Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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The See Through Car – P2P Possibilities #CES2018
The promise of Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications has been around the corner and illustrated in presentations for decades, so it was a treat to see the technology in product form at CES2018, In the above video, Dr. Amine Taleb, Director of R&D for Comfort and Driving Assistance for Valeo North America, demonstrates Valeo’s XtraVue, which streams video…
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Making Mobility Simple #CES2017
It’s clear from Honda’s booth at International CES2017 that this mainstream automaker sees that its target market is shifting from vehicles to mobility. Jared Hall, Advanced Design Group Leader of Honda, explains how the NeuV concept car targets where the market is going. As a self-professed car-guy, he feels energized by the fresh approach to…
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Backwards Compatible Autonomy
A sensor fusion system that could be used with a simple, already approved automobile-class, microcontroller is what French research firm, Leti demonstrated at International CES2017. Their system allows automakers to mix and match different sensors (e.g. Lidar, Radar, Acoustic, Cameras, etc) from different manufacturers, feeding microcontrollers that control the car functions (braking, steering) to create…
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Reinventing the Wheel – Electrifying Mobility
The phrase “reinventing the wheel” is a typical admonishment for those who are recreating something that already has been developed and works pretty well. It is difficult to believe that someone could improve an invention so basic as the wheel, but from electric skateboards to robots to vehicles, we are starting to see the in-wheel motor…
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An Electrifying People Mover – Part 2
“Find a repetitive job and then automate it,” is Ryan Popple’s pragmatic view of the integration of automation into the mobility space. In the above video, Popple, president, and CEO of electric bus manufacturer, Proterra, Inc., explains that one example of this sort of incremental automation is the mechanism they developed to precisely align their…
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Rethinking Cities Through Personal Transport #CES2017
As pointed out in an article in this week’s Wall Street Journal, thanks to mandates and its size as the largest vehicle market, the Chinese market is driving the demand for electric cars. Eli Electric Vehicles, a Beijing-based, electric vehicle start-up is driven beyond mandates, however and has a vision to create mobility at a human-scale.…