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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

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Volvo Car Corporation intends to gain leadership in the field of autonomous driving as the next major step forward in vehicle safety. Autonomous driving—the self-driving car—gives the human driver the ability safely to do something else besides drive, such as sending text messages or reading a book while the car drives itself.

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Toyota develops charger with Internet-based connectivity function for EVs and PHVs; Smart Center on the Windows Azure cloud

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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and TMC’s customer-service IT company Toyota Media Service have co-developed a charger for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs). can connect via the Internet with the Toyota Smart Center, which uses a global. Corporation. The G-Station system. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Toyota’s new telematics service features interactive voice response, third-party apps; Toyota Open Vehicle Architecture

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Toyota Motor Corporation will this summer in Japan begin rolling out “T-Connect”, a new telematics service, along with compatible navigation systems and a smartphone app. T-Connect features an interactive voice response service called “Agent”. Agent is an automated version of the human operator service used by G-BOOK.

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Daimler’s moovel acquires mytaxi and RideScout to consolidate presence in mobility services market

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Daimler’s integrated mobility service company moovel GmbH ( earlier post ) has acquired a 100% holding in Intelligent Apps GmbH, the operator of the popular mytaxi taxi booking app. Launched in 2009, mytaxi is the world’s first app to enable direct connections between taxi users and taxi drivers.

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Ford and Smith Terminate Partnership on Electric Transit Connect Project for US; Ford Now Partnering with Azure Dynamics to Deliver the Vehicle in 2010; Smith Partnering with AM General on Electric Vans for USPS

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Ford Motor Company and Smith Electric Vehicles US (SEV US) have mutually agreed to terminate the development project of an electric car-derived van based on Transit Connect. Azure Dynamics has selected Johnson Controls-Saft as the supplier for lithium-ion battery cells and battery packs for the Transit Connect BEV. Earlier post.).

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Toyota and Nishitetsu begin full-scale operation of multi-modal mobility service “my route” in Fukuoka City and Kitakyushu City

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Toyota Motor Corporation and Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co., my route provides shop and event information while enabling users to search, book, and pay for transport, and offers integrated mobility functions that can be completed with a single app. s Motaku taxi booking service.

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Toyota to launch new “Big Data Traffic Information Service” in Japan

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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) had developed and will launch in Japan the “Big Data Traffic Information Service”, a new traffic-information service utilizing “big data” including vehicle locations and speeds, road conditions, and other parameters collected and stored via telematics services. New smart G-BOOK service for smartphones.

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