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Porsche uses autonomous tech to improve workshop efficiency

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Porsche has partnered with Berlin-based startup Kopernikus Automotive to use autonomous driving technologies for vehicles at the marque’s...

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Uber self-driving cars are back testing on San Francisco streets

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in Cars, News

Uber Advanced Technologies Group has resumed testing autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, two years after the company scaled back its...

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Mercedes-Benz: EV development is more important than self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in Cars, News

German automaker Mercedes-Benz has said that it’s putting the brakes on developing self-driving cars. Earlier today, News.com.au reported...

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What makes autonomous shuttles good for business?

Posted on Mar 9, 2020 in Buses, Perspective

Tavistock Development Company, the owner of the 17-square-mile mixed-use community of Lake Nona (near Orlando, Florida), envisions a...

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Autonomous tech company Locomation signs deal with Wilson Logistics

Posted on Mar 9, 2020 in News, Technology, Trucks

Autonomous-trucking technology provider Locomation and Wilson Logistics, a Springfield, Mo.-based trucking and transportation logistics...

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China driverless van startup sees demand surge amid outbreak

Posted on Mar 9, 2020 in Cars, News

The coronavirus has hurt many companies in China and around the world. Neolix, a driverless delivery business based in Beijing, isn’t...

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A look at Waymo’s mega $2.25 billion funding

Posted on Mar 8, 2020 in Cars, Finance, Perspective

Since 2009, Alphabet has funded Waymo, which is focused on developing autonomous vehicles. But this week there was a big change in the...

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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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