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Group Renault Starts Piloting Vehicle-to-Grid Charging
A fleet of fifteen Zoe vehicles with vehicle-to-grid charging will be introduced in Europe in 2019 to develop future offerings in reversible charging and lay the groundwork for future standards. Continue reading
Volkswagen forms European Battery Union with Northvolt
The EBU is looking for taxpayer subsidies for battery research. The new consortium is to be led by the Volkswagen Group and the Swedish battery producer Northvolt. 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
Toyota Gazoo Racing Enters e-Motorsports
Toyota claims that involving e-motorsports as one of the pillars of TGR motorsports activities, shows it is actively working to make motorsports and sport cars more accessible, and enjoyable across generations and around the world. Owners of the Gran Turismo Sport for PS4 and PS4 software; are eligible and participants must be six years old or older. There will be 13 rounds scheduled for 2019 with a one-race final event held at the Tokyo Motor Show in October. Continue reading
TomTom and Elektrobit Release First High Definition Map Horizon for Automated Driving
By streaming the latest TomTom HD Maps via TomTom AutoStream through Elektrobit’s “EB robinos Predictor” onboard software, the HD map horizon targets vehicles with a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Automation Level of 2 and higher. It is compliant with the automotive industry’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Interface Specification (ADASIS) v3 protocol. Continue reading
Dangerous Marketing Tower of Babble: The Actual Meaning and Real Performance of Driver Assist and Autonomous Vehicles
A fatal accident in Florida last week by a Tesla with so-called “autopilot” was not the first fatality with vehicles – or Teslas that are supposed to improve safety by ultimately removing the driver and letting computer code make life and death decisions. The safety improvements are thus far without any statistical confirmation. Continue reading
Garmin to Design and Make BMW Infotainment Parts
The company’s manufacturing capabilities support arange of in-vehicle electronic components for the automotive industry, including intelligent video driving recorders and computing models. Continue reading
Daimler and BMW JV on Automated Driving Technologies
The development of current-generation technologies and ongoing collaborations of the two companies will remain unaffected and continue as before. As a further hedge of the hedge, “the Daimler AG and BMW Group will also explore additional partnerships with other technology companies and automotive manufacturers that could contribute to the success of the platform. Continue reading
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
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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First Look: 2020 Nissan Rogue Sport Freshening
Set for sale in fall 2019, Rogue Sport follows the rather more significant upgrades for the 2019 model year. Continue reading
Posted in auto news, design and styling, electronics, marketing, safety
Tagged 2020 Nissan Rogue Sport, auto industry commentary, autoinformed, autoinformed.com, Automatic Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection, automotive blog, connected vehicles, Ken Zino, new vehicle reviews, Rear Door Alert
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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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First Look: GMC Sierra and its Unique ‘MultiPro’ Tailgate
One self-evidently good detail is the (marketing babble alert) “MultiPro Tailgate” that has six functions and positions for loading, load-stopping, and the much needed pickup version of mountain climbing without ropes into the bed. Continue reading
MIT, Stanford and Toyota Research Institute Use AI to Predict Useful Life of Batteries.They lasted from 150 to 2300 cycles.
After the researchers trained their machine learning model with a few hundred million data points, the algorithm predicted how many more cycles each battery would last, based on voltage declines and a few other factors among the early cycles. The predictions were within 9% of the actual cycle life. Separately, the algorithm categorized batteries as either long or short life expectancy based on just the first five charge/discharge cycles. Here, the predictions were correct 95% of the time. Continue reading →