With the trend of increased adoption of shopper electronics within the automotive industry, the design of the center console is undergoing a major shift. From Tesla’s perspective it’s going to simplify the business and increase efficiencies. For instance, Tesla will no longer must promote or deliver automobiles, and it’ll even be much easier for Tesla to handle and repair its personal large fleet of vehicles than it would be to service millions of automobiles owned by individual prospects (no more appointments, customer interactions, etc.).

To energy these systems, TI has additionally announced a brand new OMAP 5 chip codenamed Jacinto 6 tailor made for automotive functions. It’s bought two Cortex A15 cores, two Cortex M4 cores and PowerVR SGX-544 graphics to supply ample computing power and electrical effectivity. We cannot be seeing DLP in-dash techniques in showrooms anytime quickly – Jacinto 6 won’t go into production until 2014 – however TI has introduced a number of concept programs to CES, and you’ll see one in all them in a demo video after the break. Oh, and we’ll be bringing you an in-person look at TI’s wares from the present floor later this week, so stay tuned.

I feel it is extremely likely that in some unspecified time in the future within the next 10-20 years Tesla will merely promote autonomous mobility and promote very few, if any, autos. This is smart each for Tesla in addition to for customers. The folks seeing authorities brokers underneath ever mattress are going to be the first ones loaded into the boxcars by those same brokers, come the day. Rabbits and chickens are all the time simpler to catch than foxes and wolves.

The Nylon 66 was a huge gamble for Remington, as historically real” weapons had wooden shares. However it was an enormous success. The top outcome was that it turned essentially the most successful22-cal. rifle Remington has ever made, with total production of more than 1,000,000 by 1991 when the Nylon 66 was discontinued. The Nylons have been a love-’em or hate-’em” gun ever since they were launched. The looks and really feel have been definitely non-traditional. The love-’ems” appear to be profitable, judging by the collector interest and price escalation of the much less-widespread variations. Will Remington ever carry back this low-value, lightweight 22? Only time will tell.

So suggests Jonathan Dunlap, an automotive lighting engineer and product advertising manager with OSRAM SYLVANIA, the world’s main manufacturer of automotive lighting, in reference to an SAE paper regarding LED and power consumption of exterior vehicle lighting. Although the paper was written in 2008, the trend is now taking maintain, he says.