Although the road towards full autonomous driving on all public roads is long and steep, many of the technologies are being deployed much sooner to enhance safety, navigation and congestion control. A sub-plot has been the contention between the rival cellular C-V2X and WiFi-based DSRC standards for automotive connectivity standards, with the tide now flowing strongly towards the former, after the latter made the early running. Two recent developments highlight this, one in Europe and one in the USA, which were both fertile territory for DSRC, by contrast with China, which has put full weight behind C-V2X from the outset. In the USA, regulator FCC published a document this month confirming that revised rules to repurpose the lower 45 MHz…