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Honda and Google to collaborate on in-vehicle connected services

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Honda and Google have agreed to integrate Google’s in-vehicle connected service into an all-new model that will come to market in the second half of 2022 in North America. Honda and Google have been collaborating since 2015 with the broader automotive industry to introduce the Android platform to automobiles.

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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

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Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 The grand prize winner will be announced sometime in January, 2016. —Google FAQ on the challenge. Click to enlarge.

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Audi and AT&T to wirelessly connect 2016 model year vehicles

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Audi and AT&T announced that 2016 model year Audi vehicles will offer AT&T 4G LTE or 3G coverage. Under the agreement, all 2016 models with Audi connect will be delivered to customers with an AT&T SIM card providing connectivity to the AT&T wireless network.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Cars That Think

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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An autonomous vehicle acts as a personal assistant who can go to the shop and bring some vegetables for you. Waymo – Autonomous driving project of Google Google started autonomous car projects in 2009. They say that their journey started at Google in 2009, and became Waymo in 2016.

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Tesla’s FSD suite is impressive, but Aurora CEO says, ‘We were doing better in 2010’

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Urmson also was the head of Google’s self-driving project for almost eight years before leaving in 2016, but his work required him to build the code that powered Google’s autonomous software. An autonomous Tesla Model 3 in action. Credit: Tesla).

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Ford expands SYNC with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, 4G LTE and new apps

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Owners of 2016 vehicles equipped with SYNC 3 will have an opportunity to upgrade later in the year. The first SYNC AppLink apps using available vehicle information such as GPS location and mileage will be available this year, taking the in-car app experience to a more personal and customized level. New SYNC apps.

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