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Tesla race car passes test
- January 24, 2018
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: Industry News
Electric GT Holdings Inc. has announced that its all-electric race car, the Tesla Model S P100D, has passed its official crash test ahead of the inaugural season of the Electric Production Car Series (EPCS). The crash test was carried out by IDIADA (Institute for Applied Automotive Research) at its facility in Barcelona. The crash test [...] -
Symach completes Axiom install
- January 23, 2018
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: Industry News
Symach has installed its FixStation equipment at Rowley’s Accident & Hail Repair, a subsidiary of Axiom Accident & Hail Repair. Located in Loveland, Colorado, Axiom Accident & Hail Repair focuses on non-structural damage repair, glass repair, hail repair and paintless dent repair (PDR). ‘We have been very impressed with Symach’s equipment,’ said Bill Park, CEO [...] -
France tops EV network charts
- January 23, 2018
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: Industry News
Electric vehicles are slowly becoming an established part of the world’s transport ecosystem, but while Norway is known as the green car capital, France is leading the way in electric vehicle infrastructure. According to the new Electric Car Index from OSV Ltd, the French installed more than a third more electric vehicle charging points (11,987) [...] -
Suncorp looks to augmented reality
- January 17, 2018
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: Industry News
Suncorp has revealed it is exploring image recognition and augmented reality-based enhancements for its insurance claims process, adding to the AI systems it deployed last year. The insurer began testing IBM Watson software last June to automatically determine who is at fault in a vehicle accident. The AI software has since been integrated into the [...] -
Coordination the key to driverless future
- January 17, 2018
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: Industry News
The vision of autonomous cars could be blurred by a lack of coordination between driverless cars and driven cars. That’s the verdict of Hagai Zyss, CEO of the Israeli company Autotalks, which specialises in accident prevention through the use of DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) technology. He said, ‘The problem of coordinating autonomous [...]