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Car2MEC connected driving tests concluded

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Local cloud computing (Multi-access Edge Computing – MEC) is a key enabling technology for connected driving, specifically for driving safety.

It is vitally important that the industries involved in connected driving work closely together to turn the concepts into sustainable business for all parties involved.

These are the main conclusions of the Car2MEC project after two years of intensive trialling and testing by Continental, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer ESK, MHP and Nokia on the A9 motorway digital test track in Germany.

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Nissan and Docomo test Invisible-to Visible technology using 5G in a moving vehicle

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Nissan and NTT Docomo are putting Nissan’s Invisible-to-Visible technology through its field test in a moving vehicle, using Docomo’s fifth-generation mobile communications connectivity.

The technology, first revealed at the CES trade show in Las Vegas in January, is being tested at Grandrive, Nissan’s proving ground in Yokosuka, Japan.

Invisible-to-Visible, or I2V, is a future Nissan Intelligent Mobility technology that merges the real and virtual worlds.

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