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once again on a recruitment drive in US, Germany and Japan with new jobs in all three locations. A good sign of progress, hopefully

'The directors of companies traded on the LSE cannot trade during the two months preceding a preliminary, final or interim earnings announcement and one month prior to a quarterly earnings announcement.'. I can't find any legal stipulations relating to a non-earnings company news release ie contract announcements or such like. Need to do some more digging but yes, insiders cannot buy or sell stock based on 'inside information' but what if a contract is signed for example in 2 weeks then this event cannot surely be classified as 'inside information' in relation to Hill's purchase of shares. You need at least 'prior knowledge' of such price sensitive information (contract sealed and signed off) to be in contravention of insider trading rules.

Let's see what transpires. In my experience shares tend to respond far better to newspaper rumours and press-tips far better than they do to formal company news releases as we saw with the last DMS contract only a few weeks ago. Toyota testing SEE-DMS as reported in the Telegraph is an example of this

After yesterday's decent price move and a pretty active LSE order book I wonder if IIT have now stopped trimming their position? I certainly didn't see any evidence of major selling though we did see a little profit-taking at the end which is entirely natural following a decent move

isb - we'll be fine fella. SEE is in good hands with Paul, Lenne and co. I myself now have complete confidence in their judgement and appreciation of the direction of travel for this company and the importance of its technology

Yes, that's a brilliant article from an industry insider that should put ISB's mind to rest..these dreamer journalists who write about fully-autonomous vehicles get on my tits..their entire focus is so way off the real world as to be almost irresponsible...

“We’re still dealing with all the usual norms of vehicle (development), so for now it’s the steering wheel,” Godwin says.

Even so, much work is under way on more advanced biometrics and other forms of sensing to better understand the position of occupants and their mental and physical condition.

As autonomy advances to Level 3 and beyond, occupants may be sleeping in cars or facing rearward, so detection will be even more critical when it comes to handing back control to a human or triggering airbags efficiently and effectively in the event of a crash. But development remains in the early stages and technical and behavioral challenges are huge.

“I’m not sure how much we’ll be able to fully control what people do as we take that big step (from Level 2 to Level 3),” Matsu says. “That’s why I’m a fan of pushing Level 2 to Level 2.99, because as soon as you go to Level 3, it’s a question of how safe are you going to be?”

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Now this is the article that expressed the current position of the industry not some dreamer journalist who gets a hard-on every-time he thinks of a car in full-autonomous mode

To that end, developers are trying to understand what will work best to detect the driver’s state of mind and what signals the car should provide to make sure he is alerted in time to resume control.

Both Matsu and fellow panelist Michael Godwin, North American director-visible LED products for Osram, point to the car’s steering wheel as the new human-machine-interface focal point. The best example of that to date is GM’s Super Cruise Level 2-plus ACC system that uses an infrared sensor to monitor the driver’s eyes and lights up along the steering wheel to signal if all systems are go or about to shut down because the driver’s eyes aren’t on the road.

“We think this is going to be a more prevalent feature in the future,” Matsu says of the interactive steering wheel.

Next-gen models also will see more vivid head-up displays with wider fields of view that will keep the driver informed and engaged, Godwin says. In-cabin lighting may be employed in new ways to signal drivers if the auto-piloting vehicle needs intervention.

A lot of human-factors study is going on to determine what color lighting is most effective, where it should be placed and how fast it should pulse, plus what audible signals should accompany those visual cues, Godwin says. But he notes, near term, the steering wheel will remain the most likely HMI point of focus for ADAS developers, because of its low cost and ease of integration and implementation.

Interior-systems supplier Autoliv expects Level 3 systems that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road and more sophisticated Level 4 vehicles to account for only about 10% of global vehicle sales by 2030, says Rich Matsu, senior director-engineering. That figure will grow to 30% sometime beyond the next decade, when Level 5 vehicles are seen reaching only about a 5% share of new-vehicle sales annually.

“We see Level 2 as being dominant for the foreseeable future,” Matsu notes. “It’s a big focus of our organization and the industry overall.”

Level 2 technology requires the driver to remain alert enough to quickly take over control from the automated system when needed, and that means driver detection will become increasingly paramount the more Level 2 systems begin to approach Level 3 capability.

That movement up the technology ladder already is under way, with General Motors, Tesla and others beginning to offer advanced adaptive-cruise-control systems that take much of the highway driving load off the human driver.

As these highway-pilot systems get more sophisticated and allow drivers to focus away from the road for longer periods, it becomes tougher to regain their attention when needed. Matsu estimates at least seven seconds will be needed to alert the driver to retake control of the vehicle. That sounds like a lot of time, he says, but it might not be, based on how far down the road vehicles will be able to “see into the future.”

“Is the driver going to be ready?” he asks.

Read this article dated today -

https://www.wardsauto.com/wardsauto-ux-conference/cabin-monitoring-critical-piece-autonomous-vehicle-puzzle

Rich Matsu of Autoliv

Technology>WardsAuto UX Conference

In-Cabin Monitoring Critical Piece of Autonomous-Vehicle Puzzle

Knowing precisely where occupants are and what they are doing will be as critical to automated driving’s future as to whether the vehicle can safely negotiate its way down the highway or around the block.

David Zoia | Oct 01, 2019

NOVI, MI – Perfecting the technology that will allow a car to drive itself safely from Point A to Point B clearly is the No.1 engineering challenge for autonomous-vehicle developers. But a close second is understanding – and controlling – what is going on inside the cabin while it does so.

The still-nascent field of in-vehicle occupant monitoring is expected to accelerate quickly in the next few years as new vehicles add higher-tech advanced-driver-assistance features and make what is expected to be a slow and cautious walk up to Level 3-and-beyond AVs.

Technology such as eye and head tracking, already appearing in some vehicles as ADAS systems advance, as well as biometrics to measure the health – and perhaps sobriety – of the driver, will be needed “in a world where you’re not actually driving (all the time),” Richard Vaughan, creative director of interiors supplier CGT, says in a discussion of “The Growing Role of Occupant and Interior Sensing” at the WardsAuto User Experience conference here.

Although the industry is working toward Level 4 AVs that can pilot themselves within geo-fenced areas and, ultimately, go-anywhere Level 5 self-driving vehicles, many industry insiders say most of the industry’s near-term focus is locked on development of more limited Level 2-plus ADAS features.

GM intends to roll out SEE DMS across its 8.5m cars they produce per year from 2020-2021. That's just GM. DMS is at the heart of GM's new vehicle architecture for the foreseeable future...the vigilant driver will remain at the centre of their vehicles and I suspect this is the case for every automakers

L2++ and electric is the way car-makers are heading..people enjoy driving their cars. It puts them in control of their journey. I believe the demand for autonomy will be for taxis and the like rather than consumer vehicles

SEE and SEYE are signing DMS contracts with every main auto-maker. I'll be guided by General Motors, Byton, Mercedes, Toyota, Volvo, BMW etc etc rather than a pie in the sky journalist composing articles for clickbait

Autonomous cars are years away. They won't get a EU=NCAP rating without DMS as per new rules on DMS. There are safety issues. Insurance issues. Legal liability issues. Reputational damage issues for companies in the event of an accident. Who's to blame in the event of a crash? Driver or automaker?

DMS is the way forward..step by step cos safety is the byword for most car makers..if the driver is not in control of the vehicle as per autonomy this leaves the car-maker open to all sorts of claims..they won't go down this route

good on yer

anyway. signing off

L2 is 2 v 3 so let the market do its best

500k buy at 4.8p. Can we hit 5p today?

Yes, they're the ones. Useless at company analysis and useless at Market Making

I'd love it if we broke 5p today or tomorrow

there are now 4 MMs sat at 5p and above. We have 10MMs on the SEE order book

Panmure is sat at 5.7p. He's so way off the offer that he may as well not be running a book for SEE. What a waste of time

2 v 3

CNKS bid up

BEGO (berenberg)just moved up to 4.7

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Singer sat at 4.8p..come on fella, get the 'ell out of the way of this speeding juggernaut, DMS installed of course with an attentive driver at the wheel and hundreds of SEE shareholders crammed in the back gasping for air!

Be aware that L2 info is paid for so if LSE (this site not London Stock Exchange) find my postings commercially damaging then they might tell me to halt this commentary. We shall see

2 v 3....could be we be off again!

Berenberg jumped

5p is on the horizon

Shore Capital just jumped to 5p..he's deffo short...2 MM's now at 5p...we've not had that in months

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terry - went out for milk...

i had a feeling our House Broker was slightly short..CNKS now asking 4.90p

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