As part of the alliance with Pecan Street, OnStar will make its smart grid interface available so researchers can develop new services and gather data on driver and vehicle behavior.
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Gauges and driver data are provided via an eclectic fusion of both analog and digital sources, with aviation-derived design cues.
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The possibility of creating fluid market segmentation from data is one driver, i.e. identifying which groups are responsive to what messages, and customer empowerment is the other.
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Of course, the computer system UPS uses to track this information and other data to optimize driver routes isn't cheap, but the concept is as basic as it gets: Using less fuel saves the company money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Average data revenue per subscriber is a key driver to our mobile data revenues, and we believe that the current iPad offering will not impact ARPU in the near term.
The papers also said that a further 455, 000 customers who returned merchandise without receipts had personal data stolen - including driver's licence numbers.
Congressional Democrats are backing a bill to mandate a nationwide data base to automatically register driver's license holders or recipients of government benefits.
When reliable data is unavailable, the driver will need to steer.
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Updated vehicle data, information on the driver's destination and the outside temperature can be added to posts and then posted on the desired network at the touch of a button.
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General Motors has worked with U.S. Customs on a pilot project that puts transponders in trucks to zap data about the shipment and driver to agents before the truck crosses the border.
Could my driver have done the data entry as accurately and quickly on a smartphone as he did on his tablet?
"If the goal of employing red-light camera systems is to improve driver safety, the data suggest that the program has failed, " New Jersey state Sen.
Importantly, the data is then translated into a driver warning when a hazardous traffic scenario occurs such as an impending collison at a blind intersection or a car changing lanes in your blind spot.
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Collected data is combined with smartphone sensors, driver social profile and ambient information from the trip.
According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, 2.7% of all driver fatalities occur in situations where vision is obscured.
"Information is the world's new currency, and high-profile data leaks have become much more of a driver of IT spending, " he says.
Scientists will need time to pick through the data but in general terms, the big driver here is the clash between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates.
Many cities, including New York, now encourage taxis to install cameras for the safety and security of the driver and to collect interesting traffic data.
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All the data are run through software that can gauge the driver's overall stress level.
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To be sure, the driver of the action lately has been the data here at home.
Critics of the technology said that data should not be used as a reliable measure of a driver's ability.
Markoff recounts the story of another cyclist who used data from a similar device to prove that a distracted female driver had plowed into him when he had the right of way (rather than her claim that he darted in front of her).
National data are scarce, but California reported at least 152 accidents from driver inattention caused by animals in the vehicle in 2010, according to the state's Highway Patrol, leading to 58 injuries.
The only road crash death at the scene since 1999 was in March 2006 when a driver died in a single vehicle collision, according to official data recorded by police.
For nearly a generation, the information sector, which comprises everything from media and data processing to internet-related businesses, has been ballyhooed as a key driver for both national and regional economic growth.
Toyota says its own downloads of data recorders have found evidence of sticky pedals and pedal entrapment as well as driver error, which is characterized by no evidence of the brakes being depressed during impact.
Each driver is equipped with an iPhone that tracks the journey, using GPS data points to calculate the fare.
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The real driver, he says is the collection and analysis of large amounts of data to create a competitive advantage.
In motor racing, you can see how fast a car is going, whether the driver is using the brake or the throttle and a host of other data.
Economists pay close attention to the data, though, for their use as an indicator of consumer spending, the key driver of U.S. economic growth.
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