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Oxbotica raises $13.8M from Ocado to build autonomous vehicle tech for the online grocer’s logistics network

Posted on Apr 16, 2021 in Finance, News

Ocado, the U.K. online grocer that has been making strides reselling its technology to other grocery companies to help them build and run...

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Honda China collaborates with AutoX on autonomous driving research through testing on China’s public roads

Posted on Apr 16, 2021 in News

Honda China is collaborating with AutoX on autonomous driving research in China through vehicle testing on public roads. Honda will...

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Autonomous-truck developer TuSimple plans driverless road test this year

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

Self-driving company TuSimple Holdings Inc. plans to test its autonomous trucks without backup drivers on public roads in Arizona later...

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Autonomous vehicle Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) has emerged as a green urban transport mode and investment opportunity

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Reports

PARK CITY, Utah, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) is small autonomous podcars on dedicated guiderails or...

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Walmart investing in GM’s Cruise self-driving car company

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 in Finance, News

Walmart is investing in Cruise, General Motors’ majority-owned self-driving vehicle subsidiary, as part of a new $2.75 billion funding...

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Aurora’s plan to catch Waymo in robot trucks, then taxis

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

On Feb. 11, about a month after closing on the acquisition of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, or ATG, the self-driving-car startup...

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Local Motors begins first-ever autonomous vehicle project at MCAS Miramar

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in Buses, News

CHANDLER, Ariz., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Local Motors, a leader in the development, manufacturing, and deployment of...

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Early warning system for self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in News, Technology

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new early warning system for vehicles that uses artificial...

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VinFast selects NVIDIA for next gen autonomous EV

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

Vietnam-based VinFast has announced that it has selected NVIDIA DRIVE Orin  for its new generation of autonomous electric vehicles....

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Cruise CEO outlines global deployment of self-driving fleets

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in Knowledge Center, News, Videos & Podcasts

Dan Ammann, CEO of GM-backed Cruise, explains the company’s deal with Dubai to start running driverless taxis as early as 2023. He...

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Hyperdrive Daily: Self-driving’s trough of disillusionment continues

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in Perspective

The year 2020 was supposed to herald the arrival of self-driving cars. Instead, we got a global pandemic and growing recognition that...

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Using bountiful blurring to keep self-driving cars from telling all

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever taken a picture and realized that a person in the snapshot appears blurry due to your camera being out of focus? I’m sure...

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Toyota taps Apex.AI for its autonomous vehicle operating system

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in News, Technology

Automakers shifting to all-electric and tech-laden vehicles have discovered that software — and more aptly software that is free of bugs...

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DJI to unveil car-related products on April 19: Report

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in News, Technology

Beijing: China-based commercial drone-making company DJI is finally making a move towards the automobile industry as it is releasing...

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dRISK emerges from stealth, presents breakthrough performance in retraining autonomous vehicles to detect high risk “edge cases”

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in News, Technology

LONDON, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — dRISK, a London and Pasadena-based startup that has so far been in stealth, today announced...

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Chinese electric carmaker Xpeng Motors is looking into making its own autonomous driving chips

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in News, Technology

GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese electric carmaker Xpeng Motors is looking into making its own semiconductors for autonomous driving to stay...

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AI chip startup Groq, founded by ex-Googlers, raises $300 million to power autonomous vehicles and data centers

Posted on Apr 14, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

Jonathan Ross left Google to launch next-generation semiconductor startup Groq in 2016. Today, the Mountain View, California-based firm...

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Intel’s Mobileye teams with Udelv to launch 35,000 driverless delivery vehicles by 2028

Posted on Apr 13, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Intel subsidiary Mobileye is ratcheting up its autonomous vehicle ambitions and getting into delivery. The company said Monday it struck a...

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Chinese autonomous vehicle startup WeRide scores permit to test driverless cars in San Jose

Posted on Apr 13, 2021 in Cars, News

WeRide, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup that recently raised $310 million, has received a permit to test driverless vehicles on...

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Chinese autonomous vehicle startup WeRide scores permit to test driverless cars in San Jose

Posted on Apr 13, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

WeRide, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup that recently raised $310 million, has received a permit to test driverless vehicles on...

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