...sitting in a driver's seat while not driving in a moving car? Well, that is the future of driverless cars! Driverless cars are known to come out onto the roads in the year 2020. Also, there will be many types of driverless cars due to how many companies are trying to produce them, including Tesla, Google, Toyota, and etc. They are all battling to try to produce a driverless car first, which will lead to their company getting more money because this is something that not many people have seen before. Everyone in the future should have a driverless car because they would save many lives, roads would have better traffic flow, and people would have better health. If everyone in the future had a driverless car, then all of the cars would be able to connect with...
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...Driverless cars Driverless cars are something that change the world and a new way to get around. They can be something good things about the new driverless cars. But there are many cons about the cars that can put us in danger. Anything can go wrong with the car and it can put us all in danger. Driverless cars may look amazing and cool but there are many things that can go wrong, many things that can put us in danger. There are many reasons why the driverless cars wouldn’t be safe. The main reason that there shouldn’t be driverless cars is because of safety. Safety is the number one reason, because everyone wants to be safe when they are in car. Without the control of a wheel there can be many car accidents caused within driverless cars....
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...Suzuki Motor recalls 453,225 minivehicles in Japan Suzuki Motor Corp issued a recall for 453,225 minivehicles in Japan, to fix flaws in the blower fan motor of the air—conditioning. The Japanese carmaker also issued a recall for hundreds of minivehicles in Hong Kong, but did not specify the exact figures. Defects in the automobiles have led to three fires, but Suzuki says it has received no reports of crashes or injuries related to the issue. The recall covers 407,878 Every minivehicles, one of Suzuki’s most popular cars, and 45,347 Mazda Scrum models produced between August 2005 and March 2010. DPA Renault and Bollore join forces on EV project Renault and the French Bollore group are teaming up on a next-generation electric car to be marketed under the Bluecar name. The aim is to produce a smaller vehicle than the current four-seater Bluecar and Renault has commissioned a feasibility study. The joint-venture will also sell complete electric car-sharing solutions in France and Europe. In an initial move, the Renault plant in Dieppe in northern France will begin assembling Bluecar electric vehicles for the Bollore Group from the second half of 2015. Bluecars are currently built by coachbuilder Pininfarina at a factory in Italy. Renault’s Dieppe plant specializes in building small series of sporting models such as the Clio IV R.S. and is set to build the future Alpine, which is scheduled for launch in 2016. DPA Never mind that there are still two more...
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...Ana Gordina Application Paper - BUAD 307 April 20, 2015 Self-Driving Taxis (Uber): Secondary Market Research Proposal Description: Self-driving taxis will be provided by Uber and would create an additional type of transportation offered to consumers. These taxis will not require a human driver to be present at the wheel. The car will include the latest technology, including GPS systems and smart traffic control, which will get the customer from point A to point B upon request and with minimal delays. The concept of self-driving cars has become very popular in the recent years. About 10 years ago, people were suspect about the safety and overall feasibility of the self-driving machines, let alone self-driving taxis. Today, as more tech companies, like Google, are coming up with these cars and testing their performance, people become more willing to give up their seat at the wheel (Emarketer). Whenever new technology comes out in the market, marketers manipulate on how a specific customer segment will react to the product. Take for example, personal computers or internet and how nobody could have predicted that these products would become a commodity. Yet, today, people can’t picture living without them. Knowing what are the benefits and costs of the product make it easier to create a marketing plan for the product. Thus, this report will cover the following subtopics: 1. Benefits and costs of self-driving taxis 2. Potential pricing strategies and costs to the...
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...GOOGLE SELF-DRIVEN CAR THESIS NAME: INSTITUTION: COURSE PREFIX: COURSE NUMBER: DATE OF SUBMISSION: 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 GOOGLE SELF-DRIVEN CAR The Google self-driven car is an automated car that operates automatically with no physical human input. It is a project developed by Google Company that involves the development of technology in automated vehicles mostly the electric type of vehicles. The software responsible for the management of the vehicle in its operations is the Google chauffeur. The project is under the management of a Google engineer Sebastian Thrun. He is an experienced engineer who previously worked for the former director in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In addition, he previously worked as a co-inventor of the Google Street view. The development of the robotic vehicle was first showcased in 2005 in the DARPA Grand Challenge where it won the award. There was an able team of 15 engineers who developed the system in collaboration with the Google Company. Some included Chris Urmson, Mike Montemerlo and lastly Anthony Levandowski, involved in the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges (Thrun, 2010). In the technological point of view, the automated Google vehicles comprise of parts and equipment that are worth 150000 dollars inclusive of the 70000 dollars for the LiDAR system. It possesses a range finder strategically placed on the top part of the vehicle called the Velodyne...
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...Yusong Zhu 2725450 Research Paper Memo 03/01/2015 My final research paper will be focusing on the impact of new technology on real estate. Technology has been a trending topic in all fields for decades, and I believe it also has a great influence on the real estate. * There is a battle raging in this information age: A standoff between professionals and their potential clients: Attorneys, doctors and realtors are fighting a new wave of information dissemination and peer-to-peer advice. * Tech is always sites as a bright spot in the United States economy: Hardware, software, mobile technologies, and social media, bio-tech, and e-commerce are all key new technologies booming indicators. Six of the top ten metros in the top office demand markets since 2010 are certainly quality as markets that have a strong tech component driving much of the growth. * Analyzing the relationship between some new technologies and real estate： Many may not believe there’s tight connection, the real estate industry is actually one of the most tech savvy industries around today. * Examples: The real estate profession is undergoing similar growing pains, a process in which consumers are redefining what they want and need out of an agent. Driverless cars: implications for the economy and the commercial real estate in the future 1. Market ready overview 2. Parking paradigm shift 3. Population shift * Overall: there is still a tremendous upside in the tech...
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...have forced the insurance industry to become more competitive. We will discuss here specifically the split or disruption in the insurance business with a focus on the auto insurance product and less complex personal insurance products. These two products are on a trajectory to become fully commoditized with little or no agency interaction within 30 years. To the extent that the Internet reduces transaction costs, it also creates opportunities for new intermediaries as well as existing ones. It also has a natural influence on product design. For example - in some cases it is economically attractive to unbundle and repackage various forms of coverage. We will discuss this further in reference to driverless cars and bundling the insurance with the product later in the paper. This paper is organized in the following manner. First, we will briefly look at internet trends as the introduction. Next we will summarize the traditional insurance business, and the reduction of transaction costs through internet insurance. Then we will look at the data showing the split with relation to Steven Klepper’s Product life cycle model. We will then look at the current market share for the Auto Insurance Industry, followed by the future of the Auto Insurance product. Finally, a set of concluding remarks based on our initial hypothesis. Introduction Insurance firms saw the need to...
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...Google Self-Driving Car Pranaw Kumar 500639475 MB8103 Submitted to Dr. Dale Carl 2nd October 2014 Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, 2014 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Macro Environmental Analysis 5 PESTEL 5 Political 5 Economic 5 Social 5 Technological 6 Environmental 6 Legal 6 Summary 7 Micro Environmental Analysis 7 Porter’s Five Forces 7 Bargaining Power of supplier 7 Threat of substitutes 8 Bargaining power of customers 8 Threat of New entrants 8 Competitive rivalry 8 Summary 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Executive Summary With continuous change in technology there is always continuous advancement in life style, and Google Self-drive car is going to be one of the biggest changes among them. This type of autonomous system always leaves long and prominent impact on the society and the environment. The whole world is moving towards more and more robotic systems where people just provide voice command or just a program and robotic system does the task automatically. This car can be a stepping stone towards such autonomous enhancement. There are many big players in auto industry who are trying to come into this futuristic field like BMW, Mercedes, Audi and many more, however Google’s self drive car stands apart in terms of completely autonomous car ‘no human interference’. This actually has some implication where human psychology interferes. Human by nature tries to keep control in their...
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...The purpose of this paper is an attempt to examine some of the effects (good and bad) related to the American Auto Industry. It is obvious that the advancement of technology and many other related developments has embellished the activities of the automobile industry in America; nonetheless, there is still evidence of some downside simultaneously accompanying this development. It is worth mentioning that the blueprint of modern day’s automobiles emanated from Germany and France in the late 1800s, notwithstanding; the industry became dominated by America during the early 1900s, when Henry Ford invented the mass-production technology that became the standard in the American auto industry. This invention brought automobiles to the doorsteps of...
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...intelligent agents, where as an intelligence agent is a system that checks out its environment and takes the necessary actions that maximizes the chances of success(Artificial Intelligence, A.G. Cohn, R. Dechter). Now, this person John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defined it as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Artificial intelligence research is very highly technical and specialized, and is deeply divided into sub fields that usually often fail to communicate with each other. Some of the division is due to social and cultural factors meaning that it will or will not function because of our multicultural race. Some sub fields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual researchers. Artificial intelligence research is also divided by several technical issues. Some sub fields focus on the solution of specific problems. Others focus on one of several possible approaches or on the use of a particular tool or towards the accomplishment of particular applications(Artificial Intelligence, A.G. Cohn, R. Dechter).The central problems, or goals of AI research include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. General artificial intelligence or strong artificial...
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...Recanati Business School Tel Aviv University Master in Business Administration Autumn Semester – Module 1 High-Technology Acquisitions Lecturer: Students: Dr. Nir Brueller Hans-Peter Huber Daniel Ammar Ziv Livne Guillaume Lesouhaitier Date: 11 December 2013 Group Assignment December 2013 High-Technology Acquisitions DAIMLER | TESLA MOTORS -i- Contents Page 1 2 3 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 5 5.1 5.2 6 6.1 6.2 6.3 7 8 8.1 8.2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 1 ACQUIRER OVERVIEW | DAIMLER ............................................................................. 1 TARGET OVERVIEW | TESLA MOTORS ..................................................................... 3 STRATEGIC APPROACH AND SYNERGIES EVALUATION ...................................... 5 THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET ................................................................................... 5 DAIMLER'S MOTIVATION TO ENTER THE MARKET............................................................. 6 DAIMLER'S MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE TESLA ................................................................... 6 DAIMLER ADVANTAGE TO ACQUIRE TESLA OVER COMPETITORS ........................................ 7 MOVE FROM PARTNERSHIP WITH TESLA TO ACQUISITION ................................................ 7 TESLA'S MOTIVATION .........................................................................
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...has to incur insurance charges. The costs result in an increase in the cost of commodities making them undesirable to customers. Delays in payment also make it difficult for the company to replenish its stock. Outline 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature Review a) An Overview of the Emirates Motor Company’s Import Business b) History of Importation of Mercedes Benz Automobiles from Germany to the UAE c) External Analysis of the World Automobile Industry d) External Analysis of the Trade between the UAE and Germany in Automobiles e) Internal Analysis of the Emirates Motor Company (EMC) 4. Methodology 5. Results 6. Discussion Challenges Facing Mercedes Benz UAE in the Export of Cars to Iran Introduction Mercedes Benz is a Germany based manufacturer of automobiles. It is a division of Daimler AG. Mercedes Benz as a brand engages in the manufacture of a wide variety of automobiles which range from...
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...Requirements Your principal research requirement this quarter, as described in the syllabus, is a research paper worth 75 points toward your course grade. This paper has two deliverables and two due dates. The first deliverable, due on Feb. 9th, is a thesis statement, outline and annotated bibliography is worth 25 points. All of these concepts are described in detail below. The second deliverable, due on March 18th, is your final paper and worth 50 points. The topic of your paper is any social issues in IT topic of your choice with these constraints: 1. You must have a thesis (an argument or position on an important topic of the day that is open to debate or dispute). This can take several forms depending upon your topic: It might be that you take a position on a topic that is hotly debated (e.g. are first person shooter computer games good or bad for pre- teens to be playing?) Or it might mean that you look at a technology development and posit a position using one of Postman’s five dimensions (e.g. Who are the winners and losers when we equip knowledge workers with company provided mobile devices? Or: what are the unanticipated systemic impacts of equipping knowledge workers with company provided mobile devices? Or: What are the underlying big ideas behind a society of workers enabled to carry mobile devices so that they have access to the Internet from everywhere most all the time? Note that you wouldn’t try to address all three of these questions in one paper; probably just one...
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...Transportation & Logistics Transportation & Logistics 2030 Volume 1: How will supply chains evolve in an energy-constrained, low-carbon world? PricewaterhouseCoopers 1 Acknowledgements The editorial board of this issue of our Transportation & Logistics 2030 series consisted of the following individuals: PricewaterhouseCoopers European Business School Supply Chain Management Institute Dr. Heiko von der Gracht +49 611 3601 8800 vdgracht@supplyinstitute.org Tobias Gnatzy +49 611 3601 8800 gnatzy@supplyinstitute.org Prof. Dr. Inga-Lena Darkow +49 611 3601 8800 darkow@supplyinstitute.org Klaus-Dieter Ruske +49 211 981 2877 klaus-dieter.ruske@de.pwc.com Dr. Peter Kauschke +49 211 981 2167 peter.kauschke@de.pwc.com Julia Reuter +49 211 981 2095 julia.reuter@de.pwc.com Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery +49 89 5790 5159 elizabeth.montgomery@de.pwc.com We would like to thank the panellists who took part in the Delphi survey that underpins this report. For confidentiality reasons their names will not be mentioned. Special thanks go to Tom Gorman, CEO of CHEP EMEA and Harry Hohmeister, CEO of Swiss International Air Lines, who took the time to share their thoughts and insights with us. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation for the expertise provided by the below listed individuals: Jenny Bailey, Andreas Baur, Nicholas Bell, Thomas Brüderlin, Giorgio Elefante, Richard Gane, Martha Elena Gonzalez, Susanne Klages, Christian Knechtel, Socrates LeptosBourgi, Alexander...
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...thank the Oxford University Engineering Sciences Department and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology for hosting the “Machines and Employment” Workshop. We are indebted to Stuart Armstrong, Nick Bostrom, Eris Chinellato, Mark Cummins, Daniel Dewey, David Dorn, Alex Flint, Claudia Goldin, John Muellbauer, Vincent Mueller, Paul Newman, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Anders Sandberg, Murray Shanahan, and Keith Woolcock for their excellent suggestions. † Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1PT, United Kingdom, carl.frey@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk. ‡ Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom, mosb@robots.ox.ac.uk. ∗ 1 I. I NTRODUCTION In this paper, we address the question: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?...
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