Dream job with INFINITI and Renault Sport Formula One™ team awaits: INFINITI announce

by News Feeder, 05-12-2024, 08:32 PM

INFINITI announced the fourth edition of its highly successful INFINITI Engineering AcademyThis global recruitment program will offer young engineers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a unique automotive-to-Formula One™ placementStudents from seven participating regions can register at academy.infiniti.com (applications open from February 2017)HONG KONG – INFINITI has announced the 2017 edition of the INFINITI Engineering Academy during a presentation at the Autosport International Show, with Tommaso Volpe, director, INFINITI Global Motorsport and Cyril Abiteboul, managing director, Renault Sport Formula One™ Team.It will be the fourth successive year of this unique recruitment program, which provides a money-can't-buy, life changing career opportunity for seven world-class students. Students will learn from leading engineers both at INFINITI Motor Company and the Renault Sport Formula One™ Team, thanks to the technical partnership and strong collaboration between the two companies.Also present at the event, and proof of the extraordinary success of the Academy, were William Priest (2014 INFINITI Academy Engineer and now full-time engineer at INFINITI), Daniel Sanham (2015 INFINITI Academy Engineer who has just signed a full-time contract with the Renault Sport Formula One Team) and Caitlin Bunt (2016 Academy Engineer and first female winner).It's all go at #ASI17 today with @Cyroul for @InfinitiMSport talking about the #InfinitiF1 Engineering Academy! pic.twitter.com/IPMl5FnifU— Renault Sport F1 (@RenaultSportF1) January 12, 2017"Thanks to our close Technical Partnership with the Renault Sport Formula One Team, we can offer seven engineers from all over the world a truly technically rich, multi-discipline and multi-cultural engineering placement," said Volpe. "We are really proud to see this project growing year after year and our past Academy Engineers being so successful in their careers. The level of interest we are receiving from students all over the world is absolutely fantastic, so of course we are delighted to launch the fourth edition of this truly unique program today."A key pillar of the INFINITI Engineering Academy is exploring crossover opportunities and the sharing of technology between INFINITI road car and Renault Sport Formula One race car projects. With this added depth of knowledge transfer and the enhanced scope for collaboration that the Renault-Nissan Alliance brings, the Academy will provide an unmatched range of experiences and opportunities to the seven 2017 winners."INFINITI brings two key elements to the Renault Sport Formula One Team: expertise in the Energy Recovery Systems (ERS) through Performance Hybrid technology and an international diversity of young, fresh thinking engineering talent, thanks to the Academy," said Abiteboul. "These globally sourced students not only bring fresh perspectives to the team but also the latest learnings from road car hybrid technology, of which INFINITI is a pioneer."Having launched the careers of previous winners, the INFINITI Engineering Academy is the technical recruitment initiative in Formula One. For the 2017 edition, the seven global regions participating will be: Asia & Oceania, Canada, China, Europe (including Russia), Mexico, Middle East and the United States."With Formula One more relevant to the automotive industry than ever and our Academy engineers at the cutting edge of both automotive and motorsport engineering, we are perfectly placed to explore, understand and encourage the crossover of technology between our two companies and disciplines," said Volpe.For more information on the INFINITI Engineering Academy or to register to be a part of the class of 2017, visit academy.infiniti.com (applications will be open in February 2017). INFINITI Engineering Academy 2016 – Seven Global winners selected INFINITI Engineering Academy 2016 - Welcome to the Academy About INFINITI INFINITI Motor Company Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong with sales operations in over 50 countries. The INFINITI brand was launched in 1989. Its range of premium automobiles is currently built in manufacturing facilities in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom and China. INFINITI plans to also expand manufacturing into Mexico by 2017.INFINITI design studios are located in Atsugi-Shi near Yokohama, London, San Diego and Beijing.INFINITI is in the middle of a major product offensive. The brand has been widely acclaimed for its daring design and innovative driver-assistance technologies.From the 2016 season, INFINITI is a technical partner of the Renault Sport Formula One team, contributing its expertise in hybrid performance.More information about INFINITI and its industry leading technologies can be found at http://www.infiniti.com. You can also follow INFINITI on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and see all our latest videos on YouTube. # # # Contact Jodie Davies Senior Manager, INFINITI Global Communications INFINITI Motor Company Ltd., Hong Kong Phone: +852 3948 0903 Mobile: +852 9542 1717 Email: [email protected] Samantha Pang Senior Officer, INFINITI Global Communications INFINITI Motor Company Ltd., Hong Kong Phone: +852 3948 0148 Mobile: +852 9447 9742 Email : [email protected]

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[Feature] Comment from President Akio Toyoda Concerning the Outcome of the 2017 Dakar

by News Feeder, 05-12-2024, 08:02 AM

The 2017 Dakar Rally which had started off the New Year has now come to an end.

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Putting lessons from Mars to work on Earth – insights on autonomous vehicle research

by News Feeder, 02-12-2024, 05:08 PM

The Nissan Research Center (NRC) attracts global talent as a center for open innovation by sharing its appealing qualities and providing information to the public. In the essay below, the NRC presents insights on autonomous vehicle research and artificial intelligence from Dr. Maarten Sierhuis, the director of the NRC in Silicon Valley, who is using his experience at NASA to work on autonomous drive technology for Nissan.Sierhuis came to the U.S. in 1989 from the Netherlands and worked for IBM and NYNEX Science and Technology until 1988. After earning his PhD in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, he worked for NASA and Xerox PARC. He spent 12 years with NASA where he developed a computer language underpinning intelligent systems for use in robots, spacesuits and NASA's Mission Control Center. In 2013, he jounced Nissan where he heads the Nissan Research Center in Silicon Valley and leads multiple teams of researchers working on autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles and human-machine interaction and interfaces.A Career that Began in SpaceI started working at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley in 1998. After 12 years there, I went to Xerox PARC, where I served as director and ran research on multi-agent systems and human-machine interaction. It was at NASA, though, that I created much of what I'm putting to work for Nissan today. We started with development of a simulation language that allowed us to model human behavior and multiple people working together. We were looking at how people might live on Mars and work with people back on Earth, as well as autonomous systems, including robots and smart habitats on Mars. We started first simulating this with our language, but once we started running this language in real time it also became a programming language for autonomous systems in general.We started building intelligent agents for robots, for Mission Control and for the habitat. Then we added a speech-dialogue system to this — now we could have astronauts talking to their autonomous system, including the robot and the habitat, as well as to systems in Mission Control. We put it to work in space; we actually built an intelligent agent in the space suit to monitor the astronaut's health autonomously.We helped design how robots would work on Mars with people on Earth. After this success, we were asked to automate flight controllers in NASA's Mission Control Center for the International Space Station. The final project I did at NASA used my computer language to automate a flight controller for the ISS. This system went live in 2008 and it's still in use, with all communication from the ISS taking place through it.The Connection with Cars To build the autonomous system for a vehicle on Earth is really like building a robot that drives 80 miles an hour very close to other robots. That is very different from Mars, where there are not that many people – at least not yet! Many issues come up when you think about humans interacting with each other and with robots, because the car needs to be on the road with other people — pedestrians, bicyclists and other cars. The idea of multi-agent modeling becomes key: knowing what everybody is doing, so that the car knows not only what it needs to do itself, but also its relationship with others on the road. In urban areas, we have to deal with pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, cars, animals — the whole spectrum of interaction becomes a very important study. The work that I did at NASA is very relevant in this context.In connection with these driving environment issues, I started a research project in North Holland, a Dutch province with a world-leading traffic management system. Every traffic light there is connected with all the rest, and they communicate dynamically based on how busy the roads are to decide when they will change. We used data from these traffic lights in intersections and built machine-learning algorithms to predict when a traffic light will go red or green, based on how far one is from the light.We now use this algorithm with our autonomous vehicle software, so as the vehicle drives it gets information from the traffic system to predict how long the light will be red or green. Ideally, the autonomous vehicle doesn't have to stop; it can automatically reroute and take lights that are green. As we optimize the autonomous system to avoid stopping for lights, we also send information from the vehicle back to the system so as to optimize traffic management on a larger scale.Why Silicon ValleyIn autonomous vehicles now, most of the technology is based on software and on artificial intelligence (AI). There's no better place to do this work than in Silicon Valley. The NASA Ames Research Center was one of the first places where robots and autonomous systems were put together, and all the technology around autonomous vehicles was developed at universities and companies in the area. In the early 2000s, many AI researchers from around the world came to Silicon Valley to join the IT industry. Nissan realized this in the mid-2000s: If we wanted to be serious about building autonomous vehicle technology in house, we had to have a presence in Silicon Valley.The Nissan Research Center has relationships with people from Stanford and UC Berkeley — which provide a key talent pool for us, too — and we’ve set up very close, fruitful research collaboration with NASA, just down the road from us. We’re speaking with a number of Silicon Valley firms to see how we can work together. So it's vital to be in this region.Looking Toward the Future of MobilityAt NASA, I researched how humans and robots would work together on Mars in the future. When Nissan asked me to do that for vehicles on Earth, it was very difficult to say no. I have a particular view on how humans and autonomous systems should work together, and I really appreciated that people at Nissan had a similar idea. Nissan believes that mobility is for the good of society; that's one of the reasons I decided to come here.It's exciting to think about a society where the right mobility system is used for the right purpose at the right time. We're going to have trains interacting with shared vehicles that can seamlessly take me from work to home to school to pick up my children. Whatever I need to do in my life will be seamlessly integrated with mobility services at different places. I don't believe that public transportation should go away. By integrating our vehicles – our trains, our planes, even our bicycles together into a society where we have more space for parks and beautiful landscapes – we'll have more space for people.Nissan's vision of virtually zero fatalities and zero emissions is really a great motivator for doing research to move in that direction. Autonomous technology can be applied not only inside the vehicle, but also in the cloud, in trains and in other transportation systems. We should always be efficient in the way we move around and interact with others.Based on an interview carried out in September 2016. For years, #Nissan's Maarten Sierhuis has worked with former colleagues at @NASA to develop a new approach to autonomous driving. #CES2017For years, #Nissan's Maarten Sierhuis has worked with former colleagues at @NASA to develop a new approach to autonomous driving. #CES2017 pic.twitter.com/pZtaHi0Syh— Nissan Motor (@NissanMotor) January 10, 2017 Seamless Autonomous Mobility: The Ultimate Nissan Intelligent Integration More from Nissan at CES 2017 # # #

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We have lift-off!TOYOTA GAZOO Racing set for Monte magic

by News Feeder, 02-12-2024, 05:08 PM

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing has completed its testing program ahead of its long-awaited return to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) after a break of 17 years and is ready for the legendary Rallye Monte-Carlo. The event takes place from January 19th-22nd on tricky mountain roads when conditions can vary between dry asphalt, ice and snow.

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Lexus brand event overview

by News Feeder, 02-12-2024, 04:48 AM

Today Lexus hosted a daring experiential lifestyle media event with reveals of products that are not traditionally automotive that exhibit the brand’s brave imagination and bold willingness to express itself.



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All GT Academy line-up ready for Dubai 24 Hour challenge

by News Feeder, 02-12-2024, 04:48 AM

DUBAI, UAE – Four winning graduates from the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy program will team up this weekend for Nissan's assault on the Hankook 24H Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.Successful gamer-to-racer winners Jann Mardenborough (2011), Ricardo Sanchez (2014), Romain Sarazin (2015) and this year's international winner Johnny Guindi will compete in the SP3-GT4 class aboard a Nissan 370Z GT4 entered by Nissan GT Academy Team RJN.Mardenborough completed a successful season in Japan in 2016 winning races in both Super GT GT300 and Formula 3, while Sanchez and Sarazin were part of Nissan's Blancpain GT Series assault last year.Guindi triumphed in the 2016 GT Academy International competition, beating rivals from his home country of Mexico plus gamers from Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and North Africa.The @GTAcademy aces are in action in the @Dubai_Autodrome 24h tomorrow. Check out @Jannthaman's 360 degree 370Z ride https://t.co/l3JZdwPFFk pic.twitter.com/GYwhKdiGcV— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) January 12, 2017 .@GTAcademy aces are ready for tomorrow's @Dubai_Autodrome 24h. Race is streamed at https://t.co/m56Jax11BC. Pics at https://t.co/uCmQiiF8H1 pic.twitter.com/rHy5frgAat— Nissan NISMO (@NISMO) January 12, 2017The Nissan quartet will fight 20 other cars in the class in a massive field, which includes 98 cars in total."It's a massive grid in Dubai full of so many different types of cars, GT3 cars, GT4 and some slower cars as well," said Mardenborough. "I'm looking forward to sharing the GT4 car, the 370Z, with Ricardo, Romain and Johnny. I've partnered Ricardo in the past, but I've never raced with Romain and Johnny. I met Johnny for the first time during the GT Academy final last year and he was very impressive, and that's why he was chosen. I've been training very hard during the winter after last year's season finish, so I hope to kick off my 2017 campaign with good friends, with RJN and NISMO, with a strong start."Cars hit the track for the first time on Wednesday with qualifying scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The 24 Hour battle will be live streamed on NISMO.TV and begins at 2 p.m. local time Friday. Watch the race broadcast plus live streamed on-board vision below: Race start: Friday, January 13 Dubai, UAE: 14:00 CET: 11:00 UK: 10:00 US Eastern: 05:00 US Pacific: 02:00 Japan: 19:00 NISMO CalendarJanuary 12-14 Dubai 24 Hours, Dubai Autodrome, United Arab EmiratesJanuary 26-29 Rolex 24 at Daytona, Daytona International Speedway, Daytona, USAFebruary 3-5 Bathurst 12 Hour, Mount Panorama, Bathurst, NSW, Australia # # #ContactJane Johnstone Marketing Communications Director Global Motorsport Communications Nissan/NISMO Phone: +44 7979 710646 Email: [email protected] Ryan Marketing and PR Manager Phone: +1 678 644 0404 Email: [email protected]

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LEXUS RC F GT3 to Race in 2017 GT3 Category

by News Feeder, 02-12-2024, 04:48 AM

LEXUS GAZOO Racing will introduce its LEXUS RC F GT3 in the GT3 category races in Japan and the United States starting from the 2017 season.

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Lexus sport yacht concept

by News Feeder, 01-12-2024, 03:12 PM

A few years ago, the Toyota Marine Department invited Toyota Motor Corporation president Akio Toyoda to spend several days on the water driving the new Ponam range of premium yachts they were preparing to launch in Japan.



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Lexus Sport Yacht Concept

by News Feeder, 01-12-2024, 03:12 PM

The global debut of the Lexus Sport Yacht concept, a stunning design exercise that applied emerging and future Lexus design language to a luxury marine experience. Powered by the same 5.0 liter V8 engines as the Lexus RC F performance coupe, GS F performance sedan and LC 500 premium coupe, the Lexus Sport Yacht concept san reach 43 knots (49 MPH) on the water.

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2017 Honda Civic Wins Kelley Blue Book “Best Auto Tech” Award

by News Feeder, 01-12-2024, 02:50 AM

TORRANCE, Calif. – The 2017 Honda Civic was awarded the 2017 Kelley Blue Book Best Auto Tech Award by the expert team of editors and evaluators at KBB.com. The Civic's available touchscreen Display Audio interface, featuring Apple CarPlay™1 and Android Auto™2 compatibility, and Honda Sensing suite of advanced safety and driver assistive technologies were prominent in helping the model win the award that honors the vehicle with the most advanced infotainment, convenience and act...

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