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Arbe raises $32 million to bring its high-resolution radar to autonomous vehicles

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 in Editor’s Picks

It’s not enough for an autonomous vehicle to see the world around it. These vehicles need to understand in real time what they’re seeing....

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Einride CEO on autonomous trucks: ‘The biggest business opportunity in the history of mankind’

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 in News, Trucks

While much of the initial hype surrounding autonomous vehicles focused on cars, that attention has decisively shifted towards self-driving...

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Amazon-backed Aurora readies an air-traffic control system for self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Self-driving cars aren’t quite ready for large-scale commercial deployment, but as the technology advances most companies developing it...

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Let’s not get too excited by self-driving truck highway stunts

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 in Perspective, Trucks

I like a feel-good story as much as the next person. There has been a recent spate of media gushing about self-driving semi-trailer...

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Oxbotica integrating its autonomous vehicle software with ZF hardware

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Oxbotica, an autonomous vehicle software spinout from Oxford University, has signed an MoU with ZF to integrate its autonomous driving...

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Lofty promises for autonomous cars unfulfilled

Posted on Dec 15, 2019 in Cars, News

New York: The first driverless cars were supposed to be deployed on the roads of American cities in 2019, but just a few days before the...

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Yandex is developing lidar sensors and a camera for self-driving vehicles

Posted on Dec 15, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Yandex, the Russia-based company specializing in internet-related products and transportation services, is getting into the lidar sensor...

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Self-driving cars roll up slowly

Posted on Dec 13, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

I recently got a ride in an autonomous car. Very cool. I want one! Ever since October 2005, when a Stanford autonomous vehicle traversed...

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Bluespace.ai, a startup focused on AV technology for mass transit, gets $3.5 million in seed funding

Posted on Dec 13, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Bluespace.ai, a new autonomous driving startup focused on mass transit, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding...

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Carpool lanes to morph and disappear in an era of self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Carpool lanes are undeniably both beloved and hated. Drivers that can utilize one relish the fact that much of the time they have fewer...

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Ford adding to Austin self-driving car operation

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Ford Motor Co. is adding to its self-driving car testing operation in Austin, saying Dec. 11 it has secured two pieces of real estate that...

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Argo takes different road with VW, Ford to skirt self-driving challenges

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 in Cars, News

PITTSBURGH/DETROIT — Optimism about self-driving cars is giving way to tougher questions about how expensive automotive artificial...

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Continental: holistic human-machine interaction for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

To garner large-scale user acceptance and confidence for autonomous mobility solutions, the technology company Continental is developing a...

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Google’s self-driving car project buys British AI firm Latent Logic

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Waymo, Google’s self-driving car sibling company, has acquired the Oxford artificial intelligence company Latent Logic for an undisclosed...

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Lyft details the planning model behind its self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, News

Like Google, Uber, and countless other startups and tech giants, Lyft is developing cars it hopes will someday ferry passengers sans...

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Noodling on how much revenue self-driving cars will ultimately generate

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

How high is up? That’s the rhetorical question often posed when someone asks how much money self-driving cars will potentially be able to...

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StradVision’s SVNet software earns prestigious autonomous vehicle industry honor

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — StradVision, an innovator in vision processing technology for autonomous vehicles and...

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Cruise, GM-backed self-driving company, teases life ‘beyond the car’

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, News

Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by General Motors, is teasing an “alternative” to pollution-spewing, congestion-causing motor...

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Cruise, GM-backed self-driving company, teases life ‘beyond the car’

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, News

Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by General Motors, is teasing an “alternative” to pollution-spewing, congestion-causing motor...

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Volkswagen parent acquires stake in self-driving startup

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Porsche Automobil Holding SE has acquired a minority stake in Silicon Valley self-driving sensor startup Aeva Inc., the latest in a flurry...

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