Russian Driverless Truck

News from RT: 

Driverless Truck - https://www.rt.com/russia/487077-kamaz-driverless-trucks-arctic/

AI Against Texting & Driving

From BBC:
AI cameras to catch texting Australian drivers
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50630763

OnStar REFERRAL CODE: 137609

Use the OnStar REFERRAL CODE: 137609 to activate your subscription:

2006–2010 VEHICLES

Get up to 3 months of OnStar® Safety & Security coverage

and Turn-by-Turn Navigation for free — simply push your

blue OnStar button to get connected.

2011–2014 VEHICLES

Get up to 3 months of Connected Services and OnStar

Safety & Security coverage for free. Remotely start

or stop your vehicle and lock or unlock your doors (if

properly equipped) — all from your vehicle’s mobile app.

Plus, you’ll get 2 years of standard connectivity, which

currently enables services like Vehicles Diagnostics with

Connected Access.

2015 AND NEWER VEHICLES

Get up to 3 months of Connected Services and OnStar

Safety & Security coverage for free. Remotely start or stop

your vehicle and lock or unlock your doors (if properly

equipped) — all from your vehicle’s mobile app. You’ll also

get a built-in Wi-Fi® Hotspot. Plus, you’ll get 5 years of

standard connectivity, which currently enables services

like Vehicle Diagnostics with Connected Access.

Autonomous Vehicles for Retirement Communities

Autonomous Vehicles for Retirement Communities

https://www.gpsworld.com/age-of-acceptance-retirement-communities-embrace-driverless-shuttles/

GM Layoffs

From the Brookings InstitutionWhat GM’s layoffs reveal about the digitalization of the auto industry:https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/12/13/what-gms-layoffs-reveal-about-the-digitalization-of-the-auto-industry/

Sex & the Self-Driving Car

GIZMAG

Making the most of one's commute: you ain't seen nothing yet!  

"Is that the ice-cream van, mate?"

"No, it's Tatyana, the Bielorussian girl, in her self-driving stretched limo, on her evening round."

"What services does she offer?"

"She calls it Uber Personalized Escort & Assist Services Ltd: a true businesswoman, she is, Tatyana."

"Business, what business?"

"£60.00 for a quick one in the back of the vehicle, mate. A real upmarket brothel on wheels, red curtains, thick carpet, king-size bed: 15 mins. Amazing. And you get a free glass of Prosecco. And nibbles."

"Nibbles?"

"Well, peanuts -- and she may nibble your nuts if you pay extra."

"Right. I'm off! See you shortly..."

"You flag her by the side of the road, waving your £50 note."

"Thanks!" 

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https://www.fastcompany.com/90264809/self-driving-cars-will-be-for-sex-scientists-say?

Self-driving cars will be for sex, scientists say Nearly 60% of all Americans have had sex in cars. Just wait until the cars can drive themselves. www.fastcompany.com

Smiling Car

GIZMAG -- People are the problem...

 

A smiling car does make sense, if you follow their explanation.

 

As for me, I would like my fridge to smile at me in the morning, when I walk into the kitchen. "Hello, Babak! Lovely to see you today. How are you?" And so on. Would have to be an intelligent fridge, preferably. Otherwise, it could become very trying, very quickly.

 

The next step would be for the fridge to have a chat with the toaster, and the toaster to make fun of the washing machine, and so on. Hopefully, any human input (and presence) will soon be totally, utterly redundant.

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http://newatlas.com/semcon-self-driving-smiling-car/45484/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=081e27efd3-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-081e27efd3-90190513

Smiling car tells pedestrians when it's safe to cross newatlas.com Around town, drivers and pedestrians communicate using body language and eye contact, something a self-driving car can’t do. To try and solve the problem, a Swedish company has developed a car capable of flashing a smile at pedestrians.

Hacking A Traffic Signal

Researchers Demo Hack to Seize Control of Municipal Traffic Signal Systems in a Michigan city:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2014/Green-Lights-Forever.html

and the paper:

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/traffic-woot14.pdf

Open-Source Development Platforms for Drones

If you are looking for mature open-source software development tools for drones , look no further than OpenPilot and Dronecode.


Check them out!


Please note that a commercial pilot's license is required to control a drone.

Chevy Volt Tear Down

http://www.driveforinnovation.com/powertrain-teardown

 “This vehicle seems more complex than a Space Shuttle! After such vehicles are several years old and have been exposed to vibration, pressure changes due to altitude, dust, salt, water, temperature extremes, etc….. it seems that it'd take a pretty complex repair shop to diagnose a problem. For a vehicle that has 100 microprocessors, what happens if 5% of them fail? How does that affect the car's ability to run correctly? Once out of warranty, will anyone want to own one especially if a problem develops?”

New Tire Design

These tires are made in South Carolina , by Michelin - "Innovation is everything!"

Google Patent

Please take a look at the Google patent application named "Transportation Routing". Its number is US20060149461, available @ http://www.arnoldit.com/lists/google-patents/pat20060149461.pdf

Note the drawing and what is being claimed, not just cars, buses, and trucks: in principle routing of satellites and spaceships. The transportation routing system was done casually. It's an example of how Google can innovate in some very surprising ways that can't be predicted

Google's approach to research and development relies more heavily on mathematicians rather than on software programmers with computer science backgrounds, although the latter still make important contributions to the search engine company's work.

Garmin Development Platform

Garmin International has released a web site for third-party developers who wish to write applications for the Garmin GPS-based navigation systems. It is @ http://developer.garmin.com/.

Potentially other GPS solution providers could follow suite, including cell-phone vendors and in-vehicle telematics providers, by opening their platform to other developers.

Top 10 Tech Cars

Top 10 Tech (Electric) Cars @ http://spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/5012