Tag: Connected Cars

  • How DARPA Kickstarted AV Development

    How DARPA Kickstarted AV Development

    DARPA director Tony Tether came up with a novel idea: DARPA would launch a challenge, a series of races, for robot cars.

  • EU Council Stops WiFi Standard for V2X

    EU Council Stops WiFi Standard for V2X

    The European Council of ministers reversed the Commission decision to support the WiFi standard for vehicle to everything (V2X) communication in the Union. The newly elected European Commission will have to draft a new proposal to the European Parliament and Council with a “neutral” approach, letting car manufacturers and operators decide what standard use for […]

  • IoT Times: Consumers want everything they have on their phone in their car

    IoT Times: Consumers want everything they have on their phone in their car

    AT&T sees connected cars as the operator’s most important IoT market. America’s biggest cellular carrier is currently adding 1.5 million new cars per quarter to its network.   Chris Penrose, President of IoT solutions at AT&T, shared the company’s vision about IoT and the future of connected devices during a keynote at the Mobile World Congress […]

  • Connected & Autonomous Cars Are Using More Power and Fuel

    A study published by researchers at the University of Michigan and the Ford Motor Innovation Center in February, shows that autonomous cars could have a substantial energy toll, effectively making them more polluting than current manually driven vehicles The technology installed in connected vehicles and the infrastructure — such as Vehicle-to-Everything technologies — require a significant amount of power to […]