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+TOYOTA announces a 5-year, $50M AI development program with MIT and Stanford

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There is a lot of work to do in helping automated vehicles both perceive their surroundings accurately and coexist with human drivers. Toyota is bringing in the big brains to help out with machine learning.

Toyota Launches $50M Artificial Intelligence Collaboration with MIT and Stanford
At a press conference in Palo Alto, California today, Toyota announced a new collaborative research program that will focus on development of artificial intelligence and automation control systems….

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For #TBT I'm going all the way back to last week when I posted my review of the +Tesla Motors Model S on Friday afternoon when you may have missed it

2015 Tesla Model S P85D – Excellent But Not Perfect
Nine years ago, I was beginning my career as a professional writer just as a little Silicon Valley startup was emerging from stealth mode to introduce its first product. Taking its name from one of…

Updated Chrysler Pentastar V6 gets enhanced variable valve lift and timing, less friction and cooled EGR for 2016 but no direct injection

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DI is most beneficial when combined with turbocharging, but it can increase particulate emissions. New EPA Tier 3 emissions regs from 2017 will tighten limits on particulates, probably necessitating particulate filters on most DI engines.

Updated Chrysler Pentastar V6 Hints At Next-Gen Emissions Rules
Since its introduction in 2009, the Pentastar V6 lineup has been an enormous success for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles with more than 5 million units sold to date. The Pentastar in 3.6, 3.2 and 3.0-lit…

Ian Wright knows a thing or two about electric vehicles having been one of the first four people involved with +Tesla Motors

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As an automotive engineer, he joined Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning and financial backer Elon Musk at the very beginning in 2003. He left long before the Roadster came to market and went on to create the Wrightspeed X1, until recently the fastest road-legal electric car in the world. During a keynote at the Fleet Technology Expo last week, Wright made it clear that he thinks we are asking the wrong questions when it comes to electrifying vehicles.

We’re Asking the Wrong Question about Electrification
At the recent Fleet Technology Expo in Long Beach, California, Tesla Motors’ co-founder and founder of Wrightspeed, Ian Wright, delivered a keynote to the gathering of fleet managers, suppliers, an…

While it's certainly important to protect our phones and tablets, this could actually have a far more important and far-reaching impact on the ultimate mobile device, our cars

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Originally shared by +Kevin Tofel

If it makes mobile devices safer, I'm all for it.

How Qualcomm plans to make phones and tablets safe from malware | ZDNet
A new security approach built into the Snapdragon 820 chip next year will provide protection from zero-day and other malware attacks.