Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2

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APRIL 15, 2024

Google is dominating the foundation model race Foundation models are big multipurpose models—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the foundation model that enable ChatGPT users to write code or Shakespearean sonnets. Google released the most in 2023.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In Q4, Tesla plans to build 15,000 to 17,000 vehicles, and to deliver 17,000 to 19,000 vehicles, which will result in 50,000 to 52,000 total deliveries for the year. The company has accelerated plans to begin cell production for Tesla Energy products at the Gigafactory by the end of 2016, several quarters ahead of initial plan.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2024

When Marianne Smith was teaching computer science in 2016 at Flathead Valley Community College , in Kalispell, Mont., She incorporated building an app with general computer science concepts such as conditionals, logic flow, and variables. With each concept learned, the students built a more difficult app. “It

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APRIL 8, 2016

In addition to debuting the ReachNow car sharing service in Seattle, BMW Group Member of the Board Peter Schwarzenbauer also announced the establishment of ReachNow’s North American headquarters in the city and its plans to expand the service to three additional cities in 2016—with the intention of servicing 10 North American cities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. They also outlined alternative transportation initiatives GM is exploring. Let’s Drive NYC.

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Blink Charging

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some specific types that would see a boost in value include: Shopping and strip malls Standalone retail stores Office buildings Medical centers Multifamily housing Warehouses Garages Public parking structures Basically, any property where tenants rent, lease space, and/or provide a service would benefit from having EV chargers installed.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Construction of the initial plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2015 with commercial operations beginning in early 2016. In addition to USDA’s contribution, Cool Planet has attracted private investments from numerous companies, including Google Ventures; BP; ConocoPhillips; GE; Exelon; and NRG Energy. Earlier post.).

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My Energi

MARCH 7, 2023

We founded the business in 2016 with nothing – apart from a few good ideas and a serious passion for change. Rather than undertaking years of market research and spending millions of dollars on focus groups, we went on Google. When we founded myenergi, I wanted to build a company that consumers really bought into.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This move helps you draw in new customers, attract the best employees and build loyalty to your brand. Build Brand Loyalty Consumer attitudes have been shifting in favor of sustainably minded business for decades now, but this has quickly become a top priority in recent years. A 2020 survey by Consumer Reports showed that 71% of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

In fact, the power of deep reinforcement learning was demonstrated by the recent success of AlphaGo, an AI Go playing system from Google DeepMind. The combination of reinforcement learning and deep learning - called deep reinforcement learning—is considered to be the breakthrough to overcome these limitations.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Old-fashioned telecommunication carriers are falling behind in the global bandwidth race as global giants of content and cloud computing are building their own global networks. Facebook has commissioned electronics and IT giant NEC Corporation to build the world's highest capacity submarine cable.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

Philipp Mandler/Unsplash In Shadow Mode, operating on Tesla vehicles since 2016, if the car’s Autopilot computer is not controlling the car, it is simulating the driving process in parallel with the human driver. I’m not exactly sure how you build out a data set like this without the fleet,” said Karpathy.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

seconds of the 2016 A3 Cabriolet (1.8 Once the oil pressure builds up to a sufficient level, we run the engine at zero load, at which point we disconnect the two again. MMI navigation plus uses 4G LTE to deliver the tailored services of Audi connect to the driver—from navigation with Google Earth and Google Street View.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Our basic goal is to build in the skills of an expert pilot into the drone itself, which involves a little bit of hardware.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The service also introduced four new mobility services: Ride, Reserve, Share, and Fleet Solutions for residential buildings. ReachNow is building on its premium experience by offering members greater versatility through a suite of convenient and easy-to-use transportation solutions, available in a single app for the first time.

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My Energi

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After all, if you told Lee and I when we founded the business in 2016 that we’d have employed our 400th team member, launched our fourth product, shipped our 400,000th unit and opened subsidiaries all over the world in just a few short years, we’d probably have just laughed! It was heart-breaking.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

Waymo (formerly the Google self-driving car project) will add an additional 500 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans ( earlier post ) to expand its self-driving program. FCA previously delivered 100 minivans, modified for self-driving, to Waymo during the second half of 2016. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In 2016, it put the first quantum computer in the cloud anyone to experiment with—a device with 5 qubits, each a superconducting circuit cooled to near absolute zero. Google is already using such an architecture with its 53-qubit Sycamore processor.). Nevertheless, IBM has steadily increased its qubit numbers. Carl De Torres/IBM.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

The global Maven team includes more than 40 dedicated employees from the connected car technology industry as well as ride- and car-sharing professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. In the first quarter of 2016, Maven will launch car-sharing services for Chicago residents in partnership with Magellan Development Group.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

From “ Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next " (December 2019). From “ Former Head of Google China Foresees an AI Crisis—and Proposes a Solution " (September 2018). “AI From “ Computer Vision Leader Fei-Fei Li on Why AI Needs Diversity " (October 2016).

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Building upon Red Bend’s strength in the mobile and carrier markets, HARMAN will accelerate Red Bend’s growth in the automotive space and will position Red Bend software as the de facto standard for OTA software services for mobile devices and automotive applications. The transaction is subject to customer closing adjustments.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2023

In October, the Texas attorney general accused Google of violating the state’s biometric privacy law, saying the Nest home-automation device “records—without consent—friends, children, grandparents, and guests who stop by, and then stores their voiceprints indefinitely.” Singh did not build a profile from an unidentified voice.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Consulting firm KPMG , for example, estimates that in addition to the 179 new battery EV model launches and refreshes between 2016 and 2020, at least another 251 are expected between 2021 and 2023 by traditional auto manufacturers, or original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as they are referred to in the industry, as well as start-ups.

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APRIL 9, 2024

It started in 2016 when I set myself a small challenge: how do you travel without money and in an electric car from the Netherlands to Australia ? I took a screenshot and uploaded it to Google Images, and immediately Google knew this place was Ben Amera. Now, you might be thinking: “Why would you do that to yourself?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Open Robotics, meanwhile, branched out in 2016 from a strict non-profit to also take on some high-profile projects for the likes of the Toyota Research Institute and NVIDIA, supporting itself commercially by leveraging its experience and expertise in ROS development. Which is exactly what OSRF did. An OSRC office in Singapore opened in 2019.

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