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Uber may have to pay Waymo to use its self-driving tech

Posted on Nov 7, 2019 in Cars, News

Uber has admitted that it may either have to come to a licensing agreement with Waymo or make design changes to its autonomous vehicle...

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Ghost wants to retrofit your car so it can drive itself on highways in 2020

Posted on Nov 7, 2019 in Editor’s Picks

A new autonomous vehicle company is on the streets — and unbeknownst to most, has been since 2017. Unlike the majority in this burgeoning...

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GBT commences development of graph neural network (GNN) based autonomous machine

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) (“GBT”, or the “Company”), a...

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NVIDIA unveils its new Jetson Zavier NX, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

In the future, self-driving vehicles may roam the streets and small autonomous delivery robots may share the sidewalks with pedestrians...

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Recogni adds automotive industry veteran Peter Mertens to board of directors

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, News

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Recogni Inc., designers of a vision-oriented artificial intelligence platform for autonomous...

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Vaisala to bring road weather and road surface state data to Renovo’s autonomous vehicle platform

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WebSummit — Vaisala, a global leader in weather, environmental, and...

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Does every car need a steering wheel and seat belts? A tech lawyer says no

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, Policy & Regulation

When I first met Silicon Valley lawyer David Estrada in 2014, he was an executive at Lyft Inc. who was tussling with New York City...

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Driverless Tesla coasting along mall parking lot raises questions, causes confusion

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Videos & Podcasts

Video of a driverless Tesla moving at a brisk walking pace at a mall parking lot in Richmond, B.C. — sometimes in the wrong lane — raises...

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In review of fatal Arizona crash, U.S. agency says Uber software had flaws

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 in Cars, News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Uber self-driving test vehicle that struck and killed an Arizona woman in 2018 had software flaws, the...

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Beyond the robo-taxi: Great customer experiences will define self-driving

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

When most people talk about why autonomous vehicles will be successful, they tend to focus on the self-driving software alone. Don’t get...

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Hyundai Autron selects BlackBerry QNX to power next-generation ADAS and autonomous driving software platform

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

WATERLOO, Ontario and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced that...

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O2 revenues rise ahead of 5G driverless car trials

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

O2 plans to build on its 5G launch last month by expanding coverage and powering a driverless vehicle testbed in London. The company was...

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Consumers prefer to share control with self-driving vehicles, SAE says

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 in Cars, News

While automakers pour investments into deploying fully autonomous technology, most consumers still prefer to share control with the car,...

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Ford hires former Zipcar CEO for autonomous vehicle unit

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 in Cars, News

DETROIT — Ford Motor has hired former Zipcar Chairman and CEO Scott Griffith for its autonomous vehicle operations. The automaker on...

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Take a peek inside Lyft’s lab where 400 engineers are working on self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 5, 2019 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Lyft, the second largest ride-hailing service in the U.S., once helped disrupt the taxi industry. Now, the company is working hard to...

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Agility and flexibility essential on the path to the autonomous truck

Posted on Nov 4, 2019 in Perspective, Trucks

Today’s transportation industry faces numerous technology-enabled challenges. Truck makers are faced with the need to develop autonomous,...

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Better autonomous “reasoning” at tricky intersections

Posted on Nov 4, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

MIT and Toyota researchers have designed a new model to help autonomous vehicles determine when it’s safe to merge into traffic at...

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How reality has exceeded our expectations about self-driving vehicles

Posted on Nov 4, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The evolution of autonomous vehicles illustrates to what extent many people, including any number of experts, do not understand...

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Nio, Intel’s Mobileye partner, to build self-driving electric cars for consumers

Posted on Nov 4, 2019 in Cars, News

Mobileye, the Israeli-based automotive sensor company acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15.3 billion, is partnering with Chinese electric car...

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Robocars, EV’s put testing industry to the test

Posted on Nov 3, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Robot-operated cars that smash into soft-sided sitting ducks, glass capillaries that help detect leaks and mountable gizmos for capturing...

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