The two professors at Worcester Polytechnic University are using a $425,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, a federal agency, to try to figure out how to allow a self-driving car's sensors use information from other self-driving cars in the area to gather information about traffic and speed, among other things.
One of the researchers "compared this to being in a loud party environment and turning your ear to the one specific person with whom you want to converse," according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Captain Derek Borek of the Rhode Island State Police offered more than 100 church-goers ideas for how to stop or at least slow down an attacker in their own churches and parish halls — and told them that State Police encourage law enforcement officers to carry concealed guns with them when they go to church.
Minimizing an attack starts with planning what you would do if something happened, he said.
