What’s New - Carnegie Mellon Celebrates 30 Years
John Estrada
Given the short holiday week in the U.S. because of the Thanksgiving Holiday, we’ll just have a quick summary of news this week.
There was a remarkable milestone in the news this week. Who says that self-driving cars are a recent phenomenon? The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) celebrated 30 years of self-driving car technology on November 20th. As noted on CNBC, Farnam Jahanian, the VP for Research at CMU says, “This success story epitomizes how innovation advances when engineers, computer scientists and robotics researchers collaborate.”
Tesla Motors (TSLA) drove the D20 again for the second straight week, losing $15.90 or 6.15% of its value to end the week at $242.78. The D20 lost $17.19 or 1.23% to end the week at 1,381.53. There were 8 losers and 11 gainers with Denso (DNZOY) finishing the week where it started at $23.52. BlackBerry (BBRY) was the biggest percentage loser dropping $0.96 to $10.24 for an 8.56% loss. Continental (CTTAY) and Daimler (DDAIF) were the biggest percentage winners at 4.78% and 4.11%. Continental closed up $1.85 to end the week at $40.58. Daimler closed up $3.15 to end the week at $79.72.
Last week, we.Conect hosted their North American version of the Automotive Tech.AD show in Troy Michigan. The event had a great collection of speakers from industry and academia. It was very informative and had a good mix of both business and technical presentations. One of the big strengths of the we.Conect shows is the networking opportunities that are created by the format of the show. The organizers go out of their way to make interactive, small group sessions where you get a real chance to interact with other participants of the show. Their next big show is in Berlin in February.
TRB, AUVSI and UMTRI announced the dates and location for the 2015 Automated Vehicles Symposium - July 20 - 24 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
We’ve collected a bunch of other news that’s been circulating around the globe this week. Click here to read more.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our U.S. readers. Have a wonderful Thursday to everyone else.