High-tech border wall plan on display at CES
9 Jan 2019 1:52 AM GMT
The same technology used in self-driving cars is being touted as a potential high-tech solution to the US border wall conundrum?with some added benefits.
- At least one startup at the Consumer Electronics show is showcasing how Lidar, a laser-based detection system widely used in autonomous vehicles, could be deployed along the US-Mexico border at a far lower cost than a physical wall or fence, and with fewer environmental impacts.
- Quanergy Systems, among a handful of tech firms working on Lidar border security, is showing to CES attendees its technology being deployed in pilot projects on the India-Pakistan frontier as well as a small section of the southern US border.
- A decade ago, the US government canceled plans for an electronic fence, amid concerns it would be ineffective.
- Self-driving car news for June would not be complete without mention of Volvo.
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