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Self-driving shuttle crashed in Las Vegas because manual controls were locked away

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Buses, News

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has wrapped up a more than year-long investigation into a low-speed crash between a...

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Ford-VW alliance expands to include autonomous and electric vehicles

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Editor’s Picks

In a widely anticipated move, Ford and Volkswagen announced Friday their plan to expand their seven-month-old alliance to include...

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Lidar startup Luminar raises $100 million, unveils Iris sensors

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Cars, Finance, Technology

Luminar is a lidar startup that in 2017 emerged from five years of stealth with $36 million in funding. The early funds came from 1517...

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Dropping off passengers vexes self-driving cars, the last step is a doozie

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

I was using a ridesharing service last month in Detroit to get to a restaurant after having spoken at a conference on autonomous vehicles....

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Via partners with BusBot to launch autonomous bus trial in New South Wales

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Buses, News

Ride-sharing startup Via, not to be outdone by Uber and Lyft, is investing meaningfully in autonomous vehicles. To this end, it today...

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UK stakes claim for lead role in autonomous mapping

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Published by Zenzic, the UK’s umbrella organisation for self-driving technology, and national mapping agency Ordnance Survey, the Geodata...

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2020 Hyundai Sonata turned fully autonomous by Russia’s Yandex

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Last March, Hyundai signed a memorandum of understanding with Russian technology company Yandex to jointly develop Level 4 and Level 5...

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May Mobility reveals prototype of a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous transportation startup May Mobility  is doing more than just talking about accessibility when it comes to self-driving...

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China-based Idriverplus using Velodyne lidar in autonomous driving products

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Idriverplus, one of the first companies in China to launch the commercialization of driverless technology and realize mass production, is...

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European startups navigate long, winding road to self-driving future

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, News

OXFORD, England (Reuters) – Far from the sunny, wide streets of Phoenix, where Waymo’s self-driving taxis ply their trade, a handful...

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Volvo solves autonomous revenue riddle with package deals

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in News, Trucks

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo’s first commercial autonomous truck deal shows how it is bundling services to...

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Udelv partners with H-E-B on Texas autonomous grocery delivery pilot

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, News

Autonomous delivery company Udelv has signed yet another partner to launch a new pilot of its self-driving goods delivery service:...

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Inside the GM factory where Cruise’s autonomous Bolt is made

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

TechCrunch took a field trip to GM’s Orion Assembly plant in Michigan to get an up-close view of how this factory has evolved since the...

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The future of autonomous vehicles runs off roads and on to farms, construction sites and mines

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Fully self-driving passenger cars are not “just around the corner.” While the well-capitalized leaders — funded by corporations,...

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Earthquakes rattle proficiency of self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

California has been rocking and rolling, doing so to the tune of several recent earthquakes and aftershocks. That shaking feeling has also...

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Lyft self-driving cars offer tactile maps, diagrams for blind riders

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, News

Aptiv’s self-driving cars on the Lyft ride-hailing network drove down the Las Vegas strip with blind and low-vision passengers along...

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Inrix expands its digital rule book beyond self-driving cars to help cities with scooters, bikes and delivery bots

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Cities use paint and signs to communicate the rules of the road in a world where urban spaces must choreograph an infinite dance between...

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Uber CEO Says You’ll See Driverless Cars in Under Five Years

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, News

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks about why investors should be bullish on Uber. He appears on “The David Rubenstein Show:...

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These are the 5 leaders in the self-driving-car race

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Tech companies and auto companies are all racing to be he first to roll out self-driving cars onto the road. The stakes are high for...

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Money and politics, not technology, stand between us and self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Some human aspirations are easy to measure. JFK’s promise to put a man on the moon was simple: transport a human to the Moon where he will...

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