Most in-dash navigation systems lack traffic data or point-of-interest information, and have clunky update procedures.
Many carmakers bundle their navigation systems with other features, forcing buyers to take one in order to get something else they actually want. Next-generation navigation systems are a crucial step in the development of autonomous vehicles.
In a recent test of a 2015 model-year car, the built-in navigation system had no listing for a winery that has been in business for 15 years - both Apple Maps and Google Maps found it in a split second because smartphone navigation apps are cloud based, continually updated with new information.
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Waymo is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets and self-driving car technology when Waymo's former engineer, Anthony Levandowski left the company, supposedly stealing thousands of confidential documents containing trade secrets.
Waymo believes Uber executives, including then-CEO Travis Kalanick, knew about the stolen data. It claims the company used Waymo's laser and radar technology called LiDAR to further its own self-driving efforts.
"We have accumulated significant and compelling evidence of Uber's theft and use of Waymo's trade secrets, and we look forward to finally presenting our case to the public," a spokeswoman for Waymo told CNNTech.
Read the article at CNN Tech.
The price of real estate, the decreased income that service stations receive from mechanical repairs and fueling at big box stores, have contributed to the steady decline of fueling stations in the last two decades.
In the future, autonomous vehicles will make all the decisions about where and when to stop for refueling, so no one knows for sure what a gas station will look like when the computer is running the cars.
"In other words, the new model took the money out of petrol. Big box stores weren’t selling fuel cheap because they wanted to profit on it — they were selling it cheap because they were going to make a profit on all the other stuff consumers purchased after they bought their petrol."
Read the article at BBC.
Self-driving cars do not mean the end of driving, or the end of automotive design, but just the opposite - your focus doesn’t have to be on the speedometer, the fuel gauge and the windshield.
Driving is drudgery a lot of the time, but people don’t want to relinquish the possibility of taking the wheel, Autotrader senior analyst Michelle Krebs says. “People want driverless performance when they’re commuting and maybe on long road trips, but they want the option to drive themselves.”
Read the article at Detroit Free Press.
According to a December Gallup poll, 28 percent of adults rate business executives' honesty and ethical standards as low or very low, 54 percent rate them as average, and just 16 percent rate them as high or very high.
As a business leader if you’re not good at leading cynical people, chances are you’re not good at leading a lot of the people you’re supposed to be leading.
Cynics make great employees as long as three rules are followed: 1. Be honest, 2. Play fair, 3. Do what you say you are going to do!
Read the article at strategy+business.