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City simulator wins Venture capital backing as investors seek driverless car exposure

Immense makes simulations of cities which aim to show where and how people and vehicles might be moving on any given day. LONDON: Venture capital investors backed Immense Simulations, a British software company which creates interactive replicas of cities, on Tuesday in the latest sign of money pouring into firms that stand to gain from… Continue reading City simulator wins Venture capital backing as investors seek driverless car exposure

Edited Transcript of LEVE3.SA earnings conference call or presentation 13-May-19 12:30pm GMT – Yahoo Finance

Full Year 2018 Mahle Metal Leve SA Earnings Call May 20, 2019 (Thomson StreetEvents) — Edited Transcript of Mahle Metal Leve SA earnings conference call or presentation Monday, May 13, 2019 at 12:30:00pm GMT TEXT version of Transcript ================================================================================ Corporate Participants ================================================================================ * Jan-Frederek Thiele * Philipp Kuckuck ================================================================================ Presentation ——————————————————————————– Operator [1] ——————————————————————————– Good… Continue reading Edited Transcript of LEVE3.SA earnings conference call or presentation 13-May-19 12:30pm GMT – Yahoo Finance

City simulator wins VC backing as investors seek driverless car exposure

LONDON (Reuters) – Venture capital investors backed Immense Simulations, a British software company which creates interactive replicas of cities, on Tuesday in the latest sign of money pouring into firms that stand to gain from driverless vehicles becoming more mainstream. Immense Simulations raised $4.6 million in its Series A funding round co-led by British venture capital firm… Continue reading City simulator wins VC backing as investors seek driverless car exposure

Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems

Quadric.io, a startup founded by some of the folks behind the once-secretive bitcoin mining operation “21E6,” has raised $15 million in a Series A round that will fund the development of a supercomputer designed for autonomous systems.   The round was led by automotive Tier 1 supplier DENSO and its semiconductor products arm NSITEXE, which will also… Continue reading Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems

Press: ams, Ibeo and ZF partner to deliver industry-first solid-state LiDAR systems for the automotive industry

ams´ unique laser array brings industry-first solid-state LiDAR system to Ibeo and ZF Premstaetten/Austria, (20 May, 2019) — ams (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide supplier of high per-formance sensor solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement to team with Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH, the German specialist for automotive LiDAR sensor technology, and ZF… Continue reading Press: ams, Ibeo and ZF partner to deliver industry-first solid-state LiDAR systems for the automotive industry

PlanetM Awards New Grants to Advance Mobility Pilots in Michigan

PlanetM, the state of Michigan-backed business development organization, has announced a new batch of grants that aim to entice mobility startups and corporations to pilot their innovations in Michigan, or test and validate their technology at one of Michigan’s proving grounds. PlanetM has awarded a total of $440,000 in grants to five companies. The startups… Continue reading PlanetM Awards New Grants to Advance Mobility Pilots in Michigan

DRiV™ to Supply Monroe Intelligent Suspension Technology on 2020 Toyota GR Supra Sports Coupe

LAKE FOREST, Ill., May 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — DRiV™, a Tenneco Inc. (NYSE: TEN) business and leading global aftermarket and ride performance supplier, has announced that advanced suspension technology from its Monroe® Intelligent Suspension portfolio is included on the fifth-generation, 2020 Toyota GR Supra sports coupe. The company’s Continuously Variable Semi-Active (CVSAe) suspension technology will be… Continue reading DRiV™ to Supply Monroe Intelligent Suspension Technology on 2020 Toyota GR Supra Sports Coupe