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Opinion: Making Sense of the Stellantis Auto Show Decision

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Having one of the Detroit Three pull out of auto shows leads to ringing of alarm bells. Especially since it wasn’t that long ago that previous versions of what is now Stellantis were known for putting on elaborate press conferences during media days (especially in Detroit). Even if it’s just a temporary move.

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Brandnew UAW management: ‘While to get our fair proportion’

Baua Electric

Marick Masters, a industry coach at Wayne Environment College in Detroit who focuses on exertions problems, mentioned the union’s intentions are sunlit. “It’s a full-court press to utilize social media to communicate broadly to the membership to get them prepared to engage,” he mentioned.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

Cars That Think

Deep Robotics ] Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. Lite3’s announced price is US $2,900.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

Green Car Congress

In that period, CSRC has launched and completed 44 research projects with 23 partner universities, publishing more than 200 papers and presenting at multiple industry conferences. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. CSRC 2017 Report.

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Cadillac to offer advanced V2V and semi-automated driving technologies in certain 2017 MY vehicles

Green Car Congress

Cadillac will begin offering advanced “intelligent and connected” vehicle technologies on certain 2017 model year vehicles, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Sunday during her keynote address at the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) World Congress in Detroit. —Mary Barra.

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Bill Ford: Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution; emphasis on green and smart technologies

Green Car Congress

In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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EPA official: the future of the internal combustion engine is bright and clear

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For energy security, for protection of the environment, and for sustainability of energy for future generation. We are facing a much more difficult challenge, I believe, which is to induce a transition to alternative energy for public goods. These are not going to be achieved by market forces.