NissOur autonomous technology is additive to the driving experience you have today, offering more enjoyable driving and less stress

Source: safecarnews.com

Nissan has been bold on Autonomous for the longest time of all the carmakers. I guess you can measure “less stress” in a lot of ways and if the car has zero fatalities that would help.

Of course isafety considerations will be a key to bringing customers to autonomous vehicles

Source: safecarnews.com

Of course it will be safety, otherwise there will be no autonomous vehicles. The rationale is not convenience, but saving lives.

Android Auto has about 500 applications

Source: www.pcworld.com

Will you be able to buy a new car without Android Auto in the future? Not likely. Apps will sell cars faster than carmakers have tried to build their own islands.

vehicles equipped with the EyeSight driver assist system had 80% fewer front-to-rear crashes (crashes into the vehicles in front) and 50% fewer accidents involving pedestrians

Source: safecarnews.com

These seem like pretty impressive numbers for a relatively simple ADAS feature. I wonder if anyone has projected the global impact on crashes if all cars had this equipment.

He is the Marchionne, who says he owns every kind of product Apple makes

Source: www.businessinsider.com

He is the opposite of boring, and I’ve always liked the Chrysler and Fiat style. Maybe Apple could bring in the extra quality needed. It’s fresh thinking not to diss Silicon Valley’s potential to disrupt the traditional steel and rubber industry.

reduced its automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) algorithm development time by up to 70 percent

Source: safecarnews.com

My understanding is that tech developed in a university is eventually open to the public, so anyone could use these algorithms. 

Could Apple be working together with QNX on their future automobile plans?

Source: www.iphoneincanada.ca

Of course they could, and will probably need to work with others too, but Apple has not shown much interest in using any other OS than their own, and without OS X (Intel) and iOS (ARM) there is no ecosystem to leverage.

Central Driver Assistance System (Zentrale Fahrerassistenzsystem, zFAS) that was developed by TTTech Computertechnik and AUDI. Powered by AURIX microcontrollers by Infineon

Source: safecarnews.com

Wait! I though nVidia claimed this victory with Audi back at CES in Jan 2015 (https://www.tttech.com/news-events/newsroom/details/audi-showcases-next-evolution-of-zfas-architecture-with-tttech-in-audi-prologue-piloted-driving-at-c/). Did something change? Infineon was not promoted much back then, but is a more realistic supplier.

road vehicles operate in a more crowded environment than aircraft

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

A crowded highway is much less controlled than a crowded airway and there is surely the more flexible 3D path available to planes. Autonomous cars will still be constrained by the physics of the roads.

Samsung studied Mcity, a full-scale autonomous vehicle test facility at the University of Michigan

Source: safecarnews.com

Imagine that, then they built their own in Korea. Hmmm.