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Six automated truck platoons to compete in European Truck Platooning Challenge

Green Car Congress

A specific V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communication module using a special WiFi standard reserved exclusively for automotive enables direct data transfer between the trucks. If possible, in the interests of fuel efficiency, the distance is adjusted to the legally prescribed distance without interventions in the brake system.

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences had used an open-source standard known as RISC-V to reduce malfunctions in chips for cloud computing and smart cars, the patent filing shows. The most common standards are controlled by Western companies: x86, dominated by U.S.

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