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Aurora and Continental pass first major hurdle in commercial self-driving trucks deal

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Aurora and automotive supplier Continental have wrapped up the first phase of a more than $300 million project to mass produce autonomous vehicle hardware for commercial self-driving trucks. The two companies said Friday that the design and system architecture of an autonomous vehicle hardware kit is now complete.

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Aptiv’s latest investment shows that software-defined vehicles are here to stay

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TTTech Auto, a Vienna-based automotive safety software provider, is one such company. TTTech Auto just scored the backing of major Tier 1 automotive tech supplier Aptiv, a sign of the supplier’s deepening interest in tech that facilitates advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

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Grown-Up Lean

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Roots of Lean Product Development During the 1980’s, when it became apparent that Japanese automotive companies were making higher quality, lower cost cars than US automotive companies, Boston rivals MIT and Harvard Business School started programs to investigate the situation. Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto.