The U.S. Department of Transportation unveiled its Connected Vehicle system Monday at the 18th World Congress of Intelligent Transport Systems.

The conference, held at the Orange County Convention Center, showcased the latest in transportation technology.

The system uses dome-shaped transponders that have already been installed at intersections around Orange County to wirelessly ?talk? to vehicles. Vehicles with the system installed can also ?talk? to each other, relaying location, speed and trajectory information that will prevent the vehicles from crashing into each other.

The Connected Vehicle system can automatically apply brakes, swerve or even honk if it detects an impending collision using information from other cars and the roadside transponders.

"We can make that work seamlessly so every car is talking, every vehicle is talking, and interacting with the infrastructure, traffic signals, things of that nature,? said Rick McDonough of the New York Department of Transportation.

Even after the conference ends on Thursday, the transponders will remain in place in Orange County for the next few years, as a test bed for the Connected Vehicle system. Engineers will come from all over the world to Orange County to test the system.

Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad attended the conference on Monday. He is eying the Connected Vehicle system for Florida.

?Case in point, if you're driving down I-4, and there's congestion, your vehicle can tell you there's congestion ahead of you,? said Prasad.

As soon as next year, the U.S. Department of Transportation may consider making automakers install the Connected Vehicle system in all new cars.