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IEEE formed a study group to explore market opportunities and needs for a 100 Mbps ethernet speed in automotive networking. The IEEE 802.3 Single Twisted Pair 100 Mb/s Ethernet group option would allow “a more rapid adoption of driver assist…

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and other vehicle safety systems into low to mid-range vehicles,” IEEE said. It said that many vehicle makers and their suppliers want IEEE 802.3 standards-based interoperable solutions to enable and extend “a multi-vendor ecosystem” for the automotive industry. A growing number of automotive subsystems will require a 1 Gbps ethernet connection, but “stringent economic constraints of the volume vehicle environment” are largely limited to a 100 Mbps ethernet connection, IEEE said.