Autonomous Vehicles – Page 14

  • new mobility.automotiveIT
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    What to expect in 2017

    2016-12-31T08:30:24Z

    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 ...

  • vw.automotiveIT
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    VW to hire 1,000 IT experts over 3 years

    2016-12-29T13:52:04Z

    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, ...

  • Honda.automotiveIT
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    Honda in talks with Google's Waymo

    2016-12-22T18:01:51Z

    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 ...

  • uber.automotiveIT
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    Uber pulls autonomous vehicles from San Francisco streets

    2016-12-20T11:33:28Z

    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 ...

  • blackberry.automotiveIT
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    BlackBerry opens self-driving car research center

    2016-12-20T10:20:39Z

    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 ...

  • bmw.automotiveIT
    Article

    At CES, BMW to showcase "HoloActive Touch"

    2016-12-16T15:59:30Z

    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 ...

  • ces.automotiveIT
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    CES - Las Vegas

    2016-12-06T17:42:32Z

    At the 2016 CES, GM CEO Mary Barra gave a keynote address (Photo: CES)The annual CES exhibition, the first major consumer electronics exhibition of the year, officially starts in Las Vegas on January 5.But press events already begin on January 3, when electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future and several other ...

  • uber.automotiveIT
    Article

    Uber Creates artificial intelligence lab

    2016-12-06T14:13:19Z

    Uber is looking to AI for help in developing its ride-hailing services (Photo: Uber)(Bloomberg) --Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to buy startup Geometric Intelligence Inc. to help the ride-hailing company create a new artificial-intelligence research lab.The startup has 15 employees and is developing new machine-learning techniques inspired by cognitive science ...

  • continental.automotiveIT
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    At Continental, Lenninger takes over Intelligent Transport

    2016-12-06T14:00:31Z

    Continental is expanding its new mobility and intelligent transport business (Photo: Continental)Ralf Lenninger has taken over as head of Continental’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) business, succeeding Seval Oz, a high-profile former Google executive the German automotive supplier recruited in 2014. Oz has now left the company.Lenninger, previously senior vice ...

  • vw.automotiveIT
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    With new mobility unit, VW pursues Uber, Apple

    2016-12-05T13:42:03Z

    VW CEO Matthias Mueller (right) and Moia CEO Ole Harms officially launched the carmaker's new mobility unit Monday (Photo: VW)(Bloomberg) --Volkswagen AG plans to expand its new mobility-services division into a business with billions in revenue as the German carmaker seeks salvation in ride-hailing, autonomous driving and electric cars ...

  • delphi-mobileye.automotiveIT
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    From Apple, an appeal for equal treatment in road tests

    2016-12-03T12:44:19Z

    Delphi will showcase its latest autonomous-driving technology at CES 2017 (Photo: Delphi)Apple may have scaled back its automotive ambitions, but the company still appears keen to take part in the transformation of the car industry.In a letter to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Apple is calling ...