Technology Inside Self-driving Vehicles

A self-driving car is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input. To accomplish this task, each vehicle is usually outfitted with a GPS unit, an inertial navigation system, and a range of sensors including laser rangefinders, radar, and video.  The vehicle uses positional information from the GPS and inertial navigation system to…

The Coming 5G Era

What is 5G? It’s the next generation of cellular technology after LTE, and it promises to greatly enhance the speed, coverage and responsiveness of wireless networks. How fast can 5G transfer data? In theory, it can surpass one Gigabits per second. That’s about 100 times faster than a current 4G network. 5G uses three band…