Artificial Intelligence

The global Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) market was valued at $25.81bn in 2015, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.44% to reach a market size of $42bn by 2021.

Ninety percent of road accidents are the result of human error. In 2016, Patrick Dubois founded Roadbudee, an automotive IT platform which promotes safe driving. By integrating and regulating all forms of mobile communications, Roadbudee hopes to improve safety for all road users. Roadbudee is a device which prevents you from sending text messages while driving. In order to start the engine, your phone must be connected to the Roadbudee. Thi...

Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed Elon Musk’s AI doomsday warnings as ‘irresponsible’. However, he might have to change his mind after what just happened at Facebook HQ. Facebook was forced to shut down two artificial intelligence robots after it appeared they were speaking to each other in a strange language only they understood. Researchers noticed that the robots – nicknamed Bob and Alice - had start...

One in four motorists has made the decision to delay buying their next car to help them manage their motoring costs, according to a survey carried out by Smartdriverclub, the UK’s first connected car service. Other cost cutting measures include shopping around for motor insurance (63%), being more conscious of fuel use (48%) and even downsizing (16%).

Mentor has announced that independent compliance firm SGS-TÜV Saar has certified the ISO 26262 compliance of tool qualification reports for key software elements of its Veloce Strato emulation platform.

For those who dislike parking, worry no more; manual parking is now a thing of the past. At the Mercedes-Benz Museum parking garage in Stuttgart, Bosch and Daimler have made automated valet parking a reality. With a command from a smartphone, drivers can now automatically park cars in their assigned spots without having to monitor the vehicles’ movements. Automated valet parking is an important milestone on the road to autonomous driving.

The smart display market for automotive applications is evolving at a rapid rate. The market is dependent on the demand trends in the automobile industry, buyer’s preferences, technological advancement in digital automotive cockpit electronics, and the progress toward developing autonomous vehicles. Smart displays in automotive applications play an important role in making important driver assistance functions available at a single-touchscr...

The Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS), which is the newest development tool for ultra-low-power deep-learning inference is available at RS Components. The tool enables developers to develop and prototype artificial intelligence (AI) applications to a broad range of devices at the edge in a convenient USB form factor.

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Europe, has announced that it has developed a development kit for its R-Car that takes advantage of 'emotion engine', an artificial sensibility and intelligence technology pioneered by cocoro SB, a SoftBank Group company. The new development kit enables cars with the sensibility to read the driver's emotions and optimally respond to the driver’s needs based on their emotional...

There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) believe that analysing photos like these could help us learn recipes and better understand people's eating habits.