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VW wants to test robotic EV chargers for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

The cars of the future will be electric and robotic, so why not use robots to charge their batteries, too? Volkswagen announced a pilot...

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Hamburg, Germany, has its first autonomous shuttle bus

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Buses, News

There are only be five stops along the 1.8-kilometre-long route in Hamburg’s Hafencity. Initially, the only passenger will be an attendant...

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Electrify America is deploying an autonomous fast-charging station with robot arms for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Electrify America announced that it is deploying what will likely be the first autonomous fast-charging station for electric vehicles and...

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Measuring real-world fuel economy in autonomous cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Automated control of cars may let “drivers” rack up more fuel savings than if they were completely in charge, according to a new study...

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Getting infrastructure ready for the rising generation of vehicles means rethinking from the ground up

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Fifty years ago, a bright, shiny spacecraft delivered humans to the moon for the first time. That breathtaking achievement captured the...

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Robosense and Controlworks will provide smart LiDAR sensor systems to Korean automotive industry

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Targeted to Level 3+ mass production passenger cars, RoboSense provides advanced Smart Sensors based on the RS-LiDAR-M1, a revolutionary...

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Hamburg, Germany, has its first autonomous shuttle bus

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Buses, News

There are only be five stops along the 1.8-kilometre-long route in Hamburg’s Hafencity. Initially, the only passenger will be an attendant...

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Ford bought a robotics company to boost its self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News

Back in April, Ford chief Jim Hackett admitted that the company overestimated the arrival of self-driving cars. He added that the...

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Your guide to deciding if Tesla ‘full self driving’ is worth buying today

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Tesla has, over time, had a number of offerings in their autopilot and “full self driving” upgrades with some fairly varying...

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Congress wants the self-driving car industry’s help to draft a new AV bill

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

Congress is calling on stakeholders in the self-driving car industry to help reignite their efforts to draft a bill aimed at speeding up...

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Recogni raises $25 million for power-efficient autonomous car inferencing

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

RK Anand — along with Ashwini Choudhary, Eye-Fi founder Eugene Feinberg, former Lilium sensor systems engineer Gilles Backhus, and Valerie...

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How jaywalking could jam up the era of self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Imagine Manhattan without jaywalking. Or Los Angeles freeways without speeding, or Moscow without grinding traffic. If self-driving cars...

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Customers are not fully prepared for electric and autonomous vehicles: Study

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

Despite the auto manufacturers and technology companies spending billions on self-driving technology and electric vehicles, customers are...

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BMW trimming lineup to meet demands of EV and autonomous cars

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News

Look up the array of cars and SUVs BMW is selling these days, and it will blow your mind if you are a BMW fan who has driven the same ride...

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Ford acquires Quantum Signal to bolster autonomous car effort

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News

Mere months after Ford announced it would collaborate with Agility Robotics to explore a range of autonomous home package delivery...

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VSI Labs’ Automated Drive West Project: Preparing for a cross-country road trip with autonomous vehicle

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Cars, News

This August, autonomous vehicle (AV) research firm VSI Labs is embarking on the classic American cross-country road trip–with a twist. VSI...

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Relax, experts say it’s at least a decade before you can buy a self-driving vehicle

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The bloom is coming off the rose when it comes to expecting self-driving vehicles to zip around in large numbers. In fact, a new survey of...

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Virtual car sharing combines telepresence robots and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Cars, Technology

One of the remaining challenges for autonomous cars is figuring out a way to handle that long tail of weird edge cases that can randomly...

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StradVision unveils autonomous vehicle camera tech

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Deep learning-based software provider StradVision has unveiled its advanced autonomous vehicle camera technology at an expo. The company...

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Nvidia’s autonomous robocar replaces the combustion engine for good

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

In July 2019, the first racing competition for self-driving cars -Roborace – took place at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The race...

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