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Robert Bosch Venture Capital invests in DeepMap; HD mapping for autonomous vehicles with centimeter-level real-time localization

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Self-driving car development is both a technology challenge and a product challenge. It needs to be safe, affordable, and scalable. DeepMap has assembled a 75-person team with extensive experience at launching maps at massive scale. In the self-driving era, a map is no longer “just a map”.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own.

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Honda Introducing BEV and PHEV to US and Japan in 2012; Demonstration Programs in US Begin This Year

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By the end of 2010 and continuing through 2011, Honda will roll out a battery-electric vehicle demonstration program in the US with participants, including Stanford University, Google Inc. Honda is planning to introduce a new electric bicycle product into China in 2011. and the City of Torrance, Calif. Plug-in hybrid.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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XPF’s goal is to inspire a new generation of viable, safe, affordable and super fuel-efficient vehicles that people want to buy. Working with the US Department of Energy, X PRIZE will award $10 million in September 2010 to the teams that win a competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPG energy equivalent (MPGe).

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“Inspiring Female Founder” – Jordan Brompton spotlighted in The Successful Founder

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Indeed, we’ve grown rapidly from a handful of staff manufacturing products by hand in a countryside workshop, to a workforce of more than 400, operating from a state-of-the-art facility in Stallingborough, with subsidiaries opened in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia along the way. Was it possible? Was it practical?

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GM OnStar and RelayRides introduce peer-to-peer car sharing for GM vehicles

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RelayRides is backed by more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures and GM Ventures. Consumers who access products in the short-term instead of owning them show greater indifference toward these products and identify less with the brand and. Challenges with access-based consumption.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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