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GM Webchat with Chris Borroni-Bird on Reinventing the Automobile, Friday 2pm EDT

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EDT, with Christopher Borroni-Bird, GM’s Director of Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts and co-author of the book Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21 st Century. Integrate electric-drive vehicles with smart electric grids that use clean, renewable energy sources.

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Ford takes OpenXC research platform global, engaging local developers for market-specific connected vehicle apps in India

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At the NASSCOM India Leadership Summit, Ford is demonstrating the OpenXC research platform and the potential of open-source application development for the automobile with the first third-party mobile app created with the OpenXC toolkit. NASSCOM is the industry association for the IT-BPO (business process outsourcing) sector in India.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) While our company was making fabric looms, automobiles were defining the future. Earlier post.) (The

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Daimler chief Zetsche: Daimler working toward swarm organization; mobility services, digitalization and e-mobility

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Such as the person in charge and the team manager, or straight from the person responsible to the executive board. … At the same time, the bottom line is that all of these business models are based on the hardware, the automobile. At the moment, we have up to six levels of decision-making.

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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The US DOT’s is preparing NHTSA for a decision in 2013 that will determine whether the agency proceeds with regulatory activities that could require DSRC technology on new vehicles, consumer information programs that help new car buyers understand the effectiveness of this technology, or the need for further research and development.

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Toyota Research Institute invests $22M in research on AI, robotics and autonomous driving at University of Michigan

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We will also focus on expanding the benefit of mobility technology to in-home support of older persons and those with special needs. Recently, TRI announced the establishment of its new Ann Arbor research facility (TRI-ANN) and the hiring of U-M robotics professors Ryan Eustice and Edwin Olson to support autonomous vehicle research.

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems.

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