An experimental new dashboard computer can not only keep track of your behavior behind the wheel, but even predict what you’re about to do next.
With the vast majority of road accidents resulting from driver error, and distraction a growing problem thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones, carmakers are increasingly exploring ways to track driver behavior behind the wheel. Volvo, GM, and others are already testing systems that will monitor head and eye positions to pick up on signs of distraction.
Acciona ha vendido Acciona Windpower, su filial de fabricación de aerogeneradores al grupo alemán Nordex, según anunció anoche la compañía. La operación dejará a Acciona como primer accionista del grupo alemán, con un 29,9% del capital. El resultado será una de las mayores compañías del mundo en este negocio.
La operación ha recibido el visto bueno de los mercados: en los primeros momentos de la negociación la cotización de Acciona está en subasta de volatilidad; las órdenes marcan alzas cercanas al 6%.
Tres tercios de los fondos mutuos de acciones estadounidenses no han superado el desempeño del mercado durante la última década. El año pasado, 98% de los economistas proyectó un alza de las tasas de interés en Estados Unidos, pero en realidad cayeron. La mayoría de los analistas de energía no previó el colapso del precio del petróleo de US$145 el barril en 2008 a US$38 el barril hace unos meses, ni el repunte de 15% desde entonces.
Un nuevo libro sugiere que a los amateurs les podría ir mejor que a los expertos, siempre y cuando sigan algunas directrices.
New York City taxi medallions, once hailed as one of the best-performing investments in America, have fallen in value from over $1M in 2014 to nearly $650k in August 2015, a drop of more than 30%. Many are calling this the “Uber Effect,” because of the large number of drivers that have entered the New York City market without needing to purchase a previously costly medallion.
When Jeff Immelt made the biggest announcement in his 14 years as General Electric’s CEO this past April, he did it the same way he handles ordinary news, in an 8:30 a.m. conference call with Wall Street analysts. But this time the revelation was stunning: America’s eighth-largest company would sell most of its biggest business, GE Capital—source of half its profits in previous years. The big unknown: How would Wall Street respond?
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Solar panels promise a lot – a cleaner, cheaper, renewable energy source, harnessed from the abundant rays of the sun. But the technology created to pull in that sun power can only go so far per square foot, depending on the panel.
SolarCity, the sun-powered startup founded by Elon Musk’s cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive, announced today that it has created the world’s most efficient solar panel, with a 22 percent module-level efficiency. Compare that to SunPower’s close rival X-Series panels at 21.5 percent module-level efficiency.
GE Capital has signed nearly $95 billion in deals to reduce its size as of the end of the third quarter, the company reported on Wednesday. The news comes less than six months after Jeff Immelt told investors that GE would become a more focused digital industrial company and sell most of its banking operations.
Last season, the Los Angeles Lakers paid Kobe Bryant $23.5 million as he sat on the bench indefinitely with a torn rotator cuff. That’s just a fraction of the $500 million that injured players’ salaries cost professional sports teams last year alone.
