Huawei said it has integrated its mobile data center platform into the Audi Q7
Huawei and Audi announced plans to strengthen their cooperation in the field of intelligent connected vehicles.
During the Huawei Connect event taking place this week in Shanghai, China, the two partners carried...
EU co-funded ENSEMBLE project aims to introduce multi-brand platooning on European roads by 2021
German company ZF said it is currently working with truck manufacturers as part of the European Union's co-funded ENSEMBLE project to test programs with the goal of introducing multi-brand platooning on...
The JV, dubbed MONET, aims to create a mobility-as-a-service business unit in 2020
Japanese firms Toyota and SoftBank have agreed to form a strategic partnership to facilitate the creation of new mobility services, and plan to establish a joint venture company, MONET Technologies Corporation, before...
Cisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like 5G, blockchain, and augmented reality (AR), and its innovation work in the smart cities,...
Ford, Uber and Lyft have agreed to pool their road traffic data in an open platform available to public and private sector companies to improve mobility in and around cities.
The data platform, called SharedStreets, is designed to make it easier for the private sector to...
Energy giant BP and car maker Honda have joined with insurance companies Aviva and Hastings Direct to fund a new three-year smart mobility pilot in London to develop and test new transport technologies, road services, and business models.
The programme will be managed by UK...
Alibaba’s CEO Jack Ma said China needs to control core technologies such as chip development
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has announced plans to set up a new semiconductor company to focus on the development of artificial intelligence chips and embedded processors to support the...
“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version of 5G that radio engineers are preparing and network marketers are promoting is only...
The trial took place at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development Center in Beijing
German companies Daimler and Bosch have announced the completion of a joint, automated valet parking pilot in China’s capital Beijing.
The technology, which had been initially tested in a parking garage at the...
Chinese technology giant Baidu has announced a new platform that integrates smart vehicle systems and intelligent road infrastructure.
Its ‘intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems’ (IVICS) solution, called Apollo, supports sensor data for vehicle perception, roadside perception, data compression, communication optimisation, as well as vehicle-to-everything (V2X)...
During the demo, the two partners reached a 6 Gbps throughput using the 3.5 GHz band
Orange Belgium teamed up with Nokia to demonstrate the potential and future applications of 5G including virtual and augmented reality, IoT, connected vehicles, eHealth and industrial applications, among others.
Orange...
Huawei is collaborating with the German cty of Duisburg, the hub for China's trade with Europe, to implement 5G and IoT technologies. The Chinese vendor said it will provide the city, located in the west of Germany, with infrastructure solutions to underpin its initiatives...
Las Vegas, in Nevada, is using artificial intelligence to detect and fix issues within its IT systems, including those underpinning its various smart city projects. California-based FixStream said its deal with Las Vegas is the first implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations...
Car maker Volvo has unveiled an autonomous car concept it reckons will disrupt the multi-billion dollar domestic air travel industry.
Its new ‘360c concept’ presents a fully autonomous, fully electric car that, although flightless itself, will bring a level of convenience, comfort and safety...
The German firm said the trial will take place in the city of Potsdam in the coming weeks
Siemens Mobility, together with German firm ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam, plans to carry out a demonstration of what it claims to be the world's first autonomous tram in...
The two basic rules for autonomous driving are: Rule number 1: Do no harm. Rule number 2: Don’t get hurt.
Forget about insurance companies’ claim that autonomous driving is safer and that insurance rates will be lower. When people hear about an autonomous car running...
As the summer ends, the weather worsens. For some, the changing seasons bring devastating storms. Their shadows grow ever-longer, and the risk to life grows ever-higher. Last year (2017) saw some of the worst natural disasters on record, with earthquakes, fires, flooding and landslides.
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UK start-up Skyports is ramping up activity in the US as it seeks to establish an international network of helipads for flying taxis and drone deliveries.
Skyports has so far secured 15 rooftops in London as ‘vertipads’ for passenger and cargo drones. It is currently...
Toyota is to invest $500 million in Uber, as the pair seek to bring autonomous ride-sharing to the mass-market. The deal values Uber at $72 billion, despite the company making losses of $4.5 billion last year.
Technology from both companies will be integrated into purpose-built...
The trial will be initially carried out by Nuro’s fleet of self-driving vehicles
U.S. supermarket retailer Kroger Co. and Nuro confirmed Scottsdale, Ari., as the city for their self-driving grocery delivery pilot. Earlier this year, Kroger and Nuro announced a partnership to begin testing grocery...
The city of Arlington, in Texas, has approved a one-year trial of autonomous vehicles in its ‘entertainment’ district, serving the home stadiums of both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers.
California-based self-driving car company Drive.ai will supply three self-driving three-passenger vans to the city,...
Another seven states have also greenlighted automated vehicle platooning with certain restrictions
A total of 9 U.S. jurisdictions have already authorized automated vehicle platooning, according to a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The states that have already given a green light to truck platooning are...
For many years, vehicles have been running on software, relying on wireless networks to function, but those networks have been local and closed. With a car operating on a local network, you can’t use your cellphone, tap into your car’s wireless network, and access...
The autonomous boat measures water depth at the port to guarantee normal operations
The port of Antwerp, in Belgium, is working on a fully autonomous sounding boat to measure water depth in the port.
The vessel, dubbed Echodrone, is a prototype that is currently being developed...
