A new report says that the city of San Francisco is now getting three 911 calls a day due to issues with driverless automated cars from Waymo and GM, and things could get even worse in the future.
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Ofcom is planning to unlock more mmWave bands to help improve mobile data speeds in congested areas. It will also help networks handle upcoming, data-heavy technologies such as virtual reality.
Waymo has finally gotten its permit that will allow it to run driverless operations in the San Francisco area. The company already operates its autonomous services in downtown Phoenix.
Vodafone has been selected as the 5G provider for Midlands Future Mobility, a consortium that's testing autonomous vehicle technologies on roads in the West Midland in Birmingham and Coventry.
Gartner has announced that in 2023, the net additions of autonomous-ready vehicles will reach more than 740,000. The figure was at just 137,000 in 2018 which shows decent growth in the market.
Waymo, Alphabet's subsidiary focused on autonomous vehicles, went on stage today at Google I/O to announce that driverless autonomous cars are on the way, starting in Phoenix, Arizona.
For the fist time in the UK on public roads, a fleet of autonomous vehicles will be traveling at high speeds and will communicate with each other, as part of a wider government technology investment.
The UK Government, in its latest Budget, has approved the use of driverless vehicles on UK roads, as it wants the UK to become a 'global centre for excellence' in connected vehicles.
