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Oh, Canada: NuPort brings autonomous trucking to Toronto roads with NVIDIA DRIVE

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

Autonomous truck technology is making its way across the Great White North. Self-driving trucking startup NuPort Robotics is leveraging...

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Autonomous vehicle makers help fight COVID-19 in Guangzhou

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, News

Chinese autonomous vehicle makers are participating in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus in Guangzhou, South China’s...

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Aurora brings in outsiders to boost safety efforts, public trust of driverless vehicles

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in News, Trucks

Aurora, the autonomous vehicle company that acquired Uber ATG last year, has assembled a team of outside experts, shared new details about...

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What’s it like being a passenger in a self-driving taxi?

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Elon Musk and Uber have both made claims that there’d be millions of driverless taxis on our roads by now and, well, there aren’t. Most of...

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Harrowing tales of teenage drivers in everyday traffic amidst adult drivers and those emerging self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Adult drivers oftentimes detest teenage drivers. This is not ostensibly a generational differences issue. The cold hard facts are that...

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Stock take: Legal groundwork laid for self-driving cars on UK roads

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Policy & Regulation

The UK government is developing legislation to permit autonomous cars to drive on public roads, which will address a range of issues such...

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NHTSA may have to take the wheel on automation

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

New bills introduced in Congress in the past year would affect automakers by increasing agency oversight and enhancing regulations related...

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Why the dream of truly driverless cars is slowly dying

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

We were told there’d be fully-autonomous vehicles dominating roadways across the globe by 2018. When that didn’t happen, we were told...

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Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, News

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit...

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Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in News, Trucks

Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose...

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Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit...

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Self-driving cars could be decades away, no matter what Elon Musk said

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

In 2015, Elon Musk said self-driving cars that could drive “anywhere” would be here within two or three years....

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The Mars autonomous helicopter named Ingenuity gets confounded by timestamp glitch, providing insightful lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever glanced at a snapshot and asked someone when they took that photo? I’m sure that you have. You undoubtedly wanted to place...

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Silicon Valley company DeepMap announces ‘RoadMemory’ a scalable mapping service for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Silicon Valley mapping startup DeepMap Inc announced its new crowd-sourced mapping service for autonomous vehicles today called...

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That California woman using her car to thwart a mountain lion and save her beloved dog provides valuable lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

What would you do? A woman in California heard her beloved pet dog barking frantically outside of her home and wondered what in the heck...

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Meituan unmanned delivery team to be nearly tripled in size

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Beijing (Gasgoo)- Meituan’s unmanned delivery center will reportedly add another 500 jobs, covering algorithm, engineering, and other...

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Waymo’s driverless taxi service can now be accessed on Google Maps

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Waymo One, the ride-hailing service that uses driverless vehicles in the suburbs of Phoenix, can now be accessed and booked through Google...

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The success of self-driving vehicles will depend on teleoperation

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Perspective

There is a lot of chatter right now about self-driving vehicles, which is understandable, as we stand on the threshold of an entire new...

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Aviva and Darwin team on autonomous vehicle trial

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Buses, News

Aviva and Darwin Innovation Group are starting a five-year partnership, beginning with collaboration on an autonomous vehicle trial....

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Intel-backed Horizon Robotics weighs $1 billion U.S. IPO

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

(Bloomberg) — Chinese artificial intelligence-chip startup Horizon Robotics Inc. is considering a U.S. initial public offering which...

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