The U.S. announced Thursday the first fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company who nicknamed his vehicle “Tessy” and had praise
Source: www.yahoo.com
The first death while in autonomous mode. There will undoubtedly be case law that will come from this first incident, which will set a legal & liability precedent for autonomous vehicles.
Vizzion, the worldwide aggregator of traffic cameras, is launching a new weather analytics service leveraging their global network of nearly 40,000 live cameras. The system detects poor visibilit…
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The leveraging of traffic cameras to predict weather.
Usage-based insurance (UBI) is a type of vehicle insurance whereby the costs are dependent upon type of vehicle used, measured against time, distance, behavior…
Source: www.researchandmarkets.com
High auto insurance costs in China are driving a shift to UBI & Telematics.
The Usage-Based Insurance (UBI) market’s slowing growth in the UK is a stark reminder that the concept of telematics insurance is far from mature
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A look at the UBI trends, comparing the growth in UK to other markets.
Insurers must meet the challenge of capturing sufficient amounts of exposure data to complete an analysis.
Source: www.propertycasualty360.com
It is estimated that 50% of all U.S. homes will utilize IoT within the next decade.
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Telematics has a number of important uses for fleet managers, end users and insurers and more and more people and companies around the world are adopting the technology to realise those benefits. However, not everyone likes the idea of it and sometimes workers specifically don’t want to be tracked by their employers at every hour of the day. But what happens when they don’t want it implemented so much that they threaten to strike over it? That’s exactly what happened in… read more →
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A new material called silicene — a sheet of silicon, one atom thick — could make computers chips even faster.
Source: www.upi.com
Only one atom thick, Silicene is predicted to increase computing speeds.
KMel Robotics, a startup based out of the Pennovation Center, was just acquired by Qualcomm Technologies.
Source: www.bizjournals.com
Qualcomm just acquired KMel Robotics.
Apple has been granted a patent allowing the creation of a flexible iPhone which could be twisted or bent, months after iPhone 6 owners complained of accidental bending
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The patent to create a flexible iPhone was granted to Apple.
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