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Team from autonomous EV startup NIO wins car hacking contest at DEF CON 25

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The NIO US team took First Place at the DEF CON 25 2017 Car Hacking Village , beating out 10 other teams in the third annual “Capture The Flag” (CTF) security event. At the conference held, last week in Las Vegas, researchers and hackers devised a series of challenges to understand the vulnerabilities of our connected world.

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Team from autonomous EV startup NIO wins car hacking contest at DEF CON 25

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The NIO US team took First Place at the DEF CON 25 2017 Car Hacking Village , beating out 10 other teams in the third annual “Capture The Flag” (CTF) security event. At the conference held, last week in Las Vegas, researchers and hackers devised a series of challenges to understand the vulnerabilities of our connected world.

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Honda Motor Europe: 2/3 of European sales to feature electrified powertrains by 2025; “Electric Vision”

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Speaking at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, Honda Motor Europe’s President and COO, Katsushi Inoue outlined Honda’s commitment to an electric future in Europe, with a specific aim to have electrified powertrains in two-thirds of Honda cars sold in Europe by 2025.

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Audi unveils AI:ME self-driving EV concept at Shanghai

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An automobile like the AI:ME will drive predominantly in the speed range between 20 and 70 km/h (12.4 By contrast to the Audi AIcon design vision introduced in 2017 ( earlier post ), a vehicle with level-5 function that is always fully autonomous, the Audi AI:ME is also equipped with the traditional steering wheel and pedal controls.

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VinFast Still Kicking and Planning to Show Vehicles at CES

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The Vietnamese car company has only been around since 2017. To that effect, the brand will be putting products on display in Las Vegas next week for CES 2024. That said, VinFast has actually managed to build and sell automobiles — which is already further than most new automakers make it.

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New DARPA Grand Challenge to focus on wireless spectrum collaboration; first collaborative machine-learning competition

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DARPA officials unveiled the new Challenge before some 8000 engineers and communications professionals gathered in Las Vegas at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE).

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Volkswagen Group in strategic collaboration with self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation; Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) fleets

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The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. For me this is the reinvention of mobility and the automobile. Earlier post.).

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