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Qualcomm Tests New Technology That Could Aid Self-Driving Cars

By Mark Sauer / Host, The Roundtable

Published July 27, 2020 at 12:16 PM PDT

This story was published more than 3 years ago.

The Qualcomm headquarters building in San Diego, Nov. 2, 2011.

If we’re ever going to have self-driving cars, they will need to be able to talk wirelessly to one another … and to roadside monitoring infrastructure, like traffic signals. Such technology has been around but has failed to take hold. Now Qualcomm is out to prove the effectiveness of a new version of technology that connects cars.

If we’re ever going to have self-driving cars, they will need to be able to talk wirelessly to one another and to roadside monitoring infrastructure, like traffic signals.

Such technology has been around but has failed to take hold. Now Qualcomm is out to prove the effectiveness of its version of the technology called Cellular Vehicle to Everything, or C-V2X.

The San Diego Union-Tribune's technology reporter Mike Freeman joins Midday Edition on Monday to discuss the pilot project.

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Mark Sauer

A newspaperman for more than 30 years, Mark Sauer joined KPBS in October 2010 and previously served as the host of the KPBS Roundtable. He spent 27 years as a reporter and editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune after stints at The Houston Post and at two papers in his native Michigan. A features/human-interest writer in the UT's Currents section for many years, Mark also spent about a third of his UT career as an editor and reporter on the Metro Desk. He has covered a wide range of events: Wild fires in Southern California and Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast; Super Bowls and the World Series; foster care and child-abuse issues; the Roman Catholic Diocese's sexual-abuse scandal and bankruptcy; royal visits of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Princess Diana; Republican and Democratic national conventions; high-profile criminal trials; and many other stories, from the silly to the sublime. Along the way, he interviewed everyone from presidents to pan-handlers. His work exposing the false accusations and prosecutions of several San Diegans for murder, rape and child abuse garnered Pulitzer Prize nominations and many regional and local journalism awards, including Best in the West, the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism and several San Diego and California bar-association awards. Mark has a degree in journalism from Michigan State University.

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