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Mobileye chairman highlights gap between perception and capabilities Mobileye, the company that supplies sensors for Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot driver assist system, is publicly criticizing Tesla's use and advertisement of the system in the marketplace, Reuters reports. In comments to Reuters, the Israeli tech company's chairman suggested that Tesla is "pushing the envelope" when it comes to safety, after a string of crashes in 2016 in which the system was confirmed to had been used or was suspected. "It is not designed to cover all possible crash situations in a safe manner," Amnon Shashua told Reuters. The executive's comments address an apparent gap in some drivers' use and understanding of the limitations of the system and Tesla's advertisement of the system in official company literature and in company stores. The tech company parted ways with Tesla shortly after a fatal crash in Florida in May of this year, though Tesla CEO Elon Musk blamed the split on Mobileye's inability to keep up with the automaker's product changes, according to Reuters. "Long term this is going to hurt the interests of the company and hurt the interests of an entire industry, if a company of our reputation will continue to be associated with this type of pushing the envelope in terms of safety," Shashua added.

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Fifty years ago last month the Mercedes-Benz Universal, a station wagon built in Belgium by Benz contractor IMA, debuted. The Universal was based on Mercedes’ 200 D and 230 S fintail sedans and boasted a split rear-seat backrest, a self-leveling rear suspension and an optional third row -- all ahead of their time. Even with those innovations, Benz only sold 2,754 of them, putting a bullet in the poor thing's head after 1968. Undaunted, Mercedes tried the wagon idea again in 1978, launching the Wagon 123. This time, the idea took: Well over a million E-Class station wagons have been built, and, especially here in the U.S., their blend of elegance and practicality have helped them carve out their own niche. As Benz notes, U.S. E-Class Wagon buyers have among the “most affluent customer profiles of any vehicle in the Mercedes-Benz portfolio,” joining the S-Class Coupe as Mercedes-Benz USA’s demographic leader. So next spring a new E-Class wagon arrives: the E400 4Matic Wagon, based on the E sedan launched six months ago. Mercedes’ 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 powers the wagon, producing 329 hp and 354 lb-ft with the new 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic transmission standard. So is all-wheel drive, as the name implies. Like the E-Class sedan, the new wagon’s long hood, steep rear window and short overhangs make it look more modern and dynamic than the outgoing car. The higher beltline makes the ’17 look stretched -- it’s also an inch longer and an inch lower overall. The interior is straight-up E sedan, so fit and finish is among the best in all of automobiledom with rich woods and excellent fit and finish. Where it diverts from the sedan, of course, is the Wagon’s standard third-row folding bench seat -- yup, the E400 seats 7!

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Second Chinese-market import will let buyers stretch out Volvo will sell the long-wheelbase version of its S90 sedan in the U.S. and Europe, Automotive News China reports. The Chinese-market S90L, which will likely be badged S90 Inscription stateside, will be Volvo's second China-made model to be offered in the U.S. after the S60L made its way here as the S60 Inscription. The standard-wheelbase S90 sedan debuted earlier this year reviving a nameplate dormant since the late 1990s to replace the long-serving and somewhat stale S80 sedan. The outgoing S80 itself was offered in China in long-wheelbase form, though that version never made its way to the States. It remains to be seen just how far upmarket the S90L will go; the model is still intended to be a competitor to the BMW 5-Series and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class rather than a challenger to the 7-Series and the S-Class. Volvo has studiously avoided taking the large German sedans head on in size and price, a stance that has been seen as a compromise since the debut of the first-generation S80 sedan in 1999.

Sandwiched between the flagship K900 and the mid-sized Optima, the Kia Cadenza front-drive luxury sedan has suffered from a lack of visibility in a shrinking market. The sales figures tell the tale. On average, only about 7,500 Cadenzas have been sold each year since its introduction, which adds up to fewer than 30K units during its four years in the wild. Kia is nothing if not persistent, though: Rather than killing the Cadenza and cutting its losses, the Korean automaker went back to the drawing board and built a second generation. Sculpted under the guidance of design lead Peter Schreyer, the revamped Cadenza looks more luxurious than the outgoing model, starting with the second-generation tiger nose grille, which features either vertical bars or a mesh insert, depending on trim level. Cadenza is broken up into three different trims: Premium, Technology, and Limited -- the one we tested. Kia only makes its suite of semi-autonomous driver assistance features available on both the Technology and Limited trims; it includes intelligent cruise control and autonomous emergency braking, but Kia also created an interesting blind spot anti-collision system. Your average blind spot warning system beeps or lights up when an obstacle is detected, whereas Kia’s new system will actually steer you away from the impending accident (still, you should always check your blind spot).

Chevrolet's all-purpose EV comes in at $37,500 before tax break The Chevrolet Bolt can go from the U.S. Capitol to the Empire State Building on one battery charge. General Motors today said the EPA-certified range of the Bolt, which is scheduled to arrive at some dealerships by the end of this year, is 238 miles. That would make it the first electric vehicle to be sold in the U.S. with a range of more than 200 miles and a starting price of less than $40,000. It beats the 215-mile range that Tesla has promised for the similarly priced Model 3, which is not expected until 2018. It also tops some versions of Tesla’s more costly Model S, which is on sale now. GM said 238 miles will meet the average consumer’s daily driving needs “with plenty of range to spare.” “Chevrolet showed the world the production version Bolt EV earlier this year and in a few short months we’ve moved from that vision to a reality,” GM North America President Alan Batey said in a statement. “The Bolt EV is a game changer for the electric car segment and it will start to become available at Chevrolet dealerships later this year.”

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has called for Hungary to be suspended or even expelled from the European Union because of its "massive violation" of EU fundamental values. He cited the Budapest government's treatment of refugees, independence of the judiciary and freedom of the press. "Hungary is not far away from issuing orders to open fire on refugees," he suggested. Hungary said Mr Asselborn "could not be taken seriously". EU leaders meet in Slovakia on Friday to discuss the union's future. Mr Asselborn's interview with German daily Die Welt is likely to inflame passions ahead of the summit. The EU could not tolerate "such inappropriate behaviour", he said, and any state that violated such basic values "should be excluded temporarily, or if necessary for ever, from the EU''. It was "the only possibility to protect the cohesion and values of the European Union,'' he said. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto hit back, saying that his Luxembourg counterpart had "long left the ranks of politicians who could be taken seriously". Mr Asselborn was a "frivolous character", he said, adding that he was "patronising, arrogant and frustrated". Mr Asselborn's remarks also drew condemnation from Latvia's foreign minister, who spoke of "megaphone diplomacy". And German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a personal friend of the Luxembourg minister, said while he could understand some in Europe were "becoming impatient, it is not my personal approach to show a member state the door".

If recent reports are to be believed, the long-rumored mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette could be here as early as 2019. Naturally, Chevy is trying to keep a tight lid on the development, but these fresh spy photos give us the clearest look yet at the upcoming car. They’re far from conclusive, but whatever Chevy is cooking up, it’s a radical departure from the Corvette as we know it -- and the engine is definitely not up front. For years, we’ve heard rumors that the C7 would be the last “traditional” Corvette -- that, with the latest (and truly excellent) Corvette incarnation, the front-engine, rear-wheel-drive formula has been pushed to its limit. The vehicle we’re looking at, then, is very likely the next step in Corvette evolution. It still looks a lot like a development mule with a handful of C7 carryovers (the taillights, for example), but that extremely short nose and elongated rear end speak volumes.

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Under the hood of the new IBM Power Systems S822LC for High Performance Computing GPUs are a proven way to speed up the time-consuming task of machine learning, a crucial element of the recent rapid expansion of the use of AI solutions in many industries. The result has been an explosively-growing new market for GPU vendors Nvidia and AMD. IBM’s newly announced Power Systems S822LC aims to push machine learning performance even further — with two IBM POWER8 CPUs and four Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs. However, no matter how fast a GPU is, the large data requirements of AI applications means that memory access and inter-processor communications can quickly become a bottleneck. So IBM is also using Nvidia’s proprietary NVLink interconnect technology to address that problem. The S822LC is slated to deliver 21 teraflops of half-precision operations; machine learning typically doesn’t need full or double precision for training neural networks, for example. Customers can also attach additional Tesla K80 GPUs over a more traditional PCIe bus.

A new service developed at Binghamton University, State University of New York could improve performance of mobile devices that save data to the cloud. Storage and computing power is limited on mobile devices, making it necessity to store data in the cloud. However, with the myriad of apps from a myriad of developers that use the cloud, the user experience isn't always smooth. Battery life can be taxed due to extended synchronization times and clogged networks when multiple apps are trying to access the cloud all at the same time. "We may be using many different apps developed by different developers that make use of cloud storage services, whereas on PCs we tend to use apps offered by the official providers. This app and developer diversity can cause problems due to a developer's inexperience and/or carelessness," said Yifin Zhang, assistant professor of computer science at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. Zhang and a team of Binghamton University researchers designed and developed StoArranger, a service to intercept, coordinate and optimize requests made by mobile apps and cloud storage services. StoArranger works as a "middleware system," so there is no change to how apps or an iPhone or Android-device run, just improved performance of both the device and the network overall. Essentially, StoArranger takes cloud storage requests—either to upload a file or to open a file for editing—and orders them in the best way to save power, get things completed as quickly as possible and minimize the amount of data used to complete the tasks. Even though the work could affect millions of mobile devices and users— e.g. Microsoft's cloud computing and storage system Azure had 10 trillion objects stored on its servers as of January 2015—it is only a promising first step in the development of StoArranger, which isn't commercially available. Further research is scheduled for evaluation experiments, and a full paper will be submitted later this year. "We are planning on developing an app for public use," Zhang said. "We are trying to solve problems without changing operating systems or the existing apps, which makes our solution practical and scalable to existing smartphone users." Zhang presented the paper with Binghamton PhD candidates Yongshu Bai and Xin Zhang, both co-authors of the paper, at the Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys '16) in Hong Kong in August.