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

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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Toyota expands Collaborative Safety Research Center with $35M; focus on transition to automated vehicle and connected vehicle technologies

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CSRC will concentrate on supporting a safe transition to the future of mobility, particularly through emerging automated- and connected-vehicle technologies. Osamu Nagata, President and CEO of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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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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TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. The two offices of the Toyota Technical Center have long worked with U-M on connected vehicles and safety research. Both will retain U-M faculty positions part-time.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. They were former students, colleagues, and friends.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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He came up with a mechanical barrier system that attaches to the hood and connects to the car's electronic control unit. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Google Earth , she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America. A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, GM North America in GMs interviewed by Carlist.com ). Toyota is also concerned that plug-in owners might tire of connecting their cars every day. Marketwatch ). Bloomberg ).

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

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Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. 99.99% of the infrastructure is already there connected to every building and running down every steet. I asked Mike Omotoso, J.D.