Podcasts about driver assist

In this episode of Automotive Repair News Today, Braxton Critcher and Justin Allen from Hunter Engineering Company. Justin highlights the importance of staying updated with WinAlign reports, emphasizing the need for recalibrating advanced driver assist systems. He discusses how the technology in vehicles is evolving rapidly, impacting driving habits and safety. Justin also emphasizes the value of in-person software updates to ensure seamless operations, aiming for the best user experience possible. 00:00 Alignment technology evolved for efficiency and recalibration.03:37 Software specs are updated twice yearly to adapt.07:07 Drivers becoming more careless with new technology.10:21 Importance of reading screens for informed decisions.14:01 Car saves life in a potential collision scenario.16:39 In-person updates ensure smooth system operation.

Inside Edition Host Deborah Norville discusses her report on why men are turning to cosmetic procedures and the measures people are taking to obtain weight-loss drugs in short supply. ABC News Tech Reporter Mike Dobuski explains why sales of Apple's Vision Pro failed to meet expectations and why Ford's driver-assistance system is under investigation.

Topics: -Jerry has a client with an Acrobat Pro issue that he's seen before. -Clients that Google answers try to offer their own advice. -Some people expect things for free. -Even with car features, some tracking features bother users. -Jerry is thrilled to have Nudge working in Addigy for managing macOS software updates. -Jerry sees an odd message that says “Failed to personalize the software update”. -In general, software updates still seems to require third party options to work smoothly. -The difficulty when clients misconstrue something you told them… -Joe shares some thoughts on the latest Apple hardware and his client needs. -Both Jerry & Joe have the new iPhone 15 and they provide their feedback. -If you are selling your old iPhone, The Scripting OS X newsletter references some good advice from Apple about purchasing a used iPhone.

Here's what Dustin Atwood and Sarah Myers talk about this morning: Fall is here! We talk snacks & Dustin walks us through some basic fall maintenance. The UAW strike. ADAS systems. Update on the new Fort Street shop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a1custom/message

Here's what Dustin Atwood and Sarah Myers talk about this morning: Fall is here! We talk snacks & Dustin walks us through some basic fall maintenance. The UAW strike. ADAS systems. Update on the new Fort Street shop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a1custom/message

Eric Peters, EPautos.com, is the issue emissions and safety? Government controls are not for your car…they're for you, your liberty, your mobilityFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

Eric Peters, EPautos.com, is the issue emissions and safety? Government controls are not for your car…they're for you, your liberty, your mobilityFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

While there's been so much talk in recent years about self-driving vehicles, you don't hear many people discussing driver-assist technology. So many of our cars now come equipped with tools that are a part of the total package for driverless automobiles. But as we've discussed before, many carmakers will try to package these extras and create a subscription model. And that is not something many people want... Click Here To Subscribe Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicGoogle PodcastsTuneIniHeartRadioPandoraDeezerBlubrryBullhornCastBoxCastrofyyd.deGaanaiVooxListen NotesmyTuner RadioOvercastOwlTailPlayer.fmPocketCastsPodbayPodbeanPodcast AddictPodcast IndexPodcast RepublicPodchaserPodfanPodtailRadio PublicRadio.comReason.fmRSSRadioVurblWe.foYandex jQuery(document).ready(function($) { 'use strict'; $('#podcast-subscribe-button-13292 .podcast-subscribe-button.modal-64f25dac62cba').on("click", function() { $("#secondline-psb-subs-modal.modal-64f25dac62cba.modal.secondline-modal-64f25dac62cba").modal({ fadeDuration: 250, closeText: '', }); return false; }); });

Rain, snow, wind--it's all here. The big Winter storm is bearing down on southern California right now with the worst still to come. KNX has the very latest.We tell you about how these new high-tech driver assist features on your new car may fail you in bad weather like this. The head of the FAA is now calling for a safety summit following a near miss at a local airport here. We start the first half of today's show by marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rain, snow, wind--it's all here. The big Winter storm is bearing down on southern California right now with the worst still to come. KNX has the very latest. We tell you about how these new high-tech driver assist features on your new car may fail you in bad weather like this.  The head of the FAA is now calling for a safety summit following a near miss at a local airport here.  We start the first half of today's show by marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Psychological Counseling is much like DRIVER ASSIST, only there when YOU require IT! When AUTONOMY, AGENCY, and INDIVIDUALITY predominate, INNER-DIRECTION is a much more PALATABLE and EFFICACIOUS means to DIRECTION and COURSE throughout life.

The manager of vehicle technology at Consumer Reports sheds light on federal reports related to crashes involving driver-assist systems and clarifies terminology that manufacturer and drivers use in describing new features and in-car tech.

New data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that over a 10-month period, there were nearly 400 car crashes that involved advanced driver-assistance technology.  Think of Tesla's Autopilot or Full Self Driving Mode, and other tech like lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control.  Tesla was responsible for about 70% of the crashes, but they also have more vehicles on the road.  Neal Boudette, reporter for the NY Times, joins us for more. Next, with all the changing economic news, some workers don't feel as powerful as they used to.  The tight labor market and the Great Resignation led employees to demand remote work and higher salaries, but as inflation continues and fears of a recession loom, people are looking for more security over flexibility and companies are taking note.  Callum Borchers, On the Clock columnist at the WSJ, joins us for this change in attitude. Finally, children are increasingly becoming targets of ID theft and it usually goes unnoticed until they apply for a student loan or first credit card and find their credit scores are in the dumps.  Identity theft affects about 1.25 million kids every year and most of the time these victims know the perpetrators personally, whether it is family member or caregiver.  Tatum Hunter, tech writer at The Washington Post, joins us for how to protect your kids. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With NHTSA releasing the data on 392 crashes involving driver assistance systems, we dive into the significance and take-aways with guest Ed Niedermeyer, author, journalist and co-host of the Autonocast. Join Princeton's Alain Kornhauser & co-host Fred Fishkin for episode 272 of Smart Driving Cars. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smartdrivingcars/support

On this episode of In Wheel Time, we get a chance to talk with Jake Fisher, Sr. Director of Auto Testing Consumer Reports about thier testing on Driver Assist Systems.  Every new car manufacturer has some sort of assist system and it is interesting to hear what their testing results are.In our feature segment, Don Armstong has been checking out the new Mercedes-AMG 43 GT Sedan.  It is a Mercedes-Benz and and AMG on top of that, so it should be interesting.-----  -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 8a-11aCT simulcasting on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify,  Google Podcasts,    Stitcher, iHeart Radio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.-----  ------  ------Want more In Wheel Time in 'real' time? Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InWheelTime/ YouTube:  https://www.YouTube.com/InWheelTimeTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show

In this episode, I talk about what the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is doing to make partial automation safer on today's vehicles. I introduce the all-new 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid. And I talk about the need to increase purchase satisfaction for customers that buy in the dealership. Mike Talks Cars is a daily sales training podcast addressing current news, quick updates on new vehicles, and something from this Automotive Trainer that you can do to take your Sales skills to the next level. New mini-episodes, like this one, will be available Monday - Friday by 1 PM Eastern time. Subscribe and join me for this quick run through the Automotive world. I am your host, Mike Little, and have spent my career training Sales Consultants and Managers on how to create and deliver world-class Customer Experiences. You can find more from me on my website protraininggroup.ca, and on YouTube. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mike-talks-cars/message

Consumer Reports has a reputation for doing very thorough research on a wide variety of things.  In the case of automotive, they often have 'secret buyers' that actual go out and buy the vehciles they will be doing long term research on.  Generally it is the high volumn models as that is what consumers would appear to be buying.  As our guest, Kelly Funhouser explains, they do get some of the high end models to check out, much like other journalist such as the In Wheel Time crew.Kelly shares some background on Consumer Reports, a bit about their test facility and we get to talk about the different types of Driver Assist Systems.In our feature segment, Jeff Dziekan was in the Pre-owned Showroom, and found a 2010 PT Cruiser p and he is even going to tell us what the PT in PT Cruiser stands for.All this and more on this episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk.----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk six days a week, and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 8a-11aCT simulcasting on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify,   Google Podcasts,    Stitcher, iHeart Radio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.-----  ------  ------Want more In Wheel Time in real time? Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InWheelTime/ YouTube:  https://www.YouTube.com/InWheelTimeTags: In Wheel Time automotive car talk show car talk Live car talk show Tags: In Wheel Time automotive car talk show car talk Live car talk show

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Glen De Vos, Aptiv CTO, talks about the company's new platform to manage ADAS software and ways to simplify a vehicle’s electrical architecture.

Glen De Vos, Aptiv CTO, talks about the company's new platform to manage ADAS software and ways to simplify a vehicle’s electrical architecture.

While we mostly want to say "Bah humbug" and forget 2020 ever happened, for me, there were some special moments and amazing guests that I had on the show this year who are worth remembering. In this episode, we look at the 12 days of podcast past with some of the most fascinating people I spoke to this year. You'll hear from industry experts about E-bikes, district and renewable energy, EVs and more. So here's today's big question: What did you learn from the ThinkEnergy podcast this year? Speakers:Host: Dan Seguin, Brandy Giannetta, Francis Bradley, Andrea Flowers, Jeff Westeinde, Seth Weintraub, Joseph Muglia, Kevin Lee, Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin, Blair Maye, Michelle Branigan, Raed Kadri --- Transcript: Dan Seguin  00:42 Hey, everyone, welcome back. This is a very special episode of The ThinkEnergy podcast. While we mostly want to say Bah, humbug, and forget 2020 ever happened. For me, there are some special moments and amazing guests that I had on the show this year, who are worth remembering. So for today's podcast, we're looking at the 12 days of podcast past with some of the most fascinating people I spoke to this year. You'll hear from industry experts about E-bikes, district and renewable energy, EV's and much more. So here's today's big question. What did you learn from the ThinkEnergy podcast this year?  Number 12. kicking us off. Number 12 is Kevin Lee, Chief Executive Officer for the Canadian Home Builders Association. And how net zero homes are the future with 111 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere from Canadian homes and buildings, every year, we're all looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint. I asked Kevin when building or renovating to net zero standards. With the key considerations are: how much does it entail? Are we talking about everything from walls, ventilation, foundation, windows and more?   Kevin Lee  02:24 Oh, absolutely. I mean, certainly, when you're driving to get down to basically using close to zero energy, you have to look at everything that uses energy and that can you know, save energy and be efficient with energy. So every element of the home, as you said, walls, ceilings, foundations, windows, mechanical systems, hugely important. So you have to look at all of it and and where do you start? Well, frankly, if you're a homebuyer, you start by looking for a builder with the experience and know how to do this and and even through our programs. And we follow, we use the inner guide rating system, which is a government of Canada system and label for measuring the energy performance of homes. And there are energy advisors that are certified by the Government of Canada to do that. And we provide those energy advisors, additional training, to work with our builders to be experts and getting all the way to net zero. So they're sort of recognized through our program through additional training and education. So really as a as a homebuyer or a homeowner, because we now have a retrofit program as well for renovating houses to get to this level. Really, it's finding the right finding the right contractor homebuilder, you know, you can look at ch va.ca. And you can find a list of our rent renovators and our home builders that are certified, they know what they're doing. And they're working very closely with an energy advisor who works on the design because like I said, when you're trying to get to net zero, you're talking about squeezing every ounce of energy you can out of that house on and it's every element. So it's not so much that you start one place you look at everything.   Dan Seguin  04:01 Number 11. Coming in at number 11 I spoke to Jeff Westeinde de president of Zibi Canada, to ask him what happens when you use a network of hot and cold water pipes, bury them underground, and then use them to efficiently heat and cool buildings, and even whole communities. Jeff and his team are using district energy to achieve a zero carbon footprint at Zibi in 34 acre waterfront community in downtown Ottawa. On a hot summer day. Back in August, I asked him what's behind the one planet system he's looking to achieve.   Jeff Westeinde  04:44 We have to live as if we only have one planet. Most people when I say that look at me and sort of go but we only do have one planet and we need to remind them that if you live like a typical Canadian, you're using four planets of resources to sustain your unsustainable lifestyle in America. And using five planets, Europeans using three planets, and all we're doing is stealing from future generations and the developing world to sustain our unsustainable lifestyles. So one planet really is all about both environmental sustainability, like technical sustainability and social sustainability with one planets worth of resources and and it's a very holistic, holistic program, very audacious goals, we're going to talk about zero carbon. So as you know, Zb is in the nation's capital in Ottawa and Gatineau. You know, we are we are today we're going to be at plus 34 degrees, six months from now we'll be at minus 34 degrees Celsius, and and to be zero Kerman. In this environment, it's the Holy Grail. So achieving one plant is not an easy thing to do very audacious. But that's, that's where we said, No, that's the bar we need to hit, we need to again, leave our campsite better than we came to.   Dan Seguin  06:02 Number 10. Francis Bradley, the President and CEO of the Canadian lectricity Association, sat down with me in October to talk about Canada's electric future, and why we're well positioned to bring our electricity grid into the 21st century. Here is a favorite snippet of mine, from Francis Bradley, at number 10.   Francis Bradley  06:29 You know, to begin with, where we're starting from is we're starting from a place that is the envy frankly, of a lot of other jurisdictions. compared to most other countries, our sector is already clean. So we're starting from a clean, relatively clean sector to begin with. It's one of the cleanest electricity sectors in the world, we have the advantage of remarkably low carbon electricity grid, and it's been getting cleaner. So from 2000 to 2017, there's been a reduction in our sectors carbon dioxide, emissions of 42%. So more than 80% of the electricity in in Canada now comes from non emitting sources. And so we continue to focus on decarbonisation, the, the targets that I'd mentioned earlier, are going to mean that that decarbonisation and further electrification are going to absolutely be required if we're going to, to meet our our climate challenges of the future. So, you know, among those challenges that the that are out there, a lot of people think that electrification is about the growth of electric vehicles, but it's going to be a lot more than that. mass transit, heavy duty trucking, I mean, those are going to be significant into the future. But also, you know, you know, we looked at a study by the electric power Research Institute, they noted that electrification in the US could increase their demand, anywhere from 24 to 52%. We've seen studies in Canada that suggests that demand for electricity may double or even triple if we move forward and and begin to reach our 2050 targets.   Dan Seguin  08:14 Number nine. Like Francis said, when we talk about electrification of transportation, we tend to think about electric vehicles. But there's another sub genre of electric transportation that is rapidly growing in popularity. ebikes in August, Seth Weintraub and award winning tech journalist and blogger told me why he thinks electric bikes are one of the biggest technology transformations happening right now.   Seth Weintraub  08:49 Absolutely. And, you know, I didn't allude to it earlier. But when you think about how much power you actually need to get, you know, the 510 mile commute that you do every day, compared to even a an electric car. It's a fractal. It's a small fraction. So for instance, for my an entire week of going, you know, I do a lot of my work at the coffee shop in town for an entire week, I can go off of one 500 watt hour battery. So, you know, in comparison that would drive my Tesla, probably about a mile or so. You know, I'm going, I don't know, 20 times as far as you can go on a car on the same amount of energy. So you know, if everybody wrote a bike instead of, I mean, even an electric car, and then you know, obviously, gasoline cars are much worse on the environment than that. But I mean, just even compared to an electric car, an electric bike is so much more fuel efficient. You know, obviously Many people could ride bikes for the for one person riding a car in terms of energies usage.   Dan Seguin  10:05 Number eight. In September, I interviewed Andrea Flowers, the Senior Project Manager for environmental programs, planning, infrastructure, and economic development for the City of Ottawa, and learned that roughly 50% of all greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, come from municipalities. Andrea talked to me about an action plan called Energy Evolution to reduce emissions from the community by 100% by 2050. And from the city operations by 100% by 2040. At number eight, Here's an excerpt from that conversation,   Andrea Flowers  10:53 maybe a bit of background, so Ottawa undertakes greenhouse gas emissions inventories every year so that we know where our emissions come from. And in 2018, the most recent year that we have right now, roughly 90% of the emissions in Ottawa came from the building and transportation sectors, basically how we heat and cool our homes and how we get around the city. And if we look at those emissions, and the contributing sources of emissions, then natural gas is by far the largest contributor in the community, followed by gasoline and diesel. And, of course, given the scope and scale of the transportation system in our building sector, it's going to be really difficult to shift away from these emission sources. And then even beyond this, of course, there's risk that the public won't make or accept the types of changes required. And I'm cognizant of the fact that there's a huge Equity and Inclusion risk for this transition, we need to find ways that everybody can participate in climate solutions, and not just the people who can afford it.   Dan Seguin  12:00 Number seven - I sat down with Jim Pegg, Director of infrastructure, product and service at environment energy solutions, to understand what part utilities play in electric vehicle infrastructure and services to encourage a smooth transition for EV adoption. utility is absolutely a part of that. Because, you know, at the end of the day, people, myself included look to the utility for a reliable power supply. And as we're converting things like fleets, and even, especially transportation fleets, that reliable power supply becomes somewhat critical to the economy in the sense that moving people around, you know, transportation move people around, if the lights go out, you want to make sure you've got maybe a good redundant backup supply, or you have a system that's going to allow for switching the distribution system, and maybe even automated switching switching at some point. So utilities are doing lots of different things. You know, as they as they work to change that ever changing landscape, again, COVID is a great example of that, right? With a lot of people working from home, the utilities are, are working hard to, to make sure that they don't disrupt people that are working from home, regarding the large oil companies. And I think, I believe, I believe we'll see more and more of those organizations getting involved with with Evie charging infrastructure. You know, as you noted, gas stations are everywhere and well suited for fast charging. We see more innovation on how to best use those properties. I think the electrification of vehicles is going to drive many changes in that respect.  Number six. At number six, on my year and wrap up, I sat down with Anne-Raphaelle Audouin, president and CEO of Waterpower Canada, and learned that Canada is the second largest generator of hydro electricity in the world. I wanted to find out what's next for Canada's water power industry.   Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin  14:15 When I when I talk to Canadians and also to policymakers. Sometimes they tell me Well, you know, yes, we've got a lot of hydro power in Canada, it's more than 60% of our generation. But surely, because it's so big, we must be tapped out. There must there must not be any more hydro to develop. And then it's it couldn't be further from the truth. We actually have a lot of water. In Canada, we've got good innovation, great sites still to develop. So our untapped potential is actually more than double our existing installed capacity. So we've got about 85,000 megawatt of current installed capacity. So you can you can only imagine what we could do if we were to just develop a portion of the untapped technical potential. And and the great news about that now I always emphasize that when I when I speak at conferences or when I when I, you know, have discussions with government and stakeholders in general is to say that that potential is not just a reality in one province. It's a reality across the country. So when we look at decarbonizing, electrifying, all of those great things that you know are happening are going to happen, you know, over the next few years.   Dan Seguin  15:31 Number five, you can't talk about electricity without talking about power outages. I sat down with Joseph Moglia, Director of system operations and grid automation at Hydro Ottawa, to talk about what happens behind the scenes when a storm approaches. And what happens before, during and after Mother Nature strikes. At number five, it's Joseph Moglia.   Joseph Muglia  16:01 So really, the very first priority is to send our crews out to assess the damage and figure out really what we're dealing with system wide citywide, get a good idea of really what what infrastructure has been affected. Once we've identified the extent of the damage and any safety concerns to the public or to our workers, we begin the restoration. What most people don't know is that there's an amazing amount of coordination and work that's going on and in our control room during an event just as much as what's going out in the field. So all of the cables and the infrastructure that you see on the ground and, and has been damaged or essentially, you know, dangerous situations that might be out there, they first have to be switched off from our control room so that we can work on the infrastructure safely. So we take the opportunity a few times a year, to really tabletop exercises that will prepare us will help us prepare for incidents or large outages that may that may occur, regardless of what what the the effect might be, whether it's a bad storm, or just a large power outage. And the case of a couple years ago, tornadoes, we prepare for that we're constantly trying to keep our folks up to speed and trained so that we we can seamlessly go from like a blue sky event where we think about what could potentially happen to being involved in the middle of a storm. And usually our staff can can transition from normal day to storm mode quite easily. We're monitoring weather 24 hours a day, every single day of the year. And so when when we see weather approaching, and then once a storm hits, and I'm using a storm as the as an example. Once the storm arrives, we've already been prepped, we've already got folks that are positioned and ready to respond.   Dan Seguin  18:09 Number four, where only 5% of electricity workforce is young people compared to 14% across all other sectors, and only 26% is women. I talk to Michelle Branigan, CEO of the electricity, Human Resources Canada to find out what is being done to encourage a more dynamic workforce for the future. At number four, here's a clip of my conversation with Michelle:   Michelle Branigan  18:39 women that are working here right now in the sector have have told us that having a support network, having somebody to mentor them, has made the difference on whether they have actually stayed or not. That's made a big difference. You know how hard it is to affect cultural change, right? It takes a long time, but who has to lead that change? The CEO, the leader, the president of the organization, needs to do that. And it's the premise of the Accord that to affect systemic change, you need to have buy in at that senior level, and industry leaders need to have a bold vision. But they need to do more than just talk about it. They need to set the standard for everybody in the organization to follow.   Dan Seguin  19:24 Number three. Have you ever smelled a pickle that is being electrocuted? That was the big question I had for Blair Maye, who helped me oversee the electricity safety and conservation program that entertains and educates school aged children across Ontario about electrical safety. At number three, here's a bit of my conversation with Blair and why it's important to teach kids young to be smarter and safer around electricity.   Blair Maye  19:58 A lot of electrical accidents. originate with adults, when they don't know what to do around electricity, you know, and it's sad. And that's why we do these presentations. So a couple of the takeaways that I've always remember that teachers and adults have come up to me and said that they really love to hear about. I know I talked a lot about the GFCI, ground fault circuit interrupter. But testing it once a month, is so important. And we want to make sure that from the JK all the way to the grade eight, they're going home and teaching their parents about this. And the teachers love to know that that is such an important thing that can save their lives. Also, the toaster, a lot of people still today will try to put a fork or a spoon inside the toaster. Yeah, and they think that they're, they think that they're ahead of the curve, because they know to unplug it. The one problem is if they damage one of the filaments, those thin, tiny little wires inside the next time they plug it in bang, they end up getting a shock.   Dan Seguin  20:53 Number two - if you've been listening to the podcast this year, you'll know I love to talk about the future, and innovation. That's why at number two, I asked, Have you ever dreamed of a day your car can drive itself? The accelerating rate of research and development in automation, and artificial intelligence is indicating that this dream may become a reality very soon. Raed Kadri, the head of the Ontario's autonomous vehicle Innovation Network shares fascinating insight into this world:   Raed Kadri  21:33 the number one thing that people are trying to achieve is the promise of, of increased safety as a result of these technologies, if you look at things like a das advanced Driver Assist system systems is is the fact that the vehicle and the sensors are helping, are perceiving something that you may not have perceived. And they're they're warning you and so it's able to help you mitigate, hopefully mitigate mitigate something in advance of it of it occurring. And safety is the key and what the at the high level what everybody's hoping to achieve from all of this, but, but once the technology is there, there's a whole wide range of things that can also be achieved as a secondary piece of this and this is where people looking at it is is is is increased efficiency as productivity is better flow, better understanding of the traffic system, better understanding of, of the of the users of the vehicles in such a way where, you know, of course keeping, you know, security and privacy paramount.   Dan Seguin  22:36 Number one, we've come to the last clip of my 12 days of podcasts year end wrap up. And it's fitting that it's about renewable energy, and the realistic strategies for increasing the supply to permanently replace any remaining carbon intensive energy sources in Canada. Here. Brandy Giannetta, Senior Director at the Canadian Renewable Energy Association talks about how the renewable energy industry is primed to enter a new phase of growth, mostly thanks to a culture shift. Here is number one,   Brandy Giannetta  23:19 The scalability of our energy production and using Canada and abroad is really a factor there because we can do it at whatever scale needed for whatever system, you know, is being sought. So a consciousness about the environment continues to grow alongside that. So we've got energy policy and economic stimulus, but we also have environmental policy, and the drivers for decarbonisation, and electrification of the sectors that aren't traditionally powered by electricity, like cars and transportation. But a large scale as well as buildings are really increasing the demand for energy solutions that are non emitting affordable, scalable, flexible, and all of those great things. And that's something that obviously our industries can provide. So our vision really, ultimately is to ensure that renewable energy being solar and wind and an energy storage on top of that are playing that central role as we transform the mix so that we can continue to provide those solutions across the board.   Dan Seguin  24:11 Well, we've reached the end of another episode and another year of the thick energy podcast. I hope you had fun tuning in. I really do. It's at this point in the program. I usually ask my guests some rapid fire questions. I never answered them myself. So I thought I'd do it now. I hope you enjoy this.  What is your favorite word? Well, for me, I would have to say it's okie dokie.  What is the one thing you can't live without? Actually, that's a tough one. It's a toss up between peanut butter and chocolate.  What habit or hobby Have you picked up during shelter in place? I would have to say my wife and I purchased ebikes and we've taken up biking If you could have one superpower. What would it be? Well, for me, it would be immortality.  If you could turn back time and talk to your 18 year old self, what would you tell them? Actually, that's a pretty cool one: Never forget that everything comes at a price. So work hard and stay humble and pay it forward. And for the last one, what do I currently find most interesting in my sector? Well, I think for me, it's the rise of voice technology, and artificial intelligence, and how it's going to change businesses. 2020 has certainly been interesting. Special thanks to all of my guests who took the time this year during a global pandemic, to come on the show and share their expertise, passion, and knowledge with me. For now, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! See you all in 2021 as we discuss even more thought provoking topics in the energy sector. Ciao everybody.

The automotive industry was once so wrapped up in fully autonomous driving that it still hasn’t quite figured out what should be doing today now that full autonomy has been pushed back. The near-term focus has shifted to assisted driving (or ADAS), but one industry expert thinks ADAS won’t work nearly as well as it could unless it is paired with driver monitoring systems. This week, a conversation with the opinionated and persuasive Colin Barnden.

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  We discussed how technology would be affected under a Biden Presidency in Re: Fairness Doctrine. Then we got into 5G and finished up with Apple's new search engine. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, you had another fun time with Mr. Jim Polito this morning, and we went a little off-script, right? If you get my newsletter, you see all of the articles that I sent you now to Jim and the other radio shows I'm on.  You might know, I notice that today he went off script and we got into what will happen if there is a Biden administration with technology. How are things going to change? I think I surprised him on a couple of things. By the way, I think they're going to change for the worse. I prefer having the market take care of this. People who are professional investors, venture capitalists, angel investors, they are lucky if they get it right one time out of 10. Government protecting and controlling the direction of technology and putting money into it, they never are It's just amazing what they've done to mess everything up and ruin lives and waste trillions of dollars. Yes, of course, I don't want the government involved. We got into that and the alternative to Google that Apple's developing, that you may already be using that you're just not aware of.  The way I put these together, by the way, is I record the stream online from the radio station.  In this case, there was a problem so we're missing the first,  30 ish seconds.  We're going to pick it up here mid-stream as I answer Jim's question about what will happen or what's likely to happen if Biden does assume the presidency when it comes to technology. So here I am mid-sentence. With the Biden presidency, this concept of the fairness doctrine. Yes. But on the internet, they were trying to put a thing in place where the federal government controlled the internet and what we're seeing as a problem right now with Facebook and YouTube and Twitter, et cetera. Would go internet-wide. We've got to treat every bit fairly because every bit counts.  The bit that guy, who's a gamer living in mom and dad's basement that bit where he's got trillions of them a day should be treated the same way as grandma that might have a million a day, tried to get cat pictures and pictures of the grandkids. Now grandma would end up having to pay for that little kid living in the basement, playing streaming video games all day. Pay for his internet because it has to be quote-unquote fair. That's my biggest concern Jim Polito: [00:02:50] Now the Democrats don't have control of the Senate.  They could have a very weak, tie if the two races in Georgia the first week in January go the other way. I think it's January 5th. They would have a tie-breaker with Kamala Harris. But do you think that prevents a lot of this from happening or can Joe Biden through executive order? Do some of these things? Craig Peterson: [00:03:18] that's a bigger question, right? That I get answered. I'd have to go to the Supreme court as to whether or not I had an executive order and could actually work here It's Ajit Pai as the head of the FCC.  Really made things better for us as a country, frankly, here.  All of the things they said would happen if we didn't put this fairness doctrine in place, didn't happen. In fact, the opposite happened. We have had more investment in the internet. The other thing is 5g.  What does 5g mean? Because if they decide that everybody needs 5g coverage, then we've got a bit of a problem. 5g for most of the cellular carriers, this is less true for T-Mobile. It's very true for Verizon. Verizon would have to have cell sites. Everywhere all over the country, because you can't have, those wonderful looking fake trees, every few miles, when it comes to 5g, you've got to have them every kilometer or less half a mile or so. Jim Polito: [00:04:28] You know that, go ahead. Go ahead. Because I have a question about that. Craig Peterson: [00:04:32] sure. so what would end up happening is they would be forced to spend billions and billions of dollars. In order to broaden the coverage of the five networks, which would raise all of ours, Dell bills, smartphone bills, everything else. So there are so many things they can do. Yeah. Jim Polito: [00:04:51] Yeah. That's now 5g just while we're on this. And I just want a quick answer. 5g is incredible, but it doesn't work like 4g. It doesn't work like the typical cell tower. You need them to be close to you to have 5g. Craig Peterson: [00:05:07] You got it a small town, you don't have them on almost every corner and then a big city, like New York, if it ever comes back to life, you'd have multiple 5g cell sites just walking down one little block. Jim Polito: [00:05:20] Oh my God. See, now that's the thing. You know what that almost reminds me of going back to being hardwired again, because with a cell tower, you can have distance and you can be in a remote area and still have a little bit of a signal 5g you can't, no, let's hope they keep three and 4g there. Do you know what I mean? Craig Peterson: [00:05:45] They will. In fact, there is right now a satellite constellation being launched that provides 4g LTE from space. Yeah. as well as these newer technologies, like Starlink, which we talked about a few months ago, by the way, it is rolling out right now. And you can get it pretty easily, which is promising that gigabyte worth or gigabit. I shouldn't say worth of speed. It's not anywhere near that right now. Ultimately it will be so five, G's going to even see competition, Jim Polito: [00:06:18] Which would be fine with me. Which would be fine with me if they did. Alright, now let's move on to Apple coming up with a search engine. Now look it, every time you talk with a person, a business person, they're always wanting to talk about where they show up in a Google search. It seems that's all they ever talk about in Google, owns this market. Owns it. Yahoo was the first member. Yeah. They used to do that. Now, Google just took over and, so Apple is going to give them some competition. Like Microsoft tried with Bing, but how do you compete with that monster? And again, I would, rather than it be a different company than Apple, but is there a chance Apple can compete with Google in the search market? Craig Peterson: [00:07:09] Oh, there is a very big  If you have an iPhone and you've updated to some of the more recent releases of iOS you're actually using Apple's new search engine. Jim Polito: [00:07:23] I just got an update the other day, everything is changed on my phone. Craig Peterson: [00:07:28] Yeah. Yeah. So now when you're doing this SIRI searches or other basic searches, right from your iPhone. You are actually using Apple's new with search engine. They're looking to take that technology, which aims to actively they're testing it out now on you, but they're looking at taking that technology and having just like you go to Google to do a search. You can go to Apple to do a search. Now you mentioned a few that have failed. Amazon had a nine. I don't know if you even knew about that one, but that was a general search engine that Amazon had. Yeah. Most people never heard of it. You mentioned duck go, which isn't just a kid's game anymore. I have had to move a lot of my searches from Google to duck go because Google, it used to be dead on all of the time. It's still really good for the more advanced searches when I'm dealing with technology. But if I'm doing anything political, for instance, this whole thing about Sidney Powell with scorecard and hammer that she has been talking about, which by the way, if you've been following that at all, That's the same thing I've been warning about for 20 years that happened. And Jim, you and I, you even talked about that. How could an election be stolen? And I gave the basic formula and it looks like they might've used it. And we'll talk about that as that comes more to the surface right now, it's just basic, but, then I've used duck duck go. Another one you might want to use is quant Q W A N T, which is out of France. And I, as a researcher, I use another search software in this case that I run on my Mac called  D E V O N THINK, and what devon think lets me do is go back to the AltaVista days. Do you remember AltaVista search engine? Jim Polito: [00:09:32] Yes. Oh my God. Yes. Alta Vista. Craig Peterson: [00:09:35] Yeah. And with Alta Vista, you could use what are known as Boolean El operators in Boolean algebra. So with Devon think I can do as deep a study as I want to do with word relations, root words, everything. Pull their initial results. Either diva I'm thinking crawl sites for me, or they can go into anything. They'll go into the library of Congress pull stuff. They'll do research papers, Ph.D. candidates stuff, all the way through extracting results from Google, Bing, and others and give me a much tighter and better search that I get ever had with anything else. So I've been forced off Google now for most of what I do Jim Polito: [00:10:17] We had an earthquake yesterday. I think it was w I think it was a tech talk guru moving off off Google completely. It caused a tectonic shift in the plates. All right. Wait, hold on a second. There we go. There we go. Now it's now mine. Now my stupid statement is complete. Craig. This was fascinating. This was great. You always give us a lot to think about, especially from the perspective of, the politics of what's happening and how that will impact things for us as consumers. So look, everybody wants you to listen to Craig's show it's on every Sunday at 11 o'clock on WTA G and W H Y N. And it's a great show. The also the powers that be at the station, if there are spaces in the weekend, programming. They actually dropped the show in for an extra chance for you to listen to it. You can always go to the iHeart radio app to look for it, but Craig, how else do folks get in touch with you? Craig Peterson: [00:11:20] They can certainly go to my website at Craig Peterson.com. You'll find all kinds of stuff there. And let me make a promise right now to our listeners here, Jim. And that is probably not this weekend, but maybe next weekend on my weekend show, I will do a deep dive into these search engines and how you can get around using Google. And we'll talk about alternatives as well to YouTube and Twitter. And, w we'll do that either. Probably not this weekend, but probably next week then. Jim Polito: [00:11:52] Excellent. Craig, it's always great to have you every Tuesday at this time. And we look forward to talking with you next week. My friend. Craig Peterson: [00:12:00] Take care. Jim Polito: [00:12:01] Thank you, Craig Peterson, everybody. Really a nice guy. Craig Peterson: [00:12:04] I think I went a little along in that segment. Jim had to really bail fast. Anyways, everybody, take care. I shall return tomorrow. And of course this weekend, I'm hoping to have a live show, this week. we'll see how it goes, as opposed to a best of. We're doing all kinds of renovations at the house. Getting ready for Thanksgiving. It's just a mess. Anyway. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye. ---  More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  Since it was Voting day, of course, we had to talk about that but then we got into a discussion about Tesla, Alpha and Beta tests, how they are perfecting their software, and what we can really expect.  Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] There's been a lot of speculation about what that second computer is being used for and without getting into the nitty-gritty too much, the Teslas are connecting, calling home on a daily basis, typically. Hi everybody. Yeah, I was on with Mr. Polito this morning. We had a great time talking about a couple of things, but, he was a little surprised about Tesla. In fact, he's a little afraid, but, I'll let him tell that too. All right. So here we go with Mr. Jim Polito. Jim Polito: [00:00:33] Here he is the man, the myth, the legend. I am talking of course about our very good friend and tech talk guru, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. Craig Peterson: [00:00:48] Good morning, Jim. Happy voting day. Jim Polito: [00:00:51] Yeah. listen. I'm good. I vote. As they say vote early and often, Yeah. Hey,  I wanted to ask you if there's anything in particular, in voting, that you wanted to talk about. Any kind of a tech talk angle, but then I have questions about Tesla. So let's start with the vote. Yeah. Let's start with voting. Craig Peterson: [00:01:13] Unfortunately, we've got reports, major warnings out, and I got a flash alert from the FBI about that this week. The bad guys are into our voting systems very deeply, in some cases. That's really concerning to me and obviously the FBI and Homeland security. They're saying that it looks like it's probably Russian hackers. They are getting in. Yeah and are affiliated, at least in the past, they have been affiliated with the Kremlin.  Just throw another monkey wrench into this whole mess. There's not much we could do. It's too late. You got to show up and as bring in your ballot or vote right there. In the future. I don't know, Jim, if we're going to be able to have a really secure system. There are so many great types of technology using public keys and things. The thing that scares me about every one of those is that they're tracking your vote, which means it could easily get to the point where it's no longer secret ballot. Jim Polito: [00:02:21] I do worry about that. Joel had mentioned earlier, like people saying, wait a minute, it's not public information who you vote for, but it is public information if you vote. Sounds like a threat. Yeah. it's all out there. I just wonder, because in the future what's going to happen. Is it going to stay that type of activity where you walk into a building and you vote, or is this mail thing going to continue? And then eventually they're going to want to make the leap to, okay. You can do it online in a secure way. And I just worry about that. Craig Peterson: [00:03:00] We're looking at places like Facebook, right? These online sites, Facebook, particularly where they really want to be the center of your life. you couldn't go on Facebook without seeing a hundred thousand different reminders to vote today.  I strongly suspect that Facebook's going to come out before the election and say, Hey, we've got a secure voting platform. What could possibly go wrong? There's really a lot of companies in that boat. Jim Polito: [00:03:34] I don't think so, Facebook. By the way, Facebook and Twitter have said today, if anybody calls the election for themselves unless two major media organizations have done it, they're going to block it or suppress it. I don't know. Who makes that decision? What are the two major news organizations? Craig Peterson: [00:03:52] Huffington post and Fox, right? Those two. Jim Polito: [00:03:57] Huffington Post and Fox. Right? Good thinking. All right, let's get off this and get on the road. That one of my greatest fears is that one day people will be able to sit in their car and watch a video. They'll be watching TV in their car and they won't feel the need to hear old Jim's take on the day's news. I feel like that's still a long way off because, for the most part, self-driving cars are not there yet, buddy. They may want to tell you that they are, but they're not there yet. Can you tell me about Tesla's latest, self-driving beta release? Craig Peterson: [00:04:41] Here's what's going on with Tesla. Of course, they've got these electric cars and it's all controlled via the computer. Tesla has two different computer systems onboard and we know that one of those computer systems is being used for staying in the lane and the automatic control of distance, so like cruise control. There's been a lot of speculation about what that second computer is being used for. Without getting into the nitty-gritty too much, the Teslas are connecting, calling home, on a daily basis, typically. Tesla's trying to make a self-driving car. If I was trying to make a self-driving car, the best way to do this is with "I've got a hundred thousand cars on the street" is have the cars run the normal software and on that second computer run tests, software, and any time there's an exception, like the driver hits the brakes or grabs the steering wheel to turn or something. I analyze it. Analyzes what happened and then sends out to Tesla's home office. Hey, we just had a condition 63 and let me know if you want more details and then the car could potentially upload it.  There was no way you could upload all of the data these cars are collecting. We're talking about terabytes a day for these Teslas driving long distances. The thinking is that Elon Musk and Tesla have tons of data and analyses done by the computer in your car. That way they don't have to build as big a data center or anything else. So Tesla has probably been running alpha self-driving code. In other words, code that's not ready for release at all on your Tesla for years, frankly. Now we've got what you just pointed out is that beta release. Tesla has been raising the price all of the time, Hey, do you want self-driving, no problem. So I think it's an $8,000, maybe $10,000 add on. There is no self-driving Tesla right now. Remember it's an assist. Okay. Jim Polito: [00:06:57] Yeah. It's called driver assist. Means, I passed it to, Craig Peterson and then he does the layup, you know what I mean? I'm not shooting the shot. Craig Peterson: [00:07:08] Yeah. exactly right. So that's what it is today. So there's not this self-driving beta release that they released to just a few people. There's a great article in Ars Technica, this week, where a YouTuber called Brandon M. Captured drone footage of his Tesla self-parking. Now there are four parking spots here. One of the spots had a red car parked in it and the other three are empty. And yet Brandon's Tesla is heading right for a rear-end collision with this red car. Exactly. It's not ready yet. Some other people are saying, Brandon, again, saying it's crazy. It's scary. And it's unbelievably good. That means it's getting close to that time where the software performances may be there. We'll see. But you know what, Jim, I think Tesla is already won the self-driving car business, but it's not there yet. You can't trust it yet. It's still making major mistakes. Jim Polito: [00:08:11] We're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech guru. So, Craig, your assessment looks they're way out ahead of everyone else. But they haven't arrived at the, not to make a pun. They haven't arrived at the destination yet, but they're leaps and bounds. Yeah. You know what, by the way, with the assist, I should have used a hockey metaphor, not a basketball one, with UI. I apologize, my Canadian friend. That I didn't use a hockey metaphor. No, but you're saying Tesla. Has it'd be tough for somebody to catch up with them. Unless of course, all of a sudden the Chinese company has a self-driving system, and coincidentally, it's going to look just like a Teslas. Craig Peterson: [00:08:51] This is a hat trick now. They've got it out there. It's working. It's working pretty darn well. It's known to be beta. We've got Elon Musk saying that by the end of this year, full self-driving with the exception of maybe the last hundred yards is going to be available to the average Tesla owner. He says buy it now. This is the only car it is going to appreciate in value over time because the value and the cost of the self-driving add-ons are going to continue to increase. So that Tesla you bought the self-driving at $4,000 while selling at 10 means there's a $6,000 increase in the value of that car. Now, of course, he's wrong because, in reality, there is wear particularly on the batteries, and the hundred thousand dish miles, it's you've got to put another $20,000 into your car. This is interesting and I think he's gonna win. I think Waymo is just too far behind as is everybody else Jim Polito: [00:09:55] Interesting. Alright, so there you have it. All from Craig Peterson. I have job security. They're not there yet. I feel good about that. Craig has a great show every Sunday at 11 o'clock on W T A G and W H Y N, where you can get more and more from him. But, Craig, if folks want to reach out to you now, Craig Peterson: [00:10:17] Well, the best way is just to go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. And if you subscribe right now, I'm going to be sending you a security reboot. because as you know that's what I pay a lot of attention to. This weekend on the show, we're going to talk about the new ransomware demands are doubling every six months, teaching your employees about spotting, smashing, and vishing. If you're a home user, what does that even mean? And what should you do? And, that's really what we're focusing on  Sunday at 11. Jim Polito: [00:10:49] And John Bay back. My, Intrepid newsman reminded me that it was okay to use the basketball metaphor because Naismith the inventor of basketball was Canadian. Craig Peterson: [00:10:58] That's right, I forgot about that. Jim Polito: [00:11:02] There you go. I use the right one, John. Thank you for having my back. Craig, always thank you for being here with us. You're a great asset to the show and we'll catch up with you next week. Unless of course something big happens between now and then. Craig Peterson: [00:11:16] Absolutely. From what I heard, Kamala was also not born, but raised in Montreal and was at least a Canadian. If she's not still. Jim Polito: [00:11:26] She would claim everything, you know what I mean? If it meant a vote. She would claim just about everything. If it meant a vote. Craig Peterson, everyone. Thank you, sir. Craig Peterson: [00:11:36] Take Care. Jim Polito: [00:11:37] All right. Bye-bye Craig Peterson: [00:11:38] So there's Mr. Jim Pollito. I hope everybody took the chance to vote. At least those of you that are voting the right way. And man, I don't know what's going to happen here in another four years with technology and voting and where it's all going to go. It's going to be an interesting time and you can be sure I'll keep you up on all of it. By the way, I have had a lot of feedback about the one-hour radio show, as opposed to the. No, what is it? Eight different segments. And, people love it. So expect that in the future, if you are subscribed, you're going to get my show as one big chunk. It is a podcast as opposed to just a copy of the radio show. So we've been changing that up. Karen has been busy doing all of that stuff for us. So if you're not subscribed, go to your favorite podcast app and subscribe there. You can use the iHeart radio app, but one of the easiest ways to find out how to subscribe, just go to Craig peterson.com/iheart, for instance, and it will automatically redirect you right to that I heart page, or you can go Craig peterson.com/itunes if you're using an iPhone and subscribe.  I'd really appreciate it. It helps with the numbers and that helps to get the people out and listening. Take care, everybody. 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ISDA Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News Podcast for Thursday, October 25th, 2018 ====================== In Vehicle News From Ars Technica How driver-assist tech can result in a $5,000 fender-bender Cars with advanced driver-assistance technology are more expensive to repair than their less-autonomous counterparts, according to a study by AAA. What would have been relatively inexpensive bodywork due to a fender bender may end up costing two and a half times as much to repair, due to the location of cameras along with ultrasonic and radar sensors. "Advanced safety systems are much more common today, with many coming as standard equipment, even on base models,” said John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of Automotive Engineering and Repair. “It’s critical that drivers understand what technology their vehicle has, how it performs and how much it could cost to repair should something happen." It's not just the parts, either. A rock hitting your windshield will require the camera used for adaptive cruise control to be recalibrated. And you'll likely have to pay more for the replacement windshield, as some manufacturers have more stringent standards for optical clarity. What would otherwise be a $500 windshield replacement can end up costing as much as $1,500. AAA has broken down some of the extra costs for cars with advanced driver-assist technology: Front radar sensors used with automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control systems: $900 to $1,300 Rear radar sensors used with blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert systems: $850 to $2,050 Front camera sensors used with automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning and lane keeping systems (does not include the cost of a replacement windshield): $850 to $1,900 Front, side mirror, or rear camera sensors used with around-view systems: $500 to $1,100 Front or rear ultrasonic sensors used with parking assist systems: $500 to $1,300 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/why-driver-assist-tech-can-lead-to-the-5000-fender-bender/ ====================== In Security News From Huffington Post How Investigators Will Work To Find Out Who’s Behind The Bomb Scare Pipe bombs were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. From Washington to New York to Florida to Los Angeles, the authorities intercepted a wave of crudely built devices that were contained in manila envelopes. In the center of Manhattan, the Time Warner Center was evacuated because of a pipe bomb sent to CNN, which has its New York offices there. It was addressed to John Brennan, a critic of President Trump who served as Obama's CIA director. Pipe bombs were also intercepted in Florida and Los Angeles. The devices stashed in manila envelopes and mailed nationwide targeted top Democrats two weeks before the midterm elections. The bombs found this week were intended for at least seven officials, including Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). Law enforcement officials have also tracked down another suspicious package sent to former Vice President Joe Biden, and the FBI says additional packages may have been mailed to other locations. None of the bombs detonated and no one was injured.  The packages contained pipe bombs that appear to have been made with relatively rudimentary materials. Authorities have confirmed that a number of them contained explosive powder. There is no shortage of theories about who might be behind the plot. Instead of relying on conjecture, investigators will be looking for clear evidence to help them nail down a culprit, said David Chipman, a former ATF agent who worked on the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the Oklahoma City bombing and now serves as senior policy adviser at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. It’s not yet clear if the devices recovered this week will contain that sort of calling card, or whether the investigation will end up supporting claims that this was indeed a deliberate act of political terror against liberal political figures. Whatever authorities uncover, the plot is deeply concerning, said Chipman. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bomb-scare-investigation-evidence_us_5bd0af0fe4b055bc9487a922 ====================== In Terrorism News From Palm Beach Daily News Terrorism talk kicks off World Affairs Council season You have a better chance of being struck by lightning twice than being killed by a terrorist. That was what Georgia State University professor Mia Bloom informed a crowd of 115 people Tuesday at The Colony at the season-opening event for the World Affairs Council of Palm Beach. In her discussion, “Small Arms: Children in Terrorism,” Bloom covered a variety of topics, including the indoctrination of women and children, often called “cubs,” into terrorism; how the general population fetishizes terrorism; and and the motivations for recruiting women into terrorist groups. Her research on the last subject, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, with John Horgan will be published in their book, also called “Small Arms,” due out May 15. In addition to teaching communication and Middle East studies, Bloom monitors terrorist groups on social media and how they are recruiting people. Using her knowledge of Arabic, she has been able to create anonymous accounts and post on social media, she said. Bloom pointed out that 30 to 40 percent of ISIS messaging is positive, and that many women who end up getting involved are not in prison or involved in gangs. “Terrorists play on people’s altruistic tendencies,” she said. “People join because they think they’re going to help people.” Once these women see the real mission and realize this isn’t what they signed up for, they end up getting killed, she said. According to Bloom, the face of terrorism was male for a long time, but it has changed. Leftist organizations such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army were recruiting women as early as the 1970s, serving mainly as front-line activists. Nowadays, women can play roles in all levels of a terrorist organization, whether they’re logisticians, fundraisers or online recruiters.   https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20181025/terrorism-talk-kicks-off-world-affairs-council-season ====================== In Business of Executive Protection News From Strategic Marketing Solutions Cyfe – The All in One Business Dashboard Cyfe is an all in one dashboard for your business that connects to tens of different data connections. If you’re like me and you find yourself logging in and out of multiple websites, searching for at data, observing analytics, watching social media, maintaining your invoicing and your accounting software.  You have multiple tabs open trying to find all the data that you need on a daily basis. Well, I think you’ll be very happy with Cyfe.  Social media, finance, Emails, and even RSS feeds from your favorite reader. All in one place! No more having to have multiple tabs open. Logging in and out of several different websites a day. Cyfe can do it all for you! You’ll need to create an account, with the free account you get 2 dashboards with five widgets each.  However, with a free account, you won’t be able to access some of the data connections. After logging in you’ll see a blank area. The first step is to create a dashboard. The second step is to create your widgets for that dashboard. Cyfe widget categories are: Advertising Blogging Custom Email Monitoring Other Sales & Finance SEO Social Media Support Web Analytics There are over 80 widgets that you can put data into your dashboards. For instance, you can connect your favorite Email Management client such as Mailchimp. To set your data connection you will need to connect your Mail Management tool by giving Cyfe permission to access your Mail account. Note: Data connections will open a pop-up window, so be sure to accept pop-ups for Cyfe. Once connected you can select if you would want a specific mail campaign or list. Selecting list will show a chart with list growth. You can arrange the widget anywhere on your dashboard and have it be any size. For my testing a connected to AdSense, Mailchimp, Google Trends, Facebook Pages, and Stripe – combining 5 different websites that I would access on a weekly basis. You can position the widgets anywhere on the dashboard as well as minimize and expand the size. Now the other question you might have is, well this is great for me but how do I share the information and data with my team? You can export an entire dashboard or just an individual widget. You can export the data in various formats such as PDF or CSV. Another great feature is the ability to create public URLs of read-only dashboards that you can share with anyone. Cyfe also has the ability to schedule emails. This is a great feature when you’re emailing to clients with specific reports. This is one of those products that is a must for the protection professional.  It is a freemium pricing model.  With a free account you are limited to 5 widgets and one dashboard. The paid option is $19/mo. or $168/yr. https://larrysnow.me/cyfe-one-business-dashboard/ ==================== Links to all news stories mentioned in this podcast are available at the archive website securitydrivernews.libsyn.com. You can also listen to past podcast episodes and leave comments. Thanks for listening to the ISDA Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News podcast. ====================== This podcast is brought to you by the International Security Driver Association ISDA is a valuable resource for all practitioners working in the protection profession. 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