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Zubie Mobile Apps allows your old car to become connected cars -

Automobile industry is currently moving towards technology of connected cars. This means that cars share information between each other to minimize the likelihood of accidents and improve efficiency and productivity owners. If you have an older car, you can still experience the goodness of having cars connected by purchasing a key named Zubie and mobile applications.

It is very easy to use Zubie. You just need to plug into the OBDII port, which is located under the dashboard of your car and you can access it anywhere from your smartphone, tablet or PC 24/7 office. Using this application, you can do many things. You can use it to keep track of the health and activity of your car so you will know when it is time to change the battery or recharge your oil or car before your car is run out of it and you're stuck in a location away from civilization. In addition to this you can also locate your car in real time from a live map so you can know where your loved ones all the time.

How does it work? Zubie uses a GPS, a wireless connection to the cloud and multiple sensors which continuously detects the health and activity even when the car is not close to the user and, therefore, it uses Bluetooth car. Bluetooth necessary for the user to be at a certain distance from the key for this to work.

Unfortunately Zubie dongle is only available within the United States. It can be purchased for under $ 100.

4WD Scooter with protection against the weather as an alternative to commuting by car -

CityJet is a concept vehicle that looks like a motorcycle. It was designed by Boris Schwarzer who currently works as a contract designer for Ford Motors. Schwarzer is based in Michigan. Apart from CityJet, he made some other pictures of concept vehicles such as Spike car trip, Joust personal transporter and Urban Link tuk-tuk.

CityJet is designed to have an aluminum frame with narrow wheels that can be rolled on the pavement. It has an extra layer of protection designed to protect the rider from snow, rain and wind, and to minimize the impact when an accident occurs. These panels can be slid back to reveal more access to the seat. They can also be used as an access to fresh air while traveling that can also be accessed through the integrated air vents. The wheels can be changed with snow tires during the winter.

The concept vehicle is designed to run on compact fuel cell burn clean hydrogen which can also be doubled to provide partial heat for the winter and the rider passenger. The seats can be lowered to reduce the center of gravity to make it more stable. As it looks like a motorcycle, how to mount, it will also like to motorcycle.

Volvo Partners Ericsson that allows you to stream video during the trip -

As the cars will be able to drive by themselves in the future and only need an intervention with drivers during the emergency situation that probably will happen quite rarely, Volvo is coming up with a way to keep the driver and passengers entertained during the journey. 26 Concept is the vision of the company's future in-car entertainment system for the car driving in the future.

For 26 Concept, Volvo will work with Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications provider, to provide a smarter way to deliver video in the car during the trip. Therefore, the driver and passengers will be able to watch videos on Netflix while going to their destination. As the car should know about how long the trip will be on the basis of the historical figure and current traffic information, the system should be able to make recommendations on what shows or movies that are appropriate for the trip. On top of that for a region that has slower connections or unreliable, or total dead points, the system should be able to cache enough data to it would not disrupt the activity.

According Tylman Anders, head of Volvo Monitoring & Concept Center, working on the project, the car would know how long the journey required to make and can optimize the route and driving control accordingly. He added that their future autonomous driving technology to give people the freedom to choose how they would like to commute.

However, it could also mean that while previously, it only takes about 30 minutes to shuttle you from your office to your home, but since you want to watch your favorite movie that it ends, so you can choose to take the road more than at home.

All about the new player in the automotive industry Faraday Future -

We came to know Faraday future when the company unveiled its concept car at CES 2016. Faraday was founded Future there are about two years and is supported by the Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting. He is the CEO of LeTV, one of the most popular online video sites in China which based in Beijing. Faraday Future promised to start its mass production of the next future car in 2017.

Faraday future shop is located in Gardena, California, at the former site of Nissan Headquarter. It has nearly 500 employees in 40 countries and most of its employees have worked for some of the biggest brands in the automotive industry such as Tesla, BMW, Ford, GM and SpaceX. In the future, the company plans to build a production plant 3 million square feet in North Las Vegas, which reported to cost about $ 1 billion.

As for the vehicle itself, Faraday Future car will probably produce similar car in Tesla or probably better. The company promised that his car battery will power 15 percent higher than the Model S. Tesla Model battery Tesla is about 85 kWh and is able to travel about 270 miles on a full charge. However, Tesla was offered an upgrade of 0 kWh which can travel about 286 miles on a full charge. If it is true then we can expect the battery pack to Faraday Future Car upcoming production in about 98 kWh.

There are many things we do not know Faraday Future or about its cost. Stay tuned for more!

Nvidia new PX reader 2 for Self Driving Cars Since Supercomputer in a Lunchbox size -

The new PX2 Drive is an improved version of the CX road last year. It is a powerful computing platform that is able to process data from 12 video cameras and other sensors in real time to make more precise driving decisions. The chipset will be set up for auto car driving and has the size of a lunch box.

PX2 player has 12 different cores representing 8 teraflops of compute power, 24 deep learning tera operations per second and uses 16nm architecture. However, the chipset requires 250W of power and it is using a liquid cooling system. As will be used in a car therefore it will not be a problem. Automakers will just need to plug the device into their existing cooling solutions.

Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA co-founder and CEO said PX2 is as powerful as 150 13-inch MacBook Pro. For GPU power, MacBook Pro uses Intel Graphics 6100 chip Iris while the PX2 uses two Tegra processors and next-gen GPU-based Pascal. Therefore, PX2 is capable of supporting up to 8 teraflops and can recognize up to 2800 frames per second using neural AlexNet deep learning algorithm based on the network.

Nvidia also their learning algorithm deep network based on the name Nvidia DriveNet. It has 37 million neurons and can recognize up to 0 million items to date. The good news is that the number will increase over time. However, Nvidia also opened his own neural network other automakers. To test this chipset, Volvo will be the first expedition partner PX2 walk in about 100 test cars coming. In addition, Nvidia has also worked with Audi, Daimler, BMW and Ford to test the chipset.

Tesla unveiled the long-awaited model 3 after years of speculation -

recently unveiled Tesla Model 3 in Hawthorne, California The good news is that it will have better specs than rumors in the market.

Model 3 will base model and a more advanced model. The base model claims to be able to go from 0 to 60 in just 6 seconds. It also has to be able to travel at least 215 miles on a single charge. The advanced model is designed to exceed this number. The top model and specifications will be announced at later date.

All models have 3 models autopilot function installed by default and it comes with support supercharge standard. In addition to this, there is a rear wheel drive versions with double engine scheduled to be released in the future. Similar to the S model, it also has front and rear trunks.

For the interior design, there will be a horizontal widescreen 15-inch as the dashboard. The dashboard, as speedometer moved to the corner of the central display of the dashboard. This design is different from what is installed in the Model S and Model X. The last 2 models have 17-inch portrait display as dashboard.

Model 3 deliveries will be from the end of next year. The price will be from $ 35,000 for the base model. To align with the release, Tesla is also committed to doubling the number of public blowers 30-70 at the end of 2017.

A fleet of self driving Trucks Completed European Truck Convoy Challenge -

A convoy of automobile trucks arrived in the Dutch port of Maasvlakte in the framework of known experience as the European Truck Convoy Challenge. This challenge demonstrates the future of transport in Europe, according to organizers.

There are six different manufacturers involved in this challenge, namely Daimler, Volvo and Scania among others. Scania is a subsidiary of Volkswagen. Initially, each convoy set out from different places and when the trucks reached the highways where traffic more or less consistent throughout, they traveled in a convoy. Each truck, either the head or the truck after truck, a human driver at hand. Scania has traveled the longest distance, more than 2,000 kilometers covering Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and its final destination in the Netherlands.

There are some advantages of a convoy. One of them is that both the first truck and the next truck used in fuel average of 10 percent less per trip. On top of that by using the autonomous driving technology, it could lead to fewer traffic accidents that says a white paper TNO, a Dutch research firm, 0 percent of accidents caused by human error conduct.

There are still more work to be done to make it a reality. border rules and the protocol for the establishment of a convoy must be established. All these will be discussed at an informal meeting of European Transport Council April 14.