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What does a desirable future that is worth living look like? How can individuality and digital transformation be reconciled? How can trust be established between humans and machines? A series of "FutureInsight" debates from Mercedes-Benz address questions like these. In these debates, Mercedes-Benz experts discuss such questions around the theme of mobility with academics, artists, media representatives and specialists from a wide range of fields. The aim is to gain inspiration and food for thought, which then can be helpful for their own future mobility activites. At the FutureInsight event in Berlin on 21 and 22 November, the focus was on empathy and trust as topics.For many people, the theme of "digital transformation" conjures up a vague feeling somewhere between fascination and uncertainty. Fascination because digital technologies can drastically simplify complex activities, find amazing solutions and offer unique opportunities. Uncertainty because futuristic visions of complete automation seem to leave little room for human individuality and our ability to act.Because there are diverse issues around digital transformation, Mercedes-Benz is basing its endeavours on "open innovation". Stakeholders from all different industries – business, research, art, industry or biology – are brought together for shared research purposes. The results are projects which consider the future of mobility from new perspectives and which produce exceptional problem-solving approaches. Mercedes-Benz presented some of these collaborative projects at the FutureInsight event in Berlin.A future with autonomous vehiclesHow do we establish trust between humans and machines? Autonomous driving is going to be an integral part of our future. When it comes to this topic, Mercedes-Benz regards empathy and trust as central factors for the success and acceptance of the transformation. The concept of "informed trust" takes on great importance here: "People need to be able to quickly and reliably gauge what an autonomous vehicle is going to do next. The vehicle must therefore provide information about its intentions in a way that people can grasp immediately and intuitively," says Alexander Mankowsky, a futurologist at Daimler. Based on this information, the person needs to be able to decide what they are going to do and how they are going to respond to the situation. Among other innovations at FutureInsight, for this purpose Mercedes-Benz introduced concepts for a "cooperative vehicle". Projects with external providers demonstrate further possibilities for how future autonomous vehicles could communicate and work together with their surroundings.
Toledo, Spain, Apr 14 (EFE), (Camera: Ángeles Visdómine).- Construction workers have returned to work on Tuesday in Toledo after the Spanish government decided to reopen non-essential industries.FOOTAGE OF WORKERS AND CHECK STOPS BY POLICE.
Seville (Spain) Apr 13 (EFE), (Camera: David Arjona).- Several sectors and industries, such as construction, went back to work on Monday after the Spanish government allowed a re-open in a bid to help the economy to recover.FOOTAGE OF WORKERS IN SEVILLE, SPAIN.
European foreign ministers have extended sanctions on Russia's energy, finance and defence industries until the end of January 2016. As Elena Casas reports, that comes as Belgium unblocks Russian bank accounts frozen last week in a dispute over the assets of defunct oil firm Yukos.
What does a desirable future that is worth living look like? How can individuality and digital transformation be reconciled? How can trust be established between humans and machines? A series of "FutureInsight" debates from Mercedes-Benz address questions like these. In these debates, Mercedes-Benz experts discuss such questions around the theme of mobility with academics, artists, media representatives and specialists from a wide range of fields. The aim is to gain inspiration and food for thought, which then can be helpful for their own future mobility activites. At the FutureInsight event in Berlin on 21 and 22 November, the focus was on empathy and trust as topics.For many people, the theme of "digital transformation" conjures up a vague feeling somewhere between fascination and uncertainty. Fascination because digital technologies can drastically simplify complex activities, find amazing solutions and offer unique opportunities. Uncertainty because futuristic visions of complete automation seem to leave little room for human individuality and our ability to act.Because there are diverse issues around digital transformation, Mercedes-Benz is basing its endeavours on "open innovation". Stakeholders from all different industries – business, research, art, industry or biology – are brought together for shared research purposes. The results are projects which consider the future of mobility from new perspectives and which produce exceptional problem-solving approaches. Mercedes-Benz presented some of these collaborative projects at the FutureInsight event in Berlin.A future with autonomous vehiclesHow do we establish trust between humans and machines? Autonomous driving is going to be an integral part of our future. When it comes to this topic, Mercedes-Benz regards empathy and trust as central factors for the success and acceptance of the transformation. The concept of "informed trust" takes on great importance here: "People need to be able to quickly and reliably gauge what an autonomous vehicle is going to do next. The vehicle must therefore provide information about its intentions in a way that people can grasp immediately and intuitively," says Alexander Mankowsky, a futurologist at Daimler. Based on this information, the person needs to be able to decide what they are going to do and how they are going to respond to the situation. Among other innovations at FutureInsight, for this purpose Mercedes-Benz introduced concepts for a "cooperative vehicle". Projects with external providers demonstrate further possibilities for how future autonomous vehicles could communicate and work together with their surroundings.
Two days after a major earthquake struck eastern Taiwan, relief work continues beside a heavily leaning building in the city of Hualien. IMAGES
Emergency crews work near a heavily-tilted building in Hualien Thursday morning after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area the day before. IMAGES
Images of demolition crews working on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor, Maryland, which was destroyed in seconds last Tuesday when a cargo ship lost power and hit a bridge support column, killing six people. Authorities hope that removing the bridge -- by cutting it into smaller sections and lifting them out -- will help rescuers recover all the victims' bodies and eventually reopen the crucial shipping lane. IMAGES
Images show the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore as workers have lifted out the first 200-ton chunk of the bridge. Work is underway to complete the lengthy process of removing the structure, which collapsed when the Dali cargo vessel lost power and struck the bridge, killing six people. IMAGES
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