Newscan: An autonomous car blocked a fire truck responding to an emergency

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As the year starts drawing to a close, so does the tenure of the 117th Congress. That body, under President Biden, passed $65 billion in broadband funding in the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA), plus billions more for broadband in the American Rescue Plan and Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. With that funding in […]

A key former Hytera Communications director has entered a guilty plea to criminal charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from Motorola Solutions that enabled Hytera to accelerate the development of its profitable DMR product line—allegedly at the behest of a top executive at the China-based LMR manufacturer. Gee Siong (G.S.) Kok—Hytera Communications’ former director […]

Bosch and Mercedes have received commercial approval to introduce automated valet parking in Germany. The autonomous driving system will operate at Stuttgart Airport’s P6 garage, where it will park – and return – cars without any input from a human driver. The service is the world’s first highly automated driverless Level 4 parking function – as defined by the Society of Automotive […]