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If AI has human rights, some are worried that self-driving cars might turn on us

Posted on Mar 7, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Should AI have human rights? It’s a seemingly simple question, though the answer has tremendous consequences. Presumably, your answer is...

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Autonomous vehicles can’t come soon enough

Posted on Mar 7, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Autonomous vehicles have many pros and cons. Those on either side of the issue have very intense beliefs as to why autonomous vehicles are...

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ProBeat: Waymo money, Waymo problems

Posted on Mar 6, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicles division that spun out of Google in December 2016, this week raised $2.25 billion. Yes, that’s...

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Inside the next-gen tech on Waymo’s self-driving Jaguar I-Pace

Posted on Mar 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

A little more than two and half years ago, Waymo  engineers began working on a hardware sensor suite that would improve upon previous...

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Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles

Posted on Mar 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Nothing is more important to an autonomous vehicle than sensing what’s happening around it. Like human drivers, autonomous vehicles need...

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Autonomous bus service inaugurated in Danish suburb

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Buses, Cars

The pilot autonomous project – SmartBus – aims to increase mobility among the residents (of whom less than 50 per cent have access to a...

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SiLC Technologies raises $12m in seed funding to deliver long-range, single-chip LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, machine vision, and augmented reality

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

MONROVIA, Calif., March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — SiLC Technologies, Inc., (SiLC), the leading developer of integrated single-chip FMCW...

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StradVision developing groundbreaking animal detection software for ADAS systems and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — StradVision, an industry leader in AI-based camera perception for ADAS systems and...

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CUTRIC Partners launch the first research group on smart and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

WINDSOR, ON, March 5, 2020 /CNW/ – The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is excited to announce...

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Americans still wary of self-driving cars, many worry about hacking

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, News

Only a small percentage of drivers in the United States  – about one in ten or 12% – said they trust automated vehicles (AV)...

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Ford Motor Company is using simulation to design the passenger experience for its future self-driving vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Technology

In the industry’s race to develop self-driving vehicles, most automakers are getting a little extra help from tech companies....

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Putting a non-driving robot inside an AI self-driving car could be a great help to human passengers

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

A ridesharing driver the other day aided a passenger that had a leg cast to get into his car. A mother recently helped her toddler put on...

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Ex-Uber autonomous driving exec owes Waymo $179 million

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, News

A San Francisco judge affirmed that Anthony Levandowski, the executive at the center of a 2017 lawsuit between Waymo and Uber over alleged...

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Starsky Robotics exits autonomous truck space

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in News, Trucks

Starsky Robotics became the first self-driving truck startup to cease operations after raising an estimated $17 million in venture capital...

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Tesla to release more self-driving features in March — city street autopilot?

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla plans to release more features to expand its full self-driving capabilities later this month, according to CEO Elon Musk. While Musk...

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Waymo’s next-generation self-driving system can ‘see’ a stop sign 500 meters away

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo unveiled its fifth-generation self-driving system Wednesday, which the Alphabet-owned company claims can see farther and more...

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Uber details VerCD, the AI tech powering its self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out...

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RTI joins consortium to speed delivery of safe, affordable autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News

An auto industry consortium aimed at bringing safe and affordable autonomous vehicles to market faster has added a member it believes can...

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General Motors to spend $20 billion through 2025 on new electric, autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

DETROIT – General Motors will spend more than $20 billion through 2025 on its next generation of all-electric and autonomous vehicles as...

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Is Elon Musk right? Are cameras the right answer for autonomous vehicles ?

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The use of wireless technologies is an integral part of modern life.  Radio, TV, Wi-Fi and Cellular technologies are part of the backbone...

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