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On Memorial Day, just prior to the running of the legendary Indy 500 race, a new speedway star came out to shine. A driverless racecar, no less, aiming for track speeds above 120 mph with no human hands on the wheel. The Dallara Lite has been kitted out with sensors and a drive-by-wire system, one identical car for each of the Indy Autonomous Challenge teams. The most advanced autonomous racecar in the world will compete at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway on October 23.
Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division, in the form of NovAtel and AutonomouStuff, besides donating the GNSS receivers for all the cars, acted as subject matter expert for Clemson University’s Deep Orange team of highly skilled graduate students and professors. Clemson is not competing in the race but the Deep Orange team assembled the “over-spec’d” sensor kit for the prototype Dallara reference vehicle. AutonomouStuff is now replicating the process for 20 identical models.
President Joe Biden will take a virtual tour of an electric bus manufacturer in Greenville later this afternoon.
Biden s virtual tour of Proterra is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoon and will be livestreamed. Mayor Knox White and Proterra s CEO Jack Allen will also be in attendance.
After the tour, the president is expected to deliver remarks about the American Jobs Plan s infrastructure investments, which includes $25 billion for zero-emissions vehicles and $20 billion for electric school buses.
Proterra manufactures zero-emission electric transit vehicles and develops electric vehicle technology solutions their fleet includes electric school buses, public transit buses and delivery trucks.
CEO Jody Bryson Leads SCTAC s Development As Upstate Aviation, Automotive Hub
Kathy Laughlin
History buffs may know that Greenville County once was home to Donaldson Air Force Base.
Aviation enthusiasts may be aware of an airport that isn’t GSP, or Greenville Downtown Airport either.
And others may have heard about the world’s most advanced F-16 fighter jets manufactured at Lockheed Martin.
But SCTAC, South Carolina Technology & Aviation Center?
It probably doesn’t ring a bell – though 4,300 people earn a living at the property’s 112 businesses, and about 2,000 more people work for companies that work with those businesses.
The businesses at SCTAC generate at least $2.03 billion in economic impact annually, according to a 2018 study.
January 11, 2021 | By Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), organizers of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), today unveiled the official race car that will be autonomously driven by scores of university teams in the world’s first high-speed, head-to-head autonomous race at the Racing Capital of the World on Oct. 23, 2021.
The primary goal of the IAC is to advance technologies that can speed the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), leading to increased safety and performance. In addition, the IAC is a challenging competition to excite the best and brightest university students from around the world to engage in hands-on engineering firsts.