Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mercedes-Benz also announced its most recent partnership—the new long-term strategic collaboration with Google to develop and implement a next-generation in-car navigation experience. Place Details provided by Google will be available starting today in all vehicles with the latest generation of MBUX in applicable markets.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It’s an experience we’ve all had: Whether catching up with a friend over dinner at a restaurant, meeting an interesting person at a cocktail party, or conducting a meeting amid office commotion, we find ourselves having to shout over background chatter and general noise.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The developers of recent compressors like Google's Guetzli encoder, a JPEG compressor that runs far slower but produces smaller files than traditional JPEG tools, tout the fact that these algorithms consider crucial aspects of human visual perception such as the differences in how the eye perceives specific colors or patterns.

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Teslarati

MAY 31, 2023

New materials add creative textures, color, and personality to the cabin, while smart functionality and a great user experience are the hallmarks of every true Volvo creation. Much like Tesla’s voice controls, the Volvo EX30 is built with Google for hands-free help from Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Google Play.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

There’s integrated Google Maps, access to apps via Google Play, built-in Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, and built-in gaming support with apps like Asphalt Nitro 2. In the Nautilus, the second-screen Apple Maps interface takes the place of the built-in Google Maps interface in the car’s panoramic display.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Normally I'd give a redesign the full review treatment, but I just didn't get a ton of mile on this one because I had to head out of town on some personal business -- that happens sometimes. It mates to an eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive is available -- my test unit was so equipped. Underhood is a 2.5-liter

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2023

The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

Blacklane has added a separate service called Blacklane PASS (Premium Airport Services & Solutions), which is now available at more than 500 airports around the world. For US$100 dollars per person and service, Blacklane PASS lets air travellers avoid queues at security and immigration when arriving, departing or changing planes.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

In a nod to the Japanese principle of thoughtful hospitality, the QX80 features a dramatic welcome sequence that includes activation of the available Infiniti Light Path, and flush door handles that automatically extend when approaching the vehicle with the key fob. In the interior, the dashboard concept uses two 14.3-inch inch displays.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As cloud computing and data centers spread around the world, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft start joining cable consortia, and in the past few years Google began building its own cables. Google has 23 giant data centers around the globe, each one constantly updated to mirror the Google cloud for users in their region.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

Google Lens (available as an Android app or within the Google app for iOS) can isolate the words in an image and offer an onscreen translation. Google Translate (for Android and iOS and the desktop web browser) and Apple’s Translate app for its iOS devices are options, as are third-party translation apps and A.I.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2022

The once-crippling time it took to train a neural network to do its task is the problem that launched startups like Cerebras and SambaNova and drove companies like Google to develop machine-learning accelerator chips in house. Google’s TPU v4 offers a three-fold improvement in computations per watt over its predecessor, the company says.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Volkswagen has developed a special app for CES 2017, available now at the App Store ( iOS ) and at Google Play ( Android ). This makes it easy to configure personal settings, integrate any services from third-party sources and port them wherever they wish. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) All settings are stored online.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Personalized, private AI so seamless you might forget it’s “AI” at all. Meanwhile, Google has scrambled to deliver its own chatbot, Bard, which launched in March; Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in Anthropic , creator of ChatGPT competitor Claude, in September. 2023 was a banner year for AI in the cloud.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The new Blue Link skill for Amazon Alexa is available across Alexa-enabled devices and Hyundai vehicles equipped with the second generation of Blue Link. Voice commands will only be sent to Hyundai vehicles after Alexa prompts owners for their Blue Link Personal Identification Number (PIN).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Cloud providers are single points of failure and prime targets for hackers to scoop up everything from proprietary corporate communications to our personal photo albums and financial documents. For Google to show you your work emails, it has to store many copies across many servers. government, as in the SolarWinds breach of 2019–20.

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EV Connect

MARCH 28, 2022

While the country as a whole has roughly 37 ports per 100,000 people (half that of the European Union), the bulk of those are in California and Vermont, with much of the rest of the country sitting closer to 10 per person. The Wrong Tool for the Job: The Problem with Google Maps That difference is the best place to start.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Last trip summary includes personal driving score, percentage of electric vehicle miles. Included with this update, the main app offers a Google Maps feature with pinch/zoom capability, which provides availability of nearby charging stations. Capability to initiate preconditioning of vehicle cabin remotely.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

As an extension of the relationship, GM worked with Qualcomm Technologies for C-V2X, which has launched with the Buick GL8 MPV now available in China.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 30, 2024

Power is from a 100kWh battery pack in both models with up to 22kW (AC) and 200kW (DC) charging available. Bi-directional charging hardware is included with V2L functionality to be made available later. In performance terms, that makes the Polestar 4 the fastest the brand has yet to offer with a claimed 0-100km/h time of 3.8

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

Generative AI for the Intelligent Personal Assistant uses artificial intelligence for speech processing which enable human-like conversations that allow drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. Timing: BMW says all these technologies will be become available over the course of 2024.

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2024

I’ve personally experienced how amazing it is to use Shadow Hands in a teleoperation context, and it’s hard to imagine anything better. Both force control and position control are available, and the entire hand runs Robot Operating System , the Open Source Robotics Foundation ’s collection of open-source software libraries and tools.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Toyota Toyota has made its fully electric 2024 bZ4X – which only just landed on dealers’ lots – available to lease with a $10,000 discount. Toyota’s 2024 bZ4X lease deal Toyota released prices and specs of the 2024 bZ4X in January, and it hasn’t even been available at dealerships that long. Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The 5-year-old MINI Connected app is undergoing a major relaunch , with the new version available to download from mid-August. The app makes use of personal driving data together with the user’s own past journeys and shows information such as journey duration and fuel consumption. MINI Streetwise.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

The City of Los Angeles is introducing the Go LA app, powered by Xerox, a solution that integrates all the available methods of getting around the second largest metro area in the United States. As the app learns more about its user’s individual travel preferences, it will eventually recommend and highlight personalized commuting options.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Maven’s mission is to give customers access to highly personalized, on-demand mobility services. The global Maven team includes more than 40 dedicated employees from the connected car technology industry as well as ride- and car-sharing professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. Earlier post.).

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EVolution

JUNE 24, 2024

With the variety of chargers available, understanding the differences and knowing how to find compatible chargers is crucial. While most modern EVs support DC fast charging, it's essential to check your vehicle's compatibility and the available connectors at the charging station.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Back in August, the company said that its autonomous vehicles are expected to be available in Uber’s network in multiple markets around the globe. Of course, Wavye has plenty of company in San Francisco, which has become a hotbed of autonomous driving, where GM-owned Cruise and Google backed Waymo vehicles have roamed freely.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

The CarUnity app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play. CarUnity users can, for example, offer their car only to their Facebook friends or to people in their personal CarUnity network. It does not matter if the car is an Opel or a different brand. We are taking a new approach with CarUnity.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The AI Engine supports driver and passenger personalization, in-car virtual assistance, natural voice control, language understanding, driver monitoring and occupant presence detection and adaptive human machine interfaces.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." There is really not enough publicly available information for us (or anyone?)

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Cars That Think

JULY 24, 2024

Google Docs , Microsoft Teams , Slack , Salesforce , and so on, are such a big part of many people’s daily lives that they hardly notice them. You’ve invested a lot of money into personal computers, which your employees are now using—IBM PCs, Apple Macintoshes, clones, and the like. Passing your colleague a disk doesn’t work.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Secure access to app: Optionally lock the Delphi Connect app using a personal four-digit PIN to block unauthorized use of the app while still providing quick access. The system operates through downloadable Delphi smartphone apps, available for Android 2.2 and Apple IOS 5.0

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 6, 2023

One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. Far more accurate are the geolocation data gathered by Google Maps and other apps, on both Android and Apple devices. on 6 January.

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