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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

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Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. With Gebru’s permission, Karnowski downloaded the dataset, and the team was ready to create a neural network as the second step in the project.

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Volkswagen launches over-the-air updates for the ID. EV family

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Light functionalities; optimized surroundings recognition and dynamic main beam control; improved operability and design modifications for the infotainment system; as well as performance and stability improvements. The first update for the all-electric ID. models comes with many functional improvements: these include enhanced ID.

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ADI, BMW Group join to provide 10Mb Ethernet for automotive mega trends – ET Auto

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The BMW Group will be a leading OEM to implement the technology, leveraging ADI’s E²B for their ambient lighting system design in the vehicles of the BMW Group in the future. This is especially true of the ambient lighting within the vehicle. New Delhi: Analog Devices , Inc. (

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Waymo suing Otto and Uber over autonomous driving technology

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Hundreds of Waymo engineers have spent thousands of hours, and our company has invested millions of dollars to design a highly specialized and unique LiDAR system. Waymo further charged that other former Waymo employees, now at Uber and Otto, downloaded additional confidential information.

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US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox robotaxis after two crashes – ET Auto

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NHTSA said both crashes occurred during daytime lighting conditions and within the operational design limits of the Zoox system. In March, Zoox said it was expanding its vehicle testing in California and Nevada to include a wider area, higher speeds and nighttime driving, as it competes with Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxis.

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FLIR releases first European thermal imaging dataset for ADAS development

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Videos were taken at a variety of locations, light conditions, and weather conditions. The images were taken in a variety of driving environments in each city, including various lighting and weather conditions. Similar to the previously released thermal imaging datasets for San Francisco, Calif. and Santa Barbara, Calif.,

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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis to drive faster, farther, at night in Las Vegas – ET Auto

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The Zoox vehicles will also drive in light rain and at night, the company said, critical for gathering additional data. The changes, announced on Thursday, apply to Zoox’s fleet of vehicles that it designed and built itself.