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2018 S-Class Takes Driver Assistance Upward?
Daimler is gushing about considerably extended driving assistance functions on the new S‑Class that appears to be a continuation of industry trends. This fall – in what is perhaps over-billed as a major step towards autonomous driving – Mercedes-Benz S-Class will have Active Distance Assist Distronic, and Active Steering Assist – forgive the marketing quasi-babble. Continue reading
Silly, but Serious Safety Recalls from Mercedes and Kia
Recalls continue to bedevil automakers as airbag and software issues at Mercedes-Benz and a bad brake vacuum hose at Kia show. These are the result of quality control and development issues in what are admittedly complex automobiles. Continue reading
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
Toyota Takes Artificial Intelligence Hunting for New Materials
New materials research – it’s claimed – will merge advanced computational materials modeling, new sources of experimental data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to reduce the time for new materials development from a period that has historically been measured in decades. 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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2017 SAE World Congress – Automated Technology, Autonomous Vehicles Star
Serving as a global forum of industry leaders, inventors, and disruptors from Detroit to Silicon Valley and everywhere in-between, th SAE World Congress promises three days of “active learning, high-powered collaboration, and technological discovery.” Continue reading
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
Honeycomb Cargo Shelf in Ford EcoSport SUV
Recycled paper honeycomb material give the new Ford EcoSport four-way parcel shelf claimed exceptional strength. 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
GM and Honda to Make Fuel Cells in Michigan
General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) will start the auto industry’s first joint venture to “mass produce” a hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used both companies. It’s the latest example of how increasing capital costs and pressure from stock markets on overall returns are forcing unlikely alliances between competitors within the auto industry. Continue reading
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Tagged autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 Fuel Cell, Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, Honda Clarity fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell, Ken Zino
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