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CUTRIC Partners launch the first research group on smart and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

WINDSOR, ON, March 5, 2020 /CNW/ – The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is excited to announce...

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Americans still wary of self-driving cars, many worry about hacking

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, News

Only a small percentage of drivers in the United States  – about one in ten or 12% – said they trust automated vehicles (AV)...

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Ford Motor Company is using simulation to design the passenger experience for its future self-driving vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Technology

In the industry’s race to develop self-driving vehicles, most automakers are getting a little extra help from tech companies....

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Putting a non-driving robot inside an AI self-driving car could be a great help to human passengers

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

A ridesharing driver the other day aided a passenger that had a leg cast to get into his car. A mother recently helped her toddler put on...

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Ex-Uber autonomous driving exec owes Waymo $179 million

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, News

A San Francisco judge affirmed that Anthony Levandowski, the executive at the center of a 2017 lawsuit between Waymo and Uber over alleged...

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Starsky Robotics exits autonomous truck space

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in News, Trucks

Starsky Robotics became the first self-driving truck startup to cease operations after raising an estimated $17 million in venture capital...

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Tesla to release more self-driving features in March — city street autopilot?

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla plans to release more features to expand its full self-driving capabilities later this month, according to CEO Elon Musk. While Musk...

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Waymo’s next-generation self-driving system can ‘see’ a stop sign 500 meters away

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo unveiled its fifth-generation self-driving system Wednesday, which the Alphabet-owned company claims can see farther and more...

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Uber details VerCD, the AI tech powering its self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out...

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RTI joins consortium to speed delivery of safe, affordable autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News

An auto industry consortium aimed at bringing safe and affordable autonomous vehicles to market faster has added a member it believes can...

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General Motors to spend $20 billion through 2025 on new electric, autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

DETROIT – General Motors will spend more than $20 billion through 2025 on its next generation of all-electric and autonomous vehicles as...

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Is Elon Musk right? Are cameras the right answer for autonomous vehicles ?

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The use of wireless technologies is an integral part of modern life.  Radio, TV, Wi-Fi and Cellular technologies are part of the backbone...

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Five, the self-driving startup, raises $41M and pivots into B2B, away from building its own fleet

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the complexity of getting to that...

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Swift Navigation and Deutsche Telekom announce partnership

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

US: Swift ​​Navigation​, ​​a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, today announced...

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Autonomous mobility vehicles trialled at JFK Airport

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, News

The autonomous vehicles, introduced by British Airways, were exclusively trialled at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport....

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BSI releases automated vehicles safety specifications

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

The specification is said to be the first government and industry-backed standardisation programme that aims to help promote safe public...

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Can Tesla beat Google and Uber to self-driving car dominance?

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

“We cannot do it.” That’s all an engineer from one major Japanese automaker could say after seeing the central control...

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China’s Geely invests $326 million to build satellites for autonomous cars

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said on Tuesday it was investing 2.27 billion yuan ($326 million) in a new...

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How autonomous vehicles could reduce your office working hours

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

We’ve all been there. It’s a freezing cold day and the daily commute to work is coming up. You leave the house and turn onto the motorway,...

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This cheerful Waymo ad highlights all the ways we’ll use self-driving cars in our daily lives

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, News, Videos & Podcasts

Waymo came out with a new ad today that presents a cheerful, very Google-esque look at how the self-driving company plans to eventually...

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