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Category: Self-driving
The DMV-website has a couple of reports that it requires companies licensed to test autonomous vehicles on Californian roads to report annually. One is the Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Report that was the first time due January 1st 2016 reporting all incidents when a the system or a human driver disengages the autonomous mode and takes …
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Category: Behavioral Economics, Self-driving
Pretty they ain’t. And they don’t look like hot rods either. Let’s admit: they are ugly ducklings. I am talking about Google’s self-driving cars. They come in tha shape of an egg on wheels with some funny colors. And Google even seems to emphasize that with putting some funny art on the doors. But why …
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Category: Self-driving
The newest attraction of the highly recommended Computer History Museum in Mountain View in California is one of Google’s self-driving mini-cars. Those have no steering wheel or gas pedals anymore. And why should they? A fully autonomous car of Level 4 does not expect a passenger to take control at any time, except telling the …
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Category: Automotive
The German magazine Captain Gadget visited the Tesla factory in Fremont and got unprecedented footage of the Model S and Model X assembly. Here are the images and the video.
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
Mar 30
When monkeys teach monkeys, it’s a monkey that you get. When humans teach monkeys, you get a more advanced monkey, who may not know what he really is. Some being in between. Now when humans teach humans, you get humans. But what happens, when machines teach humans? This question is not that far in the …
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Category: Culture, Mindset, Silicon Valley
The Silicon-Valley-Mindset is this mythical thing that many people from outside the Bay Area try to understand. But what is it? Is it the air, the water, or genetic differences of people living here that make them so innovative? Not really. In fact, with so many foreign-born entrepreneurs and innovators ruling Silicon Valley, the mindset …
View PostCategory: Innovation, Online Course
Innovation is very present in the minds of many companies, but only few know how to be creative and foster a culture of innovation and intrapreneurship. This course shows the importance of innovation, how creativity and innovation works, and what you need to do to create engaged intrapreneurs in your company. Examples will show how …
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Category: Visit
It’s fashionable that companies and governments visit Silicon Valley to understand how it works. How does Silicon Valley do innovation? How come that so many companies com out of Silicon Valley. And why does Europe not succeed with that? And those questions are good and important. A delegation typically consists from a handful of executives …
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Category: Innovation
Have you ever wondered, where good ideas come from? How can you become creative, and how can you have ideas make you innovative? This video talks about slow hunches, how those hunches combine to make ideas bigger, and need some time to mature. And working on multiple ideas and projects in parallel, good ideas are …
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Category: Automotive
Tesla granted CBS access to their Fremont factory, showing the Tesla Model X during assembly and how the battery is married with the frame. Watch the video.
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