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Phantom of the Operator: Self-driving tech’s slowing timetable creates opening for this monitoring and guidance startup

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 in Cars, News

The 2020s may yet be the decade of self-driving cars, but early predictions from automakers and tech developers...

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Here’s what Bosch hopes to learn from deploying autonomous cars in San Jose

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 in Cars, Technology

The companies racing to deploy autonomous cars on the world’s roads took a reality check in the 2010s, but multimillion-dollar development...

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Lyft’s autonomous vehicle partner Magna is done with self-driving tech

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 in Cars, News

Two years after teaming up with Lyft to collaborate on self-driving technology, Magna said that partnership’s coming to an end. The...

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Overcoming the barriers to self-driving

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

It’s a turbulent time for the UK mobility industry, and not just because of current economic and political uncertainty. An increasing...

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Mobility and innovation: The deployment of the ‘Olli’ self-driving shuttle starts in Turin

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Buses, News

TURIN, Italy, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Olli, a self-driving, electric, 3D-printed shuttle, is an innovative product developed...

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Netradyne captures and analyzes over 1 billion minutes and 500 million miles of driving video data using its vision-based driver and road safety platform, Driveri®

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Netradyne, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing focusing on driver...

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Researchers propose system that taps AI to see hidden objects around corners

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Can sensors see behind the corners of obstacles in real time? As it turns out, yes. A study by researchers at Stanford, Rice University,...

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Synopsys joins new autonomous vehicle computing consortium

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 in Cars, News

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that it has joined the new...

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DOT’s Elaine Chao announces ADAS, connected technology programs

Posted on Jan 15, 2020 in Cars, News

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced several initiatives relating to connected vehicle technologies and advanced...

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Why creating an AV business is 10,000 times harder than building self-driving tech

Posted on Jan 15, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

As tech companies and automakers rush to perfect self-driving technology, an inconvenient truth lurks in the shadows. Once the cars are...

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Will Qualcomm overtake NVIDIA in driverless cars?

Posted on Jan 15, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the top mobile chipmaker in the world, generates most of its revenue from the smartphone market. But it’s...

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Kia Motors announces ‘Plan S’ strategy to spearhead transition to EV, mobility solutions by 2025

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 in Cars, News

Kia Motors Corporation has announced today details of ‘Plan S’, its mid- to long-term strategy aimed at progressively establishing a...

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Karma selects Nvidia computing platforms for autonomous cars

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Karma is to leverage the Nvidia Drive AGX Xavier and Pegasus AI computing platforms in its autonomous vehicles. ...

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Hyundai & Uber Elevate unveil autonomous pods, eVTOL aircraft, & hub ecosystem at CES

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 in Buses, News

Hyundai Motor Company and Uber Elevate showed us a fairly complete urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing...

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BMW, Daimler’s self-driving venture may attract Fiat Chrysler

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 in Cars, News

BMW AG and Daimler AG’s self-driving car venture may attract more partners, with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV a front-runner to get on...

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In the race for autonomous vehicles, Mobileye looks to China

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 in Cars, News

For automotive chip developer Mobileye, the road to private autonomous vehicles goes through becoming a MaaS (mobility as a service)...

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Swarms of teeny robo-tractors will outmaneuver Tesla’s driverless cars

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 in Cars, News

Between 2009 and 2015, Google spent $1.1 billion on autonomous vehicles for its Waymo subsidiary, which have so far roamed more than 10...

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Self-driving cars need to give passengers a better experience. Here’s how.

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

“He doesn’t even trust my driving, do you think he’ll trust a machine?” My friend was half-joking, but his father’s long ‘nooooooooo’ when...

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Elon Musk: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving ‘feature-complete’ is coming ‘soon’

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla missed Elon Musk’s deadline to release what he calls Full Self-Driving “feature-complete” out “at least in the early access program”...

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AV 4.0: Reasonable For AV, but perhaps missing the boat on ADAS regulation

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

Last week at CES, Secretary Elaine L. Chao introduced the  latest guidance from the U.S. Department of Transportation on the topic of...

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