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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Hyundai Motor aims to have autonomous driving tech on market in 2020

Auto News - Car makers such as Mercedes and General Motors Co  as well as technology giants like Google Inc
and Apple Inc are already developing driverless vehicles which can complete whole journeys without human input.

But some analysts expect self-driving cars will not appear on global markets until the early- or mid-2020s, partly due to regulatory hurdles.

Hyundai Motor, like other automakers, already has autonomous features in premium vehicles like the Genesis, which can be programmed to hit the brakes when a pedestrian steps out.

 

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GM's Cadillac CT6 tests strategy for taking fat out of big cars

Tech News - The CT6, to be unveiled ahead of the April 3-12 New York auto show, is an expensive car aimed more at boosting Cadillac's brand image than sales volume. Among the promised features is a system that will enable partly autonomous highway cruising.
             
But the CT6 could have a broader impact on GM's future products because of the way it is built. The car is the largest scale application of the company's new approach to using a mix of steel, aluminum and other materials to build vehicles light enough to meet tougher fuel efficiency standards, but big enough for customers who want spacious cars.
             
GM engineers are studying variations on the CT6's multi-material construction for at least four other future vehicle architectures and other models could be derived from the CT6's "Omega" architecture, Travis Hester, CT6's chief engineer, said in an interview.
            
Automakers are under pressure in the United States and China to dramatically increase fuel efficiency over the next decade to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But as oil prices tumble,
consumers in the world's two richest auto markets are paying premiums for luxury sedans and sport utility vehicles, not small cars.

 

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Huawei's Honor 4X first flash sale in India ends in less than a minute

Tech News - The 'flash sale business module' that Motorola started for selling its Moto range smartphones is getting widely popular in India as more and more companies these days are adopting the online sale method.

The company didn't reveal that how many units of the handset they had made available for sale on Monday, but we are speculating that the company opened flash sale for limited number of the units as the Chinese multinational wanted to test if the flash sale method would prove successful for their smartphone, Honor 4X.

Although, the company previously hinted that over 1 lakh prospective buyers enrolled to participate in the first ever flash sale for the new Honor handset. Huawei has also kick-started the registrations for the next flash scheduled for April 6,  the registrations will continue till April 5.

 

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Micromax lists Bolt S300 online at Rs 3300 in India

Tech News - The device was initially spotted on the company's official Russian website and later the information was revealed in India by a Mumbai-based retailer along with its price on Twitter.
The Micromax Bolt S300 runs on the Android 4.4 KitKat OS out of the box, and we are still speculating if company would offer Lollipop update at this price.

The new Micromax phone features a 4-inch WVGA display with 480 x 800 pixels resolution. The device is clocked at 1GHz single core processor coupled with 512MB RAM module. It gets dual VGA camera fitted on both the surface.

The Bolt S300 sports 4GB worth of internal storage capacity which can be further expanded upto 32 GB through microSD card slot. The phone has been assembled with 1200mAh battery which is capable of delivering upto 4.5 hours of talktime and 155 hours of standby time.
Specifications:
  • Display: 4-inch, 480 x 800 pixels
  • OS: Android 4.4 KitKat
  • Processor: 1GHz single core
  • Memory: 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage (expandable up to 32GB)
  • Camera: VGA front, VGA rear
  • Battery: 1200mAh

Micromax Bolt S300 is yet to make official entry in the Indian mobile market.

 


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