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Source: Smart2Zero – September 12th, 2017 General Motors-owned Cruise Automation (San Francisco, CA) has unveiled its 3rd-generation self-driving car prototype. Acquired by General Motors last year, the company – which operates as an independent unit – says its latest prototype represents “the world’s first mass-producible car designed to operate without a driver.” The prototype…
DetailsSource: NYT – September 6th, 2017 Arkema, the multinational French chemical company that owns the plant, identified hurricanes, flooding and power failures as risks to the site nearly a decade ago. But the company did little to address those hazards, its own risk-management plans show. Flooding from Harvey knocked out electricity to the plant…
DetailsSource: Smart2Zero – September 4th, 2017 Austrian-Canadian technology company Magna International has introduced a comprehensive electronics platform that enables autonomous driving up to level four and can be integrated into existing and future car designs – provided, of course, they already have the appropriate actors. The platform, dubbed MAX4 combines cameras, radar, lidar and…
DetailsSource: EENewsAutomotive – August 24th, 2017 Existing concepts for networked traffic have a decisive weakness: pedestrians and cyclists are only taken into consideration on the margins. The TIMON project aims to end this situation, as pedestrians and cyclists take part in the networked traffic through their smartphones. The purpose of the research project is…
DetailsSource: EENewsAutomotive – August 20th, 2017 A new report from market research firm TechNavio predicts that the global motorcycle sensors market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 13% by 2021. Sensor types covered in the report include process, position, and motion sensors, with process sensors – which are…
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