Category: Automotive

Uber is investing $150M in Toronto to expand self-driving car efforts

Months after an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, the ride-hailing giant has announced it’s adding a new engineering hub in Toronto and expanding its autonomous research team as it refocuses its self-driving car efforts. In his first visit to the Canadian tech hub since becoming CEO of Uber last year,… Continue reading Uber is investing $150M in Toronto to expand self-driving car efforts

Automaker: VW stops golf production due to lack of demand

Production at Volkswagen For a week, the tapes will be at rest in Wolfsburg for a week in October. (Photo: AP) DüsseldorfBei Volkswagen is the next compulsory break in production. In the first week of October, production at the parent plant in Wolfsburg is expected to completely rest. As it is said from business circles,… Continue reading Automaker: VW stops golf production due to lack of demand

JADAK acquires Imaging Solutions Group

JADAK, a business unit of Novanta Corporation, has announced the acquisition of smart camera and imaging product company Imaging Solutions Group (ISG). [Native Advertisement] “ISG’s intelligent cameras will provide our customers with a broader and more robust line of embedded machine vision and image analysis solutions,” said Janie Goddard, President of JADAK. “Our expanded and… Continue reading JADAK acquires Imaging Solutions Group

Nissan to bring ‘Safety Shield 360’ to top-selling models in the U.S.

Nissan to bring ‘Safety Shield 360’ to top-selling models in the U.S. Nashville, Tenn. – Nissan is introducing Safety Shield 360, a suite of six advanced active safety and driver-assist technologies, as standard equipment on all of its top-selling models by 2021, representing more than one million vehicles annually in the U.S. “Our philosophy is… Continue reading Nissan to bring ‘Safety Shield 360’ to top-selling models in the U.S.

Nissan strengthens Formula E partnership with stake in e.dams

YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan has strengthened its partnership with e.dams by purchasing a stake in the championship-winning racing organization, ahead of Nissan’s debut in the ABB FIA Formula E electric street-racing championship. Nissan is joining Formula E as the first Japanese carmaker to participate in the innovative series and as the global leader in electric… Continue reading Nissan strengthens Formula E partnership with stake in e.dams

Japan Shifts Autonomous Driving Industry into High Gear with NVIDIA DRIVE

As home to some of the world’s largest automakers, suppliers and automotive research institutions, Japan is a global authority when it comes to developing self-driving technology. At GTC Japan, NVIDIA showcased a range of partners developing on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. Toyota first announced its collaboration with NVIDIA at the 2017 GPU Technology Conference in… Continue reading Japan Shifts Autonomous Driving Industry into High Gear with NVIDIA DRIVE

Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step in the development of its platform. The company is now working with Amazon, and specifically its Rekognition API, to detect and read text in Mapillary’s… Continue reading Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database

Honda recalls two more models in China due to engine issue

BEIJING: Honda Motor Co will recall 22,702 Honda Jade cars and 27,554 Acura CDX sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) in China, market regulators said on Thursday, because of a cold-climate engine problem that has already forced the recall of hundreds of thousands of vehicles. A Beijing-based company spokesman said in total Honda will have to recall six… Continue reading Honda recalls two more models in China due to engine issue

Gestamp opens its new plant in West Midlands

9.13.2018 Gestamp, the multinational company specialized in the design, development and manufacture of highly engineered metal components for the automotive industry opened its new manufacturing facility today in Four Ashes near Wolverhampton (West Midlands). The new plant has state-of-the-art stamping equipment in its 50,000 square metres facility. It will include the production capability of the… Continue reading Gestamp opens its new plant in West Midlands