I’m not sure how large a “jar” is in Ireland, but I’m quite sure it’s larger than several “pints”

“We’d have the driverless car and allow people to be driven home after having a few jars at night time.”

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

When it comes time to upgrade, you simply remove the Compute Card and insert a new one (assuming Intel keeps making them)

Read the full article at: www.pcmag.com

As the PC market continues to decline, the perfect option for Intel comes along. They can keep the revenue going, while the rest of the industry gets nothing. I have the first gen NexDock and with this upgrade it will be nearly perfect (if you don’t mind not having a Mac).

Johnson also used today’s announcement to take a thinly veiled swipe at Google/Alphabet, which spun out its self-driving car unit a few weeks ago. “As you may have gathered, Microsoft is not building its own connected car,” she writes.

Read the full article at: techcrunch.com

Smartly Microsoft is not claiming space in self-driving or its brand of connected cars but has the strong influence in the office and devices world that automakers need to pay attention to.

This month it will begin tests of its next-generation autonomous driving system on public streets in Arizona and California

Read the full article at: www.advancedmobilityproject.com

Krafcik reiterates that Waymo’s aim is to market its integrated hardware and software system, not to build its own automated cars. The goal, he says, is to build a better driver rather than a better car.

After a highly competitive year-long evaluation process, Jaguar Land Rover adopted and standardized on DiSTI’s GL Studio toolkit for its unmatched performance, flexibility, rapid support, and ability to produce feature rich high quality 3D embedded applications

Read the full article at: www.linkedin.com

Hype aside, design wins are what matter for suppliers of technology in this automotive industry, and the competition is fierce at all levels. 

This industry-first in-car capability through Ford SYNC 3 AppLink simply requires drivers tap the voice recognition button on the steering wheel, then say “Alexa,” followed by a question or command.

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

Amazon Alexa seems so much more accurate and intuitive than Siri or other voice services. I wonder if the car environment will retain that ease of use.

Customers now have a credible path from the research environment to ISO 26262 safety-certified production systems

Read the full article at: crackberry.com

More than simply a path, this is an architectural blueprint with three layers of redundancy and fail-operational design. It enables a hack proof automated driving system (SAE ADS) capable of SAE level 4/5 automation with ASIL D and low power for the real world.

Since no one knows when or how it will be possible to monetize autonomous cars, they’re investing billions in anything with the words Autonomy or Mobility, catchphrases of a seemingly inevitable future they don’t understand.

Read the full article at: www.thedrive.com

Just like watching a thrilling game of craps in Vegas, with everyone playing side bets and cheering on the high roller, there is excitement in self-driving cars and money will be made. The question is will they be safe-driving cars?

today announced a groundbreaking design for a solid-state LiDAR sensor that can deliver a subsystem cost of under $50 U.S. when sold in high-volume manufacturing scale

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

Thanks a huge drop from the old $100K price. Volumes will really need to increase.

During the week-long pilot, the public will be invited to take free test rides of the driverless vehicle, which carries up to a dozen passengers and was designed for use by state and local governments and transit agencies and operators as an efficient, clean-energy alternative to the fossil-fuel powered vehicles of today

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas – baby!