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Citywide gunshot detection could be bolstered via roaming AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Shots fired! It is certainly startling when you hear a loud bang that sounds like a gunshot. Imagine sitting in your living room and from...

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Today I’m talking to Bryan Salesky, the co-founder and CEO of Argo AI, a startup that’s trying to build the tech stack for self-driving...

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Waymo is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Joel Johnson laughs nervously from the backseat when his self-driving taxi stops in the middle of a busy road in suburban Phoenix. The...

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Perrone Robotics and Tropos Technologies announce partnership to develop fully autonomous electric compact utility vehicles

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

CROZET, Va., Aug. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Perrone Robotics, Inc., a leading provider of fully autonomous vehicle technology and...

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Meituan’s venture capital wing Long-Z invests in Chinese self-driving startup QCraft

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has invested in autonomous driving startup QCraft’s latest fundraising round of $100 million,...

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Autonomous trucks must pair with supply chain automation

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

The trucking and logistics industry has talked for years about how autonomous vehicles will be the solution to the driver shortage. The...

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More efforts are called for management of smart driving: analysts

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Sitting in the driver’s seat with breakfast in one hand while the other on the steering wheel, driving at 70-80 kilometers per hour...

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Driverless? No, but how about the car as co-pilot?

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

(Bloomberg) — Some 17 years ago, the U.S. military kicked off the race to build a self-driving car by sending a fleet of fledgling...

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Meituan’s venture capital wing Long-Z invests in Chinese self-driving startup QCraft

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Buses, Finance, News

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has invested in autonomous driving startup QCraft’s latest fundraising round of $100 million,...

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The Nuro EC-1

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on...

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LightWare gives machines EYES with the world’s smallest scanning microLiDAR™

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in News, Technology

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — LightWare LiDAR LLC, is now shipping the smallest and lightest scanning LiDAR on the...

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Perrone Robotics hires international transportation and transit veteran Joseph Holmes as Vice President of Global Business Development

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in News, Technology

CROZET, Va., Aug. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Perrone Robotics, Inc., a leading provider of fully autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and...

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True Level 5 autonomy isn’t possible, & nobody really even wants that

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

I know that headline alone is going to give a few people on here an aneurysm, but before you get mad enough to fall over dead (or faint...

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Using AI self-driving cars to detect and help curtail eyesore graffiti around us

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Graffiti can invoke quite heated debates. Some assert that graffiti is a blight, a blemish, altogether offensive, and ought to be...

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Ecopia AI creates HD map of Toronto for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in News, Technology

Ecopia AI (Ecopia) has announced that it is creating a high-definition (HD) map for the City of Toronto that will be leveraged to...

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Temasek-backed tech startup Innovusion raises $66 million

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

Innovusion Holdings Ltd – a startup that develops laser-based detection systems used in self-driving vehicles known as LiDAR –...

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Tesla pushes new Full Self-Driving Beta update, don’t hold your breath for download button

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in News, Technology

Tesla has started pushing a new software update for its Full Self-Driving Beta program. CEO Elon Musk released the improvements in the...

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Driverless minibus service rolls out in Hamburg traffic

Posted on Aug 13, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

A self driving minibus has started operation in the traffic of Hamburg. The HEAT (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) project will...

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Driverless minibus service rolls out in Hamburg traffic

Posted on Aug 13, 2021 in Buses, News

A self driving minibus has started operation in the traffic of Hamburg. The HEAT (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) project will...

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Canadian Government invests $3.9M in an autonomous concept EV called Project Arrow

Posted on Aug 13, 2021 in Cars, Finance, News

Canada’s Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) is investing $5 million CAD ($3.9 million USD) in...

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