the support provided by Cohda to help us get our equipment up and running was outstanding

Source: safecarnews.com

It always boils down to people and excellent support trumps excellent product any day.

Loss-making Uber would make drastic savings on its biggest cost — drivers — if it were able to incorporate self-driving cars into its fleet.

Source: safecarnews.com

Uber has proven powerful at breaking down unions and regulations that are changing the transportation business. Maybe they also hold the keys to autonomous, although I think we are still a long way off from eliminating safety drivers, just as expensive as real drivers.

When both agree a frontal collision may be imminent, the vehicle’s brakes are activated – a strategy that affords greater precision

Source: safecarnews.com

AEB by 2020 will result in competitive advantage for the first automakers delivering a great solution. Sensor fusion requires at least 3 suppliers, each of the sensors and a computer to agree. A huge boost to the industry and consumers will often get smart cruise control as a bonus.

“others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created”

Source: www.nytimes.com

I suppose it would be easy to get another job with this on your resume. Apple, security, expert.

Google SDC may have thought that it was okay to pull around the sandbags – and why the bus driver thought it was okay to continue straight

Source: www.linkedin.com

This picture is different that I heard in many reports. I thought the bus pulled into the SDC, but it looks like the SDC cut off the bus to avoid sand bags. Trolley Car?

The panel will address barriers to the OEM adoption of consolidated instrument cluster and infotainment systems known as “multi-domain controllers” that represent the beginning of ECU consolidation

Source: www.4-traders.com

Thanks to my panelists Chris Giordano, Ian Byers, Chris Andrews and Joe Fabree we had a great conversation on stage.

ThingWorx and Intel, in particular, are two companies continuing to emphasize the value of their partner ecosystems

Source: www.abiresearch.com

An interesting “shout out” to Intel and pointing out that all vendors are trying to promote their own ecosystems, not the community. The discerning eye can already see that.

Setting unreasonably high standards for machines is, well, unreasonable

Source: www.automotiveitnews.org

The devil is surely in those details, and machines will never be human. Great machines can be build nonetheless.

People aAs V2X is being mandated as a safety technology, automakers already have historical precedent in bundling costs into new cars

Source: www.cnet.com

People like to say it’s less than $100 to add V2X, but if consumers don’t know its in there, they are not going to appreciate the end cost that will be much higher than that.