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Urban Computing Foundation to host the Mapzen project

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 in News, Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Urban Computing Foundation (UCF), a forum for developers to collaborate on and build...

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Einride demos a single teleoperator taking control of multiple autonomous trucks

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 in News, Trucks

Despite the fanfare around driverless cars’ potential to transform cities and make roads safer, the transition to a world in which...

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Einride demos a single teleoperator taking control of multiple autonomous trucks

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Despite the fanfare around driverless cars’ potential to transform cities and make roads safer, the transition to a world in which...

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Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) sensors will be useful for AI self-driving cars, but not likely to strike gold

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Recent news reports have heralded the latest research on Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) sensors and suggested that such devices will...

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Autonomous driving: cities of the future

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Infrastructure, Perspective

If there’s one thing Japan is famous for, it’s infrastructure. From the thousands of miles of high-speed rail tracks that duck and weave...

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Autonomous vehicles: Driving regulatory and liability challenges

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

The development of autonomous vehicle (“AV”) technologies has been a recent focus of automotive and tech companies alike. One of the main...

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Zoox, citing COVID-19 shutdown, lays off its autonomous vehicle backup drivers

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Cars, News

Zoox, the ambitious self-driving startup said to be worth over $3 billion, laid off almost all of its contract workers last week,...

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Mayo Clinic starts using autonomous vehicles to deliver coronavirus tests and medical supplies

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

The Mayo Clinic today announced a partnership with Bestmile and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) to deploy autonomous...

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Introduction to Collective Perception: how V2X is setting the scene for autonomous driving

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Technology, Webinars

When we talk about it, we frequently use the term “the self-driving car” as a singular object – however, the autonomous technology will...

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Why you should wait to buy Tesla’s full self-driving option

Posted on Apr 5, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capability has the potential to change the automotive industry as we know it. However, it’s taking...

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Coronavirus puts ambitious plans for self-driving cars on the shelf

Posted on Apr 4, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

In two weeks, the coronavirus has brought the entire U.S. auto industry to a screeching halt. When it finally sputters back to life, many...

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Will a small open-source effort from Japan disrupt the autonomous space?

Posted on Apr 4, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The article “Linux Beat IBM, will open-source software beat Waymo and Tesla ?” introduced the  power of the open-source organizational...

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General Motors applies for decentralized blockchain map patent

Posted on Apr 3, 2020 in News, Technology

The vehicle manufacturing sector is no stranger to blockchain technology and its many applications within the space. Now, General Motors —...

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An autonomous trucking startup stays the (very long) course

Posted on Apr 3, 2020 in Technology, Trucks

(Bloomberg) — Nancy Sun, 37, is chief engineer at Ike, the autonomous-trucking startup named for President Eisenhower and his...

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The venerable upstream parable helps in these trying times, and applies to the future of AI self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 3, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

It’s parable time. Some of you might be familiar with a parable that many refer to as the Upstream Parable or alternatively the River...

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Qcraft raises over $24 million to train autonomous vehicle systems in simulation

Posted on Apr 3, 2020 in Finance, News, Technology

Qcraft, a robotics startup focused on autonomous vehicle (AV) development, this morning announced it has raised over $24 million in seed...

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Veoneer and Volvo Cars to split Zenuity software joint venture

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in News, Technology

STOCKHOLM :Geely-owned Volvo Cars and auto tech supplier Veoneer will split their jointly owned software venture Zenuity to pursue...

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New gyroscope design will help autonomous cars and robots map the world

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

As useful as GPS is, it’s not a system that we can rely on all the time. There are many situations in which GPS might not be available,...

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This is just a test: University of Iowa puts rural autonomous driving through its paces

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in Cars, News

At a casual glance, it looks like any Lincoln MKZ. But it’s smarter. “It can talk to a couple school buses in the Solon Community...

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Phantom AI raises $22 million to develop ADAS products

Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Phantom AI, a startup developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for cars and trucks, today announced that it has raised $22...

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