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.

Ken Caviasca, the vice-president and general manager of Intel’s IoT group

Source: embedded-computing.com

Based on the title, Ken may be Doug Davis’ replacement reporting to Murthy. On the other hand, there are so many VP’s inside Intel who would know what his role is. His long tenure will be useful in managing the diverse community of Intel engineers and marketing teams, but does he have the IoT understanding that everything must be open, not all about one vendor.

The question is whether Murthy will be able to get the rest of Intel to face reality

Source: seekingalpha.com

X86 never arrived on mobile devices, while mobile devices arrived on Intel. If Murthy can change this he will, but not sure the timing is right. May be too late.

Apple is offering $250,000 signing bonuses to some of the most skilled car developers to come work for them.

Source: interestingengineering.com

Probably the signing bonus is not the major incentive. I’m sure the production model will look less like an ‘iPhone with wheels” We would assume the Siri button is inside somewhere.

We see the combination of high performance and functional safety as a natural evolution of Intel’s IoT platform and strategy

Source: safecarnews.com

Now this is something. Intel really needs the functional safety help, but will the evolution happen fast enough to catch up with others that already have it.