Munich/Stuttgart. The BMW Group and Daimler AG are planning the next steps for their joint mobility company, following approval by the responsible competition authorities. The basis for this is the approval of the US competition authorities, which was received on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. This means that all antitrust authorities involved have given the green… Continue reading BMW Group and Daimler AG plan next steps for joint mobility company. Competition authorities approve merger of mobility services.
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Continental Pioneers Tire Tests With Self-Driving Test Vehicles
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Volkswagen introduces new remuneration model for top management
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Dealers ‘miss out’ on £17m of service revenue claims VHC firm
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New CO2 limits: Transport Minister demands changes in strategy from car makers
DPA “There will also have to be a change in strategies”: Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer In the dispute over lower CO2 limits, the Federal Government wanted to play no longer the guardian angel for Daimler, VW and Co. Now Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer is calling on corporations to adapt their strategies and business… Continue reading New CO2 limits: Transport Minister demands changes in strategy from car makers
Paris and Berlin seek to create “a Europe of batteries”
France and Germany seek to advance on the thorny issue of batteries. At a meeting Tuesday ‘Friends of Industry’, Paris and Berlin have agreed to push for the creation of batteries factories on the Old Continent. “The German and French governments, in cooperation with the European Commission, will develop a strategic approach to establish industrial… Continue reading Paris and Berlin seek to create “a Europe of batteries”
Press release / December 18, 2018 LeddarTech Selects BlackBerry’s QNX Operating System for its Auto and Mobility LiDAR Platform The QNX OS for Safety runs the software at the core of LeddarTech’s innovative automotive LiDAR development platform that enables the design of differentiated LiDAR solutions tailored to specific autonomous driving applications
Leddartech/Press release/LeddarTech Selects BlackBerry’s QNX Operating System for its Auto and Mobility LiDAR Platform
LeddarTech Selects BlackBerry’s QNX Operating System for its Auto and Mobility LiDAR Platform
The QNX OS for Safety runs the software at the core of LeddarTech’s innovative automotive LiDAR development platform that enables the design of differentiated LiDAR solutions tailored to specific autonomous driving applications.
QUEBEC CITY, December 19, 2018 — LeddarTech, an industry leader providing the most versatile, scalable Auto and Mobility LiDAR Platform, today announced it has selected the QNX OS for Safety as the operating system for its LeddarSP Digital Signal Processing library. The
LeddarSP software works in tandem with LeddarCore systems-on-chip to form the LeddarEngine, which is embedded at the heart of a variety of LiDAR sensor designs that enable ADAS and autonomous driving applications.
“We believe that there is no safety without security,” said Grant Courville, VP of QNX Product Management and Strategy at BlackBerry. “We are thrilled to provide LeddarTech, an industry leader in LiDAR technology, with the reliable foundation necessary for building competitive automotive and mission-critical systems in a safe and cost-effective manner.”
“LeddarTech selected BlackBerry as the supplier for the operating system of its LeddarEngine due to the QNX OS for Safety’s capabilities to offer the most advanced and secure embedded operating system developed for use in safety and mission-critical applications, such as ADAS and autonomous driving,” said Antonio Polo, Vice-President of Engineering at LeddarTech. “Customers who opt for our LeddarEngine solution can accelerate their time to market by using the QNX OS for Safety operating system to run LeddarTech’s patented signal-processing algorithms, which enables Tier-1 suppliers and system integrators to design the differentiated LiDAR solutions they need to meet the specific requirements of various automotive and mobility applications.”
The QNX OS for Safety 2.0 is certified to ISO 26262 at ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL3 by TÜV Rhineland, an international leader in the sustained development of safety and quality.
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AID teams up with Luminar for advanced LiDAR sensing technology – RealWire
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Tesla’s China factory and the missed growth opportunity
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Volkswagen may have to step up electric car plans to meet EU CO2 targets
BERLIN/FRANKFURT/MUNICH (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) may have to step up its plans for mass production of electric vehicles in order to meet tougher-than-expected European targets to cut greenhouse emissions from cars, its chief executive said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: A car with the Volkswagen VW logo badge is seen on display at the North American… Continue reading Volkswagen may have to step up electric car plans to meet EU CO2 targets