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New Open Fuel Standard Act would set minimum requirement for non-petroleum fuel capability in new automobiles

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2493 ) which would require 30% of new automobiles in 2016, 50% in 2017, and 50% in each subsequent year, to operate on non-petroleum fuels in addition to or instead of petroleum based fuels. Steve Israel (D-NY-03), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA-13), Tom Cole (R-OK-04), Collin Peterson (D-MN-07) and Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam).

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Toyota Research Institute launches Toyota AI Ventures with $100M investment

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Toyota has a history of disruptive innovation in the service of mankind, moving from textile machinery to automobiles in the late 30s, to the broad electrification of the automobile with Prius in the 90s, to autonomous mobility and human-assist robots. TRI participated in SLAMcore’s seed financing in March 2017.

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US House members introduce Open Fuel Standard Act

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A bipartisan group of House members led by Congressmen John Shimkus (R, Illinois-19) and including Eliot Engel (D, New York-17), Steve Israel (D, New York-2) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-Maryland-6) introduced the technology-neutral Open Fuel Standard (OFS) Act (HR 1687).

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Qualcomm to procure Israeli chipmaker Autotalks

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Chip fashion designer Qualcomm will purchase Israel’s Autotalks because the U.S. With an build up in electrical cars and the selection of computerized options in automobiles, chip utilization by means of automakers is surging, making the car marketplace a key expansion section for chipmakers.

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Audi displays new AI project at NIPS: mono camera with semantic segmenting and depth estimates creates precise 3D model of environment

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Audi is exhibiting an innovative pre-development project to support autonomous driving at the NIPS 2017 conference in Long Beach, California, this week. The network includes companies in the hotspots of Silicon Valley, in Europe and in Israel. This technology makes it possible to capture the exact surroundings of the car.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

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The corporate delivered its 100,000th automobile on April nineteenth, and as of June, their cumulative deliveries in China reached 120,581 EVs, in keeping with CarNewsChina knowledge. In addition they were given revel in from Volkswagen during the JAC-VW three way partnership established in 2017, which was once meant to create SEAT EVs.

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Ford targeting highly autonomous vehicle for ride-sharing in 2021; new tech company investments, staffing up in Silicon Valley

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The next decade will be defined by automation of the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago. The expanded Palo Alto campus opens in mid-2017.

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