This fact sheet provides information regarding how pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities make up about 19 percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States.  Both drivers and automated vehicles often have blind spots or limited sight lines where they cannot see vulnerable road users on the road. These visual limitations potentially contribute to those incidents.

Cooperative perception can help drivers and automated vehicles perceive vulnerable road users, other vehicles, obstacles on the road, and other objects by allowing vehicles and infrastructures to share the location data of nearby objects and additional helpful information with other roadway entities.

Recommended citation: Federal Highway Administration. Perception Sharing for Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) (Washington, DC: 2023) https://doi.org/10.21949/1521466