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...Volkswagen’s automotive software subsidiary Cariad is investing $2bn in a partnership with Chinese chipmaker Horizon Robotics....
...BorgWarner and Aptiv are not familiar names to most drivers, but their parts help build cars and trucks for manufacturers such as Ford and Volkswagen....
...Minutes after stepping off his private jet in Braunschweig, northern Germany, at the start of this month, Elon Musk climbed behind the wheel of a brand new make-or-break electric car: a Volkswagen ID.3....
...Toyota Motor and Volkswagen each sell 10m cars, give or take, every year. Tesla delivered about 367,500 in 2019....
...Continental and Knorr-Bremse last year agreed to partner on automated commercial driving systems for trucks, while companies such as Volkswagen and Silicon Valley’s Aurora are working together to develop...
...Meanwhile, Intel and Volkswagen just announced a joint venture to create a robot car service in Israel, with commercial operations earmarked for 2022....
...He claimed black cabs travelled about a third faster than Uber cars because they were permitted to use bus lanes....
...Traditional media groups are likely to hammer at the issue in hopes of attracting a bigger share of online advertising. But they have had their own scandals in the past....
...Its latest Mercedes E-class saloon is able to drive itself on highways, taking control of steering and braking, as well as changing lanes in countries or states where this is allowed by regulators....
...In Florida’s Walt Disney World, divers found two-year old Lane Graves dead on Wednesday....
...In June Tesla, which operates lane-driving technology on its cars, disclosed a fatal accident in Florida when its system failed to detect a white van in bright sunlight....
...Luo Zhen was unharmed when his Tesla Model S collided with an illegally parked Volkswagen car on a motorway in Beijing last week....
...The Nasdaq-listed company produces systems that stop cars from veering into adjacent lanes and makes split-second decisions on braking....
...Other features, such as MAN’s lane guard system, keep drivers within their lanes and warn truckers if they are veering off course....
...A “localisation” layer calculates the car’s position with added accuracy, say within a lane on a motorway....
...As if to hammer home this point, the big and brash Frankfurt motor show found itself competing this week for headlines from its potential competitors....
...“Soon we will be able to deliver autopilot driving capabilities — for example, self-parking and lane-keeping are coming this summer....
...By contrast, “it would be hard to get somebody from Menlo Park or Mountain View to Dearborn or Wolfsburg [Volkswagen’s headquarters]”, says Ralf Landmann of Spencer Stuart, the recruitment firm....
...These features include lane departure warning, automatic parking, autonomous emergency braking and pedestrian detection....
...Moniker Art Fair, October 17-20, Brick Lane, London An art fair that “challenges the establishment”....
...One big problem may be that investors are nervous about SAIC’s inability to transfer successful tie-ups with Volkswagen and General Motors to its own brands....
...Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz of Germany are said to be interested....
...A number of them, including Mercedes-Benz and Ford, have introduced adaptive cruise control, lane departure warnings and blind spot monitoring to their cars....
...engine efficiency, some electric powertrain components, low rolling-resistance tyres, navigation systems and active driver assistance system, such as adaptive cruise control, driver drowsiness detection and lane...
...process late, and when they did so were accused of using their Olympic bid as a stalking horse to force concessions from Haringey council over long-running plans to redevelop their existing White Hart Lane...
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