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Costs and benefits of autonomous vehicles analyzed
2015-01-28 19:05:51| Trucking - Topix.net
Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 can operate without driver input via a function the OEM calls "Highway Pilot." Will the costs of autonomous commercial vehicle technology in the trucking industry overshadow the benefits? Or will it prove to be the other way around, with fuel savings, driver lifestyle enhancement, and safety improvements outweighing the price tag of ACVs? and found that some "price-sensitive" markets may be slow to adopt such technology, whereas in others notably the long-haul trucking sector may experience at minimum a return on investment period of three years.
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Navigant forecasts 29.3% CAGR growth for electric-drive and electric-assisted commercial vehicles to nearly 160K units in 2023
2015-01-28 18:55:24| Green Car Congress
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Gartner Foresees 250M Connected Vehicles on the Road by 2020
2015-01-27 04:40:10| Wireless - Topix.net
If you buy a car during the next five years, there's a good chance it will have a wireless network connection that will enable a myriad of mobile services. That's the prediction market research firm Gartner made today, when it released a report predicting that there will be about 250 million "connected" cars on the road by 2020.
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Uber (Mistakenly?) Suspends Drivers for Registering Commercial Vehicles
2015-01-25 03:03:08| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Uber seems just as confused about its practices as California's DMV, which published—then retracted—a ruling that Uber drivers must register their cars as commercial vehicles.
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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data
2015-01-22 21:55:42| Green Car Congress
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