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March 5, 2023

What is the latest family history technology and innovation?

Using terms like augmented reality, artificial intelligence, the cloud, blockchain, social media and 5G, the RootsTech 2023 Innovation and Tech Forum highlighted some of the latest innovations, technology and platforms available in the world of family history.

The services and products go beyond the screen to connect families and friends to each other in the present and into the past — fitting into this year’s conference theme of “Uniting.”

Moderated by Dr. Nick Barratt, an author, broadcaster and historian best known for his work on BBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?”, the event on March 2 allowed representatives from nine companies to take to the main stage and have a few minutes to highlight their latest offerings.

Marco Polo

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The forum’s featured speaker was Vlada Bortnik, co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo — a popular video messenger app which allows users to have face-to-face connections with their family members and friends on their own schedule.

Bortnik said in founding the company, she and her husband asked themselves, “What do we want for our kids?” The answer was more happiness. In her research on happiness, she found an 80-year Harvard study that concluded, “relationships are the only things that matter in life,” Bortnik said. Close relationships in particular made for happier and healthier people.

The company’s purpose was born from that idea: to help people feel close. When sending a “polo” or video to someone else, the app’s users have privacy, no ads, no algorithms, likes or followers.

“Investing in your relationships is really important,” Bortnik said. “It’s important to you and to happiness. Take the time to invest. Take the time to prioritize using technologies that you trust.”

FamilySearch

Andy Gold from FamilySearch talked about how his team has worked hard to build technology to bring families closer together and be united.

He explained Computer-Generated Trees (CGT) — “They’re family trees, built in specific locales around the world for richly indexed historical records.”

FamilySearch processes these in the cloud, using machine learning, AI tools and clustering. Then they layer audits on top of that to make sure the trees are accurate.

“CGTs build the necessary scaffolding to house all the data necessary in tree form,” Gold said.

Complex connections are done in a matter of hours rather than thousands of hours of manual labor.

“This quickly brings family structures into focus for people that are trying to discover their families, and these are from entire populations of people, they come from millions of different types of records,” he said.

Gold showed images of birth, marriage and death records from several countries, and explained that the technology needed to be one system — like a pipeline — to process all that complex information, while following principles of the genealogical proof standard.

FamilySearch now has five new computer-generated collections online at familysearch.org/search/cgt — in Tasmania, Australia; Santa Catarina, Brazil; Pangasinan, Philippines; Nuevo Leon, Mexico; and Abruzzo, Italy.

“At the end of the day, our goal is to build software that emulates expert thinking at scale to assist both experts and non-experts discover relationships more efficiently,” Gold said.

Storied

Finn Larson and Cody Mortensen presented from Storied, a company that helps people start a tree from scratch or upload their family tree from another site.

They showed how to write stories on the site, by inputting a few details and then using AI to generate a draft.

“From there I can edit anything, delete anything, add my own voice and really make it my own. Sometimes staring at a blank page can be intimidating. But ‘story assist’ is here to help you get the ball rolling,” said Mortensen.

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Larson said the relationship tab of the website allows people to add any relationships to their tree, even enemies, teammates, friends or pets.

“Think about the characters in the stories in your lives. When we built a story-oriented family history service from the ground up, we knew we needed to support many types of relationships,” Larson said.

He said collaborative storytelling and relationships outside of the family tree will change the way that family history is both consumed and conducted.

Bank of Memories

Iryna Savytska, the CEO of Bank of Memories, a pay service allowing people to keep their private family network on blockchain, said data is lost every day while data keeps growing.

Between all the different apps and social media platforms, “there is no single place, for example, [where] my child can enter in 10 years from now and see something about my life,” Savytska said, while wearing a Ukrainian dress during her presentation to show how her country and family traditions are important to her.

“When you analyze where data is stored, you understand it’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time,” she said. Therefore decentralization and blockchain technology can give power over data back to people in a secure and reliable way.

By uploading an existing family tree to blockchain, she said, people can access that tree many years into the future.

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KinSame

KinSame is a startup company that uses computer vision technology to identify family relationships or kinships from images.

Looking at two photos, the software uses algorithms and machine learning to match and compare facial features, thus establishing familial connections — and the degree of kinship.

The software can also identify people in family portraits and older pictures and see who is who in the picture. Using meta data from genealogy companies, KinSame identifies who the people are and fills in age and gender.

“We can structure the database and galleries in a way that a person who’s previously unidentified will find their way to the family,” said CEO Warren Stein.

GENXT

Stas Nikolskiy with GENXT spoke about how his company uses a confidential computing network to search across databases without genetic data disclosure.

The service allows companies to find relatives for their customers in each other’s databases without data disclosure.

“There are only five leading databases of which exceed 1 million individuals,” he said, “Databases of [an] average company range from 1,000 to 100,000 individuals, which is not enough for a reasonable number of matches.”

He said personal genomics companies can not access genetic data of others, but his company can communicate matches to its customers in their preferred format.

Ericsson

Oscar Johnson from Ericsson demonstrated the use of augmented reality and virtual reality in storytelling.

“5G is the combinatorial effect to bring immersive content off the computer, out of the building, out of your home, off your Wi Fi network, and deliver that immersive content anywhere,” Johnson said.

Ericsson’s new platform is called, “Every Place Has a Story,” or EPHAS. Johnson showed a video of how the platform used maps, graphics, audio and visual features with augmented reality to tell the story of a battle in the former Soviet Union.

“When the limitations of technology disappear, the only thing that remains is your imagination,” Johnson said.

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Synium Software

Benjamin Günther, the CEO of Synium Software, demonstrated the company’s MacFamilyTree app, which can be purchased for Macs, iPhones and iPads.

“It has always been our core belief that family history is so much more than just a list of names,” Günther said. He said their app allows an immersive, engaging and innovative way to discover family history.

It has built-in FamilySearch integration, and the user can scan for relatives or look for photos of families or people and then with one click, download the information.

The app allows people to colorize black and white photos or enhance the quality of legibility on older documents with machine learning and artificial intelligence. Users also can sync with different devices, create visual family trees, family books, charts and visuals.

MyHeritage

The company MyHeritage has had a lot of attention recently as people share the results of its “AI Time Machine” on social media. The senior vice president of product, Maya Lerner, showed on the screen a picture of herself depicted as a woman in many different historical periods.

The technology uses the photos of one person to construct a model of that person in a variety of poses. Then, using a series of predefined historical themes, it synthesizes the model with motifs from the themes to create images from the past — casting that person as a historical figure.

As the AI Time Machine has gone viral on social media, Lerner said it has drawn new audiences into genealogy.

“People are saying that it shows them how much they resemble their ancestors,” she said. “All of a sudden they see themselves in these historical things, and they feel like they look very much alike. This got them to pay tribute to their ancestors and post on social media all these beautiful stories about them.”

Lerner said the company noticed that the AI images actually also empowered women to feel good about themselves. “Who knew the past could make you feel so good about the present?” she said.

More about RootsTech 2023

RootsTech is an annual family history and technology conference sponsored by FamilySearch, which is a nonprofit genealogical organization operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

RootsTech 2023 kicked off on March 2 and goes through March 4 in Salt Lake City. After two consecutive years of being held completely online, this year’s conference has events both in-person and online.

The first day’s events also included the 2023 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction, and a keynote address from singer Jordin Sparks.

March 4, 2023

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March 3, 2023

Technology students earn several awards in regional conference

The university’s OTSA (Oswego Engineering Student Affiliation) concluded 1st in a few competitions, and in the best 3 in many other individuals, in a prestigious regional conference in Delaware.

OTSA traveled to Rehoboth Seaside to take part in the yearly TEECA (Engineering and Engineering Schooling Collegiate Association) East Regional Conference, section of ITEEA (Intercontinental Engineering and Engineering Educators Affiliation).

In the three-day conference held just about every slide, students from higher instruction institutions across the east coast participate in a collection of fingers-on and interactive competitions. TEECA’s mission is to support students use what they learn in the classroom and collaborate on fun and special creations alongside their peers.

OTSA’s team of college students, faculty and related machines arrived in Delaware adhering to the 8-hour drive from SUNY Oswego and participated in day one of the festivities. They scored their original initially-location complete with Sport On Night time, a new addition to the meeting, which involved a 3-on-3 basketball match and volleyball online games for the faculties to crack a sweat and split the ice in advance of the key occasion.

With the assist of school member Mark Springston, who was accountable for pitching the concept, the tournament was a bonding exercise that established the phase for competitive occasions.

Scoring wins

Represented by president Bryleigh Beauchat, students Ben Sullivan, Zach Hilbert, Jack Hickey, Prosperous Sgueglia, Springston and coaches Maggie Romano and Adam Parente in the basketball match, OTSA completed to start with in the inaugural contest.

A unique twist of the basketball competition was that it coincided with the Interaction Challenge, as college students utilised the footage from the video games to produce a athletics documentary.

Although OTSA marched to victory throughout the basketball game titles, Beauchat checked in with team members Eliza Sarigiannis and Taylor Mackowiak for the Communications Challenge, which she was also a section of. Shortly after the 3-on-3 competition concluded, Beauchat, Sarigiannis and Mackowiak would shell out the upcoming day organizing and enhancing the footage they recorded to get ready for submission.

“We had 24 hrs in the Communications Challenge to produce, edit, do any voiceovers we may possibly want and post the video the future day,” Beauchat reported. “It was grind time to get that all in.”

Despite the fast turnaround, the workforce built a concerted energy to create a significant-top quality movie, modeling it soon after the ESPN documentary movie collection “30 for 30.” The determination led to a initial-spot complete in the competition, as the staff credited the interviews performed through the 3-on-3 contest and the sturdy basketball enjoy in securing the victory.

“The aid of Eliza and all people else on OTSA… assisted us get that added edge on the video clip,” explained Beauchat.

The video also marked a indicator of redemption for Beauchat and Mackowiak. The duo participated in the Communications Problem through the ITEEA Meeting in March 2022 but felt the video clip submission they created did not satisfy their have superior expectations.

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OTSA also concluded 1st in the Difficulty Fixing Obstacle. In this competition, college students Parente, Sgueglia and Daniel Corridor had been dependable for bringing assigned supplies to the convention to assistance establish a alternative to a distinct challenge.

“Huge accomplishment,” Beauchat reported of the victory. “I’m tremendous happy they have been capable to dedicate the time, get the job done, and effort and hard work.”

The following two times saw the colleges participate in the remaining eight issues, which includes the Built-in STEM and Manufacturing Difficulties, exactly where OTSA concluded second in each activities, and Robotics and Instructing Lesson, where by OTSA concluded 3rd in equally.

“We appear nearer jointly as peers… doing work together on a venture, where by you have a chance to win an award,” mentioned Beauchat. “We’re developing some thing of our personal that’s not primarily based on regardless of whether we pass or are unsuccessful.”

Every single crew represented by OTSA completed in the leading a few at the TEECA East Conference, as they reaped the positive aspects of their crucial planning and difficult work for the duration of the occasion.

OTSA will organize the function in the course of the drop 2023 convention in the exact same area, and appears to repeat its general performance from the final TEECA and the approaching ITEEA meeting in April. People accomplishments crafted on some achievements at past year’s ITEEA meeting, including a second place in the Countrywide Communications Problem.

Eegardless of what is next, technology professor and faculty advisor Richard Bush will reminisce on his team’s unforgettable operate.

“Sometimes in the earlier, we occur home a tiny light on the trophies,” Bush reported. “This was really thriving, and we’re happy of our achievements.”

For much more facts on OTSA, email otsa@oswego.edu.

— Written by Andy Guity of the Class of 2023

March 2, 2023

Apple suppliers are racing to exit China, AirPods maker says

Apple Inc.’s Chinese suppliers are probable to transfer potential out of the country considerably a lot quicker than lots of observers foresee to pre-empt fallout from escalating Beijing-Washington tensions, according to 1 of the US company’s most significant companions.

AirPods maker GoerTek Inc. is one particular of the a lot of manufacturers checking out areas outside of its indigenous China, which now cranks out the bulk of the world’s gizmos from iPhones to PlayStations. It is investing an first $280 million in a new Vietnam plant while thinking about an India expansion, Deputy Chairman Kazuyoshi Yoshinaga said in an interview. US tech firms in specific have been pushing really hard for suppliers like GoerTek to investigate option destinations, claimed the government, who oversees GoerTek’s Vietnamese operations from northern Bac Ninh province.

“Starting from past month, so a lot of people today from the consumer aspect are browsing us pretty much every day,” Yoshinaga said from his places of work at GoerTek’s sprawling industrial elaborate north of Hanoi. The subject matter that dominates conversations: “When can you shift out?”

The expanding conflict between the US and China, which commenced with a trade war but has considering the fact that expanded to encompass sweeping bans on the trade of chips and cash, is spurring a rethink of the electronics industry’s a long time-outdated provide chain. The world’s reliance on the Asian country turned starkly very clear through the Covid Zero yrs, when Beijing’s restrictions choked off the source of all the things from telephones to automobiles.

Apple’s suppliers almost never comment on its thinking, in element simply because of the US company’s renowned insistence on secrecy throughout its world-wide source chain.

The Iphone maker has retained mum on irrespective of whether it plans to diversify out of China, which would entail revamping a design Chief Government Officer Tim Cook dinner pioneered less than Steve Work opportunities. The US giant has been watchful to stay clear of recommendations it might lessen its expenditure in China, where it is designed an ecosystem centered on businesses these kinds of as GoerTek and Foxconn Technology Team, which collectively utilize tens of millions.

Powering the scenes, 9 out of 10 of Apple’s most vital suppliers may be making ready large-scale moves to international locations like India, which is dangling incentives to generate Narendra Modi’s Make in India initiative. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it could take eight years to go just 10{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of Apple’s potential exterior of China.

The GoerTek govt argues it’ll be far more quickly.

Most Chinese tech suppliers are suffering from the similar pressure. “I would say currently 90{515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} of them, they are wanting at that,” he extra. “It’s the brand name companies’ choices.”

India is superior on clients’ want-lists — a reflection of its opportunity the two as a market place and a manufacturing foundation.

“We get requests from our shoppers nearly just about every thirty day period. ‘Do you have any designs to extend to India?’” Yoshinaga stated. “If they make a decision to create up the manufacturing lines in India, we may possibly have to believe about it significantly. At present we are focusing on producing our Vietnam output services.”

Vietnam for now is the company’s sole producing site outside the house of China. The envisioned new 62-hectare complicated in Bac Ninh will make products for significant US brands and is expected to be operational within just a 12 months, Yoshinaga instructed Bloomberg Information. That financial commitment will include to the $1.06 billion of commitments that GoerTek’s designed in Bac Ninh and the north-central province of Nghe An, he included.

GoerTek, which also ideas to manufacture virtual truth headsets in Vietnam from 2024, expects the Southeast Asian place to develop extra than fifty percent of its global revenues in a few many years, up from one-3rd now, Yoshinaga claimed. The corporation is also inquiring its own suppliers to scout northern Vietnam for new factories, he reported. It would make Quest digital truth headsets for Meta Platforms Inc. and Sony Team Corp.’s PSVR equipment.

GoerTek set up operations in Vietnam a 10 years in the past to make acoustic solutions at the ask for of Samsung Electronics Co., he claimed. The supplier now operates 8 crops in the state, and expects to double its regional workforce to 40,000 as before long as May possibly to ramp up for Xmas, Yoshinaga mentioned.

Vietnam’s proximity to China, a coastal community of ports, young educated workforce and relative political stability make the Southeast Asian nation an best hub, he explained. But an anti-corruption marketing campaign, which led to the the latest dismissal of the president and two deputy key ministers, is unsettling, reported Yoshinaga, who explained he’s expressed that issue to officers.

Led by Communist party main Nguyen Phu Trong, the energy has rattled markets and traders. In 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced an anti-corruption probe aimed at the nation’s $60 trillion money sector.

“They learn too a lot from China,” Yoshinaga mentioned of Vietnam’s management. “Doing some thing about corruption is superior. But really do not go way too much and generate an unstable political surroundings.”

For now, Vietnam continues to be an beautiful area. Apple may be searching to make the region a manufacturing hub for AirPods, iPads and MacBooks. AirPods orders are dominated by GoerTek and fellow Chinese agency Luxshare Precision Marketplace Co., which much too has a complex in north Vietnam.

Numerous US companies are scheduling to shift creation there, no matter of charge, Yoshinaga claimed. Many others like Jabil Inc. are considering India. But all round, the flow is continuously going to be outward from China, he mentioned.

“I really don’t assume it’s likely to return. It is one-way.”

March 1, 2023

Feb. 28- March 6, 2023 Innovation & Tech Today

Every day we wake up, consume some espresso, get all set for do the job and check out on the newest tech information. Here’s a handful of stories from around the tech earth condensed to suit into your initial cup. These are some points you have to have to know ahead of you phase foot out of your door (or in front of a webcam) and into the tech world this morning.

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Area 230 Go well with

The U.S. Supreme Court read oral arguments in a landmark scenario to determine whether web businesses can be held liable for directing end users to incitement to violence on their platforms. The situation could decide regardless of whether the liability protections contained in Section 230 of Communications Decency Act of 1996 are constitutional.

The case was brought by the relatives of Nohemi Gonzalez, an American university scholar who was murdered during the 2015 terrorist assault in Paris, in opposition to Google and its YouTube movie support. Islamic Point out terrorists claimed duty for the assault that killed more than 130 individuals, including 90 at the Bataclan theater. A further 100 have been critically hurt.

Gonzalez’s household asserts that Google not only hosted violent content material on YouTube, but that its algorithm, and the thumbnails it designed, actively radicalized users by encouraging them to look at additional and additional of that violent information.

Gonzalez’s legal professional, Eric Schnapper, argued that YouTube, by disregarding recurring complaints about the algorithm serving violent ISIS video clips, aided and abetted the attack that killed Nohemi Gonzalez. Questioning by the Justices appeared to indicate their worry that a ruling in favor of the Gonzalez relatives would spark a wave of litigation.

AI Produced Art Loses US Copyright Protections

The U.S. Copyright Office dominated that graphics made by AI-run graphic turbines are not eligible for copyright defense.

In a letter resolved to the lawful counsel of writer Kris Kashtanova, the place of work revoked a past copyright issued to an graphic produced by Midjourney technologies for her comedian reserve Zarya of the Dawn. In the unique software, Kashtanova failed to disclose that AI generated the impression.

“We conclude that Ms. Kashtanova is the creator of the Work’s textual content as nicely as the range, coordination, and arrangement of the Work’s published and visual factors,” reads the copyright letter.

“That authorship is protected by copyright. Even so, as discussed underneath, the images in the Perform that have been generated by the Midjourney technological know-how are not the products of human authorship. Dependent on the report prior to it, the Workplace concludes that the visuals created by Midjourney contained in the Operate are not primary functions of authorship safeguarded by copyright.

Motorola Launches $5 Month-to-month Satellite Information Support

A new fob by Motorola, dubbed the Defy Satellite Connection, will empower smartphones to mail and obtain satellite texts in regions with no mobile signal. The unit will link to the Bullitt Satellite Messenger App on each Android and iOS telephones and is able of location sharing, crisis help and two-way messaging. The Motorola fob will retail for $99, which is significantly less costly than upgrading to a satellite-enabled smartphone.

Bullitt support strategies start off at about $5 for 30 satellite texts per thirty day period, with a totally free 12-month selection for SOS support. The prepare will go over North The us and Europe at launch, increasing to Central and South The usa, Africa and Australia by mid-2023, in accordance to CNBC.

Iphone 14 and afterwards arrive with one particular-way satellite texting, SOS, and place sharing, with two a long time of no cost services.

SpaceX Start Scrubbed After Last-Minute Ignition Problem

With only two minutes remaining till liftoff, the SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the Intercontinental House Station controllers it termed off. The start initially scheduled for 1:48 a.m. from Florida’s Kennedy Space Middle is expected to be rescheduled to 12:34 a.m. on Thursday, March 2.

SpaceX officials claimed there was a issue with the Falcon 9 rocket motor ignition program. Floor equipment could not verify there was a full load of ignition gasoline.

The mission is scheduled to supply a 4-astronaut crew, like two NASA astronauts, 1 Russian cosmonaut and the initial ever house traveler from the United Arab Emirates. They will reduce the 4-individual crew who have staffed the ISS considering that October.

SpaceX has a deal to produce the following eight missions to the ISS with its reusable Dragon 2 spacecraft. The craft has traveled to the ISS 33 situations, with 16 of these staying reflights.

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February 28, 2023

Amazon will spend $200 million on safety technology across its transportation network in 2023

Amazon will spend 0 million on safety technology across its transportation network in 2023

Basic safety is integral to all the things we do throughout our functions at Amazon—every working day, in each and every region, and in particular on the road. As we get the job done to provide for our shoppers, we continue on to innovate and advance security features in the vans and vans we deploy, retaining the security of our associates and communities the place we supply as our major priority.

A obstacle as elaborate as roadway security necessitates robust leadership across both the general public and personal sectors. Amazon has served direct the way in investments and innovations, and I’m proud to share some highlights of how Amazon is by now working toward the targets outlined in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Roadway Security Technique (NRSS). The examples below are each and every component of a $200 million financial investment in new security technologies, and part of our continuing perform to ensure Amazon cars and our shipping companions are secure on the street. It is our perception that the technological know-how we generate, together with improvements spearheaded by our field associates, can increase the bar on protection and reduce crash frequency and severity. And in numerous instances, these improvements are far better for the setting, far too.

As we follow by way of on our ongoing determination to basic safety, here are some of the tech-primarily based protection and sustainability options we’re continuing to make investments in this year:

We have outfitted our middle mile trucking network, which is liable for delivery packages to and from our functions sites before they’re dispatched for final mile delivery to consumers, with leading safety technology, including automated unexpected emergency braking, front-collision warning, stability management, lane-departure warning, aspect-object detection, adaptive cruise control, and pace limiters. Given that 2017, Amazon tractors have also been equipped with driver-experiencing cameras that can enable recognize unsafe behaviors, like distracted driving, so motorists can be coached to reduce all those behaviors from happening once more. Our trailers are outfitted with sensors to observe lights, anti-lock braking systems, cargo and doorway sensors, and more. Centered on our complete know-how deal, tools brands have indicated that Amazon is a pioneer in incorporating the most advanced security capabilities. And outside of our fleet, we have invested seriously in our route arranging navigation methods and predictive analytics software to better check fleet basic safety. All of this is embedded into our cell technological innovation, referred to as Relay, that connects carriers and motorists to Amazon, and offers them with navigation support, real-time driver-experiencing alerts, protection efficiency summaries, and extra security mastering.

We’re also investing to increase in-auto digicam security technological know-how across our final mile delivery community, which is verified to help cut down unsafe behavior in actual time by decreasing driver-controllable basic safety incidents. This technologies identifies basic safety activities and presents real-time alerts. We began outfitting Amazon-branded shipping vans in the U.S. with this engineering in 2020 and, because rolling it out, we have noticed a 35 {515baef3fee8ea94d67a98a2b336e0215adf67d225b0e21a4f5c9b13e8fbd502} reduction in accident costs across our network. This technological innovation is a activity-changer and will be in just about 100 p.c of Amazon branded cars by April 2023. This know-how is just 1 of the basic safety attributes in our custom electric shipping automobiles (EDVs) from Rivian, which are now delivering Amazon packages in a lot more than 100 cities nationwide. In addition, these vans include things like a 360-degree camera detection procedure so motorists can see accurately what’s following to them as they again up and flip, emergency braking, rollaway detection, and additional. Beyond these in-auto systems, our Fleet Edge technological innovation leverages details to strengthen our routing program to fix for widespread roadway concerns these types of as design, exact lane navigation, and unsafe maneuvers. This know-how has enhanced GPS precision by over 2.5 times considering the fact that we commenced screening it, which aids our motorists be each safer and more efficient—benefitting them, our communities, and our world.

As we seem to the future, we keep on to pilot chopping edge systems in the transportation area. For case in point, we’re presently piloting strobing brake gentle technology in some of our trailers to present larger visibility throughout braking to other people on the highway. This technologies has the potential to decrease rear-conclude collisions by as much as 30 p.c. And later this yr we’ll start off deploying an modern new security characteristic in our trucking fleet that uses electronic aspect mirror camera technologies to cut down blind spots and enhance the all round security of our now market-leading vehicles. As we pilot new systems and master about the safety efficacy, we’ll be equipped to make information-driven selections about no matter if and how to deploy these and other technologies broadly throughout our fleet of cars and trailers.

We’re energized about the development we’ve built to date and what our continued investments in 2023 will suggest as we work to constantly increase in the two protection and sustainability. We will continue on to devote and invent to make certain our vehicles, shipping vans, trailers, and motorists are among the the safest on the highway.