Category: Technology
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Connected Signals without DSRC or Other Traffic Signal Retrofits
A signaling system about the signaling system is the essence of the problem that technologies like DSRC (Dedicated Short-Range Communications) are trying to solve. That is, what sort of fuel efficiencies and safety improvements could be made if drivers simply knew when a traffic light would change from red to green or were told how…
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Electrifying Mobility in Communications, Transport & Smart Cities #CES2018
The “C” in this year’s CES2018 could have easily stood for “cars”, as vehicles from a variety of new entities as well as established players, were seemingly everywhere at CES2018. And it is much more than cars, as the vehicles ranged from personal transport to delivery to shared. The impact of the technologies go beyond…
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Alexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised
Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa went down on Friday while speaking the wrong error messages to customers. During a ½ hour span Friday morning, I heard the following from Alexa on my Echo device, Amazon Fire Tablet and Fire TV stick: “I’m having trouble understanding right now… try again later.” “Your echo device lost its WiFi…
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The Consumer Experience Show #CES2018
For decades, the acronym CES stood for Consumer Electronics Show. A few years ago, in recognition of its expanded scope, the show organizers changed it from an acronym to simply a word, CES. The meaning of CES continues to evolve and some of the descriptors that might be used to describe CES in 2018 include…
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Autonomous Transportation Workshop & Standards Meetings Show Progress
5G Seen As Key for Autonomous Urban Fleets, Offering Revenue Opportunities for Telecommunications Providers A number of interesting take-aways came out of back to back meetings held December 5-6 at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) headquarters in Arlington, VA. While it’s no longer a surprise that “smart car” and similar technologies are developing faster than…
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The See Through Car – P2P Possibilities #CES2018
The promise of Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications has been around the corner and illustrated in presentations for decades, so it was a treat to see the technology in product form at CES2018, In the above video, Dr. Amine Taleb, Director of R&D for Comfort and Driving Assistance for Valeo North America, demonstrates Valeo’s XtraVue, which streams video…