Mercedes-Benz has reached a major milestone in the autonomous car race, allowing drivers to take their eyes off the road… but only if they’re stuck in German traffic jams… in 2022. Yesterday, the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) grantedMercedes-Benzsystem approval of Level 3 autonomous underUN-R157. With the opening of the Road Traffic Act (StVG) for Level 3 systems in 2017, Germany was the first country to create a legal basis for the intended use of these systems....

Mercedez-Benz’s GLE rated as Europe’s safest automated vehicle Thatcham Research and Euro NCAP today announced results of their automated driving system tests The automated safety feature test The vehicle assistance criteria refers to how well the speed, steering, and adaptive cruise control features work in collaboration to control the vehicle’s direction and velocity. Driver engagement is an often overlooked metric when considering the effectiveness of ADAS systems. For Thatcham’s research,this rating considers how accurate the carmaker’s advertising and marketing materials are; how effective thecar’s driver monitoring system is; how easy it is for the driver to control the ADAS feature; and how clearly does thecarcommunicate its status when assisting the driver....

Meshmerize is the winner of the Start-up Games It’s all about your network In a nutshell, Krishna and his team’s objective was to build a new kind of mesh network that would be reliable enough for industrial and low latency applications. Particularly Industry 4.0, which relies on AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles) to carry heavy loads in factory and warehouse settings (with pretty spotty radio environmental conditions), and in collaborative drone swarms being used in low connected environments....

TNW Quick Hit: Today at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Microsoftpromised to supportOAuth 2.0 in the next version of Messenger Connect. Messenger Connect is a developer platform that Microsoftreleased in early 2010. When it first came out, this is how TNW described it: “Messenger Connect will pull together all of a user’s social networks into one ‘passport’ that they can use around the web. Like the new version of Windows Live Messenger, it supports Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn but will additionally be supported by over 100 third-party partners at launch....

Anyone using a computer is likely to use some form of address book and if you’re on a Mac, it’s likely to be Apple’s Address Book application. Initially it contains nicely organised contacts but after years of use it becomes filled with duplicates, messed up fields or duplicated details within the contact itself. Things get even worse when syncing with on-line address books and mobile devices. Then you get averymessy address book (sync services are incredibly difficult to do right)....