Engineering teams from the two companies are already developing sophisticated software on NVIDIA’s high-performance AI platform that will enhance the capabilities of Toyota vehicles

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An unimaginable amount of software will be needed to put production autonomous cars on real roads. It is a good thing for all technology companies to contribute to the effort since automakers like Toyota are determined to make driving safer through automation. Industry collaboration is a key to meet the scale of effort needed.

In the Smart City you won’t allow any driven cars. You will park and use your credit card to hire an autonomous vehicle which will run along dedicated tracks.
One advantage of this is that there will be no need for precise digital road mapping and another advantage is that, as Kure puts it “when you’re hit on the train track it’s your fault not the train’s fault.”

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By far the most sensible explanation of how autonomous cars will save lives and money – there will be no pedestrians and no drivers to worry about hitting.

You are removing the point-person who says “something feels wrong, this needs to be checked out.”

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If the car does not “feel” right to the computerized “driver” will it have the sense to pull into a repair center and will the shop have mechanics that know what is wrong? I think George Lucas worked this out, how will Detroit?

DRS360 directly transmits unfiltered information from all system sensors to a central processing unit, where raw sensor data is fused in real time at all levels.

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Claiming ISO 26262 ASIL D is a combination of hardware, software and mostly systems integration integrity. Mentor is trying to tackle all three here for autonomous car development.

* SEC says Ariel Darvasi, Amir Waldman conducted “remarkably timed” purchases that resulted in more than $4.9 million realized, unrealized profits

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I guess some stockholders benefit more than others at Mobileye

GM is testing more than 50 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles with self-driving technology on public roads in San Francisco, the Detroit metropolitan area and Scottsdale, Arizona

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Just hiring “drivers” (safety driver and onboard engineer) for these 50 self-driving Chevy Bolts will require almost 500 people if they run the cars 24×7. I suppose the rest will do the back end analysis and feed data to the developers back in Detroit.

Baidu will release its self-driving platform—known as “Apollo,” in honor of the U.S. moon missions—this July.

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Interestingly GENIVI Alliance used the same name sequence from NASA to name it’s IVI reference specification. 

One fact : when incentives were dropped in Denmark in 2016, electric car sales plunged 80 per cent compared to the previous year

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Is intervention the source of a solution to pollution?

It will be interesting to watch how Intel executes this crucial bet on automotive electronics

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In this case, it is more like Mobileye acquired Intel (automotive BU) which may offer a chance for success. Otherwise, Intel’s history of destroying 8 or of 10 of those acquired will likely result. Intel cannot succeed as a Tier1 supplier to automakers, but maybe Mobileye can.

“The Velarray enables not only fully autonomous vehicles, but also ADAS systems such as adaptive cruise control, while at the same time providing a miniature form factor and mass production target prices,” said Mike Jellen

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Now let’s not forget design, software development, systems integration, validation and testing are just a few more steps before you get a fully autonomous vehicle. Also add a few other sensors and partners for silicon and manufacturing.