Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. Two modified Ford Rangers will work as mobile clinics to deliver health services, dispense medication for chronic conditions, and monitor the growth of children in South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Ford Nigeria 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

The opening of the SDC also signifies a further step forward for the Gläserne Manufaktur towards becoming a high-tech site and a Center of Future Mobility. It enables smart real-time control—simultaneously in Wolfsburg and Shanghai, Dresden and Uitenhage (South Africa).

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Industrial Industry South Africa Africa 220

Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

Google apparently exiled Gebru from its AI ethics team (and subsequently fired the other leader of the team) in response to a paper about the dangers of the large language models that have become so important to the world's biggest technology companies. The episode created a firestorm in the AI field. We don’t want them to work 24/7.

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Building Google South Africa Legal 140

CN EV Post

APRIL 11, 2023

DriveGPT is the first generative large model for autonomous driving that will reshape the technological path to automotive intelligence, the Beijing-based company announced today at its 8th Haomo AI Day event. Haomo was the former autonomous driving division of Great Wall Motor and became an independent company in November 2019.

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PHEV South Africa Motor 124

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

The study was conducted as part of its What the Future series, which couples survey data and interviews with experts in the field to see what “big questions” companies should be asking themselves about the future of their industries. This issue of What the Future focuses on mobility, and if people are ready for the coming technology.

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Saudi Arabia Vehicles South Africa Serbia 150