• TomTom partners with Mercedes
    • 02/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    TomTom today announced that its navigation services are now available in the new Mercedes me app, recently launched by Daimler. The Mercedes me app offers a range of ‘Mercedes connect me’ services including remote status and maintenance management as well as the latest information about traffic delays and ETA, [...]
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  • Daimler driverless truck hits the road
    • 05/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Daimler Trucks ran a real-world test of what it says is the first series-production truck to operate on an automated basis on the highway. The firm fitted its Highway Pilot self-driving system to a Mercedes-Benz Actros truck and sent it out on the Autobahn 8 near Stuttgart in Germany. The truck used for the [...]
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  • VM’s start manufacturing venture in Mexico
    • 29/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Five years after their strategic cooperation was established, Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance have significantly expanded their collaboration with the start of a manufacturing joint venture in Aguascalientes in central Mexico. The new business entity COMPAS (Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes) [...]
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  • Daimler to test self-driving trucks
    • 28/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    German carmaker Daimler is planning to test self-driving trucks as early as this year, according to executive board member Wolfgang Bernhard. He told a German newspaper, ‘We are positive that we will get approval for tests on German motorways within the next weeks,’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung quoted [...]
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