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Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months in prison for stealing Google self-driving car files

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Cars, News

A U.S. judge on Tuesday sentenced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for stealing a trade secret from...

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AI needs to gain famed MacGyver shrewdness, including for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

MacGyver solved it again! Who or what is a MacGyver, you might wonder? Well, most people have heard of MacGyver, the TV series and main...

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Covid-19 puts autonomous vehicle vision on hold

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

The joint announcement made by Mobileye and Ford two weeks ago sounded as if they were on the verge of a technological breakthrough....

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Pitt to study how autonomous vehicles can better serve those with disabilities

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Finance, News

The University of Pittsburgh will lead a consortium of institutions to study how autonomous vehicles can be made accessible to those with...

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Pandemic won’t drive autonomous vehicles away

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The uncomfortable truth about self-driving cars is that there is still not a clear, revenue-generating business model that offsets high...

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Washington impedes progress on self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Imagine how different the discussion about returning to the office or school would be if we could deploy...

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Autonomous vehicle reporting data is driving AV innovation right off the road

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

At the end of every calendar year, the complaints from autonomous vehicle companies start piling up. This annual tradition is the result...

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3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor John Leonard teamed with professor of...

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Staying connected: Does autonomous tech bring us together?

Posted on Aug 3, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Michael Bless, author and historian of science at Vanderbilt University, is right to highlight the huge impact of technology. In even just...

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LiDARs for self-driving vehicles: a technological arms race

Posted on Aug 3, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

A fiery debate has been raging in the autonomous driving world about the role of LiDAR in the future of self-driving cars: an unparalleled...

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China’s Baidu announces that the world’s first autonomous driving compute unit is ready for production

Posted on Aug 3, 2020 in News, Technology

The race to develop self-driving vehicles is not just in Silicon Valley. In China, the world’s biggest auto market, companies are...

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Global electric and autonomous vehicles wiring harness market is expected to grow at a strong CAGR during 2019-2027

Posted on Aug 3, 2020 in Knowledge Center, Reports

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Some of the key players profiled in the Electric and Autonomous Vehicles Wiring...

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This autonomous, electric vehicle concept for medical transport claims to be ‘pandemic proof’ — take a look

Posted on Aug 2, 2020 in Cars, News

Design consultancy Manyone released a concept for autonomous, “pandemic-proof” electric vehicles. NemBots (non-emergency...

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Advanced tolling maybe the killer app for autonomous vehicle test tracks

Posted on Aug 2, 2020 in Infrastructure, Perspective

Since the days of the DARPA grand challenge, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Technology has generated a great deal of excitement.  Companies such...

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The top five ugliest cars today and why ride-looks might ultimately disappear due to AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Is your car ugly? I don’t mean whether it possibly has a smattering of unsightly dents or dings, nor whether the paint is chipped and...

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Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI  is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...

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Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI  is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...

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Prosecutors suggest a27 monthprison term for former Waymo engineer, Anthony Levandowski

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Prosecutors have suggested a 27 month prison term for self-driving vehicle engineer Anthony Levandowski, The Information reports....

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Latest Tesla software update: Autopilot changes, successes, & fails

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

There’s no contesting the fact that Tesla updates its Autopilot driver-assist technology on a regular basis. Moreover, the best part...

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Why self-driving cars might never become a commodity

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Studies from the American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that human error (e.g., misjudgment, speeding,...

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