OCTOBER 25, 2016

Artificial Intelligence Next Big Thing for Cars

2016 WardsAuto User Experience Conference
Key takeaways from a diverse panel of experts at the recent WardsAuto User Experience Conference discussing how AI will recast our time behind the wheel.

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Autonomous Truck Makes a Beer Run, GM Sets Earnings Record, Trucks Struggle on IIHS Headlight Test

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M4 DTM Champion Edition Boasts BMW Racing Pedigree

BMW will build a limited number of M4 DTM Champion Edition models, which draw on motor-racing technology for drive and suspension and are designed to mimic the looks of the DTM racing cars built by BMW Motorsport.

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Spanish Auto Industry Puts Brakes on Production

Despite good sales results in Western Europe last month, the Spanish auto industry has several idling plans as weak car demand is forecast for the last quarter of the current year and the first part of 2017.

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Morphing to Mobility

I keep getting the feeling we’re at the stage the auto industry was in 1903. Five years later there was an amazingly impressive improvement in the automobile. By 1913 the world had changed forever.

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U.S. Autonomous-Car Hardware Maker Teams With China's SAIC

Savari Inc, a U.S. maker of sensors for autonomous driving, on Tuesday said China's largest automaker, SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, has agreed to manufacture and distribute Savari's sensors in China and some Southeast Asian markets.

Nissan-Renault Ready to Devise New Technologies With Other Companies

Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Renault SA are open to partnerships with other companies to equip their vehicles with sophisticated technology as automakers race to develop the cars of the future, the pair's connected vehicles chief said.

This Bud's for You, Courtesy of Driverless Truck

Billed as the first real-world commercial application of autonomous trucking, a vehicle made by Otto, the autonomous-truck subsidiary of ride-hailing service Uber, carried a cargo of 45,000 cans of Budweiser beer 120 miles from Fort Collins, CO, to Colorado Springs, CO, with a driver monitoring the drive from the truck's sleeper berth. Uber is expanding into autonomous-vehicle technology.

WardsAuto Flashback – October 2016

4.0 Million Near; Keller Car Due; Praise for Hudson; Civilian Checker; Cadillac Benchmark; Electric Steering, 4-Place T'bird; Ford Strike Loss; Mark III Delayed; Honda Car Bows; GM Management Turmoil; Lambo on Block; Mark VIII Launched; Ward's Sees 13.9 Million

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