Much has changed in the telecommunications industry in the years since Standards Development Organization (SDOs) such as 3GPP, ITU and OMA were formed

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Change in technology is part of the process. OSS and Open Standards both have value especially in automotive connectivity which depends on the standards of the wireless industry

Venkata Renduchintala, the current president of the Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group at Intel, hinted in a new interview that the company could re-enter the mobile processor business once again.

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Mr. Murthy is new to Intel culture, so the “in market, out of market” pattern is one he does not want to continue. This would be a great improvement for the company and customers that build reliance on long term support and availability.

“In the seven-and-a-half years of my presidency, self-driving cars have gone from sci-fi fantasy to an emerging reality with the potential to transform the way we live,” Obama wrote in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette op-ed published Monday night.

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Someone should tell him that SAE and NHTSA have deprecated the expression “self-driving” as a vernacular term used inconsistently and confusingly, leading to reduced credibility of the technology concept.

The car computer will then silently compare when it would have braked to the driver action and upload that to the Tesla database.

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Finally a real-life example of adding safety using connectivity. Only problem is you need to buy a Tesla to get it.

core technologies including WebLink for branded OEM user experiences, SmartLink for over the air (OTA) updates, and Eolas mapping tools for location-based services

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These are certainly the core technologies of the future for cars, Smart Device Link may be resurrected through this effort.

level 3 vehicles will be obliged to have an operator with a driver’s license on board the autonomous vehicle. It is in this level (level 3) that Tesla’s model S falls in. that is the reason it has not been considered as an autonomous car.

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Who would ever have even thought there were Tesla’s driving around with no operator on board, actually driving! Elon must be laughing at this ruling.

“the regulators have the power to control that speed” because ultimately a carmaker or ride-sharing service can’t place an illegal vehicle on the street

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No carmaker will build an illegal car, but some are already pushing the limits of the law to capture market share.

have no moving parts on a macro scale or a micro scale, offering significantly lower cost, higher reliability, superior performance, increased capability, smaller size and lower weight

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We really don’t know what the winning architecture for autonomous cars, but for sure there will be sensors, the more the better. Lowering the cost may make Laser an improved option that we have today.

The shared autonomous vehicles, which will be tested at GoMentum Station this fall, operate at speeds under 25 miles per hour and will be used as first-and-last mile “people movers.”

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Public buses are used to abruptly pushing your car out of the way to get back to the main traffic lanes. Perhaps these buses will be marked driverless and cars will naturally give them space,

Passengers will have to opt in through the app to be randomly selected for a free test ride — although a human driver will still be behind the wheel

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Better safe than sorry, Uber can’t afford to risk the liability by making customers “beta testers” with a driverless car. Will they ever eliminate drivers? Or maybe this is just to augment safety.