Vehicle vision system with compressed video transfer via DSRC link

A communication system for vehicles, said communication system comprising:

• a camera disposed at a first vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the first vehicle, said camera capturing image data;
• a first communication device disposed at the first vehicle, said first communication device wirelessly transmitting image data captured by said camera;
• a second communication device disposed at a second vehicle, said second communication device receiving the transmitted captured image data from said first communication device;
• wherein said first and second communication devices comprise first and second dedicated short range communication devices;
• wherein the first vehicle comprises a lead vehicle of a platoon of vehicles and wherein the second vehicle comprises at least one following vehicle of the platoon of vehicles that is following the lead vehicle;
• wherein said camera comprises a forward viewing camera of the first vehicle;
• and
• wherein an image processor of the second vehicle processes the received transmitted captured image data for a driver assistance system of the second vehicle, and wherein said image processor processes the received transmitted captured image data for lane marker detection at the road ahead of the first vehicle.