Technology

Funding-strapped feds search for someone to run the 'Internet of cars'

New vehicles would use wireless radio equipment to transmit their location, speed and other important information 10 times per second over a dedicated radio frequency. Whoever runs the system would supply vehicles with encrypted keys so vehicles can tell that other vehicles are trustworthy.
August 25, 2014 05:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- In the 1960s, when researchers at the Pentagon wanted to create the computer network that laid the groundwork for today's Internet, they secured money from Congress and began building it on their own, shifting it to the private sector over the course of decades.

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