Most Read: Vehicle-to-Everything Communication Gets New Roadmap, 5 Things to Learn From the CrowdStrike IT Outage

Here are the most-read stories in IoT World Today this week.

Vehicle-to-Everything Communication Gets New Roadmap

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is looking to accelerate the rollout of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology.

V2X allows vehicles to communicate wirelessly, and the safety benefits have long been discussed, but now the transportation department has made a move to speed up its deployment by outlining a roadmap in an official document titled: “Saving Lives with Connectivity.”

The plan is intended to guide the implementation of V2X across the U.S., aiming to play a key role in supporting the DOT campaign to reduce road fatalities.

Uncover the DOT’s goals

5 Things to Learn From the CrowdStrike IT Outage

The CrowdStrike IT outage crippled airlines and stranded passengers. Potentially more seriously, it also halted important medical procedures at hospitals, cancer centers and blood banks. Emergency response services in some communities and public transportation in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania went down. 

While the damage may have looked like a cyberattack at first, it wasn’t one. Instead, a widely trusted cybersecurity company’s insufficiently vetted update caused it to achieve the equivalent of an own goal.

Yet the CrowdStrike IT outage also presents a teachable moment. There are five things business leaders and other professionals should learn from it.

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Find out what the five lessons are

Air Taxi Company Selling 116 Flying Vehicles for $580M

Air taxi company Archer Aviation is selling 116 of its Midnight electric flying vehicles to Future Flight Global (FFG) in a deal valued at up to $580 million.

The deal brings the total estimated sales of Archer electric vehicles (EAV) to $6 billion, according to the company.

As part of the deal signed under a memorandum of understanding, Future Flight Global (FFG) agreed to a $5 million pre-delivery deposit.

Find out more about the sale

Waymo Self-Driving Taxis Get Software Update, Silences Honking

Waymo’s rollout in California is continuing steadily – but it’s not been without the occasional gremlin.

The company has come under fire in San Francisco for causing traffic congestion and blocking first responders, with the hostility peaking in a physical attack on one of its self-driving taxis earlier this year.  

Now, in the same week that the company made another significant step forward by launching driverless rides on San Francisco’s freeways, bizarre nighttime footage has flooded social media of an unexpected new issue – Waymo autonomous vehicles (AVs) in a parking lot honking at each other.

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Discover how Waymo silenced the honk

Self-Driving Tech Company Raises Another $483 Million

Self-driving tech company Aurora Innovation has raised $483 million in a sale of shares.

The sum significantly exceeded the $420 million of stock the Pittsburgh-based firm had anticipated selling and adds to the $1 billion of liquidity that Aurora had at the end of June. Last year, it raised $820 million from a public and private offering of its stock.

The latest share sale will prove significant, with a spokesperson telling IOT World Today: “It gives us financial runway past our initial driverless deployment and well into 2026, when we expect to scale our business.”

Read more about the deal