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Ford developing a strategy to address urban personal mobility globally; a mobility company, not just an auto company

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Ford Motor Company is mapping out a strategy to address the requirements for personal mobility in the context of the megatrend of increasing global urbanization, both in mature economies as well as in emerging markets. Rough map of Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility. Click to enlarge. Like some other OEMs (e.g.,

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Ford, UMTRI launch student contest for vehicle-to-vehicle communications innovation

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This research is pivotal to the delivery of the next generation of Ford driver assistance technologies and will globally benefit Ford customers, other road users and the environment. The teams are not limited to personal cars or trucks. Idea submissions are due December 1.

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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

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I dont have a problem with the idea that there are engineers who are 10 times as productive as other engineers. 10x engineer makes it sound like productivity is an immutable characteristic of a person. If you have services or software components that are owned by a single engineer, that person is a single point of failure.

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Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture

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The challenge gave Limoyo and Li the idea to have the robot select a reference image to inspire the photograph. Then PhotoBot scans the environment around you, identifying the people and objects it can see. They were working on a project to have a robot take photographs but were struggling to find a good metric for aesthetics.

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Dongfeng Motor Company Uses MathWorks Tools for Model-Based Design of Battery Management System for Hybrid Bus

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Faced with the challenge of developing a battery management system in 18 months, the six-person Dongfeng Electric Vehicle engineering team determined that it needed to eliminate the debugging and maintenance effort of traditional hand-coding implementations. The Dongfeng EQ6110 hybrid electric city bus. Click to enlarge.

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

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These so-called megacities will present a unique challenge to personal mobility, threatening the economy, the environment, and even the health of their residents. Ford argued for an updating of the state tax system by eliminating personal property taxes as well as investment in updating the electric grid. —Bill Ford.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. So Schneider put his shower head idea on hold.

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