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ArticleCES: Valeo shows range of new technologies
The Valeo cockpit offers a vision of future new-mobility options (Photo: Valeo)LAS VEGAS -- Valeo showed a range of new connected-car technologies at this year CES, as the French automotive supplier group works to grab a bigger share of the fast-growing market for autonomous-vehicle-related systems.Jacques Aschenbroich, the company's CEO, ...
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ArticleCES: Toyota unveils concept car with advanced artificial intelligence
Toyota's Bob Carter unveils the Concept-i at the CES in Las Vegas (Photo: Arjen Bongard)LAS VEGAS -- Toyota Motor unveiled a concept car here featuring artificial intelligence technology that is designed to learn and grow with the driver.The Japanese carmaker said at the CES consumer electronics show that its ...
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ArticleCES: ZF, Nvidia work on artificial-intelligence platform
ZF sees sensing and intelligent systems as crucial in future mobility (Photo: ZF)LAS VEGAS -- ZF Friedrichshafen and Nvidia are jointly developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems for cars, trucks and other industrial applications.The German automotive supplier unveiled its ZF ProAI platform at a press conference here on the eve ...
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ArticleFord to debut next-generation Fusion Hybrid at CES
Ford is designing its 1st-generation autonomous cars for ride-hailing and ride-sharing services (Photo: Ford)Ford Motor will show a further development of its Fusion Hybrid autonomous  vehicle at CES this year, introducing a research car it hopes will be its first autonomously driven production vehicle by 2021.The US carmaker ...
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ArticleAt CES, Daimler's mobility vision wil be on display
Daimler's EQ family represents the key mobility trends the carmaker expects to see in coming years (Photo: Daimler)LAS VEGAS -- Daimler will show its Concept EQ crossover and the Mercedes-Benz Vision Van at this year's CES in an attempt to provide concrete examples of what it expects the future ...
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ArticleWhat to expect in 2017
Automakers are hiring software engineers to develop new-mobility offerings (Photo: BMW)Is 2017 going to be the year of electric mobility? Will this be the year that autonomous vehicles take a decisive step toward roadworthiness? And will this be the year that automakers convince skeptics that they - rather than ...
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ArticleVW to hire 1,000 IT experts over 3 years
IT experts in VW's digital lab in Berlin work on new mobility services and connected-car technologies (Photo: VW)Volkswagen said it will hire more than 1,000 additional IT experts in the next three years, as Europe's largest car group aims to bolster its expertise in digital technologies.VW said the specialists, ...
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ArticleNew version of open-source infotainment platform released
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), citing “an unprecedented level of collaboration," has released the latest version of its open-source infotainment platform.The community, which has close to 90 member companies including Ford, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota, is promoting the adoption of an open-source standard ...
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ArticleNew Volvos to feature Skype for Business
Volvo may also add Cortana voice software to its connectivity platform (Photo: Volvo Cars)Volvo Cars said its new 90 Series cars will offer the Skype for Business communication tool. The option marks a further addition to the auto industry's growing range of connected services.The Swedish premium car group said ...
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ArticleVW buys N. American parking-payment operator
Paybyphone says it is adding about 7,000 users a day (Photo: Paybyphone)(Bloomberg) --Volkswagen AG bought North American parking-payment operatorPayByPhone in the latest move by Europe’s biggest carmaker to expand from manufacturing into mobility services.The purchase of Vancouver-based PayByPhone, which processed more than 250 million dlrs in transactions this year, ...
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ArticleHonda in talks with Google's Waymo
Honda unveiled an autonomous development vehicle in May (Photo: Honda)(Bloomberg) --Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it is talking to Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., to try to strike a deal that would put its self-driving technology into some of the Japanese automaker’s cars.Both companies ...
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ArticleUber pulls autonomous vehicles from San Francisco streets
Uber's self-driving cars were only seen on San Francisco streets for a brief period (Photo: Uber)(Bloomberg) --Uber Technologies Inc. pulled its self-driving cars from San Francisco’s streets after the state of California revoked registrations for the vehicles.The move impacted 16 Uber automobiles, the Department of Motor Vehicles wrote in ...
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ArticleWanxiang gets Chinese permission to build Karma EVs
The Karma Revero is a plug-in hybrid sports car based on the Fisker Karma (Photo; Karma Automotive)(Bloomberg) --Wangxiang Group, the owner of Karma Automotive, became the second auto-parts maker to receive permission from China's top economic planner to produce electric cars under a special scheme to encourage companies outside ...
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ArticleBlackBerry opens self-driving car research center
The BlackBerry research center will unveil some early research results at CES in Las Vegas in January (Photo: BlackBerry)(Bloomberg) --BlackBerry Ltd. and Canada are opening a research center for self-driving cars that raises the possibility of government backing for the former smartphone maker’s automotive software unit.Chief Executive Officer John ...
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ArticleAt CES, BMW to showcase "HoloActive Touch"
BMW wants to take the HMI to the next leve at CES 2017 (Photo: BMW)At the 2017 CES, BMW will show a kind of interactive touchscreen that offers a vision of what tomorrow's HMI may look like.The German premium car maker said the "HoloActive Touch" system consists of a ...
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ArticleUS wants mandatory car-to-car communication
The next generation of cars is likely to be connected to other cars and to the traffic infrastructure (Photo: Continental)(Bloomberg) --US automobile regulators want passenger cars and light trucks to wirelessly stream data about their movements and monitor other vehicles so they don’t crash into each other.All new light-duty ...
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ArticleGoogle self-driving car unit to be called Waymo
Waymo plans a ride-sharing service with FiatChrysler late next year (Photo:Alphabet)(Bloomberg) --Google parent company Alphabet Inc. is separating its self-driving car project into a new business called Waymo, seeking to sharpen its focus on changing the transportation industry.John Krafcik, chief executive officer of Waymo, announced the move on Tuesday ...
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ArticleFiat may show EV at Las Vegas CES
FiatChrysler will be one of the last major car brands to launch a full EV (Photo: FCA)(Bloomberg) -- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will reveal a fully electric vehicle based on the Chrysler Pacifica minivan at CES in Las Vegas next month as the carmaker moves to get in step ...
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ArticleWith UK retail store, SEAT tests new sales concept
Seat customers can use 8 touchscreens to handle all aspects of their car purchase (Photo: Seat)LONDON -- Nobody really knows what car buying will look like in 10 years. Some say online retail will be the future, but others are certain that car showrooms and dealer groups will continue ...
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ArticleVolvo Cars appoints new R&D boss
Green joined Volvo in 1996 and has held several management positions in Sweden and China (Photo: Volvo)Volvo Cars has appointed Henrik Green senior vice president research & development, moving a company insider into a key management position.Green, 43, is currently in charge of sales and production planning and customer ...
