Every 17 seconds, a driver on a U.S. road gets hit from behind. In fact, a third of all car crashes are rear-end collisions.
Source: www.latimes.com
Car safety progress by 10 car OEMs, touché! This will be great for the industry AND the consumers in cars. How about an insurance rebate if you have this feature in your car?
Sure, it’s building LTE into vehicles. But it’s also providing car companies with software, services, and new ideas.
Source: www.fastcompany.com
Finally someone is making money on Connected Cars, AT&T learns 3-4 years into the process that folks will pay a small add-on to their bill but not much and don’t want to know the incremental hardware cost of OnStar running LTE. This is a good trend.
Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., in February reintroduced legislation to open the 5.9 GHz band to new uses — they also back the deal.
Source: safecarnews.com
Let’s get on with the testing and prove whether 802.11ac can “do no harm” to 5.9 Ghz DSRC. Both industries are in a stall until this is done. I hope they both win, and DSRC radios can be in production cars making them safer.
“Photo by Guttersberg AutomotiveAccording to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 1,550 people are killed and 71,000 are injured each year as a direct result of drowsy driving.”
Source: www.cthreereport.com
I wonder what the steering wheel will do when you let go? Steer the car to safety?
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Source: www.cthreereport.com
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Apple and Cisco Systems are collaborating to optimize Cisco’s networking gear for iOS enterprise users, part of a larger push Apple is making to get its iPhones and iPads into more business customers’ hands.
Source: www.fiercewireless.com
What a brilliant idea for Apple to prepare takeover of the business market by optimizing the complete end to end experience in business class. I already noticed the increased attention to business needs when visiting their stores. This is more that a device play as in the past for the PC.
Arizona has been a great home for Uber. Late last year, under the leadership of Governor Ducey, Arizona passed common sense ridesharing regulations that have helped thousands of Arizonans connect w…
Source: safecarnews.com
I knew there was a reason for me to move from Detroit to AZ. Now this could become the home of Uber and autonomous, although every state claims to be that.
Uber will eventually build a centrally-controlled, all-electric, autonomous vehicle fleet
Source: techcrunch.com
As if Uber is not having enough troubling fighting off Taxi unions, the future may obsolete their own massive driver pool. Of course we’ll need to trust the tech before we step in the back seat, we call that a train today.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
It’s hard to have both safety and convenience with digital content on large or small screens in the car, but I’ll still argue that a well designed UI is the key. Also self driving cars will help “when” they get here.
This webinar, presented by the GENIVI Alliance, will characterize the range and type of cybersecurity threats to the automotive ecosystem and to the vehicles it delivers. Discussion will include network-based exploits (3G), local attacks (WiFi, Bluetooth and wireless keys/key-fobs), the role of open source software in automotive systems design, and steps OEMs, Tier One suppliers and other ecosystem participants are taking to meet cybersecurity threats head-on.
Source: www.genivi.org
Security in the open automotive aligns with the thinking that you cannot lock down a car perfectly today, so collaborate to find a scalable answer.
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