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Ride and Cost Sharing: Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank Vision Fund Invest $1 Billion in Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group
The investment, in a newly formed ATG corporate entity, aims to accelerate the development and commercialization of automated ridesharing services. Under the terms, Toyota and DENSO will together invest $667 million and SVF will invest $333 million, valuing the new Uber ATG entity at $7.25 billion on a post-money basis. Continue reading
Nissan Moves China Design Center to Shanghai
Nissan Design China, previously based in Beijing, will continue creating products for global customers including those in China, and presumably (pay no attention Trump) Japan, the Americas and Africa and Europe. Continue reading
World Piece or Pieces? SAE Joins International Alliance for Mobility Testing & Standardization
IAMTS is founded “to develop and grow an international portfolio of advanced mobility testbeds that meet the highest quality implementation and operational standards.” Continue reading
BMW i Ventures Announces Investment in Zūm
BMW i Ventures is the venture capital arm of BMW Group. It invests money and resources in startups in the fields of autonomous driving, digital car and automotive cloud, e-mobility, artificial Intelligence and data, industry 4.0, shared and on-demand mobility, customer digital life, and energy services. Continue reading
Robo-taxis – Hyundai Mobis MOU with Yandex in Russia
No surprise here that Mobis has a new link up with a with an IT company to develop an autonomous driving platform. Today Hyundai Mobis announced that it has entered into an MOU for joint development of an AI-based autonomous driving platform with Yandex, one of the Europe’s largest internet companies that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. Continue reading
CAR: Automated Driving Technologies Can Contribute to Healthcare Industry? Great…
The healthcare industry, in CAR’s view is one of the industries that could benefit. “The human factor in the automated vehicle system—either as a driver in the very early stages of the technology or as passengers in the fully automated vehicles—creates a critical opportunity for the healthcare industry to become active in the discussions around CAVs,” claims Zahra Bahrani Fard, Transportation Systems Analyst at CAR. Continue reading
Nissan on Asia and Oceania’s Mobility Trends
The seventh edition of the global event was held early in March in Hong Kong. Under the theme “Transform the way we live and drive,” it brought together representatives from 13 countries to discuss how vehicles, cities and mobility infrastructures are evolving. Continue reading
JAXA and Toyota Agree on Future Mobility – a Lunar Rover
Mobility is necessary for human exploration activities on the lunar surface. Even with the limited amount of energy that can be transported to the moon, the pressurized rover would have a total lunar-surface cruising range of more than 10,000 km. Continue reading
HondaJet Sales First in Class for Second Consecutive Year
Honda Aircraft Company has changed its aircraft production line from the original HondaJet to the HondaJet Elite and will continue to offer the performance package developed by the Advanced Performance Modification Group (APMG) for the original HondaJet. The company expects to maintain production of four to five aircraft per month. Continue reading
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Tagged Advanced Performance Modification Group, auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Honda aircraft company, HondaJet Elite, Ken Zino, new vehicle reviews
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Audi Expands Traffic Light Information to Reduce Stops
Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory can provide speed recommendations to Audi drivers of some 2017 and newer models that can assist drivers in catching the “green wave,” helping to reduce the number of stops at red lights. Continue reading
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Tagged 4G LTE coverage, auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, connected vehicles, GLOSA, Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory, Ken Zino, new vehicle reviews, V2I technology
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The UK’s First Independent 5G Test Bed for CAVs Now Live
The live public demonstrations showed the system delivering greater than 1 Gbit/s capacity to a McLaren sports car traveling at 160 mph on the Millbrook high-speed bowl with handovers occurring every 2 seconds. Real-time Telemetry was provided by McLaren’s Altas system. Continue reading
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Tagged 5G Test Bed for CAVs, Airspan Networks, auto industry commentary, AutoAir test bed at Millbrook, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, connected vehicles, Ken Zino, new vehicle reviews, video streaming between multiple vehicles
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Coursera Launches Online Self-Driving Cars Specialization
Experts – with scant, sometimes questionable data – predict that the demand for skilled workers within the autonomous vehicle industry will continue to climb, creating more than 100,000 U.S. mobility industry jobs in the next decade. Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, connected vehicles, Coursera, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, Ken Zino, Self-Driving Cars Specialization, University of Toronto
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Volkswagen and Ford Announce Alliance Without Cross Equity
The history of such industry collaborations is difficult and littered with road kill. The problem is whether the two global giants and hundreds of thousands of workers can walk in step together or stumble over each other. Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, automotive blog, CEO, connected vehicles, Dr. Herbert Diess, Dr. Thomas Sedran, Ford Motor Company, Jim Farley, Jim Hackett, Ken Zino, new vehicle reviews, Volkswagen AG, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
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Tsinghua University and Toyota Form Joint Research Institute
In a joint statement, Toyota claimed there is an opportunity to contribute to the development of China and become a mobility company capable of meeting the needs of Chinese consumers through the development and popularization of vehicles equipped with new technology. By equipping new technology, the aim is to excel in solving environmental problems and in reducing traffic accidents. Continue reading →