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Investors hit the brakes on automotive startups

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Finance

Last year, Ted Serbinski called his accelerator, TechStars Detroit, the “‘comeback city’s’ startup ecosystem.” Since 2015, the accelerator...

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US House panel will discuss self-driving cars next week

Posted on Feb 8, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

On February 11th, a House panel will hold a hearing that could help shape the future of self-driving vehicles in the US. The Consumer...

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Those three clever dogs trained to drive a car provide valuable lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Feb 8, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

We’ve all seen dogs traveling in cars, including how they like to peek out an open window and enjoy the fur-fluffing breeze and dwell in...

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Tesla Self-Driving Computer architect Jim Keller is confident about solving autonomous driving

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Jim Keller, Tesla’s former head of Autopilot hardware and the designer of Tesla’s Self-Driving Computer chip, says that he is confident...

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Tesla accused of abruptly pulling self-driving from a used Model S

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla’s much-vaunted ability to add features to its cars over the air has turned into a real inconvenience for some drivers. An...

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The federal government just granted its first driverless car exemption

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Nuro, the self-driving startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, has a new delivery robot. The R2 is the company’s second-generation...

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Bosch says it could launch an autonomous car tomorrow

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

The German supplier’s senior vice-president of automated driving, Kay Stepper, told Autocar that its engineers have already cleared the...

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Waymo’s AI Content Search tool lets engineers quickly find objects in driving records

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

AI is the method by which self-driving cars perceive joggers, cyclists, traffic lights, road signs, trees, shrubs, and more, and it...

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The federal government just granted its first driverless car exemption

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

Nuro, the self-driving startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, has a new delivery robot. The R2 is the company’s second-generation...

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Lexus to unveil its first Level 2 autonomous car this year

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

Lexus is set to unveil its first ever car with autonomous driving capabilities this year, albeit only with Level 2 autonomy initially....

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How to build a morally ethical self-driving car

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Not too long ago, tech enthusiasts were telling us that by 2020, we’d see self-driving cars hit the mainstream, with some 10 million...

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Qualcomm looks ahead to looming age of autonomous cars

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Qualcomm, long the world’s largest vendor of smartphone chips, is looking ahead to the looming age of autonomous cars and entering...

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COAST Autonomous and DG Cities announce collaboration to transform cities through integration of connected and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

US: COAST Autonomous (“COAST”) announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with DG Cities, an expert in smart city...

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Autonomous vehicles: Are we there yet?

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are the future of mobility, so everyone wants to know the same thing: When will they get here? That’s the...

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TuSimple expands UPS autonomous routes

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in News, Trucks

TuSimple, a global autonomous-driving technology company, has expanded autonomous truck service for current customer UPS to 20 trips per...

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Self-driving mass transit arrives on American streets

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in Buses, News

(Bloomberg) — When Interstate 71 arrived in Columbus in the 1960s, the South Linden neighborhood was largely cut off from the rest...

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Autonomous vehicle software firm moves to pit lane

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

A self-drive vehicle software company is the first to move into Culham Science Centre’s connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) building in...

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Here’s how Putin might instill Russian ‘spiritual and moral values’ into AI self-driving cars, and why some are worried about it

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

According to recent news reports about Russia, a wide swath of electronics such as cell phones, TV’s, laptop computers, and potentially...

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Waymo workers complain about cuts to benefits and needles in self-driving cars

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in Cars, Policy & Regulation

At first, when Waymo told the workers at its Chandler, Arizona facility last year that they would be vendors instead of contractors, the...

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GM’s Cruise values autonomous vehicle industry at $8 trillion

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

The global autonomous vehicle industry is an $8 trillion market opportunity, according to General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit Cruise....

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