The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring financial educator and author Jared Dillian has been released. Listen here.
A report by a safe driving charity said serious crashes linked to distracted driver increased by 11% over the last decade.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tech-distractions-killing-dozens-of-drivers-every-year-8h7hvw9cs
Here is the link to the report by the Charity:
https://www.iamroadsmart.com/media-and-policy/road-safety/distracted-driving
A new proposal for change in driving offences was made by the Ministry of Justice in October 2017 but it has failed to progress because Brexit has taken up so much time in parliament. The number of people driving and using their mobiles is a real and growing problem and causing serious accidents and event death. I saw a guy driving a massive lorry in central London this week and he was using his mobile phone. Crazy!
Remember our investment in SEE will also save many lives and reduce pain and suffering, as well as being very financially lucrative.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/new-driving-offence-fills-sentencing-gap-in-cases-of-serious-injury-gr7mrl9pw
Hi all
I emailed Sophie this week to ask if there would be a PI Event in 2019, as personally I would love a chance to meet Jack and some of the new BOD. She said it was a top priority and it would either be in March but more likely with the YE Results later in the year.
Also she confirmed that they are no longer attending the Share Magazine event next week as their busy schedules would not allow for it.
Hopefully they are too busy with future clients signing contracts!!!
Yes Bogyo
I noticed that today as well. I have emailed SEE to find if this definitely the case but sounds Shares Magazine have confirmed.
However Gervais Williams of Milton Asset Fund is the Key Note Speaker, so you never know he might mention might mention SEE as they own 3.95% of the company.
I attend to watch his presentation.
Interesting review of all things DMS at CES 19
http://www.drivermonitoring.com/what-is-said-about-dms-at-ces
Hi St Moritz Man
How can we tell you are the real Simon Davies? Sorry for my doubts but you get a lot of strange people on these boards who will do anything to push their own agenda.
Regards
Alastair Protheroe has been promoted to VP Global and Strategic Relationships.
Hopefully because he has been doing a great sales work that the market has yet to appreciate.
Lewbo,
I admire your efforts to provoke S7 & Baxter from their constant whining into backing up their views with facts / research but I feel you are flogging a dead horse. Hopefully we get a decent rise in the next few months and they can sell out and move on with their happy lives. I have some more funds coming soon and hope to buy at these currrent leves so quite happy at the moment.
The progress over the last year, business wise, has been great, SP fluctuations & fleet issues aside.
There is no logical argument against this. Safety has to come first before any other issues. Even then, the tech can be tested. The unions should be focus on their drivers safety not being resistant to any change.
https://www.smartrailworld.com/driver-anti-sleep-seeing-machines-device-uk-rail-safety-regulator
Nice one Maps.
He actually says "cars will be able to tell you when you are going fall asleep".
Pretty clear who is thinking about when he mentions this point!
Good find S2020.
What I found particularly interesting about this blog piece was the point it made about the increasing danger of distraction from pedestrians. With the Uber fatality earlier this year the focus was the on the "safety" driver who was supposedly watching a video but the female pedestrian pushing her bicycle who was killed seemed totally distracted as well.
"Dont cry Sophie" was genius!
Top work!
BHP says that its rail crash in Australia was partly due to driver error:
https://www.ft.com/content/9994f7d8-e98c-11e8-a34c-663b3f553b35
Interesting quote at the end.
“As a result of these initial findings, we put in place a range of safety controls. Following this, we safely restarted our rail operations,” said Mr Basto. “Regulatory investigations are ongoing and we are working with regulators to learn from this incident. Our focus remains on the safety of our people and our operations.”
Good spot S2020.
Be interesting to know more about these initiatives? - ie "the technological initiatives that RATP DEV are doing in London as part of the Transport for London Bus Safety Fund".
Did they mention a while back that our tech was being tested on a certain London Bus route? Can anyone remember the no. of the bus route? I might try to check it out.
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I know what you mean, I did not fully understand it to be honest.
Mr Safestocks has tweeted this
I'm sure Semicast knows more than me about the technical aspects. Still, what I'm sure of is that that kit isn't from Seeing Machines.
My simple understand of our twitter exchange is as follows:
Me to Safestocks / Semicast /Alex Roy: Uber have a new AV safety tech system. Could it be SEE?
Alex Roy: <Like>
Safestocks: IMO its not SEE as its not eye tracking.
Semicast: SEE has the best performing tech but its the most expensive and resource hungry
Safestock: Semicast knows his techs stuff but its Uber are still not using SEE
Clear as mud?
Semicast Research has just responded to my tweets from last week to him and Safestocks about Uber potentially using SM tech. Safestocks was certain that it was not SEE tech.
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Mobileye designed three fully programmable accelerator cores for the EyeQ family. These are the Vector Microcode Processor (VMP); Multithreaded Processing Cluster (MPC); and Programmable Macro Array (PMA). This sounds complex because it is.
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Guardian is head & face tracking. Real-time eye-gaze & eyelid tracking is very demanding & needs custom designed hardware accelerators. SM calls this the "Driver Monitoring Engine" & it is coded in logic in the FPGA fabric. Trade-offs are power/performance/cost.
SEE is definitely more active on its social media channels now. Increasingly it appears to be the right company in the right space at the right time. Soon the market will realise this....
There is the possibly that the company is not delaying RSNs but the contracts are still waiting to be signed and finally agreed. When you work with big companies they do move rather slowly. Don't shoot me down, I am just saying its a possibility. They cannot magic RSNs if the contracts do not yet exist.
In terms of PR, I think the company is quite poor, as there are so opportunities to promote SEE in terms of the global media's daily insatiable appetite for all things semi and fully autonomous car, driver distraction, traffic deaths, etc. I know they are operating in the b2b rather the consumer space but raising the companies profile at all levels (business and consumer) will raise awareness amongst potential customers and investors (PI and II).
I agree but the podcast is well worth a listen as his predications have accurate so far.
As its an Australian podcast, maybe we should get KK on it?