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SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Drivers no longer have to worry about passing a narrow street or facing a car ahead at a dead end even when they are inexperienced.

Hyundai Mobis (KRX 012330) announced on the 15th that it has developed the world's first urban Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) called the Mobis Parking System (MPS), which integrates Narrow Space Assistance (NSA), Reverse Assistance (RA), and Remote Smart Parking Assistance (RSPA).

With the MPS, the car is able to drive itself through a narrow street by avoiding obstructions, drive through the revolving gate of an underground parking lot, or drive backwards at a dead end where two cars are facing each other. All these are made possible at the press of a button.

Hyundai Mobis developed this technology using its own software logic and mass-produced ultrasonic sensors. This technology is based on the fact that, while RADAR and LiDAR sensors are useful for recognizing objects located far away or in high-speed driving, ultrasonic sensors are rather more suitable for narrow streets or underground parking lots. The ultrasonic sensors recognize objects over a short distance, while the software logic and the control system perform self-driving.

One of the core technologies of this system is Narrow Space Assistance (NSA). The car needs only 16 inches of extra space on both sides to drive through a narrow street by itself.

Another core technology is Reverse Assistance (RA). It records the car's travel route on a real-time basis and creates the reverse route by itself at the press of a button. The steering wheel and vehicle speed are controlled automatically.

Aside from the MPS, various other technologies for safety and convenience have been integrated into the system, thereby further enhancing the competitiveness of the driver assistance solution.

The Remote Smart Parking Assistance (RSPA) system is capable of parking a car at a right angle or in parallel by finding an empty space when the driver is out of the car and presses the remote. 3D Surround View Monitor (SVM) provides a better parking experience by showing the area 360 degrees around the car three-dimensionally. Rear-autonomous Emergency Braking (R-AEB) is also noticeable.

Hyundai Mobis will preemptively suggest global automakers to apply related technologies. The application scope will be expanded to purpose-built vehicles (PBV) as well as large SUVs whose popularity is now growing rapidly.

Hyundai Mobis is showing one automated urban driving technology after another and is resolved to lead the new future vehicle market represented by PBV. The company presented its M.Vision Pop, an exceptionally small urban mobility concept, in March, and has also succeeded in developing a foldable steering system and a 90-degree rotating e-corner module for shared autonomous vehicles last month.

Hyundai Mobis became the first company in the world to develop the new automated urban driving technology called the Mobis Parking System (MPS), which enables Narrow Space Assistance (NSA), Reverse Assistance (RA), and Remote Smart Parking Assistance (RSPA). Researchers are testing related technologies at Hyundai Mobis Seosan Proving Ground.

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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Tuesday met Victor Makhmudov, Secretary, Security Council of Uzbekistan and both agreed that the future of Afghanistan must be decided by the people of Afghanistan themselves and the legitimacy of any Afghan government within Afghanistan was important before the issue of its international recognition. The meeting was held in New Delhi, ahead of the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was the major focus of discussions, sources said adding that both countries felt that the legitimacy of any Afghan government within Afghanistan is important before the issue of its international recognition. During the meeting, the NSAs also highlighted the need for long term economic development in Afghanistan.

"Both sides emphasized the need for Afghanistan's neighbours to ensure unhindered access of humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan," sources said. "They also agreed that neighbouring states must play a constructive role in Afghanistan," the sources added.

Meanwhile, the Indian NSA also held discussions with Nasrullo Rahmatjon Mahmudzoda, Secretary, Security Council of Tajikistan and exchanged views on Afghanistan. NSA Doval is expected to hold meetings with the Russian counterpart Patrushev, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council - Iran, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani and Chairman of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee, Karim Massimov on November 10.

During the dialogue, India, along with seven other countries, will discuss in detail terror threats emanating from within Afghanistan and around it. Extremism and radicalisation are also key concerns among many participants. (ANI)

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Ghosts, goblins and ghouls could be seen excitedly running around at the 10th annual North Star Academy (NSA) Trunk or Treat event held in the schools parking lot on Thursday, October 28, 2021. Students from this K-8 tuition-free, charter public school arrived well in advance of the highly anticipated start time to experience this safe, fun trick-or-treating celebration that has become an NSA tradition.

We were so excited to be able to host this community-building event again this year. Its become such a wonderful tradition that our families and staff look forward to, said NSA Principal Kendra Hossfeld. The celebration gets bigger and better each year thanks to the creativity of our dedicated parent volunteers and the excitement and participation from our committed staff members.

Trunk-or-Treat is NSAs version of a school Halloween party, only on a giant scale. The elementary classes have 1-2 dedicated room parents who help coordinate the event including choosing and executing a theme, decorating and costume planning and making in addition to set-up and clean-up. Additional volunteers are recruited to help with middle school vehicles/trunks since these grades dont have room parents. Each year about 50-60 NSA parent volunteers put in hundreds of hours over the course of several months to create the beloved annual event.

Each trunk took at least 20-30 man-hours worth of planning and total execution. The thought and detail that go into each trunk are just amazing, and some of the end results were just jaw-dropping, said NSA room parent volunteer Jenn Child.

Students and their siblings dressed up in costumes with candy sacks in hand and trunk-or-treated from decorated vehicles hosted by 12 staff members in the NSA parking lot. Staff members dressed in coordinating costumes to complement the trunk themes and handed out candy donated by NSA families. Life-size versions Dog the Bounty Hunter, Cat in the Hat, Sharks, Nuts about North Star and Hocus Pocus to name a few of the amazing themes that drew lines of student trick-or-treaters into the school parking lot where kids could be heard yelling, Trick or treat! in the chill in the night air.

The 8th graders brought the spookiness inside the school with their annual Haunted Hallway fundraising event. Students donated $2 per trip to go through the Haunted Hallway where shrieks and screams could be heard as NSA 8th graders jumped out of corners and various props to the delight and fright of the participants. In its 8th year, this tradition helps the 8th-grade class raise money for their annual trip to Washington D.C.

Trunk or Treat at NSA is one of the best events of the school year and certainly the highlight of the fall season. The event unites so many staff members and parents as they come together to pull this event off, said Child. Its really an event where our NSA community celebrates the season together. This year seemed extra special because we werent able to hold the event last year. NSA is really like a family and this night was like a family reunion. It was such a fun night with an incredible turn out.

The event also included food trucks, a cakewalk and a 24 inflatable slide. New this year was the Best Decorated Vehicle contest won by Dog the Bounty Hunter in which staff participants and decorators split a $200 prize, bragging rights and a fun trophy.

I look forward to Trunk or Treat every year, and because COVID cancelled last years event, I was extra excited for this year. It is such a fun activity that the school blows out of the water every time. The event really brings the school together as a community and lets everyone show some of their creative sides while letting us kids have fun and make memories through getting candy, going through the cakewalk, riding down blow-up slides and creating a scary haunted hallway, said NSA 8th grader Addison Gilbreth. This Trunk or Treat was by far my favorite because I got to be an actress in the Haunted Hallway and was able to make lasting memories with friends that I will not forget. I am so thankful that I was able to be a part of this and will miss it when going to high school.

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning capacities are allowing analysts to produce quicker, more streamlined assessments.

Americas national security organizations have begun applying AI to more quickly and effectively produce intelligence assessments.

Speaking at the GovernmentCIO Media & Research AI: National Security virtual event, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Research Directorate Mark Segal discussed how these new capacities are assisting intelligence analysts in better processing and sorting large quantities of often complex and disparate information.

In outlining the NSAs research priorities, Segal noted that both AI and machine-learning capacities already showed promise for better organizing the large pools of variable data their analysts sort through in producing regular assessments.

One of the challenges that we have found AI to be particularly useful for is looking through the sheer amount of data that's created every day on this planet. Our analysts are looking at some of this data trying to understand it, and understand what its implications are for national security. The amount of data that we have to sort is going up pretty dramatically, but the number of people that we have who are actually looking at this data is pretty constant. So we're constantly looking for tools and technologies to help our analysts more effectively go through huge piles of data, Segal said.

This application of AI to analysis has the potential to expedite the delivery of actionable intelligence to policymakers as well, who are able to more quickly and conclusively come to decisions based on a more effective sorting of available information.

We analyze information and then provide that analysis to policymakers. For example, lets say we're looking at a large pile of documents and trying to understand what the intentions of another country are by looking through that data quickly. We want to zoom in immediately on the most important parts of that data, and have our skilled analysts say, We think this entity is doing a specific thing, and then leave that to the policymakers to determine how we might respond, Segal said.

Segal cautioned that agency technologists need to start with a realistic understanding of AI and machine learning to make most effective use of these new capacities, and to see them in terms of how they can concretely refine internal processes and advance their organizations key aims.

One of the biggest risks about AI right now is that there's this huge amount of hype surrounding it AI is a tool just like any other tool. And the way that you use a tool is to figure out where it would be effective, and where it would actually help solve a problem in our research organization. One of the things that we try to do is actually look at the technology in order to apply it to real problems and analyze the results in a scientifically rigorous manner, Segal said.

Segal also cautioned agencies to avoid creating undue biases within their algorithms, as these built-in flaws would ultimately distort the resulting analysis in ways that are either ineffective or potentially dangerous if they go uncorrected.

A lot of machine-learning algorithms are trained on data, and one of the challenges that can emerge there is that if the data is biased, its going to affect the output," Segal said. "For example, with facial-recognition software, if the training data only has people that have a certain hair type, or a certain skin color, or certain facial features, it will not work in practice because when you encounter other data that you've not seen before, the algorithm will behave in unpredictable ways."

One of the most promising applications NSA researchers have begun exploring is automated data sorting, using AI to sift through large quantities of documents and identify relevant information far more quickly than a human worker would be able to.

Imagine you've got a very large pile of documents, and in some of these documents there are really important things you want analysts to look at while some of the other documents are completely irrelevant. So one of the ways that we've used AI and machine learning in particular is we can have a trained human look at a subset of these documents and train a model to say which ones are really important and which ones are less important. Once you've trained a model and have enough data that you train the model successfully, you can go through a much larger collection of documents much more quickly than a human being could do it, Segal said.

Another concrete use case that aligns AI with operational efficiency is using tailored algorithms to convert speech to text.

If you can do that, you can make that text searchable, which once again makes the analyst more productive. So instead of listening to thousands of hours of audio to hear one relevant audio clip, you put in a few keywords and scan all this processed text, Segal said.

Segal emphasized that no matter how advanced these capacities become, national security institutions should continue evaluating AI for both potential biases, as well as through the central criteria as to whether or not these new uses are conducive to their longstanding mission.

I think the main way that we do that is when we try these experiments, pilot studies and different techniques, we have a way of quantitatively measuring its effectiveness. When it proves to be effective, we refine the techniques. And when it proves not to be effective, we take a step back and think about why it failed, Segal said.

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Measures to address cross-border terror threat & presence of terror groups, spread of extremism & radical ideas from Afghanistan and political instability leading to economic troubles in Afghanistan will dominate the first meeting of regional national security advisers convened by India on November 10.

Besides growing threat from terror groups, a number of Afghanistan's neighbours in Central Asia and Russia are worried over political instability and economic woes within the Taliban-controlled country and they fear civil war and its spill over impact in the region, ET has learnt.

The lack of cohesiveness in the Taliban ranks that could contribute to intra-Afghan conflict has been a matter of concern for Afghanistans neighbours in Central Asia as well as Russia. Terror groups may take advantage of this situation to use Afghanistan as a haven.

The Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan will be chaired by NSA Ajit DovalTwo earlier meetings in this format have been held in Iran in September 2018 and December 2019. The third meeting in India could not be held earlier due to the pandemic.

While NSAs of Russia (Gen Nikolay Patrushev), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will attend the meet (for first time all Central Asian states & not just Afghanistans immediate neighbours are part of dialogue), Iran will be represented by its NSA Ali Shamkhani. It is not yet clear if China will attend the meeting physically or attend it virtually. Pakistans NSA has ruled out his participation.

Neither India nor Russia is in haste to provide official recognition to the Taliban even if they maintain contacts with the group. India has been categorical on its demand that the Afghan territory should not be used for third-country-sponsored cross-border terror. Tajikistan has been steadfast in its demand for an inclusive regime in Kabul. Iran has suggested polls to determine the next government in Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Russia regretted that the terrorist and drug threat continues to come from Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power.

"I can confirm that the terrorist and drug threats coming from Afghanistans territory, as well as the general situation in these areas in that country, are still a pressing problem for us. I can state with regret that the situation has not changed after the Taliban came to power," she said, adding that terror attacks staged by the Islamic State in Afghan cities were an example of that. Narcotics smuggling will also be on the agenda of the November 10 meet.

Zakharova also referred to the threat of increasing migration from Afghanistan. "Envoys of terrorist organisations, criminal elements, militants and so on may infiltrate into neighbouring countries under the guise of refugees," she said.

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Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, a radical Islamist party, take part in a protest march toward Islamabad, on a highway in the town of Sadhuke, in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday. (Photo: AP/PTI)

Pakistans National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf on Thursday, October 28, said the banned Islamist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) had crossed the red line and exhausted the states patience.

Thousands of members of the TLP are protesting on the streets of Pakistan with various demands, including the release of their imprisoned leader Saad Rizvi, a ban on French goods, and the expulsion of the French Ambassador to Pakistan. This is TLP's third nationwide protest since 2017 over caricatures that are considered blasphemous by Muslims published in a French magazine.

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They have martyred policemen, destroyed public property, and continue to cause massive public disruption. Law will take its course for each one of them and terrorists will be treated like terrorists with no leniency, Moeed Yusuf tweeted.

For all individuals and groups who think they can challenge the writ of the Pakistani state, do not test the proposition. As the basic principle of national security, the state will never shy away from protecting each and every citizen from any form of violence, he tweeted, adding There will be NO armed militias of any sort in our country.

TLPs founder late Khadim Rizvi's son Saad Rizvi was detained by the Punjab government in April last under the maintenance of 'public order' (MPO) following the partys protest against the blasphemous caricatures.

The death toll in the protests has risen to 18 now with 11 TLP workers and 7 policemen dying since the clashes broke out between the banned outfit and police over a week ago. A couple of days ago, the government had freed 350 TLP activists to placate the radical group.

The clashes between the armed TLP activists and police started at Sadhoke, some 50 km from Lahore, when thousands of the TLP protesters who had been camping between Muridke and Gujranwala along the GT Road for the last three days started the march towards Islamabad after getting a go-ahead from their leadership.

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Pakistans National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf said on Tuesday that he will not attend a meeting of senior regional security officials being hosted by India to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.

Besides China and Pakistan, regional countries such as Iran, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have been invited to the meeting which is expected to be held in New Delhi on November 10. There are no plans to invite the Taliban to the meeting in line with the Indian governments decision not to rush into recognising the current dispensation in Kabul.

I will not be going, Yusuf told a news briefing in Islamabad after a meeting with his Uzbekistan counterpart Victor Makhmudov. He was responding to a question from a reporter on whether he would attend the meeting in India.

A spoiler cannot try to be a peacemaker, he added, in an apparent reference to India.

In response to another question, Yusuf said Pakistan has identified India as a hurdle to regional efforts to establish peace and security.

Pakistan has said repeatedly that if India is prepared to move forward, then we will also be ready. But there are some prerequisites and an enabling environment for moving forward, he said.

Among the prerequisites is addressing the Kashmir issue, he said. He added he didnt see how the two sides could move forward in view of the Indian governments policies and ideology.

The Indian side had earlier planned to convene a similar meeting in April, with the participation of the former Ashraf Ghani government. However, this was scrapped due to the second wave of Coronavirus infections in India and the rapidly evolving situation in Afghanistan at the time.

India recently participated in a meeting of the Moscow Format that was also joined by senior Taliban leaders. Indian officials also held talks with the Taliban leaders on the margins of the meeting in Moscow.

Iran also convened a meeting of regional countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, though India was not invited to the meet.

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Islamabad, Oct 31 :Pakistans National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf has warned the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) protesters of being mindful of the fact that the country will not tolerate or allow presence of any armed militia.

Yusuf stated that the TLP protesters had crossed the line by using force against security officials, that resulted in the death of at least three security officials, while dozens others were injured.

TLP had crossed the red line and exhausted the states patience, he said.

Do not test the proposition. As the basic principle of national security, the state will never shy away from protecting each and every citizen from any form of violence, said Yusuf, giving a clear caution to TLP from trying to taking matters into their hands.

The NSA went on to say that any outlaws, who target security personnel, damage public property and create widespread public disruption, would be treated like terrorists without any leniency.

While the NSA has come out with clear plans of not bowing down to the TLP demands, the Imran Khan-led government has initiated and resumed negotiations with the proscribed groups clerics, aiming to come down to a settlement and an arrangement, which would stop thousands of protesters, who have been marching towards Islamabad, causing massive chaos, violence and disruptions, leading to confrontation with the security forces.

As per details of the new round of talks, influential leaders were brought to Rawalpindi and Islamabad, where brief round of negotiations were held.

What seemed to differ in the new round of talks was the change of tone by the government officials, as senior ministers were directed to refrain from issuing strong statements against the banned TLP.

Details also revealed that the detained Saad Rivzi, the amir of TLP was brought to Islamabad along with at least three senior members of the TLP Shura, Maulana Shafiq Amini, Engineer Hafezullah and Pir Inayatul Haq for direct negotiations with the governments negotiation committee.

While the negotiations are underway, some TLP leaders are still angry over government ministers branding the outfit as Indian agents.

Why did they brand us Indian agents? The whole nation wants to know who is getting money from the enemies. We have asked the government to change the negotiating team which does not insult us after the meeting, said a TLP leader.

The issue has pushed the country into a non-time bound unrest as authorities have blocked road routes leading to Islamabad by digging bunkers, blocking roads with containers and deploying thousands of security personnel across the Punjab province, with an aim to stop the protesters from what they call the red line and move towards the federal capital.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken notice of the ongoing anti-government march and has given the mandate to the negotiating team to ensure that the matter does not aggravate into further chaos in the coming days. (IANS)

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