Kodak DX7590 Zoom Digital Camera
The Two Companies Join Forces to Combine Intermap’s Accurate Map Data
with Hella’s Industry-Leading Predictive Front Lighting Systems and
Expertise
DENVER LIPPSTADT, Germany — Intermap Technologies, the foremost worldwide 3D digital mapping
company, today announced a collaboration with Hella KGaA Hueck Co., a
leading provider of innovative driver assistance systems, regarding a
predictive front lighting system based on Intermap’s reliable 3D road
geometries.
The partnership integrates Intermap’s high-resolution 3D road
geometries, and information supplied by camera systems in an automobile,
into Hella’s front lighting demonstration system – ultimately providing
a significant increase in visibility for drivers at night and during
inclement weather by automatically directing the headlamp before the
driver manually steers the vehicle into a bend or up and down a slope.
“Intermap´s highly accurate 3D road data is a key enabler of our
map-based predictive front lighting application,” said Dr.-Ing. Georg
Florissen, Hella’s head of advanced development, driver assistance
systems lighting. “Overall, this integration of digital map data
provides a comprehensive and secure system, combining the data with
camera and other sensors to take our predictive front lighting systems
to the next level.”
Intermap senior vice president, automotive group, Eric DesRoche, said,
“Intermap has developed the world’s only database encompassing accurate
3D road geometry for every road in the United States and Western Europe.
It is important that vehicle safety systems encompass reliable 3D road
vectors for all classes of roads, including smaller rural roads, as
these are often where the more difficult curves, dips, and slopes are
encountered. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that certain vehicle
functions, such as lighting, can be operated via an independent 3D map
database, separate from onboard 2D navigation systems. This lighting
application is the first of many ADAS and safety applications,
leveraging Intermap’s reliable 3D maps, which we expect to see in the
next generation of passenger vehicles.”
E-mail, Internet Access and Digital Camera Top the List of Most
Desired Features
PRINCETON, N.J. — Long gone are the days when the average mobile phone user was content
with a built-in camera alone. According to a new study from ORC,
an Infogroup
company (NASDAQ: IUSA) one-fifth of Americans now own a multi-function
smartphone. Of the 29% of Americans who currently own the device or have
plans to purchase one in the coming year, the top three “must have
features” were cited as follows: e-mail (85%), Internet browser (78%)
and digital camera (73%). GPS appears to be a differentiator that might
bring additional consumers to the smartphone market, with 73% of
smartphone intenders listing this as a “must have” (compared to only 55%
of early adopters).
In addition to specific features of the phone itself, seven in ten (72%)
respondents are looking for a fast 3G or 4G network. Awareness of the
latest 4G network is still building among those not already using a
smartphone (41%), and among smartphone users who would already be
equipped to take advantage of the increased bandwidth, awareness is
nearly doubled at 81%.
“While having a smartphone with lots of features is certainly an
important selling point for mobile operators to promote, they must also
recognize user’s need for speed,” said Manuel Flores, Vice
President and Director of ORC’s Technology Market Insights Practice.
“With Verizon and ATT loudly fighting about the scope, quality and
speed of their 3G networks, Sprint, and its partner Clearwire, has
apparently been listening to their consumers and has somewhat quietly
begun to deploy its faster 4G network.”
To date, the US smartphone market is dominated by the messages of two
key players (Blackberry, 32% and Apple, 21%) and a disparate set of
market share seekers (a combined total of 42%) which includes Palm (6%),
LG (5%), Samsung (4%), HTC (4%), Motorola (3%), and Nokia (3%).
IN APRIL 2008, The Orange County Register published a bombshell of an investigation about a license plate program for California government workers and their families. Drivers of nearly I million cars and light trucks–out of a total 22 million vehicles registered statewide–were protected by a “shield” in the state records system between their license plate numbers and their home addresses. There were, the newspaper found, great practical benefits to this secrecy. “Vehicles with protected license plates can run through dozens of intersections controlled by red light cameras with impunity,” the Registers Jennifer Muir reported. “Parking citations issued to vehicles with protected plates are often dismissed because the process necessary to pierce the shield is too cumbersome. Some patrol officers let drivers with protected plates off with a warning because the plates signal that drivers are one of their own or related to someone who is.” The plate program started in 1978 with the seemingly unobjectionable purpose of protecting the personal addresses of officials who deal directly with criminals. Police argued that the bad guys could call the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), get addresses for officers, and use the information to harm them or their family members. There was no rash of such incidents, only the possibility that they could take place. So police and their families were granted confidentiality. Then the program expanded from one set of government workers to another. Eventually parole officers, retired parking enforcers, DMV desk clerks, county supervisors, social workers, and other categories of employees from 1,800 state agencies were given the special protections too. Meanwhile, the original intent of the shield had become obsolete: The DMV long ago abandoned the practice of giving out personal information about any driver. What was left was not a protection but a perk. Yes, rank has its privileges, and its clear that government workers have a rank above the rest of us. Ordinarily, if one out of every 22 California drivers had a license to drive any way he chose, there would be demands for more police power to protect Californians from the potential carnage. But until the newspaper series, law enforcement officials and legislators had remained mum. The reason, of course, is that the scofflaws are law enforcement officials and legislators.
Kodak DX7590 Zoom Digital Camera
If you found this page useful, consider linking to it.
Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site (Ctrl+C to copy)
It will look like this: Kodak DX7590 Zoom Digital Camera
Leave a Reply