Around seven years ago -- or, a vehicle platform ago -- the only real option for adding in-car entertainment was an expensive one.
The research vehicle is a testing platform aimed at the development of systems capable of enhancing the driver's perception of his or her environment, assisting in the decision-making process and improving overall driving skills.
Due to various agreements, Fiat must achieve certain milestones before expanding its ownership in the company, such as producing a 40-mile-per-gallon vehicle off a Fiat platform in the U.S. This would grant the Italian automaker an option to acquire an additional 5%, taking its total equity stake to 57% later this year.
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And Spyker and Youngman will form a new company called Spyker Phoenix to build a premium vehicle based on Saab's Phoenix platform.
When the passengers for D301 reached the platform, they encountered a vehicle that looked less like a train than a wingless jet: a tube of aluminum alloy, a quarter of a mile from end to end, containing sixteen carriages, painted in high-gloss white with blue racing stripes.
One engine was called initially, but crews requested an aerial ladder platform, which requires a support vehicle, it added.
With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of entertainment systems and vehicle communication, such as Ford's Sync platform, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
Engineers put the vehicle's guts in an 11-inch-thick platform that contains the fuel cells, electric motors, brakes, suspension and hydrogen storage.
The front-wheel drive LEAF again uses a dedicated EV platform with batteries housed in the floor for optimum vehicle packaging and weight distribution.
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Since that time, OSIsoft has sponsored a hackathon to create an application using vehicle data from OpenXC in combination with its enterprise data analytics platform.
The SiRFPrimaII auto infotainment platform brings the features of premium, location-aware in-vehicle infotainment systems to the mainstream market.
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Jules Verne - its generic name is Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - delivered just under five tonnes of supplies to the platform on its maiden voyage.
Members of Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps (CUOTC) have agreed to build a platform representing the roof of the 70ft (21m)-high Senate House, and a vehicle will be hoisted to the top.
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