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Researchers created a virtual road to test how traffic affects 5G signals and responses

Wireless communication will play a major part in transport systems generally and on the roads 5G will be important in enabling future intelligent transport systems.

But one potential issue is that even 5G, the world's fifth-generation wireless technology, can be blocked for a moment by anything from pedestrians and vehicles, according to research by the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.