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For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on:

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Attorney Amy Witherite: Safety Claims for Autonomous Trucks Do Not Add Up

Attorney and traffic safety expert Amy Witherite says that the numbers being used to justify testing of driverless trucks on Texas highways do not add up when it comes to proving these vehicles are safe to put on public highways.

“Some of the statistics used to justify putting 80,000 pound 18-wheelers on Texas highways don’t add up when you consider the number of miles actually driven each year,” said Amy Witherite, founder of the Witherite Law Firm. “They are literally a drop in the bucket and nowhere near the number of miles needed to show these vehicles do not pose a significant safety hazard to all those who will share the road.”

  • According to the American Trucking Association, tractor-trailers drive almost 200 billion miles each year.
  • According to Aurora Innovations (NASDAQ: AUR), Aurora Driver completed over 1,200 miles without a driver and 10,000 customer loads across three million autonomous miles with a monitoring driver in the cab.
  • To achieve a high level of confidence in the safety of autonomous vehicles, the Rand Corporation estimates that “autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and sometimes hundreds of billions of miles to demonstrate their reliability in terms of fatalities and injuries.”

The Aurora experiment with no driver in the cab in Texas ended less than three weeks after it began at the request of PACCAR (NASDAQ: PCAR), whose trucks have been modified by Aurora for autonomous operations.

“It is important to note that companies whose survival depends on autonomous automation have been more aggressive in launching the technologies than firms such as PACCAR, whose principal business is building trucks,” said Witherite.

According to Witherite, “Many experts believe that more testing in simulators as well as independent government standards would go a long way to proving these vehicles can safely operate in the challenging driving conditions on Texas highways.”

“It is important to note that those whose future is not tied directly to driverless vehicles are being much more cautious about deploying this technology,” said Witherite. “Regulators and politicians should also take note and make sure there are standards and accountability throughout the industry to protect the public.”

The Witherite Law Group specializes in vehicle accident cases and offers crucial support for individuals involved in accidents with driverless vehicles. For more information visit their website. www.witheritelaw.com.

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