Saturday, January 29, 2022

The Verge - Transportation Posts

The Verge - Transportation Posts


The FAA, AT&T, and Verizon are getting closer to a solution for their 5G mess

Posted: 28 Jan 2022 01:28 PM PST

Communications weren't always solid, but they're picking back up. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Regulators, carriers, and the airline industry seem to be figuring out the details surrounding the rollout of C-band 5G and its potential effects on air travel. According to the Federal Aviation Administration's latest statement, "through continued technical collaboration, the FAA, Verizon, and AT&T have agreed on steps that will enable more aircraft to safely use key airports while also enabling more towers to deploy 5G service."

Carriers "have provided more precise data about the exact location of wireless transmitters and supported more thorough analysis of how 5G C-band signals interact with sensitive aircraft instruments," according to an FAA statement released on Friday, which you can read in full below. Before AT&T and Verizon l...

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Waymo sues California DMV to keep driverless crash data under wraps

Posted: 28 Jan 2022 09:36 AM PST

Photo by Sean O'Kane / The Verge

Waymo filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles to keep driverless car crash data from being made public. The autonomous vehicle operator, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, claims that such data should be considered a trade secret. The news of the lawsuit was first reported by Business Insider and later by the Los Angles Times.

California's DMV oversees the largest autonomous vehicle testing program in the country, with over 60 companies permitted to operate test vehicles on public roads. Only a handful are approved to operate fully autonomous vehicles without safety drivers at the wheel, and even fewer have been approved to deploy vehicles for commercial purposes.

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