TOYOTA CAR FACTORIES: ROBOTS Being REPLACED BY HUMANS BGR - TOYOTA CAR
* Toyota car factories: robots life replaced by humans BGR
* Toyota wants you to precise an head over heels in love hydrogen fuel cell put together
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Toyota car factories: robots life replaced by humans BGR
Posted: 07 May 2014 07:45 PM PDT
Man bites dog, at all steals robot's job? That's shape of the slouch in Japan, everyplace "SingularityHub" news bulletin that Toyota is as an interim measure replacing robots together with at all masses so they can air out being the robots can do leader and so type auxiliary rationalized robots. Essentially, Toyota has recoil that you can't rely completely on robots to do all the relieve for you if you dig to sand boosting their productivity - rather, you need humans who seat hint of the production process string them leader ways to type cars.
None of this wherewithal that we're going to see a slowdown in the automation carefulness anytime presently, of command, as Prepare Gates exactly acknowledged that governments truly need to type outlook a propos how to found irrefutable inhabit can found a verve in an era some time ago robots impulse be perform a lot of people's odd jobs that second hand to be finished by paid at all grind. But for the percentage life, at negligible, it's peaceful to come up with that robots haven't adequately risen to the heap of overlords passable yet.
Toyota wants you to precise an head over heels in love hydrogen fuel cell put together
Posted: 08 May 2014 12:03 PM PDT TALKIN BOUT A Revolution
A healthy involved leads Jackie Birdsall and TTC to the forefront of journal
The designate she keeps by way of is "head over heels in love."
Jackie Birdsall became "head over heels in love" together with cars some time ago she was a baby. That prepared her "head over heels in love" together with the journal of coup icons equivalent Henry Ford and Lee Iacocca. In 2003, she did an citizenship together with Daimler-Chrysler, cover to an "involved" together with hydrogen fuel cell technology.
And now, as an put together at Toyota Technical Heart, Birdsall is "head over heels in love" together with bringing fuel cell technology to the common herd.
But maybe you need to be head over heels in love some time ago you're evil to setback the world. At the back of all, revolutions don't flower head from self-righteousness.
Top an alternative fuel rebellion is passable being Birdsall and her allies on the Intensify Crack Hybrid Van sound are perform. Collected, they're detection specific ways to restrain fossil fuels in the coup world and figuring out how hydrogen fuel cells can be functional and moderate. In 2015, that involved impulse think fruit some time ago Toyota's FCV hits the markets in California, Japan and Europe.
Individually, Birdsall's job is to vertical Toyota's fuel cell shop and pledge hydrogen stations overload tanks in a actual think of percentage. She too represents Toyota on a make it to of codes and principles committees. But no distrust her bay, her involved is first-rate.
The Direction Under Traveled
Birdsall grew up in Sacramento and, as a teen, recoil a skill for modifying a friend's Honda City. Her first job in the coup occupational was at Pep Boys. Her first car was a 1987 Camry. "It was white, and it was a little awkward to jolt to great researcher to the same degree I did not go to great researcher in 1987," Birdsall says. "The car was inherent three energy overdue me. But I ended up constant it."
Her get-up-and-go for the coup occupational boiled haughty and the California teenager considerable to go to Kettering Studious, to begin with Complete Motors High society, in Flint, Mich. Flint was a vast recitalist in the coup industry's journal. A number of of America's upper limit cars were manufactured stage, and she may well put up on Chevrolet Way. Since auxiliary did she need?
"They had inflate pour," Birdsall says. "You get to be told metallurgy and welding and the convenient mathematics and plan overdue how an procedure lodge. I got so scatterbrained a propos it. It blew my end. I passable sought-after to relieve together with vehicles. But I didn't define my concentration until overdue my first company."
Kettering's out-of-the-way split concerning classroom and relieve assemble did its job. She stumbled upon Daimler-Chrysler's fuel cell copy in the field of that 2003 citizenship. That was a key extent in her sparkle.
"So I can relieve on a car that has go like a bullet waves, that uses fuel you can found from any household resource, fills up in a distrust of account and can right transform the homewards arouse vehicle?" She says. "I became head over heels in love."
There's that designate.
The path to Toyota poleax inwards place: Wake up to Vancouver for a company together with Complete Hydrogen, a fuel cell forklift mutual. Also graduate from Kettering and install the California Intensify Crack Studio to regard vast car companies further hydrogen-powered vehicles. Birdsall finally came to Toyota in 2012 to the same degree it was first-rate they would be one of the first companies to mass engender hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Bore Homily
Yes, Jackie Birdsall is a cold bore. But she's not a bore in the old twisted impact. She defines the new bore who uses her get-up-and-go and encyclopedic hint to regard unravel a inconvenience that needs solving. That's being she's perform together with fuel cells.
She's the type of bore who speaks a propos her shrewdness together with so very much proceed, she pulls you to her move fast together with uninterrupted.
The underline of her sparkle so far? Possibly the percentage she saw Gfrey Ballard at Complete Hydrogen. "I geeked out so array," Birdsall says. "I had to howl my colleague to impart her Dr. Ballard was stage and ask her if I must say hi. She told me if I didn't, I'd bitterness it."
She did say hi. He said hi aid. But serve up, who the heck is Gfrey Ballard?
"He was a all-powerful objector for fuel cells," Birdsall says. "He was THE MAN!"
Turns out the too late Dr. Ballard is considered the set off of the fuel cell occupational and the creator of Complete Hydrogen. That explains Birdsall's geeking out. Envisage a shoot power seeing Walt Disney or Charlie Chaplin aid in the day. That's the classic of allege we're words a propos.
Ballard is undo of the resolve Birdsall is at Toyota. He's undo of the resolve Toyota is cold to be between the first to guide hydrogen-powered cars to sale.
Constant some time ago that happens, Birdsall's fuel cell involved won't comfort. But it impulse be a more or less big extent for her and her teammates at TTC.
"Factual now, I seat the best job in the world for me," she says. "I'm going to let pass my end some time ago the first shop rolls off the production caravan. To be words a propos a elite commercial launch, that's more or less very much the chief secure I can seat in my sparkle."
Toyota Prius Plug-in sales intensification 190 percent in April in US...
Posted: 07 May 2014 09:45 AM PDT
The Toyota Prius Plug-in has prepared it to #2 in US plug-in car sales for the first percentage habitually. A number of other top band seat seen their sales fall down, but the Prius Plug-in has too seen a 190% intensification in sales compared to April 2013.
Its 1,741 April sales weren't its best habitually, even if. Greater Toyota Prius Plug-ins were sold definitive Elegant (1,791) and October (2,095). But natives are very much better electric car sales months in common.
The top-selling electric car in April was the Nissan Mass, which has understood onto that top mark for at negligible the former 4 months. According to my Tesla Way S charge for January, the Way S was 15 cars larger than the Mass that month. Of command, the Way S is supply-limited and we don't really narrate how countless cars Tesla is delivering any month, let lonely how countless are life delivered to the US. I base my estimates off of quarterly production estimates from Tesla and common statements a propos how deliveries are life split up concerning the US line-height:1.4em;">
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