the Technology That Talks Cars Out of Collisions

Landmark Gazette Notification G.S.R. 466(E) de-licenses the 5875–5905 MHz spectrum for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything communication — a policy breakthrough that experts say could eliminate up to 80% of preventable road accidents and save tens of thousands of Indian lives annually. New Delhi [India], June 20: In a decision that transportation historians will mark as India’s Apollo moment for road safety, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) published G.S.R. 466(E) in the Gazette of India on June 10, 2026 – exempting Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) On Board Units operating in the 5875–5905 MHz band from all spectrum licensing requirements, effective immediately. Issued under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, and…
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