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Local Motors, the leading vehicle
technology integrator and creator
of the world’s first 3D-printed
cars, today introduced the first
self-driving vehicle to integrate
the advanced cognitive computing
capabilities of IBM (NYSE: IBM)
Watson.
The vehicle, dubbed ‘Olli,’ was
unveiled during the Grand Opening
of a new Local Motors facility in
National Harbor, MD this morning,
and transported Local Motors CEO
and co-founder John B. Rogers, Jr.
along with vehicle designer Edgar
Sarmiento from the Local Motors
co-creation community into the new facility. The electric vehicle,
which can carry up to 12 people, is equipped with some of
the world’s most advanced vehicle technology, including IBM
Watson Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive, to improve
the passenger experience and allow natural interaction with the
Local Motors Debuts “Olli”, the First Self-driving Vehicle to Tap the
Power of IBM Watson
(JICSpOC).
A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) providing technical
details about Hallmark-ST is available at
http://go.usa.gov/xqqHm, and will be followed in the near future by a second
BAA encompassing additional Hallmark goals.
“We envision a system that would fuse information from
diverse sources and vastly reduce the overall time required
to make and execute decisions and observe results,” said
Brad Tousley, director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office
(TTO), which oversees Hallmark. “For example, an intuitive
user interface incorporating 3-D visualization technology
would present complex information in novel ways and
provide commanders with unprecedented awareness and
comprehension. An advanced testbed featuring playback and
simulation capabilities would significantly facilitate research
and development activities, experiments, and exercises
to evaluate new technologies for their impact on space
command and control capabilities.”
Specifically, Hallmark-ST seeks to design, develop, and
maintain a state-of-the-art enterprise software architecture
vehicle.
Starting today, Olli will be used on
public roads locally in DC, and late in
2016 in Miami-Dade County and Las
Vegas.
“Olli offers a smart, safe and
sustainable transportation solution
that is long overdue,” Rogers said.
“Olli with Watson acts as our entry
into the world of self-driving vehicles,
something we’ve been quietly
working on with our co-creative
community for the past year. We
are now ready to accelerate the
adoption of this technology and
apply it to nearly every vehicle
in our current portfolio and those in the very near future. I’m
thrilled to see what our open community will do with the latest
in advanced vehicle technology.”
Local Motors Debuts Olli, First Self-Driving Vehicle to Integrate
IBM Watson Local Motors CEO and co-founder John B.
that would be flexible, scalable, secure, and capable of
supporting tools and data from diverse sources. The
architecture would need to support the ability to model
current and future space situational awareness and command
and control tools, capabilities, subsystems, and systems, as
well as external capabilities and interfaces to support air,
cyber, land, and maritime environments.
The enterprise architecture would be the backbone of a long-
term testbed, the Hallmark Space Evaluation and Analysis
Capability (SEAC), anticipated to be located in Northern
Virginia. SEAC would provide for the effective development,
integration, modeling and simulation, and realistic testing of
software and decision-support processes relevant to space
command and control. It would also eventually contribute
to the rapid integration of technology into future space
enterprise command and control systems. Furthermore,
Hallmark personnel at SEAC would be integral to the actual
integration of external space command and control tools,
capabilities, and data, as well as execution of a number of
anticipated tests and scenario-based exercises.
Local Motors CEO and co-founder John B. Rogers, Jr. introduces
Olli, on Thurs., June 16, 2016 in Fort Washington, MD.
(Rich Riggins/Feature Photo Service for IBM)
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