Yamaha announced a $ 2 million investment in an American company developing connected vehicle technology. The financial injection was part of a total $ 22 million in Series B funding raised by Silicon Valley’s Veniam Inc. from investors including Verizon and Cisco. Co-founded by Zipcar’s original chief executive officer Robin Chase, Veniam develops wireless mesh networking technology to allow communication between vehicles and infrastructure (or, as the company calls it, “the Internet of Moving Things”….
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Toyota Investing $1 Billion In Silicon Valley Research Lab
Toyota will establish a new research and development facility in California’s Silicon Valley at the cost of $ 1 billion over five years. The new facility, to be called the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), will be based near Stanford University in Palo Alto and focus initially on artificial intelligence and robotics. It will eventually be… High Gear Media Network Feed
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The Department of Transportation accelerates on the road to autonomy with a proposal to require vehicle to vehicle to vehicle communications in future cars. CNET Car Tech
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