Returning to Detroit to Power Up Our Electrified, Self-Driving Future By Sherif Marakby, Ford Vice President, Autonomous Vehicles and Electrification Employees gather for a quick huddle in Ford’s new offices in Detroit’s Corktown district. All over the world, you hear cities are changing rapidly. Here in Detroit, that’s irrefutable. We’re getting to see it firsthand,… Continue reading Returning to Detroit to Power Up Our Electrified, Self-Driving Future
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In Rennes, a fully modernized plant for the Citroën C5 Aircross
In Rennes La Janais, in the aisles of the PSA plant, we say thank you to the C5 Aircross. The “C84”, as Citroën’s new vehicle is called internally, made it possible to ensure the durability of a site born in the 1960s but whose future seemed rather gloomy before 2015. “It is now the the… Continue reading In Rennes, a fully modernized plant for the Citroën C5 Aircross
Groupe PSA Improves Its €3 Billion Revolving Credit Facility
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Groupe PSA (Paris:UG) signed, on May 24th 2018, with its banking partners, an amendment of its €3 billion syndicated credit facility. This amendment improves the economic conditions of this credit facility, signed on April 8th 2014 and amended on November 10th 2015, and extends its maturity. Thus, Groupe PSA benefits from… Continue reading Groupe PSA Improves Its €3 Billion Revolving Credit Facility
Uber to develop flying taxis in Paris with new €20m research centre
Uber Firm’s first non-US Advanced Technologies Centre will host Elevate programme and research into electric transport Uber said that the Paris base will allow it to more easily work with European aviation regulators, such as the European Aviation Safety Agency. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Uber is opening a new research centre in Paris to develop… Continue reading Uber to develop flying taxis in Paris with new €20m research centre
Citroen C5 Aircross SUV launched in Europe
Citroën has officially launched the C5 Aircross in Europe, bringing a firm focus on in-car comfort to the compact five-seat SUV segment. One year after a China-specific model made its debut at the Shanghai motor show, Citroën has now repackaged the C5 Aircross to appeal to European customers. It is set to rival the Nissan Qashqai and… Continue reading Citroen C5 Aircross SUV launched in Europe
Apple’s Robot Cars Are Driving In the Slow Lane
A few years ago, I chatted to a senior Volkswagen AG manager who’d been involved in discussions with Apple Inc. about teaming up on autonomous vehicles. In essence, he said, Apple had asked the German autos giant to give it a stack of vehicle and driver behavior data. In return, VW would receive the self-driving system… Continue reading Apple’s Robot Cars Are Driving In the Slow Lane
Groupe PSA Steps up Its Digital Transformation with the Digital Factory
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Groupe PSA (Paris:UG) is stepping up its digital transformation with the creation of the Digital Factory. This new facility brings resources and skills together in one place to support the operational departments in their digital transformation. Several hundred internal and external experts are on hand, in: – the Customer Digital Factory:… Continue reading Groupe PSA Steps up Its Digital Transformation with the Digital Factory
Apple, Spurned by Others, Signs Deal With Volkswagen for Driverless Cars
Two former Apple employees also recalled how their colleagues built a model of a sport-utility vehicle with four seats facing each other, which some employees tested by sitting inside, similar to a design Mercedes advertised in 2015. As recently as 2016, Apple planned to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build research and development… Continue reading Apple, Spurned by Others, Signs Deal With Volkswagen for Driverless Cars
UPDATE 3-Uber shuts Arizona self-driving program two months after fatal crash
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said on Wednesday. Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is not shuttering its entire autonomous vehicle program and will focus on limited testing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and two cities in… Continue reading UPDATE 3-Uber shuts Arizona self-driving program two months after fatal crash
DRIVE Xavier, World’s First Single-Chip Self-Driving Car Processor, Gets Approval from Top Safety Experts
Automotive safety isn’t a box you check. It’s not a feature. Safety is the whole point of autonomous vehicles. And it starts with a new class of computer, a new type of software and a new breed of chips. Safety is designed into the NVIDIA DRIVE computer for autonomous vehicles from the ground up. Experts… Continue reading DRIVE Xavier, World’s First Single-Chip Self-Driving Car Processor, Gets Approval from Top Safety Experts