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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

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And this entire system was engineered for human-driven vehicles. If one were starting from a blank sheet of paper designing for a world with autonomous cars, you probably wouldn’t have most of this stuff. various signs conveying context, traffic control mechanisms (stop lights, etc.),

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

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In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. million times.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. GrabCAD also had very high engagement in terms of the % of engineers actually sharing large, complicated CAD files in the system.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation. A hacker ethic is compatible with an urban setting just as design oriented one is compatible with a suburban one.