Starsky Robotics failed. Does that mean automated trucking is dead?
I met Stefan Seltz-Axmacher for the first time in November 2015 at the Florida Automated Vehicles Summit. Not long after, we met at the...
Read MoreBreakthroughs in roadway edge computing are the missing link for self-driving car collaboration
Have you ever been driving a car and found yourself reaching a veritable sensory overload in the act of driving the vehicle? It can...
Read MoreSoftBank nears deal to invest in Didi’s self-driving unit: The Information
(Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp is close to finalizing a deal to lead a $300 million investment in the autonomous driving unit of...
Read MoreTesla files patent for sourcing self-driving training data from its fleet
Tesla has filed a patent on how to source training data from its large fleet of customer vehicles in order to train its self-driving...
Read MoreMIT CSAIL’s VISTA autonomous vehicles simulator transfers skills learned to the real world
In a recent study, researchers hailing from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Toyota Research...
Read MoreRivian shuts down all facilities over COVID-19 pandemic concerns
Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle startup that is backed by Amazon and Ford, is shutting down all of its facilities due to the spread of...
Read MoreAUTOCRYPT officially joins 5GAA (5G Automotive Association) as an ITS security expert
SEOUL, South Korea, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AUTOCRYPT, South Korea’s pioneer in security operations for C-ITS highways,...
Read MoreWill truck convoying be the first viable commercial application for AV technology?
Industry Background: Trucking has long been seen as a potentially interesting application for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology. ...
Read MoreSelf-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...
Read MoreWaymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...
Read MoreThe truth is that traffic lights won’t be shelved due to self-driving cars
It is a bit of a miracle that each day we drive around and encounter traffic signals that by the mere act of shining a light of differing...
Read MoreBaidu to build self-driving test facility in Chongqing as the Chinese city pushes ahead with smart city infrastructure
China’s Chongqing city government has tapped search giant Baidu to build a testing ground for autonomous vehicles, as Chinese cities race...
Read MoreDespite setbacks, coronavirus could hasten the adoption of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots
This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of...
Read MoreLiDAR start-up Blickfeld closes Series A with participation of Continental and Wachstumsfonds Bayern
Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of...
Read MoreWaymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...
Read MoreNTSB criticizes Tesla Autopilot design in Model 3 crash report
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published its final report on the fatal 2019 crash that involved a collision between a...
Read MoreVoluntary temporary suspensions of self-driving car roadway tryouts due to Coronavirus have added payoffs
Many of the major self-driving car roadway public tryouts that are taking place on our highways and byways are temporarily being suspended...
Read MoreWaymo expands autonomous driving data set and launches $110,000 challenge
In August 2019, Wamyo released the Waymo Open Dataset, which Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claimed at the time was the...
Read MoreSelf-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...
Read MoreFord releases a data set to accelerate autonomous car development
This week, Ford quietly released a corpus — the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset — containing data collected from its fleet of autonomous...
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