Ben Richardson, CEO at SulNOx, confident they can cost-effectively decarbonise commercial shipping. Watch the video here.
If I may draw your attention to this quote:
more than 85 percent of CT6 owners have said they would prefer or only consider a vehicle equipped with Super Cruise in the future.
That is all the buyin you need. Once you have experienced it nothing else will do. Word of mouth, social media will create its own demand.
Similar article highlighted by Colin B fro his Twitter
General Motors will expand Super Cruise, the driver-assistance system it currently offers only on the Cadillac CT6, to 22 nameplates by 2023, GM President Mark Reuss said Wednesday.
The technology will move beyond Cadillac to GM's other brands in 2021. This year, Super Cruise will be available on the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, CT4 and CT5.
It will be offered on seven additional nameplates next year, and 12 more will get Super Cruise as an option starting in 2022 and 2023, Reuss told investors at the automaker's Capital Markets Day presentation.
Since its introduction in 2017, Super Cruise has been available only on the CT6, which went out of production in North America at the end of January.
Last week, GM said it would add automated lane-changing capability to Super Cruise when it expands to other Cadillac nameplates.
The Super Cruise rollout has been slow because GM designed the technology to fit within its new digital platform, which it's implementing as vehicles are redesigned.
According to the automaker, about a third of CT6s are sold with Super Cruise, and customers who have it use the feature about half the time when it's available. GM says more than 70,000 miles a week are driven using Super Cruise and that more than 85 percent of CT6 owners have said they would prefer or only consider a vehicle equipped with Super Cruise in the future.
So why write, coming on Feb 4th? It is 2am in Detroit. Let wait for wake up time in the US and then the press launch then we might know the answer to the mystery.
Nothing wrong with that statement, no Ken, no SM. Simples. Maybe he was not so hot on delivery but his vision and planning has got us into a great market leading position. Respect your history, we move on. GLA
Perhaps there will be some news next week linked to SEE, who knows? Could be 4th Feb. But then again could be anytime :) it's the not knowing that is fun :(
Just read the Cenkos note, hidden at the end of the financials is a glimpse of possible future potential involving cranes and ferry’s. There is no doubting the potential, just the delivery
Read this article and you get an idea of why DMS being mandated by Euro NCAP is great news for DMS providers and even better news if it leads to a 5 star rating. I wish people on this board would stop moaning and start think like investors rather than needy day traders.
The Year in Numbers: Car Industry Fast-Tracks Safety as New Regulation Looms
29th January 2020
Today, Euro NCAP looks back at 2019, one of its busiest-ever years, and forward to the challenges that will come in the years ahead. Fifty-five cars were tested last year, representing 26 different makes of car. Such a high number means that nearly all cars (92 percent) sold in Europe last year carried a valid Euro NCAP rating, giving consumers valuable safety guidance on almost any model they are likely to consider buying. Only three percent of new cars sold have not been rated by Euro NCAP.
And what do the ratings tell us? Around 75 percent of the cars tested last year achieved the top five-star safety rating. To do this against Euro NCAP’s 2019 requirements, they had to be equipped with much of the very latest crash-avoidance technology. Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) for car to car impacts was standard on around 90 percent of cars and optional on a further five percent; AEB to avoid pedestrian collisions was standard-fit on 85 percent of cars; and cyclist-detection, promoted by Euro NCAP only since 2018, was already standard on some 80 percent of the new cars tested. Add to that high rates of fitment of Speed Assistance and Lane Support systems and today’s cars are safer than ever, thanks to Euro NCAP’s initiatives and the car industry’s willingness to rise to the challenge.
Indeed, Euro NCAP and the European car market are leading the way, with faster adoption of safety equipment compared to many other parts of the world. As the revised General Safety Regulation (GSR) comes into effect from 2022 onwards, several new safety features will become mandatory. Last year’s results show that many of these technologies are already widely fitted on passenger cars as a result of Euro NCAP’s demanding requirements over the last few years.
And it does not stop there: 2020 brings in new tests for crash safety and crash avoidance and, for the first time, for post-crash survival, with cars rewarded for features that allow for safe and rapid rescue of occupants. Euro NCAP will encourage car manufacturers to continue to offer the highest levels of safety to their customers and ensure that consumers can rely on its ratings for the best safety advice.
https://www.euroncap.com/en/press-media/press-releases/the-year-in-numbers-car-industry-fast-tracks-safety-as-new-regulation-looms/
I like this bit too:
Over 85 percent of current CT6 owners said they would prefer or only consider a vehicle equipped with Super Cruise
I seem to remember there was some talk we had a link to Rivian. They are being rolled out this year but what DMS do they have? Sounds a bit rubbish to me.
Rivian’s self-driving patent application hints at driver monitoring functionality
Rivian’s Associate Director of Self-Driving, Oliver Jeromin, discussed a driver monitoring system that’s part of the company’s full self-driving suite in a recent interview. Thanks to a recently published patent application by the all-electric carmaker, more details about how such a system would work are now available.
The patent application, titled “Occupant Awareness Monitoring for Autonomous Vehicles,” was published on July 25, 2019, under serial number US 2019/0225228. It describes a multi-part system wherein driver activity is interpreted through synced wireless devices either on a smartphone or directly with the vehicle itself. If a driver’s awareness is needed and determined not to be available, the vehicle will take remedial action to ensure a high level of safety.
The five levels of vehicle autonomy defined by the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) (and adopted by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) range from level 0 with no automation to level 5 with full automation. Levels 3-5 specifically require that their human driver (or passenger if Level 5) be ready to retake control of the vehicle or respond in some way under specific circumstances. That said, Rivian’s invention described in this application seeks to detect whether the necessary level of readiness is present in the driver.
https://www.teslarati.com/rivian-self-driving-patent-driver-monitoring-system/
Jan 23 #169: Karl Iagnemma of Aptiv
http://www.autonocast.com/blog/2020/1/23/169-karl-iagnemma-of-aptiv
Just listened to Alex Roy Autonocast with Aptiv at CES. The guy from Aptiv confirms they are using DMS but refuses to say who other than best in class. Discussion around safety leads them to signpost the following document. This is a white paper on best guidance for OEMS building level 3 to 5 cars. Plenty of mentions of importance of human machine interfaces. The collaboration list for the paper has all our usual suspects FCA Conti BMW Daimler and VW as well as Aptiv. Dry read but will be of great interest to the Patent team, homework for the weekend.
To all the moaners, chin up, give up on research, give up on hope.
https://www.aptiv.com/docs/default-source/white-papers/safety-first-for-automated-driving-aptiv-white-paper.pdf
No, there is going to be a huge announcement in 6 minutes time!
Great one. My additions if I may? ;)
The captain shrugged, “Hey, what's with the altitude"
He was always getting his words mixed up, he once said imminent when he obviously meant impotent!
Eye tracking wrote a good note on SEE didnt he? Might be wor5h re posting a link
If you listen to the pod cast, SEE team were at the autonocast party and said Euro NCAP final requirements will be out in a couple of months.
And slowly the realisation dawns on the highly paid executives that it is never happening at the scale they hoped and it's time to mourn the 200 million dollars wasted in 2 years of trying.
And that’s why the share is 5p! If all was in the positive share price would be in 3 digits. So you invest knowing that surely?
I would advise re-reading the trading update from Jan 2019 again. Using what we know now it is an interesting read. Some points feel like da ja vu but others you can see we have progressed.
This is an interesting report if you can be bothered to read. Shows the future growth for ADAS etc. Helps understand how OEM are linked to Tier 1 and 2 and how relationships are changing. SEE strategy looks spot on. Get in early, collaborate, defend your IP, watch cash roll in (last one was mine)
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/automotive%20and%20assembly/our%20insights/mapping%20the%20automotive%20software%20and%20electronics%20landscape%20through%202030/automotive-software-and-electronics-2030-final.ashx