The electric vehicle, which can carry up to 12 people, is equipped with some of the world’s most advanced vehicle technology, including IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive

Source: safecarnews.com

I’ll bet my colleague and friend, Joe Speed of IBM in Arizona has something to do with this project. Great work and promising for both IBM and LM.

This isn’t complicated to understand—it is the same reason that Manhattan is full of cabs but getting one in Queens is next to impossible

Source: www.wsj.com

I get the car sharing model changing the road usage and freeing up lanes of traffic, but don’t completely understand how behavior of single person per car today will change just because there is no driver and it runs on electricity, not oil.

We see work both in LTE Advanced and 5G as critically important for delivering the kind of connectivity needed for autonomous driving, as well as being a very scalable and economically attractive way to drive V2X

Source: www.automotiveworld.com

Intel gets it on this one, I wonder if they are shaping the DSRC developments in LTE release 14 of 3GPP called C-V2X? Qualcomm may have the overriding market lead as 5G starts in 2020.

This may be why Tesla turned to Israeli software specialist Redbend, purchased last year by Harman International, to process the over-the-air rollout of its Autopilot driver-assist system in 2015

Source: www.autonews.com

Not sure this factoid has been verified, but the publicity sure helps Harman/Redbend, who already has a massive install base using OMA DM protocol to do this work.

GM has said that unlike Tesla, it will never use OTA for updates related to safety systems such as brakes

Source: www.thestar.com

Never say never, they say. If brakes don’t work right and you can fix them all at once what would you do?

WaveCombo, the technology is generally known as vehicle-to-vehicle communication, or V2X. It can operate with its integrated 802.11p, 802.11n, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 networks for V2V, V2I, and intra-vehicle applications

Source: embedded-computing.com

What we need is more consolidation of wireless technologies to let each build on the strengths of others.

iOS 10 represents a “huge release for developers,” according to Federighi

Source: www.fiercedeveloper.com

Not much mention of CarPlay, I suppose the claim will be that all these innovations transfer to your car seamlessly without need to buy a new car if you have CarPlay.

Meeting with CEO Mary Barra at the World Economic Forum, I made the case for investing in Canada

Source: safecarnews.com

I guess this a good example of NAFTA at work, big US company helping giant Canada with 1000 jobs over the years.

This avoids the creation of a near infinite number of “if, then, else” statements, which is impractical to code when trying to account for the randomness that occurs on the road

Source: safecarnews.com

It’s hard to believe there is no other industry that has not already resolved this programming dilemma.

Researchers from Pen Test Partners say they found minimal security measures on the vehicle and easily tapped into the onboard Wi-Fi to access features controlled by the infotainment screen

Source: blog.caranddriver.com

The reality is that Infotainment systems are not designed with security features because nobody wants to pay for the software development or take the performance hit on the hardware.