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Ford Sustainability Report details pilot program in South Africa to deliver health care, education

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A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. Two modified Ford Rangers will work as mobile clinics to deliver health services, dispense medication for chronic conditions, and monitor the growth of children in South Africa.

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Volkswagen opens IT Center in the Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden; Volkswagen Industrial Cloud

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The opening of the SDC also signifies a further step forward for the Gläserne Manufaktur towards becoming a high-tech site and a Center of Future Mobility. It enables smart real-time control—simultaneously in Wolfsburg and Shanghai, Dresden and Uitenhage (South Africa).

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), which is billed as “a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech's pervasive influence.” One of our research fellows, Raesetje Sefala , is based in South Africa and grew up in a township. In December 2021 she announced the founding of a new organization, the.

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Haomo's self-driving ambitions leap forward with launch of DriveGPT

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The sequence of Tokens is a complete time sequence of driving scenarios, including the next possible state of the entire traffic environment and the state of the car. Its core team members come partly from Great Wall Motor's smart driving R&D team and partly from local tech companies.

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Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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Despite American tech and automotive companies leading the way in AV development, Americans are among the most reluctant to use it. Many Americans are unsure where regulation should come from, but would prefer manufacturers and tech companies (36%) to self-regulate over government regulation (24%). Fewer think AVs will be faster.