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Audi of America expands Traffic Light Information to include Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory (GLOSA)

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Audi is committed to moving America in many ways, including through the development of industry-leading connectivity and mobility solutions. Enabled metro areas include: Dallas, Denver, Gainesville, Fla.; —Mark Del Rosso, president, Audi of America. Phoenix, Portland, Ore.; San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

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Audi introducing V2I Traffic Light Information service in Europe

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In the US, Audi customers have been using this service since late 2016. —Andre Hainzlmaier, head of Development of Apps, Connected Services and Smart City at Audi. The prerequisite is the “Audi connect Navigation & Infotainment” package and the optional “camera-based traffic sign recognition”. —Andre Hainzlmaier.

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US average retail gasoline prices ended 2017 lower than they started

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per gallon (gal) in 2018, 30 cents/gal (13%) higher than in 2017 and 57 cents/gal higher than in 2016. The Midwest covers a large geographic area consisting of many semi-connected markets. Rocky Mountains (Denver). US regular retail gasoline prices averaged $2.72 gal to $2.91/gal gal during the year.

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ICCT assesses factors driving EV market in US cities

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Peter Slowik and Nic Lutsey analyze the connections among various state and local policies; public and workplace charging infrastructure; consumer incentives; model availability; and the share of new vehicles that are plug-in electric (both fully electric and plug-in hybrid). New vehicle registration data from IHS Automotive.)

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7 finalists announced for USDOT Smart City Challenge; Amazon Web Services new partner

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The USDOT has pledged up to $40 million (funding subject to future appropriations) to one city to help it define what it means to be a “Smart City “and become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors—into their transportation network.

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NVIDIA dives into Parker mobile processor for next generation of autonomous vehicles

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NVIDIA mentioned Parker at CES 2016 earlier this year, when it introduced the NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 platform ( earlier post ). Built around NVIDIA’s highest performing and most power-efficient Pascal GPU architecture and the next generation of NVIDIA’s Denver CPU architecture, Parker delivers up to 1.5 The Denver 2.0

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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

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Here, a tandem robot system operates at a Waste Connections recycling facility [top], and a single robot arm [bottom] recovers a piece of corrugated cardboard. My company first began using AI in 2016 to extract empty cartons from other recyclables. The United States does a pretty good job when it comes to cardboard: In 2021, 91.4

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