assume people will be tempted to take foolhardy risks when they activate the autonomous features in a car, making it imperative to design vehicles that minimise the chances of irresponsible behavior.

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

The article title was so painfully obvious, but the comment on foolhardy behaviour is a built-in feature for driving cars, even with human drivers at the wheel. Both a jab and a cheer to Tesla I’d say.

The replacement for the ageing 9-5 was stalled after GM ended a joint venture with Fiat

Read the full article at: www.autocar.co.uk

The Saab 9-5 in my driveway is showing great ageing and did not last the hundreds of thousands in miles I expected. Maybe we can blame GM for the increasing repair bills that exceed its value.

ARM traditionally has charged low royalties—one reason its technology is widely used—and that SoftBank could boost profit by raising these fees

Read the full article at: www.wsj.com

Quietly known to few consumers, ARM has a monopoly on the low cost designs for computing in “things” and cars. Thus they seem to be worth around 36x their revenues.

By eliminating their investment in mobile, how can companies like Intel succeed in IoT which is the same thing at an even lower price point? 

aggressive roll-out of self-driving technology—in what it calls a “beta-test”—is forcing safety agencies and automakers to reassess the basic relationship between human drivers and their increasingly sophisticated cars

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Silicon Valley (read: Google) frequently releases “beta” software to the public in the interest of advancing innovation. Tesla, the only substantial Silicon Valley carmaker follows that cue, with much higher risk taking than Detroit would accept.

94 out of 95 Intel employees either said they “heard a vision, but not much of a strategy” or “heard neither the vision nor the strategy,”

Read the full article at: finance.yahoo.com

I heard plenty of strategies, but execution of those strategies has been Intel’s biggest challenge for at least the past decade. Will a new batch of younger workers fix that? Have you seen the work ethic of many teenagers?

everything from ignition the car is in to things like the vehicle speed, the direction of travel, the GPS location, all of that information, which is used by the vehicle’s internal module to do everything from cruise control to turning your lights on and off

Read the full article at: techcrunch.com

Very strange to me that this showcase on vehicle connectivity research does not include use of JLR’s RVI technology developed in Portland, OR. Perhaps the use of open source software is not the intention in the UK HQ.

AGL seems to be eclipsing GENIVI as the leading open Linux car platform. More than 30 new companies have joined AGL in the past year, bringing the membership to more than 70

Read the full article at: www.linux.com

Competition is good, drives innovation. I noticed how may chipmakers are trying to catch up with Renesas early commitment levels in both GENIVI and AGL.

Dirk Hohndel has left Intel. After fifteen years serving as the chip maker’s chief Linux and open-source technologist, he’s moved out of his office to set up shop as vice president and chief open-source officer at VMware.

Read the full article at: fossforce.com

A new set of challenges after Dirk figured out how to make Intel an open source player, now VMware may join that world. Could be good for virtualization!

the company has announced the expansion of its extensive partner ecosystem through the Intel Security Innovation Alliance

Read the full article at: www.resellerme.com

One of the biggest challenges Intel deals with is keeping track of all the Alliances they form and belong to. I hear McAfee (Intel Security) is for sale anyway.

EDT: 11:00 a.m. | PDT: 8:00 a.m. | GMT: 15:00 Cloud adoption and the open-source economic model lead the move to subscription and away from traditional license and maintenance business models a big shift that alters business and client…

Read the full article at: www.gartner.com

this is interesting