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Toyota and Google Cloud partner to bring AI-powered speech services to Toyota and Lexus vehicles without the cloud

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Toyota and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership that brings together Toyota and Lexus next-generation audio multimedia systems and Google Cloud’s AI-based speech services. Google’s Speech On-Device Technology. —Umesh Vemuri VP, Global Strategic Customers & Industries, Google Cloud.

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RMI launches “Virtual Power Plant Partnership” with support from General Motors & Ford

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Initial funding of the VP3 effort was made possible by General Motors and Google Nest. VP3 includes founding members Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker. Develop industry-wide best practices, standards, and roadmaps.

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J.D. Power: quality takes a back seat to innovation as problems reach a record high

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In 2023, the industry average is 192 PP100. The automotive industry is facing a wide range of quality problems, a phenomenon not seen in the 37-year history of the IQS The industry is at a major crossroad and the path each manufacturer chooses is paramount for its future. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. Larry has helped shape the autonomous industry as we know it today. He received a B.S.

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8th Fully Networked Car workshop to be held in association with Geneva Motor Show

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The eighth annual Fully Networked Car workshop , will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, 6 March 6, in association with the Geneva International Motor Show. ISO is encouraging knowledgeable stakeholder representatives from the US and other countries with active motor vehicle and electric mobility industries to participate.

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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

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Luxury EV developer Lucid Motors and Mobileye N.V. Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. —Peter Rawlinson, CTO of Lucid Motors. announced a collaboration to enable autonomous driving capability on Lucid vehicles. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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