The company’s top priority is to help motorists drive safely, rather than replace them

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Drivers are the ones who buy most cars so this makes sense to me.

The impact of the acquisition on OEMs and other suppliers depends very much on whether Samsung has acquired HARMAN as a Tier-2 supplier moving up the automotive supply chain, or as a CE player moving across into the automotive industry

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This amazing market share chart is a bit distorted, it seems to show only the number of designs and customers, not the total size of their business. When I add up the sales, Panasonic is #1 followed by Harman only by a hair.

“We need the supercomputers, we need the 5G, the legal environment and cross-industry collaboration to prepare for the future,” Frickenstein said.

Read the full article at: www.siliconrepublic.com

It’s strange to claim fully automated driving by 2021, will all these needs still unmet in 2016. Back up 5 years and see how much progress is possible – not enough.

The need of the hour is an open system which allows various stakeholders to interact and utilize the data in a meaningful way, while maintaining security and privacy; and at the same time providing flexibility to each of the stakeholder to innovate and differentiate services.

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

Closed V2X architectures have stumbled around for over a dozen years without results. The Open approach makes sense to invoke now. 

Subsequent “waves” of autonomous driving are likely to include multiple-lane highway driving in 2018 and then the technology for autonomous driving in cities should be ready by 2020, he said.

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I think Ghosn may have insight into road infrastructure changes and legislation needed to implement SAE level 5 features by 2020.

GENIVI Alliance open source software architecture for infotainment includes a number of compliant solutions from automotive Tier 1s like Aisin, Continental, Delphi, Harman, Magneti Marelli, and Visteon

Read the full article at: www.abiresearch.com

143 Million car cockpits is a long runway for GENIVI. The OSS automotive world is legitimate for sure.

“Would a member of the public be comfortable getting into an airplane without a pilot? The short answer is no,” says George Perry, who runs the Air Safety Institute at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).

Read the full article at: www.fastcompany.com

While planes are flown 97% of the time by a computer, that improvement only reduced the pilots needed from 3 to 2. I don’t think many people will get into an Uber with no driver and be confident where they will be taken.

R-Car Starter Kit, including online-available sample application and calibration software which enables system developers to immediately start their development

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

What is missing is the fact that the kit is also ISO26262 ASIL B out of the box, which enables automakers and suppliers to build safe applications that use the cameras to avoid hazards and crashes.

In five years, the majority of Lyft rides will be done autonomously,” he said.

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

That’s a pretty big leap in “autonomously” means no driver. In five years the consumers will have to change dramatically or this is a prediction from Lyft’s founder that they will have a very small part of the market. 🙂

In August 2008, Obama set a goal of getting 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015. Only about 520,000 electric cars have been sold in the United States since 2008. There are about 250 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads.

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

Here’s proof you can’t force purchases if the products are not desirable.