The first cross-border 5G highway corridor has been launched in Europe. O2 Telefonica (Germany) and Orange (France), using tower companies Totem (owned by Orange) and Vantage Towers, all working with Saarland University of Applied Sciences (htw saar), have begun the construction of a 60 kilometer network between Metz, France and Saarbrücken, Germany. Now, 5G in the automotive sector has been vastly overblown historically. We can all likely recall the early ‘vehicle to everything’ (V2X) pitches, which promised to lay the foundation for a self-driving revolution. That didn’t happen, of course, but there was a notable victory on the technology front – with the industry essentially settling on the cellular-based C-V2X implementation, rather than the WiFi-adjacent DSRC. This new 5G Autobahn…