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XPeng launches ‘Smart Driving Points’ beta, eerily similar to Tesla’s ‘Safety Score’

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in News, Technology

Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors has taken a play out of Tesla’s book and will implement a ‘Smart Driving Points’ scoring system to...

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U.S. autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600 million for $8.6 billion valuation

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Finance, News

Autonomous delivery vehicle maker Nuro raised $600 million in its latest funding round, the Silicon Valley-based startup said on Tuesday,...

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Autonomous vehicles get ‘x-ray’ vision

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in News, Technology

Researchers in Australia claim to have developed a technology that gives autonomous vehicles ‘x-ray vision’ to detect pedestrians and...

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Korean autonomous driving startup 42dot bags $88.5M Series A to accelerate its growth

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

42dot, a South Korea-based autonomous transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) startup, announced today it has raised $88.5 million (104 billion...

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Zoox CEO overhauling Amazon’s robotaxi unit ahead of Las Vegas commercial launch

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Zoox, the Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving company purchased by Amazon last year, is undergoing a review and reorganization of...

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Older Teslas need upgraded cameras to get full self driving

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in News, Technology

In 2016, Tesla said that all of its vehicles would be equipped with the necessary hardware to achieve fully-autonomous driving. It turns...

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Autobrains announces $101 million Series C funding led by Temasek

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Autobrains, developer of first-of-its-kind self-learning artificial intelligence...

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Zoox CEO overhauling Amazon’s robotaxi unit ahead of Las Vegas commercial launch

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Cars, News

Zoox, the Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving company purchased by Amazon last year, is undergoing a review and reorganization of...

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Teleoperation and the future of safe driving

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

More than a decade ago, the major AV companies made a promise. They claimed that autonomous vehicles would by now be completely...

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Dump truck accident pours liquid asphalt from overpass onto vehicles below, providing lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Asphalt is all around us, that’s for sure. Our highways are typically made of asphalt. Streets are made from asphalt. Parking lots....

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When will we have widespread autonomous vehicles?

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

How far away are autonomous cars? On this episode of “The 5,” recorded on Oct. 21, Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Jason Hall,...

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Shaping the future of autonomous mobility

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Technology

Technology and automotive industry players have established a cross-industry partnership to drive the development of automated driving....

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Autonomous vehicles to be deployed in Clearwater Beach

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Buses, News

Autonomous vehicles may soon drive around Clearwater Beach. During a city workshop meeting Monday, council members discussed an agreement...

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Why do Tesla fans say they don’t experience drowsiness & distraction on Autopilot?

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

As a Tesla driver who has used Autopilot plenty (for years) and has had FSD Beta for a few weeks, let me try to answer this question...

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UAEU and Ericsson sign MoU at GITEX GLOBAL to develop and test 5G autonomous driving use cases

Posted on Oct 31, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), the oldest university in the UAE, and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have announced the signing of a...

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The world is square

Posted on Oct 31, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

How we choose to describe something very often constrains how we think about it. For example, placing the adjective “flat” in front of...

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UAEU and Ericsson sign MoU at GITEX GLOBAL to develop and test 5G autonomous driving use cases

Posted on Oct 31, 2021 in News, Technology

  United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), the oldest university in the UAE, and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have announced the signing of a...

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Cyngn Inc. sets IPO at 3.53 million shares; sees pricing at $7.50-$9.50 each

Posted on Oct 30, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

Cyngn Inc. on Thursday said it plans to sell nearly 3.53 million shares at between $7.50 and $9.50 apiece in its initial public offering....

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Aurora releases first commercial beta of Aurora Driver autonomous driving system

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 in News, Technology

Autonomous driving company Aurora has released its first commercial beta of the Aurora Driver, which consists of the hardware, software,...

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Keolis trials 5G-connected, remotely monitored autonomous electric minibus

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 in Buses, News, Technology

On 28 October 2021, Keolis and its partners – Ericsson, Telia, Urban ICT Arena, Intel and T-engineering – tested a 5G-connected, remotely...

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