there’s one place where you can’t request a reliable uberX experience: Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (PHX)

Source: petition.uber.org

I love UBER, wish it was everywhere.

Renesas Electronics has announced the ADAS Surround View Kit. An extension of the ADAS Starter Kit, the Surround View Kit is said to simplify and accelerate the development of surround view applications when combined with the Starter Kit.

Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk

Pretty amazing what you can do with low cost Linux and some auto grade cameras. Makes you wonder why all cars don’t have surround view – they will.

plug-in vehicles can save up to $1,800 in battery costs if they are equipped with self-driving functions.

Source: www.automotive-eetimes.com

Interesting predictions, autonomous plugins seem to be symbiotic, increasing driving range as well as offsetting increased battery size for safety and redundancy. If this works out for Tesla, they actually have over $4K in new revenue when they sell the autopilot feature, $2500 price plus $1800 cost reduction minus $350 extra battery. Does that make sense?

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Watch this short summary of the effort taken by Renesas to create a development platform for autonomous driving

Source: vimeo.com

This is the beginning of a lengthy path to autonomous driving, and a giant leap by Renesas to accelerate it.

How Danny Shapiro, are sceptical: “The connectivity is something I’m not sure I’d like to rely on for any kind of collisions avoidance system,”

Source: www.pcauthority.com.au

How many of your friends own an Audi? It seems the mass quantity of cars need to be part of this, not just the premium segment. Also, will they learn from their mistakes on the road or on a closed track? I prefer field testing.

remote OTA upgrades will save automakers $35 billion by 2022

Source: movimentogroup.com

It still feels like only Tesla is part of the OTA deployments, must be many others coming on 7 years later. (scratching head)

The tech is ready, but the OEMs are not.

first time they will be unleashed for driving 70 miles per hour along twisty, though clearly marked, highways for long stretches. (Other manufacturers like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz recently introduced their own semiautonomous features, but limit the functions to lower speeds

Source: www.nytimes.com

I guess this is called Level 2 autonomous, a big leap to level 3 and then level 4, but impressive that Tesla has trumped the European teams. Like soccer, they will not like this to have the Americans winning so expect a fast comeback in the media. This is global capitalism at work.

Tesla’s Autopilot ventures beyond the Mercedes-Benz S-class Intelligent Drive in three areas: it will control your direction of travel for miles on end versus the Benz’s 11 seconds, with no hand contact on the steering wheel; it executes lane changes on command; and it provides automatic parallel parking when conditions permit.

Source: blog.caranddriver.com

If Apple ever builds a real car, it will be a Tesla. My friend has one, I hope he gets the update to autopilot OTA.

“We want people to be quite careful at first,” Chief Executive Elon Musk said at a news conference at Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

Source: safecarnews.com

Autonomous driving (in limited conditions) for $2500? It shows what building in the future requirements can do for you. Tesla deserves a “star” for this accomplishment. All the tech is there for this level of safer and more convenient driving, it simply needs software and many customers will pay for that ($150M revenue to Tesla).

ST and Autotalks began co-developing their advanced chipset for V2X in 2014, combining resources to deliver a superior-performing solution within a short timeframe.

Source: safecarnews.com

Suddenly the V2X market is getting hot, seem everyone is getting into the game. This is good, it has taken a decade to get here. We’ll see who the winners will be pretty soon.