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Audi networks with traffic lights in Düsseldorf; “Green wave”

Green Car Congress

Audi is moving ahead with networked traffic lights in Düsseldorf. After Ingolstadt, the city on the Rhine is the second in Europe in which Audi is introducing its Traffic Light Information service. Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) services like Audi Traffic Light Information increase efficiency, convenience and safety on the roads.

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Gainesville and Connected Signals delivering real-time traffic signal data to reduce red-light crashes and improve fuel efficiency

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In April 2017, the City of Gainesville, Florida began work on a pilot project with Connected Signals , Inc., a provider of real-time, predictive traffic signal information, as part of the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s I-STREET testbed. This can be an issue when trying to determine which light a user is approaching.

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Stuff We Use: Garage Lighting Solutions

The Truth About Cars

After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories. Wrenching on one’s own car is a delight to some, a necessary evil to others. Extra lighting helps. It matters not if that space is covered, enclosed, or tucked in the corner of a moldering basement.

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Motherson Group collaborating with UBQ to bring carbon-negative thermoplastics into auto parts

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The companies are joining efforts to implement the carbon-negative UBQ thermoplastic ( earlier post ) into auto parts manufactured by Motherson Group for the automotive industry. Adding as little as 10% UBQ GHG to a part can immediately transform it into a carbon-neutral product. Polymers typically emit 1.9

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Virginia Tech Transportation Inst. investigating adaptive stop/yield traffic signs; part of connected vehicle research

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If no other car is present at the intersection, the driver would be allowed to pass through and go on—i.e., The project directly ties into the institute’s growing endeavor into connected-vehicle technology. without halting before proceeding. Other traffic signs only have limited use—e.g., —Alexandria Noble.

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Connection Machine Joins All to All to Optimize Better

Cars That Think

But unlike others, it manages to connect all 48 spins to each other. In the past few years, such all-to-all connections have proven to be key to quickly tackling many problems. “48 48 all-to-all connections is a non-trivial milestone.” The optimization problem is mapped to the strength and polarity of these connections.

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Audi introducing first vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) service: Traffic light information system

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Audi of America, in conjunction with Traffic Technology Services (TTS), will launch the first vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) driver assistance system—Traffic light information—on select 2017 Audi Q7, A4 and A4 allroad models this fall. —Pom Malhotra, General Manager, Connected Vehicles.

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