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It does look promising, hope it's us.

Interesting as Indie are a partner of SEE. Not sure we're working with Bosch now tho.

Exciting times. That 500,000 figure is North America alone apparently, bluecruise now in UK, while France and Germany follow soon according to a recent video I saw.

https://electrek.co/2023/08/14/ford-bluecruise-hands-free-driving-access-free-trial-new-ev-owners/

It should be a few million by mid next year and certainly by mid 2025 if our auto executive's prediction of 100% YoY growth is correct.

I can't say whether there is 'no end in sight for this misery for holders' or otherwise, but looking at our CFOs buying there are signs that better times are coming, how quickly this happens who knows.

Nice find Terry. It's surely SM tech here, given the interior integrated camera. If so, massive.

May as well shout about if the company for whatever strange reason wont and in any case it beats being a moaning minnie!

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/26/hands-off-eyes-on-ford-deploys-hands-free-driving-in-cars-on-uk-motorways

Ford also says it hopes to be across Europe "soon".

Https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2023/07/24/ford-mustangs-join-hands-free-motorway-test-drive-in-uk/

They are a v small company in terms of market cap, but I get your point. We have a mass market contract - supposedly with VW ??? - going in to production early next year, so maybe that will herald a sea change here as regards the SP?

BMW are also starting to roll out also, albeit they're mostly premium brand and I guess a lot of this dovetails with semi autonomous features. Where as, it looks to me that VW will be vanilla DMS/OMS for more affordable, mass produced cars? This is what I garner from that RNS of Dec 21, also the fact that Bentley (and I guess other VW luxury brands Audi and Porche) will not be manufactured with with semi autonomous technology until 2025, for cars being sold in 2026

https://www.autodaily.com.au/2026-bentley-ev-to-feature-hands-off-driving-tech/

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/2026-bentley-ev-will-offer-hands-free-driving

To be honest, I've been invested since Nov 2013 and like others I'm finding it difficult to undertand what is going on here. Everything is so secretive. The fact that the FD is filling his boots does give reassurance however!

If it is indeed

Don't know how many will come with semi autonomous tech, hopefully a good number

https://www.focus2move.com/world-best-selling-executive-cars-2/

Another article

https://www.drive.com.au/news/bmws-semi-autonomous-driver-assist-tech-approved-up-to-130km-h-in-germany/

From what I can see, the BMW 5 series will be available to buy from Autumn.

Apologies if posted, but can't see that it has been, article from last 24 hours

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/bmw-semi-autonomous-system-first-to-be-approved-for-speeds-of-up-to-80-mph-in-germany/

From what I can see, there are 8 trims of the F150. One trim comes with bluecruise as standard, 4 trims have bluecruise as optional. The Raptor should also have had the option for bluecruise, but there were software compatability issues for this trim. This may be resolved going forward.

As far as I can see, on a v quick search (just back from work), there are at least 5 (F-150) trims that can come with bluercruise - Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum, Limited and Tremor. Not that we should solely be focused on the F150 of course, because our DMS will roll out in to many more models across OEMs over the coming months & beyond.

I think many of us get impatient. But, I thought the the volume of cars manufactured during the last quarter, incorporating our DMS, was v promising (170,000+). If, as Nick D stated just a few weeks ago, auto is going to grow at 100% pa for each of the next few years, then when you extrapolate that prior figure it all looks good. So, while I remain impatient, for me there are now tangible signs of progress actually happening.

I forgot about Fisker. I thought we won a contract with chrysler back in early 2019. At least we alll thought it was them at the time, safestocks article is still there.

*Stellantis/Chrysler

At a guess the next oem launch (5th) is stellatis, VW Group the large one for next year.

Don't forget the mcimminent aviation deal! Surely for 2023-2024 (fingers crossed)?

I'm scratching my head here and maybe im a bit slow. But QTR 2 car production with SM is 141,747, for QTR 3 it's 173,802 - not the difference between those figures (32k).

Thought it great that we now have 50k + guardian installations, it's taken time but that's a nice threshold to have crossed.