Controller Area Network (Can): Priority
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Every message has an assigned priority. If two nodes try to send messages simultaneously, the one with the higher priority gets transmitted and the one with the lower priority gets postponed. This arbitration does not affect other messages and results in non - interrupted transmission of the highest priority message