"There are three aspects to connected car processing technology: sense, think and act," he said in a short interview with TechCrunch today at CES after the company's press event earlier today.
What many may consider a race against the machines is more realistically going to play out as a relay race — with teams comprised of both a human and virtual workforce seamlessly working together on assigned tasks for which they are ideally and respectively suited to complete an end goal, be it building a car, processing a payment or deploying a service.
Software and electronics are becoming a larger portion of the value of a car, as processing power becomes more important than horsepower.
By contrast, green technologies are a lurking cauldron of dangers: high-speed charging for electric cars; water processing systems that turn sewage into fertilizer or fresh water; experimental cement.
"When I saw the picture of my apartment and I had already seen my car, all that processing started," she said.
Just earlier today, Valeo, the automotive parts giant, announced that it had acquired gestigon, a start‑up out of Germany that develops in-car 3D image processing software — used both to communicate to the driver as well as pick up signals from within the car and from the driver to communicate to a self-driving (or partially self-driving) car what to do next.
They work on tangible things, collecting data streams from fleets of cars or airplanes, processing them in real time and, in some cases, matching them against other contexts.
"They are spending over a half a billion dollars a year driving cars around and processing that data.
Koc Holding ($5.60, KCHOL TI) is a conglomerate with tentacles reaching into all areas of consumer activity, including cars, textiles, food processing and securities brokerage.
However, making a new car – including mining and processing the metals and manufacturing and assembling the components – takes a huge amount of energy.
Since the middle of the last century, the city of Baltimore has struggled to regain its footing as key industries such as steel processing and car manufacturing became unprofitable or moved overseas.
