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Yamaha Motor and Tier IV Establish JV for autonomous transportation service

Posted on Mar 26, 2020 in News, Technology

TOKYO, March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and Tier IV, Inc. today announced the launch of eve autonomy, Inc., a...

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First autonomous bus programme launched in Tainan, Taiwan

Posted on Mar 25, 2020 in Buses, News

Tainan City Government, Taiwan, has partnered with LILEE Systems, provider of self-driving technologies and system integrations, to launch...

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Is virus-inspired eNASCAR a glimpse at the autonomous racing future?

Posted on Mar 25, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Former General Motors vice chairman and car guru Bob Lutz created a buzz in the auto world three years ago when he described a dystopian...

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Navigant Research ranks NVIDIA as top automated vehicle compute platform

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 in Knowledge Center, News, Reports, Technology

In a recent Leaderboard report, Navigant Research ranks NVIDIA as the leading automated driving compute platform. Navigant ranks companies...

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Hyundai Mobis develops ‘in-cabin systems’ utilizing the state-of-the-art autonomous driving sensors one after another!

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Hyundai Mobis (KRX:012330) said that it successfully developed the system for detecting rear-seat passengers with a ‘radar’ (ROA, Rear...

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Starsky Robotics failed. Does that mean automated trucking is dead?

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 in Perspective, Trucks

I met Stefan Seltz-Axmacher for the first time in November 2015 at the Florida Automated Vehicles Summit. Not long after, we met at the...

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Breakthroughs in roadway edge computing are the missing link for self-driving car collaboration

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever been driving a car and found yourself reaching a veritable sensory overload in the act of driving the vehicle? It can...

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SoftBank nears deal to invest in Didi’s self-driving unit: The Information

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

(Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp is close to finalizing a deal to lead a $300 million investment in the autonomous driving unit of...

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Tesla files patent for sourcing self-driving training data from its fleet

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla has filed a patent on how to source training data from its large fleet of customer vehicles in order to train its self-driving...

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MIT CSAIL’s VISTA autonomous vehicles simulator transfers skills learned to the real world

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

In a recent study, researchers hailing from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Toyota Research...

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Rivian shuts down all facilities over COVID-19 pandemic concerns

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Trucks

Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle startup that is backed by Amazon and Ford, is shutting down all of its facilities due to the spread of...

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AUTOCRYPT officially joins 5GAA (5G Automotive Association) as an ITS security expert

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SEOUL, South Korea, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AUTOCRYPT, South Korea’s pioneer in security operations for C-ITS highways,...

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Will truck convoying be the first viable commercial application for AV technology?

Posted on Mar 21, 2020 in Perspective, Trucks

Industry Background: Trucking has long been seen as a potentially interesting application for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology. ...

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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...

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Waymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...

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The truth is that traffic lights won’t be shelved due to self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

It is a bit of a miracle that each day we drive around and encounter traffic signals that by the mere act of shining a light of differing...

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Baidu to build self-driving test facility in Chongqing as the Chinese city pushes ahead with smart city infrastructure

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

China’s Chongqing city government has tapped search giant Baidu to build a testing ground for autonomous vehicles, as Chinese cities race...

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Despite setbacks, coronavirus could hasten the adoption of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, News

This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of...

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LiDAR start-up Blickfeld closes Series A with participation of Continental and Wachstumsfonds Bayern

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of...

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Waymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, News

Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...

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