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Audi wraps up Audi Urban Intelligent Assist (AUIA) project

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Audi this week demonstrated some of the early concept results of the Audi Urban Intelligent Assist (AUIA) project to media in San Francisco. Highlights of the featured technology include: Audi Driver Centric Urban Navigation. Audi Urban Assistance. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Please turn left at the park”).

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Audi and 4 US universities tackle urban mobility challenges in 3-year research initiative

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The new three-year research initiative is called “Audi Urban Intelligent Assist.” After an open request for proposals to US universities, and the accompanying selection process, Audi signed an agreement with the four research universities to pursue the following topics: Audi Urban Crash Analysis.

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Frank Huber to join Marelli as EVP and President of Automotive Lighting & Sensing – ET Auto

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He will lead the ambitious growth plans of Automotive Lighting & Sensing , the largest part of our business, where great opportunities are evolving around vehicle personality.” Before that, he worked at McKinsey, Audi, Mercedes-AMG and Liebherr Aerospace. After more than eighteen years, Sylvain Dubois will leave the company.

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DARPA awards up to $20M to NVIDIA to research high-performance, highly energy-efficient embedded processors for autonomous vehicles

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NVIDIA processors are used in a wide variety of embedded applications today, including automobiles made by Audi, BMW, Tesla and Lamborghini, aircraft including the F-22 Raptor, and US Army tanks. University of Utah and the University of Virginia. NVIDIA and Audi.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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For example, Daimler AG and Audi reportedly have eliminated 20,000 jobs, while auto supplier Bosch will be laying off 1,000 workers in a move to support vehicle electrification. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 I am actually quite worried that there are so many opportunities.we

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