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Autonomous Systems Ignore Users, It’s Claimed
During the last 15 years, autonomous systems offered by automakers have been a succession of partially automated parking and driving systems that are mostly accurate and sometimes comfortable, but rarely easy to discover or use, according to a new study. Continue reading
Porsche to Show New 919 Hybrid For Le Mans at Monza
Porsche has had great runs at Le Mans recently in the top LMP1 class, and historically in other classes as well. During 2015 and 2016, its Le Mans Prototype 919 Hybrid took overall victory in Le Mans and won the World Championship titles for Manufacturers and Drivers. Continue reading
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Connected Cars – Toyota and NTT Want Standardization
The companies want – not without substantial self-interest – a platform for data collection, accumulation, and analysis for building and administering the collection and accumulation of “huge amounts of vehicle information and other data received from large numbers of vehicles.” Continue reading
Posted in autonomous vehicles, electronics, news analysis, transportation
Tagged 5G, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, big data, connected cars, corevo, Ken Zino, NTT, toyota
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Toyota Quality and Production Engineering Laboratory to Morph into a Public School
Toyota still occupies the Erlanger campus but has been deserting it as the company consolidates its North American headquarters in Texas. Continue reading
Geneva – Infiniti Shows Freshened Q50
Infiniti Q50 is a mid-cycle freshening with added electronic systems that goes on sale later this year. Continue reading
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Renault-Nissan, Transdev To Study Autonomous Vehicles
The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Transdev will develop mobility services system for autonomous vehicles. The goal is to study mobility services with fleets of electric autonomous vehicles for public and on-demand transportation. They want a comprehensive, modular transportation system to enable clients to book rides, and mobility operators to monitor and operate self-driving car fleets – in short what every major automaker is pursuing. Continue reading
BMW Group, Mobileye to Crowd Source Digital Maps for Autonomous Vehicles
An emerging, show-stopping problem with autonomous vehicles comes from the state of the roads and existing GPS maps. Roads are inconsistently marked, in various states of disrepair and subject to camera and sensor fouling weather conditions. GPS maps aren’t accurate enough. Autonomous vehicles will require HD maps that can identify and update changes in the environment with near real-time speed, enabling very short “time to reflect reality.” Continue reading
Robert Bosch Invests in TetraVue for Lidar Skills
In theory, TetraVue’s expertise helps to address challenges with automated vehicles encountering unexpected and dangerous obstacles during operation. TetraVue’s core technology differentiation is claimed to be their patented “light slicer” technology, which uses time and distance measurements to find optical intensities using standard CMOS sensors. Continue reading
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Ford Places $1B Bet in Argo AI on Autonomous Vehicles
The very small Argo AI team of specialists in robotics and artificial intelligence is led by founders Bryan Salesky, CEO, and Peter Rander, COO. Both are alumni of Carnegie Mellon National Robotics Engineering Center and former heads of the self-driving car teams of Google and Uber, respectively. Continue reading
Penske Truck Rental now Providing Collision Avoidance
It’s the latest step in the ongoing, rapidly expanding driver assist safety system deployment that is the run up to autonomous vehicles. Continue reading
New Genesis App Adds Apple Watch, Android Wear
The Genesis Intelligent Assistant app that works with Genesis Connected Services now has Apple Watch and Android Wear integration. Continue reading
Chrysler Portal Concept, Millennial Family Wheels, New at CES
In what it is calling the “fifth generation” of family transportation – the Chrysler Portal concept debuted today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Eschewing its home town auto show, NAIAS that opens next week, the electric-powered Portal is estimated to have more than 250 miles of range on a full charge. Continue reading
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Hyundai Vehicles Adding Google Assistant
Hyundai tomorrow at CES will show the compatibility of its Blue Link with Google Assistant. Continue reading
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Bosch CEO – Car as We Know It Will Soon Be History
Between 2017 and 2022, the global market for connected mobility is expected to grow by nearly 25% annually. Just a few years from now, cars will be an active part of the internet of things (IoT), able to communicate with other connected modes of transportation, and even with the smart home. Continue reading
Intel: $250 Million More Investments for Autonomous Driving
Brian Krzanich, Intel Corporation chief executive officer, today announced that Intel Capital is targeting more than $250 million of additional new investments over the next two years to make fully autonomous driving a reality. Continue reading
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