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3. Czech Republic ...............................................................................1,383.2 4. Japan ..................................................................................................1,096.4 5. China ..................................................................................................1,077.2 6. Germany............................................................................................1,067.0 7. Turkey.....................................................................................................963.0 8. Austria....................................................................................................922.1 9. Canada...................................................................................................892.0 10. Italy.......................................................................................................883.0

1. China ......................................................................................................803.8 2. Japan ......................................................................................................105.2 3. India......................................................................................................... 89.4 4. USA............................................................................................................78.8 5. Russia....................................................................................................... 70.9 6. South Korea ...........................................................................................69.7 7. Germany..................................................................................................42.7 8. Brazil .........................................................................................................33.3 9. Turkey.......................................................................................................31.5 10. Ukraine..................................................................................................23.0 The worldsteel list of the top ten steel-producing companies includes members and non-members of the Brussels-based organisation. Tonnages for 2015 for all types of steel including stainless (in millions of metric tons [MT]): 1. ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) .......................................................97.136 2. Hesteel Group (China)...................................................................47.745 3. Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp (Japanese) ........46.374 4. POSCO (South Korea) ....................................................................41.975 5. Baosteel Group (China).................................................................34.938 6. Shagang Group (China) ................................................................34.214 7. Ansteel Group (China)...................................................................32.502 8. JFE Steel Corp (Japan) ...................................................................29.825 9. Shougang Group (China) .............................................................28.553 10. Tata Steel Group (India)..............................................................26.314 worldsteel also provided a breakdown of the top ten steel consumers in 2015 on the basis of “apparent steel use per capita,” derived from deliveries of steel into the various countries’ marketplaces. (Totals here are in pounds.) 1. South Korea .....................................................................................2,455.0 2. Taiwan ................................................................................................1,654.7

Automotive

Its stealth Autopilot enables Tesla to gather more autonomous driving data – but rival Google has some advantages

Crowdsourcing, as de ned by Merriam-Webster, is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people. This spring, Tesla Motors Inc put its own stamp on the de nition. In the course of describing the performance of its Autopilot feature, an o cial of the Palo Alto, California-based maker of premium electric cars disclosed that that such “contributions” may not always be voluntary; or even perceptible to the contributor. (“Tesla Reveals Its Crowdsourced Autopilot Data,” 26 th May) As reported by Philip E Ross in IEEE Spectrum , Sterling Anderson, director of the Autopilot programme, said that Tesla installed the hardware of the feature in cars about a year before uploading the enabling software in October 2015. Speaking on 26 th May at a conference in San Francisco sponsored by MIT Technology

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