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Ford uses drones to inspect engine plant
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Ford uses drones to inspect engine plant

Ford employees are now using GoPro cameras mounted on drones to safely and efficiently inspect high-rise gantries, pipework and roof areas at the company’s Dagenham Engine Plant in the UK, slashing the inspection time for each area from 12 hours to 12 minutes....
Google executive collects his personalised Rolls-Royce Dawn Black Badge
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Google executive collects his personalised Rolls-Royce Dawn Black Badge

Benjamin Treynor Sloss, Vice President of Engineering at Google and a well-known car enthusiast, has taken delivery of a very personal Rolls-Royce Dawn Black Badge at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
Jaguar Land Rover fits virtual eyes to intelligent self-driving pods
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Jaguar Land Rover fits virtual eyes to intelligent self-driving pods

The intelligent self-driving pods have large "virtual eyes" to interact with other road users, making "eye contact" with pedestrians to signal intent, and these are part of engineers' work with psychologists to understand human trust in autonomous vehicles.