Connected Cars

Addison Lee has struck a deal with self-driving car company Oxbotica to bring driverless taxis to the streets of London by 2021, with New York and other cities to follow. The firm said it aims to take a greater share …

Gartner identifies 10 tech trends to watch next year Autonomous “things”, digital twins and an “empowered edge” are some of the top — but perhaps not fully recognized — tech trends to watch in 2019, according to Gartner. “The future …

There is massive disruption in the telecoms space, driven in the main part by the shift from proprietary hardware to commoditised hardware, and by the virtualisation of network functions in software. We are seeing this in the core network, the …

P3 Group CEO discusses the evolution of testing and the role of crowd-sourced, device-based data Crowd-sourced, device-based data offers new insights into the customer experience and cost savings for network planning and optimization purposes, according to Hakan Ekmen, CEO of …

Qualcomm, telcos and automakers testing C-V2X With U.S. regulators questioning the value of setting aside the 5.9 GHz band for direct short range communications, a long-gestating but not widely adopted vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, will cellular-based connectivity take its place? Based …

NCTA calls DSRC ‘failed;’ wants 5.9 GHz for Wi-Fi Almost two decades ago the U.S. Federal Communications Commission set aside the 5.9 GHz band for dedicated short range communications with the goal of letting vehicles communicate with one another using …

Blackberry’s growth in-regards to connected car is probably one of the best-kept secrets in mobile.  Few people know about Blackberry’s QNX business, and even fewer know about how dominant they have been in the infotainment technologies used in automobiles. The …

Automotive manufacturer Volvo and chip maker NVIDIA have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to self-driving Volvo cars. The pair will develop an AI-enabled core computer for new models from as early as 2020, bringing about advanced driver support …

  Huawei said it has integrated its mobile data center platform into the Audi Q7   Huawei and Audi announced plans to strengthen their cooperation in the field of intelligent connected vehicles. During the Huawei Connect event taking place this …

  EU co-funded ENSEMBLE project aims to introduce multi-brand platooning on European roads by 2021   German company ZF said it is currently working with truck manufacturers as part of the European Union’s co-funded ENSEMBLE project to test programs with …

  The JV, dubbed MONET, aims to create a mobility-as-a-service business unit in 2020   Japanese firms Toyota and SoftBank have agreed to form a strategic partnership to facilitate the creation of new mobility services, and plan to establish a …

Cisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like 5G, blockchain, and augmented reality (AR), and its innovation work …

Ford, Uber and Lyft have agreed to pool their road traffic data in an open platform available to public and private sector companies to improve mobility in and around cities. The data platform, called SharedStreets, is designed to make it …

Energy giant BP and car maker Honda have joined with insurance companies Aviva and Hastings Direct to fund a new three-year smart mobility pilot in London to develop and test new transport technologies, road services, and business models. The programme …

  Alibaba’s CEO Jack Ma said China needs to control core technologies such as chip development   Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has announced plans to set up a new semiconductor company to focus on the development of artificial intelligence …

“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version of 5G that radio engineers are preparing and network marketers …

  The trial took place at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development Center in Beijing   German companies Daimler and Bosch have announced the completion of a joint, automated valet parking pilot in China’s capital Beijing. The technology, which had been …

Chinese technology giant Baidu has announced a new platform that integrates smart vehicle systems and intelligent road infrastructure. Its ‘intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems’ (IVICS) solution, called Apollo, supports sensor data for vehicle perception, roadside perception, data compression, communication optimisation, …

Huawei is collaborating with the German cty of Duisburg, the hub for China’s trade with Europe, to implement 5G and IoT technologies. The Chinese vendor said it will provide the city, located in the west of Germany, with infrastructure solutions …

Las Vegas, in Nevada, is using artificial intelligence to detect and fix issues within its IT systems, including those underpinning its various smart city projects. California-based FixStream said its deal with Las Vegas is the first implementation of artificial intelligence …

Car maker Volvo has unveiled an autonomous car concept it reckons will disrupt the multi-billion dollar domestic air travel industry. Its new ‘360c concept’ presents a fully autonomous, fully electric car that, although flightless itself, will bring a level of …

  The German firm said the trial will take place in the city of Potsdam in the coming weeks   Siemens Mobility, together with German firm ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam, plans to carry out a demonstration of what it claims to …

The two basic rules for autonomous driving are: Rule number 1: Do no harm. Rule number 2: Don’t get hurt. Forget about insurance companies’ claim that autonomous driving is safer and that insurance rates will be lower. When people hear …

As the summer ends, the weather worsens. For some, the changing seasons bring devastating storms. Their shadows grow ever-longer, and the risk to life grows ever-higher. Last year (2017) saw some of the worst natural disasters on record, with earthquakes, …