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Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv to form autonomous driving joint venture; autonomous platform to be available in 2022

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The joint venture will begin testing fully driverless systems in 2020 and have a production-ready autonomous driving platform available for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers in 2022. Hyundai first began testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US in 2015 with a license from the state of Nevada.

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Hyundai Blue Link to debut smartwatch app with voice recognition at 2015 CES

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Hyundai will debut and demonstrate a Blue Link smartwatch app at Pepcom’s Digital Experience and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week in Las Vegas. Android Wear users can download the app from Google Play for free starting in the first quarter of 2015. Remote Door Lock / Unlock. Remote Flash Lights / Honk Horn.

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Ford and AccuWeather partner to bring MinuteCast hyper-local weather forecasting into vehicle

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The service is available for a growing list of countries worldwide including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and Japan. The new technology will be demonstrated at the 2015 International CES, the largest consumer electronics show, 6-9 January in Las Vegas. An audio warning will also be delivered.

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Connecting home door to car: Volkswagen Car-Net App-Connect & the Door Bird app

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What was shown as only a concept in the Volkswagen BUDD-e electric concept car at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is now reality. Mirror Link) has been available as an option in almost all Volkswagen models since May 2015. App-Connect (incl.

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TriLumina to demo 256-pixel 3D solid-state LiDAR and ADAS systems for autonomous driving at CES 2017

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At TriLumina, we are building complete Illumination modules with our patented, back-emitting, flip-chip VCSEL arrays and driver circuits to provide the highest efficiency and most powerful illumination solutions available. 2015) “High-speed and scalable high-power VCSEL arrays and their applications” Proc. earlier this year.

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Green Commuter unveils vanpool and car share service in LA with Tesla Model X

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LA-based Green Commuter is introducing a vanpool and car share service with a fleet of Tesla Model X vehicles. Green Commuter is based at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), where it was selected to become a portfolio company in 2015.

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Toyota unveils new 2016 Prius; first global vehicle based on TNGA

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Toyota fully unveiled its fourth-generation Prius in an outdoor event Tuesday night in Las Vegas. Toyota did not provide specifics of fuel consumption and electric range, but confirmed that it expected a 10% improvement in EPA-estimated MPG on core models (51 mpg city, 48 mpg highway, 50 mpg combined for MY 2015).

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