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AI to Accurately Predict the Useful Life of Batteries

AI to Accurately Predict the Useful Life of Batteries

Wouldn’t it be nice if battery manufacturers could tell which of their batteries will last at least two years and sell those to mobile phone makers, and which will last for ten years or more and sell those to electric vehicle manufacturers? New collaborative research published today in Nature Energy shows how they co ... Continue reading

Velodyne Achieves Half a Billion Dollars in Lidar Sensors Shipped

Velodyne Achieves Half a Billion Dollars in Lidar Sensors Shipped

Velodyne Alpha Puck™ is a lidar sensor specifically made for autonomous driving and advanced vehicle safety at highway speeds. (Photo: Business Wire) Velodyne Alpha Puck™ is a lidar sensor specifically made for autonomous driving and advanced vehicle safety at highway speeds. ... Continue reading

New Mindful Mode to Let 2020 Ford Explorer Drivers Digitally Detox

New Mindful Mode to Let 2020 Ford Explorer Drivers Digitally Detox

After a recent Nielsen study found Americans spend half their day processing information from staring at a screen, the latest Ford Trends Report discovered more than half of adults around the world want a mandatory timeout from their devices. Ford engineers are making it possible in the all-new Explorer. ... Continue reading

Consumer Anxiety over Autonomous Vehicle Safety is Greatest Deterrent to Adoption

Consumer Anxiety over Autonomous Vehicle Safety is Greatest Deterrent to Adoption

A new study (https://forms.cmbinfo.com/autonomous-vehicles-report-2019) , from market research and consulting firm Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB) finds overcoming consumer anxiety is key to greater acceptance of autonomous vehicles (AVs).CMB's analysis includes an online quantitative survey of over 2,000 U.S. consume ... Continue reading

Molex Announces Membership in Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance

Molex Announces Membership in Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance

Molex Announces Membership in Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance Molex has joined the Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance to collaborate with other industry leaders in the development and adoption of next-generation multi-gig Ethernet automotive networking. Founded by Aquantia, Bosch, Conti ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB RADIO LIVE FROM NYC, Saturday March 16, 2019; WNYM Radio AM 970 7-9 AM

AUTO LAB RADIO LIVE FROM NYC, Saturday March 16, 2019; WNYM Radio AM 970 7-9 AM

Auto Lab Talk Radio on New York City's WNYM Radio AM 970 Is Streamed Worldwide On TheAutoChannel.Com Car Question or Concern? Automotive Career Opportunity, Call Toll Free 888-692-7234 To Speak With An Auto Lab Expert Auto Lab is also about the automotive industry, its history, and its culture, presenting the ideas and ... Continue reading

Volvo Sets a Top Speed of 112 MPH For All Of Its Cars

Volvo Sets a Top Speed of 112 MPH For All Of Its Cars

Volvo will limit the top speed of its cars in order to bring fatalities down to zero by the year 2020. The software sets a ceiling of 180 kilometers per hour (112 mph), high enough so it’ll mainly affect two kinds of drivers: scofflaws and those who ply Germany's fast-as-you-please autobahns. ... 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

Iteris Selected by San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Commission for Connected and Automated Vehicle Initiative

Iteris Selected by San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Commission for Connected and Automated Vehicle Initiative

Iteris, Inc.today announced that it has been selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to enhance and upgrade the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) across five cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The three-year project supports MTC’s Innovative Deployments to Enhance Arterials (IDEA) progr ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB RADIO LIVE FROM NYC, Saturday February 23, 2019; WNYM Radio AM 970 7-9 AM

AUTO LAB RADIO LIVE FROM NYC, Saturday February 23, 2019; WNYM Radio AM 970 7-9 AM

Streamed Worldwide On TheAutoChannel.Com Car Question or Concern? Automotive Career Opportunity, Call Toll Free 888-692-7234 To Speak With An Auto Lab Expert Auto Lab is also about the automotive industry, its history, and its culture, presenting the ideas and advice of leading college faculty, authors, and automotive ... Continue reading

BMW Group To Open Technology Office In Tel Aviv Israel

BMW Group To Open Technology Office In Tel Aviv Israel

Munich February 20, 2019; The BMW Group has been collaborating with Israeli firms from various technology fields for a number of years now. The company has now announced that it will open an office for trend and technology scouting in Israel. ... 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

Velodyne Lidar’s Sponsorship of Autonomous Vehicle Competition in China Advances Research and Development of Self-Driving Cars

Velodyne Lidar’s Sponsorship of Autonomous Vehicle Competition in China Advances Research and Development of Self-Driving Cars

At the 10th China Intelligent Vehicles Future Challenge (IVFC), Velodyne Lidar sensors played a prominent role in enabling self-driving vehicles from multiple teams. ... Continue reading

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