MINI’s fourth largest market offers up its greatest opportunity for expansion. That market is China, a country where automakers have been stepping over themselves to build up their part of the market share. The BMW Group announced a new joint venture in…
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Nissan Backs APP That Pays People To Carpool
Carpooling can help reduce traffic, but that doesn’t mean people always want to do it. So Nissan is trying to give commuters near its North American headquarters in Tennessee an incentive. The automaker is partnering with Hytch Rewards, an app…
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Artificial Intelligence Enters Automotive Development
In the new test environment at DFKI in Kaiserslautern (Germany), special analysis methods of artificial intelligence for use in test procedures in automotive development are being researched and developed, with focus on machine learning technologies such as deep learning and time series…
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Researchers Patent Glass To Prevent Motion Sickness In Self-driving Cars
A lot of people seem concerned that passengers in self-driving cars will get carsick. Uber filed a patent last year for a system to fight motion sickness, and now the University of Michigan researchers Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle have come up with a…
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Mercedes’ Latest Infotainment System Has More Screen Space, Digital Assistant
At CES 2018, Mercedes-Benz launched a new infotainment system for its compact cars. Called Mercedes-Benz User Experience, or MBUX for short, it will enter production later this year in the next A-Class hatchback. MBUX is Mercedes’ attempt to bring the long…
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Volkswagen And Nvidia Plan To Make Cars Smarter
Two topics dominate the CES in Las Vegas: Vehicle electronics and artificial intelligence – and ideally both in combination. One example is Volkswagen: at the start of CES, the vehicle manufacturer reaffirmed its cooperation with Nvidia. At a discussion event…
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China Blocks Foreign Companies From Mapping Its Roads For Self Driving Cars
Self-driving cars need high-quality digital maps to function properly. They not only use digital maps to find their general location, but also in some cases to locate landmarks that aid maneuvering in low-viability situations, or when a GPS link isn’t…
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Ford Will Test Online Car Sales With Alibaba In China
Ford is set to announce plans to test online car sales in China in collaboration with tech giant Alibaba, according to a Reuters report. The report, which cites an anonymous Ford source familiar with the matter, claims the two companies will announce…
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Yandex Autonomous Cars go For a Drive In The Snow
Russian tech firm Yandex just took over Uber’s ride-sharing operations in its home country, but the company isn’t stopping there. Like its American counterpart, Yandex has its own self-driving car development program, and it appears to be making progress. Yandex released a…
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Apple Releases Self-driving Car Research
Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about its self-driving car program, but the tech giant just dropped a hint about what it’s working on. Apple researchers submitted a paper to the independent online journal arXiv on Nov. 17, and the topic relates to self-driving cars,…