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New System Aids LA Police Identify Drivers with Lapsed Policies

A new monitoring system is being launched in Louisiana to assist police with enforcement of a state requirement that drivers are up to date on paying their auto insurance premiums. The system will pull reports from insurers and provide the data to the state Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) and to state police. Troopers will then be able to check the database during traffic stops.  A...

Perspective: The US Legal System – An Impediment to Autonomous Vehicles (Video)

Technology often outpaces the legal system, but when it comes to autonomous vehicles, the speed of the technology’s development and the piecemeal evolution of the US legal system may create confusion on the road. In their videocast, Michael Nelson and Kymberly Kochis discuss the current state of autonomous vehicles, relevant legal developments, and the gaps in the legal framework that...

Google’s Autonomous Vehicle (At Least Partially) Responsible for Accident

In February, one of Google’s self-driving vehicles was involved in an accident with a city bus in Mountain View, California. Unlike the 17 previous accidents involving Google’s self-driving cars, this accident was at least partially the car’s fault. The accident occurred when the self-driving car was in the right lane, about to turn left. The car moved to the right sight of the lane,...

Perspective: The Evolution of 5G

The evolution of 5G wireless technology is expected to be completed sometime between 2018 and 2020, and the speed of 5G will be somewhere between 10 to 40 times faster than the current system, 4G.  5G will also carry a higher volume of data along with a faster pace.  But experts are concerned about the transmission range of the 5G network.  Enter Google once again with a potential...

The Next Generation of Wireless Technology

At the University of Surrey, researchers and tech companies like Samsung and Fujitsu are collaborating to work on the development of fifth-generation, or 5G, technology. With 5G, people could download whole movies to smartphones in fewer than five seconds—in contrast, with current technology the same download would take as much as eight minutes. The efforts of those working on 5G will...

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