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Autonomous Vehicles Buying Stampede – GM and Strobe
LIDAR uses light to create high-resolution images that provide a more accurate view of the world than cameras or radar alone. As self-driving technology continues to evolve, LIDAR’s accuracy will play a critical role in its deployment. Long gone is the original fantasy that State and Federal road markings would be adequate. – they don’t even work for human directed vehicles. Continue reading
Posted in autonomous vehicles, design and styling, electronics, engineering
Tagged autoinformed.com, autonomous vehicles, GMM, Ken Zino, lidar, NYSE: GM, TSX
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DENSO to Spend $1 billion in Tennessee
Globally, DENSO claims to be a leading developer of electrification systems for automobiles, tasks involved in vehicle safety and security, and newer areas that connect vehicles and society. These systems will play a crucial role in meeting increasing electric vehicle demand, says DENSO. Continue reading
GM Roughs in Choices for Autonomous Fuel Cells
General Motors in an active and thus far unsuccessful “pump up the moribund stock price with press releases” claims today that it will solve some of the transportation challenges created by natural disasters, complex logistics environments and global conflicts. The … Continue reading
FCA Joins BMW, Intel, Mobileye on Autonomous Driving Development
“To advance autonomous driving technology, it is vital to form partnerships among automakers, technology providers and suppliers,” said FCA Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne, whose financially fragile company or parts of it are being explored for possible sale by a Chinese automaker.
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New Car Buyers Bullish on Self Driving Vehicles. Maybe
More than 52% of new car buyers expect to own at least one self-driving automobile in their household in the next 10 years, according to a Bosch study. The survey reached 1,000 U.S. based new car buyers, aged 18 or older, who have purchased or leased at least one vehicle within the last five model years, and intend to buy or lease a new vehicle again in the future. Continue reading
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Tagged adas, autoinformed.com, autonomous vehicles, Ken Zino
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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
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
Dellenback of Southwest Research Institute Receives SAE Award
The award recognizes “exceptional work as a leader in the design, development, and deployment of intelligent transportation systems.” Continue reading
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
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Tagged 5G, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, big data, connected cars, corevo, Ken Zino, NTT, toyota
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Microsoft Licenses Toyota Connected Car Technology
Microsoft Corporation has a new licensing agreement with Toyota Corporation that includes broad coverage for connected car technologies needed for autonomous vehicles. Today’s agreement builds on a previous ones going back to 2011 that include their collaboration on the Azure-based Toyota Big Data Center. Whether customers will accept Giant Smartphones on wheels remains an open question. Continue reading
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
Toyota Research Institute Autonomous Vehicle 2.0 Shown at Prius Challenge. This One is Engineered by Toyota
The autonomous vehicle systems are costly and computationally complex, centering deeply on machine vision and machine learning. Continue reading
FAA Proposes Talking About Regulations for Drones
With an airspeed less than that of the Wright Flyer, the FAA has set up work groups to finally provide specific regulations covering UAS – unmanned aircraft systems – or drones in the national airspace it solely controls. Well, fasten your safety belt, this going to be a long flight on bureaucratic airlines with the need to see and avoid political and commercial storms. 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
