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Preview: An auto show, a tech show or both in Las Vegas?
With the Detroit Auto Show struggling, CES, even more than in recent years, is stepping up its automotive game.
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Bosch announces autonomous electric shuttle, series of connected services
Image: Bosch Bosch will display a driverless electric shuttle at CES 2019 in Las Vegas next month, to be offered fully-integrated with a full suite of hardware, software and related digital services. The concept shuttle, whose outer shell is constructed of display screens and glass, effectively comes with ...
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Continental to show Intelligent Intersection and smart city tech at CES
Image: Continental Continental will show a series of future city technologies at the CES, Las Vegas, next month, including a demonstration version of its Intelligent Intersection solution. This integrates DSRC (dedicated short-range communications), data feeds from traffic and sensor fusion algorithms to create a model 3D view of ...
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Schaeffler connects micro-vehicles into mobility ecosystem with Bio-Hybrid
Image: Schaeffler Bio-Hybrid Bio-Hybrid GmbH, a spin-off from the Schaeffler Group, is launching its urban micro-mobility vehicles at CES, Las Vegas, next month. The electric-assist four-wheeled pedelecs will be offered in cargo and passenger forms – and though Bio-Hybrid suggests that they are for private transportation, they are ...
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Magna reconfigures seating for car-sharing, introduces app interface, but stresses that basic requirements aren’t necessarily tech-driven
Image: Magna Magna, a leading supplier of automotive seating, has announced details of a reconfigurable interior solution which can be custom-adapted for different car-sharing and autonomous-driving scenarios. Its new seating concept creates a flexible cabin for three key use-cases. The concept was developed out of digital and market ...
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Rinspeed microSNAP shows scaled-down modularity, automated body-swaps
Image: Rinspeed Swiss design consultancy Rinspeed will present a scaled-down version of its Snap concept at CES, Las Vegas, in January: microSNAP has been shrunk to “the dimensions of a Renault Twizy”, the company says, to propose a modular micro-mobility solution for last-mile applications. Like the larger Snap, ...
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Capgemini report exposes gap between the expectations of a digital supply chain and reality as organisations fail to execute
The report, The digital supply chain’s missing link: focus, says that while 50% of organizations surveyed for the report considered supply chain digitization to be one of their top three corporate priorities, 86% had failed to get projects beyond the testing stage because they did not prepare adequately.
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Twelve important things we learned from Automobility 2018 in Los Angeles
The top trends to emerge for automotive and mobility technology from a key conference at the Los Angeles Auto Show
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The connected car revolution could take off when 5G networks are firmly established.
Superfast cellular networks are coming as soon as next year – with big implications for mobility.
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Ghosn scandal and General Motors closures should be viewed in context as world car production trends suggest future not so different from the past
The auto industry has seemingly suffered two major body blows in the last 10 days. The shock arrest of Carlos Ghosn in Japan and GM’s announcement of plant closures in North America give succour to those who believe we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the car industry.
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Veniam and Denso to collaborate on connected vehicle software
Image: Veniam Veniam, a young provider of networking software for connected vehicles and mobility systems, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s long-established Denso. The planned joint project will explore the integration of Veniam’s intelligent data networking features into Denso’s communication management systems: this will, says Veniam, ...
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Visteon inaugurates new tech centre in Karlsruhe, Germany; Harman sets up software office in Łódź, Poland
Image: Visteon Visteon Corporation has held an inauguration ceremony for a new 6,500 sq-m facility in Karlsruhe, Germany, its lead technology hub for Europe. This technology centre will host advanced development of vehicle cockpit electronics, and will lead the development of the Visteon DriveCore autonomous driving platform [under ...
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Nuance spins off its automotive division as a separate company, specializing in conversational AI
Image: Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is planning to spin off its automotive business division and activities into an independent, publicly-traded automotive software company, Nuance Auto. The formation of this company and share transactions are expected to be completed by the end of the 2019 fiscal year. Nuance specializes ...
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At ZF, experimental drones set to speed up internal logistics
ZF Friedrichshafen has started experimenting with a drone prototype to quickly transport spare parts at its plant in southern Germany.
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Daimler, Bosch to start testing automated ride hailing in San Jose, CA
The S-Class sedans to be used in the ride-hailing service will have at least Level 4 autonomy (Photo: Daimler) Premium car group Daimler and automotive supplier Robert Bosch will start testing an on-demand ride hailing service that will use highly and fully automated Mercedes S-Class vehicles in San ...
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Mahle CIO: "IT is needed for future business models and the development of new products"
Mahle CIO Markus Bentele discusses the art of juggling changes and new collaborations between Mahle’s IT and the group’s operating units.
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Transforming the supply chain for the digital age
The car industry is being shaken up by data and digital processes, but those in the supply chain can gain a competitive edge by getting to grips with the possibilities presented by AI and better data governance.
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Logistics is not like five years ago and in five years’ time it won’t be like today
With rapid advances in vehicle technology, the challenge for the automotive logistics industry is to keep up, said supply chain experts at the recent Automotive Logistics UK conference.
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Reimagining its own data lakes and embracing analytics may save the car industry from extinction
In the IT world, it’s hard to avoid the cliché that “data is the new oil”, yet in the auto industry it might actually be true. As it moves from a very 20th Century data-light, vertical model of building cars to a horizontal digital future of mobility solutions and services, ...
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Bosch CDO: 'Not-invented-here' is a positive thing
Bernd Heinrichs points to digital twins, compute power and digital services as pillars of the future for the supplier.