GM Officials Meet With Pai on Technology Needs of Self-Driving Cars

General Motors officials said they met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and staff on the automaker’s plans for self-driving vehicles and to test the deployment of vehicular short range radar (SRR) within the 76-81 GHz band. They gave "an overview of GM's Privacy policies, continue[d] our discussion on GM's request for the FCC to adopt the service rules that will allow for the deployment of vehicular short range radar within the 76-81 GHz band, and inform[ed] the Chairman of the Special Temporary Authority request from GM's vendor, Alps Electric North America,” a filing in docket 15-26 said. Alps Electric sought the STA in March to test the use of the radars in the band, the automaker said. “SRRs are important safety technologies for GM.”