Radar will remain a key technology in the automotive space, but camera sensors and machine vision technology are poised to push advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) into the mainstream due to low cost, flexibility and multiple use cases, said ABI Research. Automotive camera sensor shipments are forecast to reach 197 million by 2020 from suppliers including OmniVision, ON Semiconductor, Sony, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba, it said. ABI described a “fusion of sensors” combining with radar for forward-looking obstacle detection, pedestrian detection, lane guidance and driver monitoring; with infrared cameras for night vision; and with ultrasonic sensors for automated parking. Advances in RF transceivers, microcontrollers and open platforms will lead to cost reduction by leveraging microcontrollers across multiple sensors, it said. The primary driver for the uptake of ADAS will be the arrival of autonomous driving, ABI said. ADAS is already becoming the subject of regulation, with the European New Car Assessment Programme including the presence of speed assistance systems, autonomous emergency braking and lane departure warning/lane keep assist as criteria to determine safety ratings, it said. In the U.S., similar initiatives are being discussed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which recently proposed changes to its five-star safety program, ABI said.
The FCC received wide support for use of a national location code to improve the emergency alert system (EAS), in comments on proposed rule changes for EAS. NAB and broadcast engineers backed an approach that isn’t costly to broadcasters, and consumer groups, Verizon and NCTA recommended modifications to the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS). Comments were due Thursday. Replies are due Aug. 29 (CD July 16 p20).
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) revised its rules related to national defense priorities given to government procurement contracts, private contract approvals and resource allocations to industry. The final rule, effective Sept. 12, makes no changes to the most recent BIS proposal to this final rule because industry provided no comments, said BIS.
Telcordia Technologies, which hopes to replace Neustar as the Local Number Portability Administrator, accused Neustar of delaying tactics. In a letter filed at the FCC (http://bit.ly/1utwCmH), Telcordia said the final 14 pages of recent comments filed by Neustar were completely redacted, with the company “unilaterally asserting national security concerns."
The FCC shouldn’t tell video distributors how often to check their closed captioning equipment or tighten rules for live and near-live captioning, said NAB, NCTA and other industry commenters in reply comments filed Friday in docket 05-231 in response to an FCC rulemaking on video closed captioning quality. Though the commission created caption quality standards in February, it also issued a Further NPRM seeking comments on some deferred issues from the rulemaking (CD Feb 21 p5).
The FCC shouldn’t tell video distributors how often to check their closed captioning equipment or tighten rules for live and near-live captioning, said NAB, NCTA and other industry commenters in reply comments filed Friday in docket 05-231 in response to an FCC rulemaking on video closed captioning quality. Though the commission created caption quality standards in February, it also issued a Further NPRM seeking comments on some deferred issues from the rulemaking.
The FCC Friday approved, over one dissent and two partial dissents, rules requiring all carriers and interconnected over-the-top text providers to have the capacity to transmit emergency texts to 911 call centers by the end of the year. The FCC also approved a further NPRM asking about such issues as extending the mandate to non-interconnected OTT providers and on rules for determining the location of those sending the texts and making the system work for subscribers roaming on another network.
Sprint, T-Mobile and others told Congress that the U.S. needs regulated interconnection, even amid and following the IP transition, said comments submitted to the House Communications Subcommittee. Comments were due Friday and generally not yet released online, addressing a July white paper (http://1.usa.gov/1r0IyeZ) on interconnection that House Republicans released as part of their initiative to overhaul the Communications Act. USTelecom and some others strongly disagreed with Sprint and T-Mobile and slammed the notion of such rules or state involvement.
The FCC Friday approved, over one dissent and two partial dissents, rules requiring all carriers and interconnected over-the-top text providers to have the capacity to transmit emergency texts to 911 call centers by the end of the year. The FCC also approved a further NPRM asking about such issues as extending the mandate to non-interconnected OTT providers and on rules for determining the location of those sending the texts and making the system work for subscribers roaming on another network.
Sprint, T-Mobile and others told Congress that the U.S. needs regulated interconnection, even amid and following the IP transition, said comments submitted to the House Communications Subcommittee. Comments were due Friday and generally not yet released online, addressing a July white paper (http://1.usa.gov/1r0IyeZ) on interconnection that House Republicans released as part of their initiative to overhaul the Communications Act. USTelecom and some others strongly disagreed with Sprint and T-Mobile and slammed the notion of such rules or state involvement.