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Google began its self driving car program in 09. Since then they have tried to improve the design and technology driving the car until it has no pedals or steering wheel and only have sensors and software. The company does not even have his own car, but apparently they are still using Lexus RX450h SUV which was then equipped with autonomous software developed by the company.

He recently unveiled on why Google chose to pursue fully autonomous vehicle in the first place and those opposed to semi-autonomous that sometimes require the driver's attention. It started in 2012 when Google found that the self driving technology was ready to be tested and the company had asked some of his staffs to test auto car driving on the roads as part of their trips . The staffs were required to pay attention at all times and ready to take control at any time the technology was still at an early stage during this period.

However, what happened next was beyond expectations. The staff of confidence quite quickly in video technology, he was captured as the staffs were all kind of behavior, but attention to the road.

Recently, it was reported that Google began testing self driving behavior of the car around children. We asked the children to come to Mountain View headquarters of Google and did what they were normally around self driving cars Google to provide the sensors and additional useful software. Therefore, in the future, hopefully Google self driving cars will be more careful when there is little kiddies in all shapes and sizes neighbors.

In the LA Auto Show this week, Land Rover was showing off its new Evoque Convertible. It is an idea "out-of-the-box" of the company to cut the top of the popular Evoque to make it convertible. It is certainly not for everyone. It is like off-road vehicle that is designed for use on nature, but it can also be conducted on the area of ​​the city, once polished up.

Some other example of this mesh to convertible friendly all-terrain such as the first generation Chevy Blazer, Ford Bronco, Toyota Land Cruiser and Jeep Wrangler.

Unlike convertible Evoque with the rest is that Land Rover launches into a playfulness in design. It claims to be compact as trunk space seem smaller, but Land Rover has said that there is still room for a set of golf clubs and a slot which extends in the trunk to the back seat, which is enough form for a pair of skis.

There will be 2 types of Evoque Convertible offered sE and dynamic HSE. Both will feature the 240 horsepower engine, transmission speeds and new all wheel drive standard. In addition, there are aluminum bars installed to protect passengers in case of a rollover accident occurs.

Although Land Rover showed only the white exterior color option in Los Angeles Auto Show, the company has assured that there will be many more colors and options once it reaches dealerships. The convertible will be on the road in May.

Ford has unveiled a new smartphone application called Connect SYNC at a time when the company unveiled the new Escape. Connect SYNC is essentially a smartphone application that allows drivers to start their cars remotely. It is a very useful application in which if you park your car under a hot sun, you can start the car and turn on the air conditioning so when you're ready to drive, the temperature in the car will be just nice. Apart from the hot sun, it is also applicable to the cold of winter. You can turn on the heater before you're ready to drive so that the temperature in the car is perfect.

SYNC Connect is also designed to be able to monitor the fuel, oil, battery level of the car and lock or unlock the car. Besides that the drivers will be able to see the parking space for their car if they forgotten where they parked their car.

With all these good features, apparently, it is only available for 2017 Ford Escape model only. It was also free for the first five years and after that, car owners will have to pay for the service.

Apparently Ford is not the first manufacturers that offer this. General Motors and Volkswagen have developed a mobile application that makes same as mobile Ford for over three years now. That said, it can be considered as the Ford technical step towards modernity.

car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo is working with the National Highway Traffic safety administration (NHTSA) and the insurance Institute for Highway safety (IIHS) to come out with details of the agreement and the implementation timetable for equipping all new vehicles with automatic emergency braking serial technology.

Mark Rosekind, NHTSA chief, said there will always be a regulatory requirement to maintain public safety. He also added that it is a new agreement and a new pact; So it is different from NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) and IIHS programs. Both programs will still continue to operate alongside the new program. All programs created to date were designed to save people's lives.

automatic emergency braking systems operate in such a way that it will apply the brakes automatically or either slow or stop the car if the driver does not react time. It is using sensors such as radar, cameras or lasers to detect a potential collision and try to avoid it.

According to IIHS, only 1 percent of 2015 model year vehicles include automatic braking as a standard feature while 26 percent included as an option. IIHS was founded by the insurance industry. The group said that the technology could reduce insurance claims for injuries up to 35 percent. In addition, the automatic braking system has been incorporated into its safety rating system for vehicles. In order to get the best score will be Top Safety Pick +, a vehicle must receive a rating or "upper" "advanced" for the prevention of accidents before and only vehicles equipped with automatic brakes can qualify for the feedback.

Eventhough NHTSA was slow to mandate manufacturers to accident prevention technology; the authority has taken steps to encourage wider adoption for automatic braking. However, the agreement could impose challenges on several other automakers such as Nissan, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Hyundai, Kia and Subaru. Despite all this, the Department of Transportation and IIHS encourages all automakers to make the automatic braking technology on all cars as soon as possible.

vice president of General Motors, Jeff Boyer said that the two technologies are available on dozens of models 2016 model Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac. He added that there thirty-seven models with forward collision warning that represent more than 1 million vehicles on the road.

Analysts said it could take several years for autonomous braking to install in vehicles that automakers need to rethink the electrical and braking systems. There are several providers who are already working towards self-braking system as Continental AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, Delphi Automotive Plc, Denso Corp. and Autoliv Inc.

BMW has always been known for its driving dynamics offer both style and latest technology for the past 40 years. Recently, the automaker has unveiled its latest car called "Sedan Concept" in China's biggest auto show, Guangzhou Auto. The small sedan can be seen as the representation of a new forward direction for the automaker German luxury.

The concept sedan will have a drive design of the front wheel which apparently different from the design of the BMW until now. Normally BMW car models have a rear or four-wheel drive platform with a front-wheel configuration. Surprisingly, many BMW car owners do not realize that their BMW cars are front-wheel drive

Therefore, because of this, BMW thought it might be easier if they just build before -. Wheel drive cars instead of building platforms for rear wheel drive that behaves like a front wheel of the driving cars. And so they came with Concept Sedan.

Some advantages for cars front wheel drive includes improving energy efficiency because it has a lighter weight, less expensive because it requires fewer hardware components for the construction and installation is not as complicated as the rear-wheel drive. There are some drawbacks, but as the front part of the car might look somewhat bulky because it is where the motors are normally installed.

Nevertheless, the Sedan Concept could end the era of BMW rear-wheel drive.

automobile industry goes to the V2X technology that essentially allows vehicles to communicate with each other and all devices on the road to a time and a particular place and sharing information with each other on the road. It is expected that at the end of the day, it will improve the efficiency and safety of all road users. The V2X technology includes V2V (vehicle), V2I (Vehicle Infrastructure) and V2P (Vehicle Pedestrian).

General Motors is the first automaker to bring this technology to market with its 2017 Cadillac CTS. However, before the technology can work as intended it to be, an infrastructure must be built. Outside of Europe and the United States, China is the next location that the automaker plans to promote technology.

Before building a complete V2X technology, General Motors encourages communication dedicated short range communication (DSRC) in China as a start. According to Dr. Hariharan Krishnan, GM Global R & D and electric controls Technical Research Fellow, during his recent visit to Shanghai, to move to the world of V2X, it is essential for China to allocate spectrum for connected vehicles intelligent. He added that focusing on the development of connected vehicle systems based on DSRC in other markets would save time and money in China.

spectrum dedicated DSRC technology has already been allocated by United States Federal Communications Commission (FC) in 1999. It aims to provide benefits such as fast acquisition of the network, low latency and high reliability, priority for security applications, interoperability, security and privacy. The standard maturity of DSRC was developed in the US and Europe. If used in conjunction with GPS, DSRC is able to accurately determine the position and movement of other vehicles to reach 300 meters.

The autonomous driving technology and connected car concepts became the center of this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held in Las Vegas. A few new players in the automotive industry, as well as well-known players and even software companies were seen to showcase what they can offer for the future of automotive technology.

Faraday future, a new car company, CES opportunity to present their concept car future. Basically, this concept car is built on something that is called variable platform architecture. It is simply an operating system which the company created to make multiple car variations based on a single image with its modular interchangeable battery and engine configuration. The best part of this is that the operating system can be built on.

Chevrolet, on the other hand, presented its latest model of electric car deemed to be affordable for most of us. Chevy Bolt EV has a range of 0-miles on a single charge, and it costs only $ 30,000 after federal tax credits. The car model will be available by the end of the year.

On the upper end of the car model, Mercedes Benz, began his 2017 E-Class, which considered the first standard production vehicle to receive the standalone license Nevada. According to the manufacturer, the E-Class range has already implemented with the full and autonomous technology that engineers just need to modify the control software before the vehicle is ready to hit the road.

As the autonomous technology requires hardware and software components, Nvidia, one of the well known manufacturer of chips, was seen to present its processor PX drive 2 smart second-generation boasts of be able to control the car driving cars with 12 processor cores and 8 teraflops of processing a power value. For comparison, it is essentially equal to 150 MacBook Pro and it is able to do about 24 trillion operations per second.

Detroit auto show will be the next auto show, where the high-powered car will be introduced.

Tesla has released the latest update 7.1 of its software for the Model S and Model X. version 7.1 has already begun its beta test version last month testers include improvements to the user interface, new parking feature, Driver Autopilot mode and restrictions as well as new feature called Summon.

Invoking the function is built above Autopark Autopark therefore parameter setting allows the car to park in a location 39 feet from the current location, and Summon feature will allow the car to drive off of the parking space. He works in both the outside parking space or even in your garage. All car owners should do is use the key chain to start the maneuver.

In the future, this function will invoke able to work with very clean come charging station Tesla robot. It is a convenient feature that Tesla car owners will not have to go through the hassle of charging their electric cars.

Outside the Summon service, the latest update also includes restriction on Autosteer functionality. This restriction is implemented as such to prevent Tesla car owners to do some dangerous stunts with their cars that Tesla came to know after some pilots videos that are dangerous activities on the downloaded Tesla cars on the Internet.

Autosteer is now restricted on residential roads and roads without central partition. When the feature is enabled on these roads, the speed limit will be limited to the road speed limit with an addition of 5 mph. Even if the set speed of the cruise control is increased, the system will be able to adjust accordingly.

Volvo and Microsoft have announced that the two companies will work together to make autonomous cars, using data to study consumer behavior in order create useful services for consumers and the development of a technology that can learn by itself, as well as improving the process of buying a car as their main objective.

Bjorn Annwall, senior vice president of marketing, sales and services to Volvo, which is owned by Zhejiang holding Geely Group in a telephone interview with CNBC, said that the technology would transform when he came to autonomous cars, connectivity and the car buying process. He added that they believed that this would happen because it is naturally the technology and the automotive industry approached to explore this together.

Last month, South Korea electronics giant LG has announced that the company will provide key elements for the next Chevrolet Bolt electric car in General Motors. Apple and Google are also reported to come with their own version of driverless cars Google already testing them on public roads in the United States.

Volvo recently unveiled Concept 26, the model of the interior of the car without a driver. However, it is still unclear how Microsoft and Volvo would work together to make the concept a reality. One thing is certain, when a potential car owner walk in the showroom Volvo car, he or she will be presented with HoloLens, increased Microsoft's reality helmet, to see the car in 3D. The helmet will project 3D images so real objects; consumers will be able to change the colors on a Volvo car in the showroom. All this is done to improve the customer experience when we want to buy a new car.

A video produced by 3D visualization and visual effects German firm, Mackevision showing some interesting Porsche makes on E. Mission It is a concept car which provides compact electric motors, no combustion engine, no exhaust system, so that no transmission tunnel. On top of that, it is definitely a sports car.

The concept car should be able to accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in less than 3.5 sec from 0 to 0km / h in less than 12 sec. It is also expected that it can reach a top speed of over 250 kmh. In addition to this, it should be able to travel up to 300 miles to go to a single charge.

From the video, it is seen that the concept car battery uses a similar infrastructure as Tesla Model S wherein each motor is mounted on each axle with the battery lying flat between them. Therefore the use of this arrangement, it will create a center of gravity and more cargo space.

Based on the video, it is also shown that the car will be using the wireless induction charging method. This method is difficult to implement now because of the complexity of the installation of the equipment in the car and out of the car, not to mention the loss of energy and low charge rate. Hopefully, when the concept car is released, which could take years to build, these issues would be resolved by then.

This is not the first time that Tesla recalled its products on the consumer market. Previously, the company would have reminded and it is done voluntarily its Roadster, Model S and the charging cable.

Recently the company had voluntarily recalled 2,700 units of its model X because of a flaw in the third row of seats that can be dangerous in case if an accident occurs. The owners will be contacted to schedule further replacements that should be achieved over the next five weeks. Meanwhile, the company advised them not to use the third-row seat until it is replaced.

The issue was discovered by stress testing the seats before releasing the X model in the European market. Apparently the locking hinge will occasionally fail to allow the rear seat to fold forward and so if there is an accident, there is a possibility that the file will drop. Unfortunately, it never happened before on the X model that was purchased on the market and that prevention, the company is recalling its vehicles to a replacement of the rear seat. This will not affect Model X which made after March 26 that the replacement has already been done.

Tesla outsources the rear seats to a manufacturing partner, Futuris. It seems that this incident will not affect the relationship between the two companies as well as the production of Model X. The two companies will continue working together to come up with a new design to be installed in the car model and about 750 (or more) X model units is released weekly from the factory which amounts to a total of nearly 30,000 orders to clear this year.

Car manufacturers are working on autonomous cars, some of them have already been the public test drive on the roads of California, the only thing left is to work on national policy and insurance for autonomous cars. The good news is that the US government began the process of definition of road policy for autonomous cars. In addition to this, he promises to invest $ 4 billion for research on autonomous driving over the next 10 years.

The investment is part of the 2017 budget proposal of President Obama. The main idea is to work together with technology companies and automakers to test connected and autonomous cars in designated lanes throughout the country and, possibly, over time, it will change to a broader policy.

DOT (US Department of Transportation) said he wanted to develop a political model of state on automated driving in the next six months and in the long term, then it could lead to a national policy consistent. DOT also asks automakers to submit requests for interpretation of the rules to see if their autonomous driving features such as self parking systems meet its standards. DOT also said that car manufacturers may request exemptions.

Ten years may seem like an eternity to some auto manufacturers. However, it still takes about two to three years to develop a new vehicle to Detroit and it's still challenges in the technology and regulatory policies that must be resolved. So it seems there is still a reasonable time.

Safety is a priority in the design of motor car. There is good news that, apart priority to the safety of passengers of the car, automakers are also looking for ways to improve the safety of people and animals around the car. Here is latest automotive safety technology that has been in the top 5 in the current automotive industry.

Land Rover and Volvo has a similar technology that is able to minimize the impact of injuries in case if a pedestrian is hit by a car. Land Rover has a function Land Rover Discovery which consists of a sensor tube installed in the front bumper. If the sensor detects an impact when an airbag is deployed in front of the windshield and it will be minimized.

Volvo City Safety is a function that is able to detect oncoming cars, pedestrians and cyclists at speeds up to about 30 MPH. Therefore, this feature is able to help drivers avoid collisions during turns or frontal collision or sudden cyclists cross the path of the car.

BMW 7 series, Mercedes Benz S Class and Audi A8 and some other car models have a feature that is able to identify objects when driving at the time of the night, which may be difficult to see with the headlights.

Toyota has a function of Speak Easy making it easier for the driver to talk to the passenger third row. Therefore, instead of parents turn his head for just driving to talk with their children, they can just communicate using this feature.

Cadillac mirror rear camera provides 300 percent more vision of a standard mirror. Currently, this feature can be found in Cadillac CT6 and XT5.

Closer to the release of Tesla Model S, the company released its first TV advertisement showing how to use his Autopilot feature to its full potential. With one button click 'Summon', the function is activated. It is so easy!

The function of Autopilot allow the car to start, drive out of the garage and go to the place where the owner is waiting to jump in the car. If the garage is not automatic, the car owner can install EVE Connect application of Tesla to control smartphone garage doors and dashboard. Unfortunately, it comes with an additional cost.

After the car hit the road, it is able to travel through the curves in the road, follow the flow of traffic, and detect if the car in the next lane tries to exceed or if the car in the next lane is too leads to him. In addition to this, it is able to change lanes with a tap and once it reaches its destination, it is even able to park itself.

Tesla drivers necessary to get their hands on the wheel throughout the trip as stated in the advertisement. It is a form of precaution so as not to cause harm to themselves or others around them. There are some videos uploaded to Youtube showing some Model S owners are cascaded with the car model and ended up causing accidents. The company was to find ways to prevent this incident from happening again. One of them is putting more restrictions to existing restrictions that were already implemented in the car model

Autopilot Tesla is not fully functional yet. However, updates on what can be done with an S over-the-air (OTA) to model which allows them to do some self-driving features such as automatic steering, lane change and control speed.

A team of researchers led by Raul Rojas, professor University of Nevada, Reno, had completed a journey of 1500 miles of Nogales in Mexico in a special high-tech 2010 Volkswagen Passat wagon named Autonomos. The self driving car was sent to Berlin, where he agreed to be tested on public roads since 2011.

The research team consisted of two researchers from Freie Universitat Berlin, Raul Rojas and an employee an autonomous vehicle research firm. Rojas has been working on intelligent systems since 1986 and autonomous cars since 06.

Autonomos was equipped with seven laser scanners, video cameras and seven new radars and a very accurate GPS device. Self driving systems used all entries all these systems and use them to navigate smoothly throughout the trip. The road has been preconfigured advance; However, maneuvered the car, braked and changed lanes on the fly. The only problem encountered was when there was no marking present on the carriageway. However, despite all this, the team arrived safely in the destination of about one week after the departure date. The car traveled between 250 and 300 miles a day.

Although the test was successful, however, according to Rojas, they are not ready to deploy yet these systems to the public. He said autonomous cars need special cards to operate safely, mapped in which the number of lanes, the structure of road markings and the position of exits, intersections and possibly traffic lights were marked. He added that these cards were not commercially available in all countries, and therefore each autonomous car project had yet to produce its own cards.

A document from the National Bureau of Economic Research has been done to try to calculate the environmental benefits of electric vehicle ( EV) when compared to conventional vehicles outside the role of incentives to encourage people to buy electric vehicles. The document was written by four economists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College and UNC Chapel Hill.

The four economists came up with a modeling framework to analyze the electric vehicle policy in three different components. First, the model of choice of the consumer to choose between electric vehicles and classic cars, on the other hand, they add to the EV effect on air pollution in each of the power plants, and finally the model compares the emissions from these power plants and emissions from conventional cars in one place.

the authors use the total emissions per mile of 11 electric vehicles of different batteries on sale in 2014 and they are comparable to most similar petrol cars such as Ford Focus EV compared regular tune Fiat 500e or by regular report Fiat 500 electric vehicle that does not have the classic car models such as Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MiEV, they compared them with classic cars they believed to be roughly equivalent with features such as Toyota Prius or Chevrolet Spark. The authors then compare kWh / mile with classic cars fuel electric vehicles as well as pollution from nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, small particles and volatile organic compounds.

The result shows that EV can cause more damage when the drive out of a number of California and Texas cities that the small population means relatively little air pollution; However, it might be a good idea to drive EV in Los Angeles where there is a lot of traffic. However, the model also fails when applied to Chicago and New York eventhough these two cities have much more air pollution from petrol cars.

The automobile companies are moving towards the production of electronic vehicles for mass production. In addition to this, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) the obligation to obtain an average US fleet of 54.5mpg by 2025, which means about 40mpg on the window sticker. The requirement made automakers to work even harder to improve the energy efficiency of their vehicles and their plug-in hybrids. With all this work, the cost will be higher making the price of the car to be higher too.

As the price of the car to be higher for electric car compare to the classic car, it seems to be more difficult to convince customers to buy electric cars. As the cost and maintenance of conventional cars could be cheaper because gas prices remain low. This could also be because consumers do not know what they are paying for.

Bryan Krulikowski a research firm Morpace Market Research and Consulting, said there were two factors contributing to this issue at a recent conference in Michigan. The first factor is the failure of the automaker to educate the public about electric powered cars. He further explained for example by giving the two manufacturers, Chevrolet Volt and Tesla. It seems that Tesla is doing a better job in marketing technology and come up with a better package than Chevrolet Volt. The buyer of that mark often left wondering why they are paying a high price for a car.

The second reason he mentioned is because of the extra time to answer questions, as well as financial incentives makes it attractive model for sales people to push as many sales of electric cars as possible consumers.

as the regulations will certainly force manufacturers to implement cleaner technology in the near future, companies may need to find a way to follow the rules and to educate consumers so that they are not pinched between.

Chevrolet announced that the company will deploy Android Auto and Apple carplay all fourteen car models GM line in 2016 up of the brand. It is not the first time that the company has. Previously, almost all of its 2011 car model year have implemented RemoteLink that was implemented simultaneously. Last year, OnStar 4G LTE has been added as standard element capable sixteen cars.

Chevrolet will use two systems, each brand MyLink infotainment, and there will be 7 inch touch screen, while another will have 8-inch touch screen. The 7-inch model will mostly rely on carplay Auto and Android with its own basic features such as FM radio, however, there will be no upgrade navigation option or control of the native speech but voice command button on the steering wheel will be. The 8-inch model will have a factory navigation option in shape and other characteristics autonomous if the driver does not wish to connect their device or the device is compatible with the drive system. However, the model needs to wait a little longer to support Android Auto.

The seven cars that will fit with 7-inch infotainment system MyLink as 2016 years model Spark, Cruze, Malibu, Camaro, Camaro Convertible, Silverado and Silverado HD while thirteen cars that will fit model 8 inches as Cruze, Malibu, Impala, Volt, Camaro, Camaro Convertible, Corvette, Corvette Convertible, Colorado, Silverado, Silverado HD, Tahoe and Suburban.

Earlier this year, the CEO of Aston Martin, Andy Palmer, hinted that the company was working on a version of the electric car sedan Rapide model who claims to have zero emissions. He further indicated that the origin of the company does not intend to make an electric car, however, to follow the more stringent environmental regulations, the company decided to do so. The first production of the electric car will be launched sometime in 2017.

Palmer said the electric car will have 1000 horsepower and all-wheel drive. He added that the prototype is ready; it's just that engineers are currently working to achieve 50/50 weight distribution by adjusting the distribution of the battery cells. There is no confirmation on the price tag, but with the standard Rapide priced at $ 205,000, the electric version will be priced somewhere between $ 0,000 - $ 250,000 range. Tesla Model S is priced at $ 142,000 for the highest specification model.

Palmer also took the opportunity to confirm the development of electric utility vehicle named DBX. It was shown as a concept in 2015 Geneva Motor Show. The vehicle will initially be offered as a plug-in hybrid in 2019 whiles the pure gas and electric version launched in the following years. It will be launced with four doors, however, the company also considered a two-door versions.

Frank van Meel, Head BMW M, mentioned that a point of view technique, the future does not look bright for manual transmissions such as DCT [Dual-Clutch transmission] and automatic transmissions are faster and have better fuel consumption. However, it seems that many consumers still prefer to buy a manual car while the automaker reluctant to produce a manual car.

Van Meel noted that many consumers still prefer manual car, BMW would not remove something that the consumer wants and therefore, BMW will always produce manual cars alongside performance models of M. In Besides that, Van Meel also said that the product of the M division can be capped at 0 horsepower by adding more power or torque would most likely be on the line.

The most powerful car model M and most powerful car model that is produced by BMW until now 30 Jahre M5. It was launched last year. 30 Jahre M5 was built to celebrate 30 M5 ^e birthday and with a precise 0 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque. In comparison with normal M5, it is much higher than the standard M5 is equipped with 560hp and 500 lb-ft.

Daimler unveiled its own self-driving truck Hoover Dam in a ceremony in May. The self driving truck is designated as Inspiration truck is the first autonomous truck to be allowed to drive on American roads. The company designed so that it can move on the road alongside cars and regular trucks. If the vehicle is successful, then another vehicle could follow, such as garbage trucks or city buses.

There are some advantages of using human autonomous truck driver truck. One of them is that the autonomous vehicle uses less fuel as it accelerates and decelerates more slowly than human pilot. Allow some autonomous trucks to travel in a convoy could be beneficial too, as a truck could draft behind another and thus reduce the air resistance, which in the end using less fuel. In addition to this, they can say anything when to slow down or speed up. Autonomous truck could also lower the number of road accidents that the study found about 0 percent of road accidents are caused by the human driver.

Inspiration truck is designed so that it can recognize the markings of the road within 100 meters and so it is able to stay on the road and equipped with a radar to detect other vehicles up to 250 meters ahead so that it can adjust the speed limit accordingly. The only drawback is that it is not completely driverless, there is still a human operator monitoring the situation on the road inside the autonomous truck. Therefore, there is a problem of security so that the human operator can try to use the system in a way that is not designed to behave in a certain way.

Inspiration yet unfortunately truck years away from commercial launch and there are a lot of tests to do on Nevada roads to improve the truck away.

While Google is doing road tests on its autonomous car, John Deere was the selling tractors that are capable of driving on America's farms for years. To be fair, auto driving tractors are technically less complicated than self cars that Google is coming up with driving. In addition, the auto driving tractors run primarily on private land so there are no federal rules imposed on them and they risk level lower compared to other self driving vehicle.

tractor However, both self driving and auto car driving to share a common risk is that they are hackable. This means that other people in any other place will be able to access the system and take control of the vehicle to do what they want.

How a car driven tractor work? At first, the driver must drive the first row manually curve and manage the first turn to teach the autonomous tractor the farm layout. However, after that, the driver can release the steering wheel and the tractor will be able to do the rest of the farm by himself.

John Deere has already sell autonomous tractors and other self-guidance technologies in more than 100 countries as mentioned by Cory Reed, Vice President of Intelligent Solutions Group company.

Sharp has been working on a free-form display (FFD) for some years now, the company presented the prototype at CES this year (Electronics show customers) that held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The device should be released in the automotive market in 2017.

The display is developed using IGZO technology and it can be cut to any shape. It is improving the current display of the car than the current display can be the shape of a rectangle because there is a minimum width for the window to account for the drive circuit that is the perimeter surrounding the screen or display area better known as the gate driver name. The display of the free form need not be rectangular as dispersed through the pixels on the display area, therefore, the size of the telescope can be adjusted to fit any fresh design that can not be imagined before. The best thing is that it uses low power to power up

The only drawback is that there is no touch functionality yet. however, it will be added subsequently. Free form Display (FFD) can be used on other devices such as portable devices with elliptical screens and digital display outside of the car display. As for the car display itself, it can be combined with a speedometer and other monitors.

self driving cars Google are ongoing for months. So far, they have reported 11 accidents on the road during testing and not all are caused by oneself Google itself to drive, but rather by the human driver is hit autonomous car of Google on side or rear.

for auto car driving, the software is the most important part of the vehicle and, recently, there are questions raised about the privacy of the autonomous car which means that will have the power to access to data collected by the self driving car.

recently, Google has been reported to try to work together with German car manufacturers in recent months, one of them is Audi. It seems there is not much problem, but as there are no clear guidelines of who can access the data that is collected by self driving, which raised concerns for German manufacturers such as privacy of car owners is their priority.

Audi, Stadler has raised this concern during a business event in Berlin recently, which was also attended by Eric Schmidt of Google. He explained that the client wanted to be at home and would not be exploited. These types of concerns about connected cars are bound to happen and Google may need to find a way to solve it.

carplay Apple is Apple's solution for a safer way to use your iPhone while driving. It is integrated into the infotainment system of the existing vehicle and gives the driver quick access to navigation, music, messaging, phone calls and more without the driver to watch the phone.

To use Apple carplay is very easy. You just need to plug in your iPhone and press the carplay icon that appears on the screen of your dashboard. The screen will be filled with familiar icons similar to the icons on your iOS. Tap the application you want and return to the main menu, press the lower left corner of the screen is the key to the house or if you press long enough, Siri will be launched.

Apple encourages you use Siri instead of clicking on the touch screen for navigation. Surprisingly, Siri Dictation is often accurate, which is convenient for you to read or send text messages while driving. However, Siri does not support third party applications such as Spotify.

To be honest, there are many things that carplay does not support. It does not support third-party email applications beyond text messages or iMessages, notifications such as email, Snaps or Tweets that's a good thing that the driver does not need to do all this and focus on the road. In addition to this, also carplay does not support native functions in the car such as the climate or the performance parameters that, according to Apple, the feature will be added in iOS 9.

Moreover, Apple carplay supports Apple Maps. However, compared to Google Maps, it still has a long way to go. Traffic information is not updated as often as Google Maps; navigation is slower and more difficult to use than Google Maps.

Despite all these complaints, Apple carplay is definitely better than any other interface on a lot of cars. Chevrolet will be the first automotive manufacturers to enable carplay across its range.

hydrogen fuel cells has many advantages for the environment if it is used to power a vehicle as it promises to transmit only of water vapor instead of carbon dioxide. However, it is difficult to store a hydrogen gas. Recently, the University of California scientists, San Diego, suggested they have solved the storage problem using 20 microns wide particle that acts as micro-propelled engines.

hydrogen fuel cells produce electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen from the air to power a vehicle and the only waste they emit water vapor. Scientists have suggested that storing such fuel cells in the form of liquids laden with hydrogen content of salts such as sodium borohydride instead of storing the crude hydrogen gas in a pressure vessel.

The hydrogen contained salts will release hydrogen gas when exposed to a metallic catalyst in the form of either nanoparticles or thin films. However, this is not considered a very good solution as the flow rate of release of hydrogen gas is limited by catalyst deactivation by a poor mixture of fuel and accumulation of catalytic reactions by-products.

This is where the invention of the scientist at the University of California might help. Their invention is a micro-motor known as "Janus particles" that has two sides made from different materials. One side is composed of a very fine platinum powder catalytic activity while the other is covered with titanium.

When these micro-motors immersed in a sodium borohydride solution, the platinum side will react with hydrogen charged salt, while the side radicals of inactive titanium. In the end, the deck will produce hydrogen gas that will eventually push the micro particles within the fluid with speed about 250 micrometers per second.

Scientists demonstrate this behavior in a small car model equipped with hydrogen fuel cells and their Janus particles and is proven to work.

Daimler seems to focus more on building plug-in hybrids rather than pure electric vehicle powered Tesla unlike that build pure electric vehicle (EV). However, all this will change with the confirmation of the head of Daimler's research and development, Thomas Weber who said they were working on an intelligent concept for a very attractive electric vehicle with 400-500 km range.

Daimler has already sold some electric vehicles such as EV versions of Smart or Mercedes B class, but they are not an all-electric vehicle from the ground. When asked whether the new vehicle currently under development would be based on Class A and B, Weber replied that perhaps, but perhaps more because their innovative approach would naturally be used not only one vehicle.

As Daimler is based in Germany, the range is more likely to be based on the European Driving Cycle (NEDC), which is more generous than traditional assessments of EPAs. Tesla S 85D is calculated at 270 miles EPA noted while according to the NEDC standard, it is calculated to 330 miles. Most likely the kind of range that Daimler has said will be up to the current offer of Tesla.

Since the emission standard becomes more every year, car manufacturers are looking for ways to comply by using new technologies. Nissan, General Motors, BMW and Tesla prefers to use battery powered while Toyota, Honda and Hyundai preferred hybrids or fuel cells. Daimler other hand, seems to invest all alternative fuel technologies to see which one works best.

Most car headlights are replaced with lasers instead of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) that lasers can be regarded as the brightest, whitest light and therefore they are better than LEDs. Besides that lasers can be directed where you want to go, in principle; lasers are more efficient than LEDs.

Audi and BMW had already competed about who will release a car with laser lights. BMW proved to be the winner by releasing eight lasers equipped i8 plug-in hybrid cars in Munich last June Audi, on the other hand, published a little run 99 units 2015 LMX R8 supercar.

2015 Audi R8 LMX is equipped blue laser diode phosphorus-pump which is capable of igniting twice LED distance capable of. The technology is known as the matrix of laser headlights are made up of hundreds of thousands of small mirrors that can reflect light from multiple laser diodes. Each mirror can be tilted up to 5000 times per second, which ultimately breaks the pixel beam to illuminate road signs or highlight. In addition to this on the basis of information gathered by the cameras, the system can detect light from the oncoming traffic and, therefore, it will prevent the beams blinding other drivers.

Since the pixelated light can be combined to produce images, it will even train turn arrows or other useful images on the floor. When the vehicle is moving slowly, the light can be projected on a larger projection surface, however, when the vehicle moves faster, the angle is automatically reduced to enlarge the range and the visible intensity. In this way, it is considered as a kind of communication with other drivers.

The unit Laser Matrix is ​​the product of a three-year program sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Germany whose partners include Audi with Bosch, OSRAM Licht AG Karlsruhe Institute of technology.

Some nights, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage and began to talk about Tesla Model X. that evening, he also unveiled the official price for the model X Signature edition will be priced at $ 132,000, while the standard model will be priced at $ 93,000. Model X will be the last car that the company will release until 3 model was released in 2017. Model 3 is supposed to be the electric vehicle with budget prices started at $ 35,000.

In the same event, Musk also spoke about the model of safety features X. Apparently the car model has a five star rating from the National Highway Traffic Administration Safety. With half a battery is installed in the center of the car just below the car seat, there is a reduced likelihood of a significant rollover injury. In addition, the car also comes with the braking avoidance systems and automatic emergency side collision.

Model X also designed with a bioweapon defense which, according to Musk when the filter is working, viruses and spores that were in the cabin would not be detected at all as there is also a large HEPA filter system installed in the car to support the function.

The Signature Model X come with a 0kWh battery that 250 mile range. Model X P0D is capable of up to 155 mph and is able to go from 0 to 60 in 3.8 seconds with its Ludicrous fashion while Model X 0D will only go from 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds. In addition, the Model X will be two engines, facing is 259 horsepower while at the rear it is 503 horsepower.

General Motors seems to have a good start in the car business connected. As per current head of accusation, the company is accounted for 1 million 4G LTE connected car on the road while the total number of connected cars of other automakers combined is only about 50,000 units. The number of service requests handled by the OnStar service 20 years GM has exceeded 1 billion which means that living agents manage more than 4 million claims turn-by-turn navigation monthly.

General Motors was planning a more aggressive push into high-speed wireless 4G seems to be increasing as the company works with AT & T since last year. AT & T offers a free service for basic connectivity for five years and with that, almost everybody saves, though, General Motors launches new service allowing more things to come.

For the free plan, it includes predictive maintenance alerts, warning drivers about potentially dangerous conditions such as battery problems, starter or fuel pump. Besides that GM also offers monthly diagnostic alerts and move towards real-time alerts to issues such as low oil or tire pressure. Apart from all these programs, GM also offers additional wireless data services that can transform the car into a hotspot that can handle up to 7 different connections. It can be purchased from $ 5 per month.

David Mingle, executive director for the overall customer experience, GM Global Client Connected Experience Group, said that the only thing that made it work was that their leadership was committed to. He added that he did not mean they understood everything but the support was incomparable.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Apple originally did not intend to come up with its own version of self driving . However, the self driving car could be part of the long term plans of the company. Recently, the company has given the green light to its huge project to build an electric car that is scheduled to be released for public use in 2019.

In addition, in order to speed the production process, apple has given approval to increase the number of employees by triple the 0 current employees already working on the project. The company has studied the feasibility for the past year. The project will be known as the Titan project. There is no official information on the project Apple yet.

Apple's entry into the market certainly has a ripple effect on other automakers as it could speed up mass production of the self driving car. Apple is considered a direct competitor to Tesla.

last February, Apple is seen to involve 1,000 people to the project, which suggested that the project scope could increase thereafter. Recently, the company is reported to have a meeting with the Department of Motor Vehicles in California to talk about the road-test its autonomous car on the road in California. In addition to this, Apple engineers were reported to meet with leaders of the GoMentum station, a former naval base 2100 acres near San Francisco to discuss the possibility of using it as a testing ground for autonomous and connected vehicles.

VUHL 05 seems a strange name for a sports car even its acronym is "Vehicles Ultra-light and high-performance "does not mean that it is a sports car. However, it is definitely a sports car. The sports car is on the public test on September 5 at Brighton Speed ​​Trials event.

VUHL 05 is made from full carbon fiber body, aluminum chassis, a turbocharged 285 hp EcoBoost Ford as well as it is weighed just over 1500 pounds (695kg). 05 is able to go from 0 to 60 mph in just 3.5 seconds, making it qualified as a sports car. It was designed and assembled in Mexico, but the body is made in Canada and about 40% of its parts from the United Kingdom.

The first VUHL 05 comes to a passionate Mexican arc followed by sales in the UK this month. There are also Middle Eastern orders should be shipped later this year. However, it seems that the sales period of the United States should wait for some time. The sports car is priced at £ 59,995 ($ 94,125) for the first birds. It is considered to be in the same level as 2015 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS because of its 0-60mph time and is price.

In WSJD live event of the Wall Street Journal in California, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said that when he looked at the car what he saw was that the software has become a more important part of the car of the future. In addition, he added that people would see that autonomous driving has become much more important.

Mr. Luis Gargate, a physicist and manager of business development of computing at Critical Software, there are up to 70 small computers are already in a car to do the things a car supposed to do Nowadays. These small computers control various functions such as brake or accelerate, door locks, infotainment system and last but not least the radio. Critical Software is a Portuguese company developing safety critical systems for the automotive, railway and space.

With the idea of ​​self-driving cars, in addition features a car can do these days, the car should be able to drive with minimal intervention or no rights and it should also be able to avoid the collision make safety a priority. This can be achieved with some new additional systems such as sensors, radar, camera, LIDAR and during memory to process data from the input systems.

Everyone in the industry of cars of traditional automakers to technology companies like Apple, Google or Uber, predict that connectivity and automation is the next step for automobiles.

to this, Apple has hired several experts such as Megan McClain who worked as an engineer Volkswagen and has experience in the development of automated driving, and Vinay Palakkode who was a graduate researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University. Uber, on the other hand, opened a robotics center in Pittsburgh and hired researchers at Carnegie Mellon University as well. Apparently, Carnegie Mellon University is a hub of research of automated driving. Uber is reported to also work with the University of Arizona to build mapping technology that is used to complete a self driving car system.

Google began its self driving car program in 09. Since then they have tried to improve the design and technology driving the car until it has no pedals or steering wheel and only have sensors and software. The company does not even have his own car, but apparently they are still using Lexus RX450h SUV which was then equipped with autonomous software developed by the company.

He recently unveiled on why Google chose to pursue fully autonomous vehicle in the first place and those opposed to semi-autonomous that sometimes require the driver's attention. It started in 2012 when Google found that the self driving technology was ready to be tested and the company had asked some of his staffs to test auto car driving on the roads as part of their trips . The staffs were required to pay attention at all times and ready to take control at any time the technology was still at an early stage during this period.

However, what happened next was beyond expectations. The staff of confidence quite quickly in video technology, he was captured as the staffs were all kind of behavior, but attention to the road.

Recently, it was reported that Google began testing self driving behavior of the car around children. We asked the children to come to Mountain View headquarters of Google and did what they were normally around self driving cars Google to provide the sensors and additional useful software. Therefore, in the future, hopefully Google self driving cars will be more careful when there is little kiddies in all shapes and sizes neighbors.

Thanks Dustin worked for Tesla drivetrains on for 9 years before finally joined Proterra, an electric bus manufacturer as director engineering of the battery. In addition to having a lighter impact on the environment, he explained that there are many other positive impacts of an electric motor compared to gas.

A motor directed by the movement of gas products through tiny controlled explosions. These explosions lock metal pieces that connect to a transmission shaft. The metal friction will generate a lot of heat, even when the parties are swimming in oil. The difference with the electric motor is that there is no friction between the motor and the drive shaft. The movement takes place through a magnetic field.

The disadvantage of this method is that during the winter, the gasoline engine generates heat more than the electric motors to heat the cabin. Consequently, the electric motors have to work harder to produce the same amount of heat produced by gas engines. Cold also has a negative impact on batteries for electric motor as it hits the performance and speed of loading.

Electric motors are more powerful than conventional gas engines. Ludicrous Speed ​​Mode introduced by Tesla is a concrete example. electric engine delivers more torque at lower speed than gas engine. The couple is a car need to get it going. However, the overall gas engines perform better at high speed.

The electric motors are simpler. As the gas engine needs help of a transmission for it going because it has fewer lower speed torque while the electric motor does not need transmissions. Thus, the electric motor has better efficiency and agility.

electric drivetrains are easier to maintain. It has fewer subsystems, therefore, there is no transmission, no oil tank and non-catalytic converted. This means there is less chance of breaking down. Eventhough it can crash, it can be easily removed by a team of two mechanics and cheap enough to be replaced by preventive measures.

The electric motors feed. Through explained that the rotor was still turning in the same direction, but the opposite electric field. Therefore, it is theoretically send electrons in the battery which contributes to slow the vehicle.

Apart from generating a very accurate given that a car can also make gasoline, the electric car is designed to be able to monitor and adjust. With most software updates, electric cars can be much more flexible

Eventhough is effective. However, there is a great limitation that needs to overcome what is the storage of the battery.

Ford has unveiled a new smartphone application called Connect SYNC at a time when the company unveiled the new Escape. Connect SYNC is essentially a smartphone application that allows drivers to start their cars remotely. It is a very useful application in which if you park your car under a hot sun, you can start the car and turn on the air conditioning so when you're ready to drive, the temperature in the car will be just nice. Apart from the hot sun, it is also applicable to the cold of winter. You can turn on the heater before you're ready to drive so that the temperature in the car is perfect.

SYNC Connect is also designed to be able to monitor the fuel, oil, battery level of the car and lock or unlock the car. Besides that the drivers will be able to see the parking space for their car if they forgotten where they parked their car.

With all these good features, apparently, it is only available for 2017 Ford Escape model only. It was also free for the first five years and after that, car owners will have to pay for the service.

Apparently Ford is not the first manufacturers that offer this. General Motors and Volkswagen have developed a mobile application that makes same as mobile Ford for over three years now. That said, it can be considered as the Ford technical step towards modernity.

Toyota recently announced that the company plans to make cars that are able to self drive on the road by 2020. Unlike other technology companies such as Google, Toyota takes safest approach by driver assistance instead of self driving technology as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The system will be named "Support for advanced pilots" rather than "Highway Teammate" as initially mentioned.

In separate occasion, the largest automaker in the world told the Wall Street Journal that they believe not their car company fell behind Silicon Valley in the development of robot cars. Toyota also mentioned that the company has spent two decades studying autonomous driving technology.

According to Toyota, for fully autonomous driving technology to implement the kind of mass market cars to be possible, the cost of every car driving sensors must go first. in line with this, Toyota is coming with a wide range of driving technologies semiautonomous their cars for the mass market over the next few years.

in an attempt to make the plan a reality, Toyota has hired Gill Pratt for his AI (artificial Intelligence) and robotics department. Previously, Pratt led DARPA Robotics Challenge before working for Toyota. The company would also collaborated with MIT and Stanford to do R & D for intelligent vehicles for roads and robotic aids for people's homes. Collaboration reported to be worth $ 50 million.

BMW has always been known for its driving dynamics offer both style and latest technology for the past 40 years. Recently, the automaker has unveiled its latest car called "Sedan Concept" in China's biggest auto show, Guangzhou Auto. The small sedan can be seen as the representation of a new forward direction for the automaker German luxury.

The concept sedan will have a drive design of the front wheel which apparently different from the design of the BMW until now. Normally BMW car models have a rear or four-wheel drive platform with a front-wheel configuration. Surprisingly, many BMW car owners do not realize that their BMW cars are front-wheel drive

Therefore, because of this, BMW thought it might be easier if they just build before -. Wheel drive cars instead of building platforms for rear wheel drive that behaves like a front wheel of the driving cars. And so they came with Concept Sedan.

Some advantages for cars front wheel drive includes improving energy efficiency because it has a lighter weight, less expensive because it requires fewer hardware components for the construction and installation is not as complicated as the rear-wheel drive. There are some drawbacks, but as the front part of the car might look somewhat bulky because it is where the motors are normally installed.

Nevertheless, the Sedan Concept could end the era of BMW rear-wheel drive.

We have heard of features like lanekeeping help or assistance being installed in our parking vehicles. However, there is a new feature that can be classified as a luxury and at the same time security feature known as Traffic Jam Assist. It was supposed to be available on the new Volvo cars in 2014 and now many other well-known manufacturers such as Ford or Audi develop the feature and all are projected to start on selected models in the next two years.

Traffic jam Assist is designed to use anti-collision, anti-bump and anti-scraping tools to help your car to travel smoothly along the state's busiest road. It will save drivers a lot of time and frustration of constant acceleration and braking while stuck in the worst traffic jam state. However, it works specifically in heavy traffic rather than an open road and at slow speeds of 31 miles per hour (49.9 km / h) or less.

Traffic jam assist can be activated by pressing a button in the Volvo car models. After the button is pressed, the car will automatically if decisions to steer, speed up, slow down and determine the extent necessary to maintain distance around other vehicles and obstacles. The function would work in a similar way for other manufacturers, but with little differences. In Mercedes Benz, for example, will require the drivers to always get your hands on the wheel for the feature to work otherwise it will disengage. Ford version of other uses audio warnings to alert drivers in case if the system unable to handle certain road conditions.

There are only a few years when smartphones and tablets dominated CES (Consumer Electronic Show). For this year's CES, the focus changes to innovations that are happening in the automotive industry. It appears not as a concept, but because of the support and strong financial maturity technology, car manufacturers are able to make their car concept at a stage of reality by step.

Volvo and Ericsson is a good example for this. The two companies have partnered to bring what is called media streaming in the car for self driving cars a reality. It debuted at the LA Auto Show with a concept name 26. This could mean that in the future, you can even watch your favorite show while driving to your destination. How cool is that!

BMW presented its BMW i Vision Future Interaction. Apart from its external form which has an output of this worldview, its 3D gesture control AirTouch makes it even more attractive. The first generation of gestural control AirTouch 3D was demonstrated at CES 2015, BMW has put into production in the fall of 2016 with the series 7.

KIA has announced it will start adding technology semi- autonomous in four of its model in the summer of 2016. the Korean automaker also said it would not be completely autonomous cars in 2030 and begin to test its autonomous cars with its all-electric EV soul. Nissan, on the other hand, said that the company will fulfill its showrooms of over 10 fully autonomous vehicles in 2020. The first semi-autonomous vehicle will debut in 2016.

One thing is some after CES 2016 is that long-term affordable electric vehicles a reality and it is here to stay. In addition, a safer and more entertaining way of the shuttle is just around the corner with the release of autonomous vehicles.

In this year's CES, BMW showed a concept of work to use cameras to replace rear view mirrors and rear view mirrors. Side-view mirrors and were a standard and compulsory part of a car from the beginning. often the drivers were using them before they change lanes to see if the next tracks are clear or when they park their cars. However, the side mirrors and rearview mirrors have their limitations as blind spot and lowest aerodynamic qualities of the car and the wind noise created.

BMW has found a way to replace these mirrors with cameras. There are four cameras installed around the car and the images the cameras at the end of the day, which will be posted on the mirror must be. The mirror is replaced by an LCD. The end result is a clear panoramic view, unlocked and off the circulation to the back and sides. Installed cameras are slimmer and more aerodynamic than conventional mirrors. In addition, they are covered by Gorilla Glass and come with heating element to melt the snow and ice; therefore, they are more weather resistant than conventional mirrors.

According to BMW's project manager Camera Monitor Systems, Philipp Hoffmann, they have improved the aerodynamics of the car 3 percent, leading to an increase of 1 percent in the range.

BMW will implement camera systems on BMW i8. Currently, the company is talking to government officials to change the rules that prescribe the use of real mirrors for lateral visibility. It is reported that tests on European roads will be launched this year as the approval of the US Department of Transportation will likely make for 2017.

- At the CES press conference this year held in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ford announced its intention to move towards the development of autonomous vehicles. First, the company said it would triple its autonomous vehicle test fleet.

According to Raj Nair, Ford group vice president for product development, Ford has 30 autonomous vehicles Fusion on the slopes of the road test in California, Arizona and Michigan. That their largest fleet of autonomous vehicle development in the auto industry. The fleet will be used to accumulate miles in tests of the real world and thus it will further improve Ford software.

In the same time, Ford also revealed its third generation LIDAR technology currently used in its cars driving auto. The device was named Ultra Puck and it was manufactured by Velodyne. It is much smaller, but has a longer detection range of 0 meters from its last generation. In addition to this, he improved accuracy to better create maps and models for testing.

Mark Fields, CEO of Ford said that when the first Ford autonomous vehicle comes out, it is not only for those people who bought luxury vehicles, instead, it would be an autonomous vehicle designed to serve millions of customers.

Fields also added that Ford would continue to work with others, not just vehicles for retail customers, but also on autonomous vehicles to transport as a service and which includes customer service who might not own a vehicle in the future as the young, the elderly and those looking for an alternative to public transport.

Ford has been rumored to be working with Google to help develop its autonomous technology even though it was not mentioned in the press conference.

Heuliez Bus is a European bus manufacturer known for developing many types of public transport vehicles. It is 100% owned by Iveco through its subsidiary Iveco Bus. The company had sold 400 hybrid buses up to date and is committed to providing real alternatives to fossil fuels.

Recently, the company entered the market for electric buses by developing GX337 ELEC, an all-electric bus, which will be tested by the public transport operator RATP French. The vehicle comes with the "Come & Go" allows arrivals and departures in 100% electric mode at bus stops. As an all-electric bus, hopefully, it will further reduce fuel consumption and hybrid mode itself has already proven to reduce 5% of fuel consumption, 30% of CO2 emissions and 50% of NOx emissions according to the company.

Heuliez GX337 will have a length of 12 meters and installed with 175 kw electric motor. It is able to take up to 0 passengers. The battery is able to last for all day service with a charge overnight using combo DC quick charger and pre-heating in winter in bus depots.

Heuliez Bus covers about 26% of the French bus market has hybrid buses delivered to urban transport services from Bordeaux, Dijon, Nantes, Angers, Toulon, Saint-Pierre Reunion and Barcelona .

electric vehicles are designed without nozzles because they give no emissions while traveling on the road. This makes them more environmentally friendly than gasoline vehicles. The statement is supported by a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists so if you take into consideration the production of the battery and its entire process, including recycling and disposal; Electric powered vehicles have a greenhouse impact than gasoline vehicles.

For the report, UCS compared two electric vehicles, Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S with two gasoline vehicles, Ford Focus and Audi A8 all have weight and of similar size.

While electric vehicles do not give emissions while traveling on the road, however, the resources required for the lithium-ion battery and the source of the electricity used to recharge the car contributes to 'greenhouse effect.

According to the UCS study, the more power, the more range of vehicles, but also more weight added to the vehicle and the highest emissions from the manufacture of the battery. However, since electric vehicles are emission free while driving, therefore the amount of emissions they produce during production will be offset when they are used on the market. For example, the leaf drive as offset emissions by 400 miles of driving while the S model would take 19,000 miles. On average, there is a reduction of about 50 per cent of emissions compared to all gasoline vehicles throughout their life.

Unfortunately, there are still challenges for electric vehicles to be used on snow covered areas. However, if you live in the city area, you may consider the conduct of electric powered vehicles.

Toyota put in a lot of interesting features in its latest Prius Premier as such it is surprising that these characteristics can be found in a mass market vehicle. For starters, the standard touchscreen in its interior is replaced by a 11.6-inch portrait display. The design is inspired by Tesla, who recently it is also implemented by Volvo in its new models. In addition to this there is also a heads-up color display (HUD) available inside Toyota Prius Prime.

The difference from the inside of Tesla and Toyota Toyota added some permanent buttons such as cabin temperature, the volume, the radio on / off buttons and similar features surrounding the screen touch. The choice to use permanent buttons instead of touch buttons is so that the driver does not have to play with the image change to do simple things such as reducing the volume. Unfortunately, however, the Prius Premium does not support Android Auto and carplay currently.

Regarding the exterior design, the first Prius has a slightly concave rear window which channels air over the wing. In addition to this there is a uniquely shaped window with a new grille shutters that close automatically when the radiator is not used. All these models are implemented to reduce drag and wind noise, and preventing unwanted lift forces when driving at high speeds.

Prime Prius will be available in showrooms this fall and it offers 22 miles of electric or 0 miles on hybrid mode.

NVIDIA is a company known for making graphics card and computers since long ago. Most of its products are found in electronic products such as computers. Recently, the company has put in a lot of effort to go to the autonomous car market with a new system that is able to teach itself how to handle scenarios that are not encountered before while driving on public roads with minimal interference of human drivers.

most autonomous cars that are currently being tested on public roads able to drive on the basis of certain conditions present on the road. One example is that it is able to stay on the line by detecting the painted lines on roads. However, if the painted lines are not present, the system does not know what to do. Another challenge facing a self-driving car on a snow where it is difficult to differentiate between objects.

Apparently, NVIDIA has developed a system that can handle this kind of scenarios. The company found an algorithm that is able to classify the road, even if it is painted these lines on it as well as he is able to differentiate objects when driving through snow.

The company explained how it works in the video below.

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Regarding autonomous cars, Ford seems to be more reserved than the rest of the automakers and technology companies. Mark Fields, Ford CEO recently announced that the company will increase its fleet of test cars 10-30 this year, allowing Ford to take less time to gather information necessary for the company to be able to make autonomous car at the end to be sold to consumers.

Ford does not put a time for them to present their version of autonomous cars. However, the fields promised that when they do, it will be safe and accessible to everyone and not just for people who can afford luxury cars.

aligned with this objective, the company launched the Ford Smart Mobility program in which one of the elements is autonomous driving. The company sends a message to the public that they are being transformed from just a car manufacturer to a company that provides both automotive and mobility customers.

There are certainly challenges the company faces in terms of self-development of the cars. First, there are many variables they need to cover and when they think they have covered the baseline, there are more variables come to the surface that has not been addressed. One example is the weather.

cameras, sonars and sensors are essential for autonomous cars. However, they have difficulties operating in freezing rain or snow or even adverse conditions. Therefore, to resolve this issue, Ford experimented with lidar sensors and cameras, sonars and sensors. It seems that it is unnecessary to use lidar sensors with cameras, sonars and sensors such as LIDAR should be able to cover all of it. However, according to the fields, lidar sensors with cameras, sonar sensors and provide a complete picture of things, so it is not redundant.

Fields predicted that fully autonomous vehicles will be first available in places that were mapped 3-D then it will be evolved into something like a shuttle service, a kind of passenger car sharing service.

Ford vehicles already have the capacity to keep the driveway or park automatically if the parallel or perpendicular parking as well as automatic braking. Despite all this, there is also another team dedicated to delivering a fully autonomous vehicle. However, in the short term, Ford vehicles will be equipped with semi-autonomous devices.

Despite the technical question, it is also issue regulations that had to be resolved before a fully autonomous vehicle can be launched to the public. One of the examples given by Fields is stopped to four lanes. The current rule says that whoever gets there first and stops can go, however, people do not always follow the rule. Therefore, Ford should be able to find a way for its fully autonomous car to handle such a scenario.

Lasers are used in the Lidar system that is used in car driving cars to identify objects including cyclists, buildings and other cars. However, lasers can also be used to deceive the autonomous car system to see things that are not really there resulting in it to make poor driving decisions.

Lidar system is normally installed on top of the car that turns in all directions when the car moves and uses lasers to form a kind of radar that indicates the car's surrounding situation.

according to a paper presented at Black Hat Europe by Jonathan Little, a researcher at security innovation, a strong cyber security, self vehicle laser pointer will not do to stop, however, construction a laser system with off-the-shelf parts with a value of $ 60 will operate at the wheel.

Petit said he could usurp thousands of objects and essentially conducted a denial-of-service attack on the monitoring system so that it was not able to follow the real object . He tested a version of the Lidar system that is available on the market. He also argued that this type of vulnerability should be a wake up call for manufacturers of self driving cars.

Security flaws seems to be a hot topic in the United States as researchers found ways to hack into cars and take control of their system, which in the end could result in major recalls by major automakers. An example of this is that Fiat Chrysler recalled about 8,000 vehicles because of concerns that the console of his media prone to wireless hackers.

Technology companies such as Google and Tesla are currently testing self driving cars on the road. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the next few years, self driving cars will be common on the road. Despite the challenges it faces, self driving cars have an advantage too. The advantages were listed in a new website called Ideo. According to Danny Stillion, partner at Ideo, the site has been developed to produce a conversation about the future of mobility.

One advantage that a self driving can make is that he will go to your site every time you call. Once you get inside the car, it syncs with your mobile devices, calculates the fastest route to get to your destination and pick up other people who are going to the same destination along the path as you go through your email. Therefore, this way you can avoid the traffic and still be able to reach your destination on time as well as saving a little road space that you can connect with other cars.

Outside the car driving, the technology can also be used to develop self driving truck. For example, imagine that you are a cake in your home, but you forgot to buy butter is essential in baking a cake. Therefore, you can call the self driving truck to come pick it up for you while you do the other ingredients for the cake. At the same time, the self driving truck can also make deliveries around your area.

Another possibility is that something that can be called as mobile offices. For example, after the baseball season has passed, an empty stadium can be used as mobile offices for startup businesses or these mobile offices can also parked in a park or discarded for the employee to have a better view and thus resulting in new ideas. After a long day, the mobile station may lead to the garage for charging.

There are some months, Freightliner showed off the first road legal car to drive a truck on the Hoover Dam . The self-driving truck or also called Inspiration Truck also received an official license plate of the vehicle autonomously by the Governor of Nevada.

The truck has the same rating as self driving car Google, NHTSA level 3 means that it is fully automated, but it will allow the driver to have comfortable enough transition time to take truck control in the case where emergency.

self driving truck is built to reduce the lower the chances of accidents caused by human error such as driver drowsiness or fatigue. Daimler reported that 0% of accidents are due to human error during driver 1/8 ^e of them are caused by drowsiness.

As mentioned by Wolfgang Bernhard, during self-driving truck trial trip to Hoover Dam, the brain activity of the driver has been tested with or without autonomous function and driving license the result is that with the activated, driver drowsiness decreases by 25%.

Inspiration truck using the freeway Daimler driver technology that combines radar, stereo computer vision and other sensors to keep it in the same way on the highway. It seems that the autonomous truck is capable of recognizing the white stripes along the highway and programmed to move along with it. However, if these stripes are faded off or there is a bug in the software, the driver must be able to take control of it and not to cause an accident.

RNB6 Parrot car system is a vehicle's onboard entertainment system which designed with the safety in mind. Originally, it was designed for consumers to be able to buy and integrate easily with any vehicle they own and it works perfectly. However, it is not the case because it requires a deep integration with the production cars and manufacturers. Now the company is looking to sell to automakers. Based on the most recent reports, it seems that it has already been chosen by several companies to be integrated with car models next year.

Parrot RNB6 was first introduced at CES in Las Vegas in January 2015. It is a double DIN device with 55 watts per channel output of four equipped with a 7 inch HD screen that also supports capacitive touch and HDMI for external video. In addition to this, there is also the internal storage for audio or video, as well as inputs for satellite radio and support for FM / AM.

The device is designed to be able to view applications from your smartphone on the screen when the smartphone is connected. In addition, it is also able to automatically capture and record the audio of the road with the HDR in the vehicle / Full HD camera. As for the price, there is no official announcement of Parrot. However, if we take a look at another device as a unit of Pioneer NEX which has similar features, it should be at the price of at least $ 800.