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New Ipsos study on autonomous driving finds most Americans simply enjoy the act of driving their vehicle

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Ipsos, the global research and insights organization, explored consumer thoughts in its third annual Global Mobility Navigator Syndicated Study. The study comprises three modules, with the first focusing on Autonomous Driving. The study revealed there are connected car features drivers would be interested in today.

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Study: strong interactions with voice-guided vehicles result in more crashes

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A recent study by researchers at Michigan State University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Stanford University found that giving a car a more personal voice led to more car accidents. This study merges these lines of research in a new way. This study merges these lines of research in a new way.

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Honda Study Finds Insights Eco Assist System Results in Average 10% Improvement in Fuel Economy After 300 Drives, Up to 20% Max

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A study by Honda in Japan found that drivers using the new Eco Assist system on the new Honda Insight hybrid improved their fuel economy on average by 10%, up to a maximum of 20%, after 300 drives. million data points from about 5,000 Insights, from February to August 2009. Click to enlarge.

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New proton conductor for next-generation protonic ceramic fuel cells: Ba2LuAlO5

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These new insights may pave the way to safer and more efficient energy technologies. To address this challenge, a team of researchers, including Professor Masatomo Yashima from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in Japan, has been on the lookout for good proton conductor candidates for PCFCs. in Ba 2 LuAlO 5 ·x H 2 O.

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DiDi partners with SoftBank in Japan for platform services for taxi industry, launches open new energy car-sharing platform

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DiDi and SoftBank also plan to set up a joint venture in Japan. Both partners believe DiDi’s deep learning-based demand prediction and smart dispatch systems, combined with SoftBank’s local resources and expertise, will help Japan’s taxi operators further optimize taxi ride-hailing services and increase passenger convenience.

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Toyota and Nissan pair up with Tencent and Baidu for China AI arms race – ET Auto

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Japan’s Toyota Motor will pair up with China’s Tencent while Nissan will team up with Baidu , the companies said on Thursday, cross-border partnerships that highlight the importance of artificial intelligence for carmakers. It will also equip its Chinese cars with Baidu’s AI products, it said.

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Nissan team gains insight into atomic structure of SiO using new methodology; potential benefit for Li-ion battery capacity

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Using a new methodology, researchers in Japan—including colleagues from Nissan subsidiary Nissan Arc Ltd., Therefore, the experiment-based MD–RMC approach developed in this study could be a powerful and generic method to model disordered materials with structural heterogeneity based on both local and global diffraction data.

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