  A synchronization mechanism driven by annealed noise is studied for two
replicas of a coupled-map lattice which exhibits stable chaos (SC), i.e.
irregular behavior despite a negative Lyapunov spectrum. We show that the
observed synchronization transition, on changing the strength of the stochastic
coupling between replicas, belongs to the directed percolation universality
class. This result is consistent with the behavior of chaotic deterministic
cellular automata (DCA), supporting the equivalence Ansatz between SC models
and DCA. The coupling threshold above which the two system replicas synchronize
is strictly related to the propagation velocity of perturbations in the system.
