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ADAS and Autonomous Driving Industry Chain Report 2018-2019 - OEMs

ADAS and Autonomous Driving Industry Chain Report 2018-2019 - OEMs

SEE ALSO: My Car Does What? -- OEM ADAS and Autonomous Driving Strategy Research: At least Billions of Dollars and Thousands of Software Engineers are Required.Download the full report ... Continue reading

New Limited Express Train "Laview" Debuts in March 2019, Design Directed by Architect Kazuyo Sejima

New Limited Express Train "Laview" Debuts in March 2019, Design Directed by Architect Kazuyo Sejima

TOKOROZAWA, Japan, April 3, 2019; SEIBU RAILWAY Co., Ltd., put into service its new limited express train "Laview" on Saturday, March 16, 2019. Both the exterior and interior of the Laview train were designed by world-renowned architect Kazuyo Sejima to develop a new "never seen before train car." As the new flagship t ... Continue reading

Need a car to drive for Lyft or Uber? Subprime Customers Can Buy Vehicles

Need a car to drive for Lyft or Uber? Subprime Customers Can Buy Vehicles

DriveItAway, Inc., the industry leader in car dealer focused Shared Mobility, announces today a ground breaking industry partnership with CloudOne, which owns and operates one of the most fully-integrated automotive call center-based infrastructures within the United States, specifically designed to seamlessly facilita ... Continue reading

New Autonomous Vehicle Survey; Americans Continue To Mistrust Silicon Valley's Bull And The Lemming Like Car Maker Autonomous Car Fairy Tales; 50% Don't Trust 'Em 75% Wont Buy Them

New Autonomous Vehicle Survey; Americans Continue To Mistrust Silicon Valley's Bull And The Lemming Like Car Maker Autonomous Car Fairy Tales; 50% Don't Trust 'Em 75% Wont Buy Them

Reuters reported that half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. In the same poll, about 63 percent of those who responded said th ... Continue reading

Final Edition - End of Day Automotive News Recap

Final Edition - End of Day Automotive News Recap

Chinese Talks Moving Ahead; FCA In Demand As Purchase Object; Lyft Stock Lifted First Day Of Trading; Honda,Hinao And Softbank Join To Develop Autonomous Vehicles ... Continue reading

HARMAN Remote Vehicle Updating Service (OTA) Expands to Include HD Map Updates for Connected Vehicles

HARMAN Remote Vehicle Updating Service (OTA) Expands to Include HD Map Updates for Connected Vehicles

GENEVA--HARMAN , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, today announced a new product – Smart Delta for Maps for connected vehicles. This new product will allow car manufacturers to push new HD Maps updates in grea ... Continue reading

Lyft Goes All-In on AWS

Lyft Goes All-In on AWS

SEATTLE--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company , announced that Lyft, Inc. is going all-in on the world’s leading cloud—to enhance Lyft’s ridesharing marketplace which is available to an estimated 95 percent of the U.S. population, as well as in select Canadian cities, drive growth of its ... Continue reading

Drive, Park, Ride: World’s First Truly Comprehensive Multi-Modal Trip Planner

Drive, Park, Ride: World’s First Truly Comprehensive Multi-Modal Trip Planner

Drive, Park, Ride: Moovit and TomTom Align With Microsoft to Introduce World’s First Truly Comprehensive Multi-Modal Trip Planner. Some of the world’s top urban mobility leaders today unveiled the world’s first comprehensive multi-modal trip planner, a solution to reduce congestion in cities around the world that ... Continue reading

Toyota and SoftBank Joint Venture, MONET, Starts Operations

Toyota and SoftBank Joint Venture, MONET, Starts Operations

Toyota City, Japan, Feb, 01 2019; Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and SoftBank Corp. (SoftBank) have completed investment in their joint venture, MONET Technologies Inc. (MONET), with full-scale operations commencing today. Specifically, of MONET's three main business domains--1) on-demand mobility services, 2) data- ... Continue reading

LMC Autonomus Ride Report

LMC Autonomus Ride Report

Attending the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month provided the perfect opportunity to test out an Autonomous Vehicle (AV). My colleague Amber McLincha-Herrick opened the Lyft app and we then waited in anticipation for our AV to arrive. As Las Vegas is home to Aptiv’s largest fleet of self-dri ... Continue reading

CNBC: APPLE JUST DISMISSED MORE THAN 200 EMPLOYEES FROM PROJECT TITAN, ITS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE GROUP

CNBC: APPLE JUST DISMISSED MORE THAN 200 EMPLOYEES FROM PROJECT TITAN, ITS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE GROUP

Apple just dismissed more than 200 employees from Project Titan, its autonomous vehicle group its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative, people familiar with the group tell CNBC. · A former Apple and Tesla executive, Doug Field, returned to Apple in August to work on Project Titan, alongside Bob Mansfield. ... Continue reading

Automotive News Digest; Week Ending January 5, 2019 - Compiled By Executive Producer Larry Nutson

Automotive News Digest; Week Ending January 5, 2019 - Compiled By Executive Producer Larry Nutson

2018 US Auto Sales; Dodge And Lego; Drive Home Driving; GM EV Sales Hits Tax Rebate Reduction; Tesla Cuts Prices; Waymo Attacks; Autonomous Survey; Ford Takata Recall; New GM President; Audi EV In Super Bowl; CES Automotive; RIP Chevrolet's Jim Perkins ... Continue reading

Cruze v. Cruise

Cruze v. Cruise

Cruze v. Cruise By Maureen McDonald Senior Editor Michigan Bureau The Auto Channel Between the names Cruze (Automation) and Cruise are the future's of 1,000 plus workers. If your mind gets addled by all the news generated in the 24/7 scrum, you get confused by General Motors Cruise and Cruze. ... Continue reading

Automotive News Digest; Week Ending December 8, 2018; Executive Producer Larry Nutson

Automotive News Digest; Week Ending December 8, 2018; Executive Producer Larry Nutson

This Weeks Important Auto News: Car Sales Down Pick-up SUV Sales Up; China Truce?; New NAFTA; Nissan Ghosn Troubles; German Car Makers Meet Trump; Waymo On Road; GM Barra Meets Congress; FCA Sales Up; NYC $17 Per Hour Uber and Lyft Driver Salary; VW Betting Against ICE Engines; French Fuel Tax Riots; Detroit Auto Show ... Continue reading

Germans Skeptical of Robo-Taxis – New Report

Germans Skeptical of Robo-Taxis – New Report

A new report on mobility has found that Germans are significantly more skeptical about autonomous robo-taxis than respondents in China, Japan and the U.S. Four out of five Chinese people says they could imagine using a robo-taxi, along with almost half of respondents in the U.S. and Japan. However, just one third of Ge ... Continue reading

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