average new car has about 200 million lines of programming code, and much of that code can be tweaked later to improve safety, update maps, or add entirely new features
Source: www.fool.com
That same $20B in warranty costs has been discussed for at least 10 years – but little done to wear it down. The issue is automaker culture and legacy silos. BMW and Tesla have the different culture to pull off OTA.
it takes a driver 17 seconds to respond to an autonomous car’s prompts to retake control of the vehicle. A lot can happen in 17 seconds at 70 mph
Source: mashable.com
Be sure to check out the Volvo concept GIF with a glass “guillotine” work table that extends over your lap, maybe this is the new design for seat belts in an autonomous car?
Huang noted that $5 billion was invested last year in A.I. startups
Source: venturebeat.com
Please note that nVidia did not make those $5B in investments, it would break their balance sheet.
recently launched a software update to its existing Tesla cars that allowed them to be autonomous in some select situations
Source: www.neowin.net
The big story is less about Tesla being semi-autonomous, but more the fact the owner can “download” these features. All the other car companies crave this elusive capability in their fleets.
FCA will initially design and engineer around 100 vehicles uniquely built for Google’s self-driving technology
Source: safecarnews.com
If every carmaker contributes 100 vehicles, we could have say, 1000 cars on the road doing the testing? Is that enough?
The medium-to-long-term impact on the insurance industry is likely to be significant
Source: safecarnews.com
It’s great to see auto insurers starting to plan for more ADAS features, I think consumers will expect a discount.
Deploying a vehicle today without a steering wheel, brake, accelerator and a human driver capable of intervening when something goes wrong is not merely foolhardy. It is dangerous,
Source: safecarnews.com
I guess they don’t like the bubble car with just a stop button.
Through the Platform for Innovation project, we have applied our RVI work to a car-to-home connectivity proof of concept that will be demonstrated at our next member meeting in Paris this month
Source: blog.klocwork.com
Open source and open standards will enable lots of projects like this to bring automotive and other IoT verticals together.
The wireless industry depend on standards development organizations that heavily work together to figure these things out
Source: www.linkedin.com
Auto industry can learn from wireless industry
Gaurav Bansal, senior researcher at Toyota’s InfoTechnology USA R&D center in Mountain View, Calif., is ready for 5G
Source: www.lightreading.com
I would think 5G is pretty obvious if the infrastructure converts by then, but 2020 is next year’s project for a car company. I wonder if auto grade 5G chips will be ready for them.
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