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instead of merely reacting to brake
lights in front of their vehicle.
The next step according to
Samsung’s company blog is to perform
the corresponding tests in order to com-
ply with the existing national protocols
and obtain the necessary permits and
approvals. For this, Samsung is working
together with safe driving NGOs and
the government.
faceBOOk previews DrOnes
ThaT Bring wOrLD inTerneT
Facebook posted a first look at the
solar-powered drone, called Aquila,
which was built to deliver Internet con-
nectivity to remote parts of the world.
The aircraft has the wingspan of a
Boeing 737 and a battery life of three
months. It will use lasers to transmit
data to the ground faster and with more
precision than any previous technologies.
The project is part of Facebook’s
Internet.org, which aims to bring
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have little or none. Facebook has been
working with mobile operators to pro-
vide free access to parts of the Web on
Finance your fleet with a low-end phones. Facebook’s CEO Mark
trusted industry veteran Zuckerberg wrote that the drone tech-
nology is still necessary for the most
remote locations.
“This effort is important because
10 percent of the world’s population
lives in areas without existing Internet
infrastructure. To affordably connect
everyone, we need to build completely
new technologies,” he wrote. Facebook
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