Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad arrives for the launch of the My100 and My50 travel passes at KL Sentral December 1, 2018. — Picture by Razak Ghazali KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Proton and Perodua car manufacturers should produce vehicles that can be accepted in the international market, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He said this would… Continue reading Dr M: Proton and Perodua should produce vehicles for export – Malay Mail
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Lyft Acquires Bike-Share Company and Inks Deal With N.Y.C. – Fortune
Having sealed a deal to expand New York City’s Citi Bike, Lyft announced Thursday that it is now the largest bike-share service in the United States. Although the ride-hailing company agreed in July to buy Motivate, an operator that reportedly dominates 80% of bike rentals in America, the deal didn’t become official until Thursday morning… Continue reading Lyft Acquires Bike-Share Company and Inks Deal With N.Y.C. – Fortune
Hundreds of Wolverhampton JLR workers to be sent home as i54 production slowed down – expressandstar.com
Jaguar Land Rover is sending hundreds of its Wolverhampton workers home for two weeks in the run-up to Christmas, the company has revealed. JLR said 500 staff would be sent home each week on full pay as production is slowed down ‘temporarily’. At the same time 200 more jobs are going at the Solihull factory.… Continue reading Hundreds of Wolverhampton JLR workers to be sent home as i54 production slowed down – expressandstar.com
Tiny LiDAR Sensor Designed by Makers For Makers. – Interesting Engineering
As we begin to see more and more robots in our daily life, have you ever wondered how they ‘see’? Most robots use a technology known as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging Sensor) that allows them to map their environments by illuminating targets with a pulsed laser light. In this past, this technology was very… Continue reading Tiny LiDAR Sensor Designed by Makers For Makers. – Interesting Engineering
Velodyne Lidar Sensors Power ThorDrive’s Trailblazing Autonomous Driving Commercial Vehicle Services – Business Wire
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Utilizing Velodyne Lidar sensors, ThorDrive, a leading autonomous vehicle (AV) startup, is introducing commercial vehicle services in the first of many pilots. The kick-off event will be attended by local government and business leaders, including Mayor Liz Kniss of Palo Alto, Mike Jellen, President and CCO of Velodyne Lidar, and Seung-Woo Seo,… Continue reading Velodyne Lidar Sensors Power ThorDrive’s Trailblazing Autonomous Driving Commercial Vehicle Services – Business Wire
GM to add third vehicle to Spring Hill plant, despite sweeping $6 billion cost-cutting plan – The Tennessean
CLOSE With three major auto manufacturing plants and nearly 1,000 auto suppliers scattered across the state, Tennessee has emerged as the primary driver behind the Southeast’s fast-growing automotive industry. Buy Photo A worker places engines into Cadillac XT5 and GMC Acadia vehicles Feb. 14 at the General Motors plant in Spring Hill. A future Cadillac… Continue reading GM to add third vehicle to Spring Hill plant, despite sweeping $6 billion cost-cutting plan – The Tennessean
15 Hurdles To The Industrialization Of Driverless Cars (Part 1 Of 3) – Forbes
Photocredit: GettyGetty Will the future of driverless cars rhyme with the history of the Segway? The Segway personal transporter was also predicted to revolutionize transportation. Steve Jobs gushed that cities would be redesigned around the device. John Doerr said it would be bigger than the Internet. The Segway worked technically but never lived up to its backers’ outsized hopes for market… Continue reading 15 Hurdles To The Industrialization Of Driverless Cars (Part 1 Of 3) – Forbes
New Lidar facility opens for business – Engineer Live
ZX Lidars has invested heavily in a new facility near Pershore, Worcestershire, where the company makes lidars for the wind industry. Here, the firm’s Alex Woodward reveals the back story. The development of the ZX Lidars’ Wind Lidar Production Centre was a staged process. It started with identifying a series of primary goals for the… Continue reading New Lidar facility opens for business – Engineer Live
Aston Martin to more than double production by 2025: CEO
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Luxury carmaker Aston Martin (AML.L), has not yet seen a slowdown in its key markets and aims to more than double the number of cars it makes by 2025, its chief executive said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: Andy Palmer, CEO of Aston Martin, poses for a photograph next to the company’s… Continue reading Aston Martin to more than double production by 2025: CEO
Vietnamese VinFast has released “clone” the Opel Karl is a hatchback VinFast Fadil
Vietnamese VinFast automaker has officially unveiled the new hatchback Fadil, who will be the first model of the brand and is a clone of the Opel Karl Rocks. The event was held in the Central Park of Hanoi. At the motor show in Paris introduced the brand VinFast and two crossover Lux A2.0 Lux SA2.0.… Continue reading Vietnamese VinFast has released “clone” the Opel Karl is a hatchback VinFast Fadil