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VW is working on ways to prevent nausea in self-driving cars

Posted on May 29, 2019 in Cars, News

It took me years to condition myself to be able to look at my phone from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle without getting nauseous,...

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Ford and Agility Robotics collaborate on autonomous vehicle-to-robot doorstep deliveries

Posted on May 29, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Using autonomous vehicles to deliver packages directly to the doorstep of customers, without help from humans, could be more seamless with...

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Revealing the driverless car strategies within proposed Fiat Chrysler, Renault merger

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News

Yesterday was the Monday of Memorial Day weekend in the United States, traditionally a day of attention to matters of the heart and an...

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Lidar maker Velodyne wins patent challenge from rival Quanergy

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Lidar is an important component for self-driving cars, acting as the “eyes” of an autonomous vehicle alongside data fused from...

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LiDAR drives our autonomous future

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Cars, robots and other machines are becoming more intelligent thanks to several technology advances that help these smart machines operate...

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Driverless delivery vans are here as production begins in China

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News

Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans. A Chinese startup called Neolix kicked off mass production of its self-driving...

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Aurora backs LiDAR after Musk bashes it

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

CEO Chris Urmson of Aurora, a pioneer in autonomous driving, said that his company bought Blackmore LiDAR, which develops and manufactures...

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USPS goes driverless between Phoenix & Dallas with TuSimple

Posted on May 28, 2019 in News, Trucks

The US Postal Service has entered into a contract with self-driving truck startup TuSimple to haul mail between Dallas and Phoenix. “It is...

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Everything you need to know to have an intelligent conversation about autonomous vehicles

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News

I recently attended the 4th annual transportation technology conference hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and had the...

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Everything you need to know to have an intelligent conversation about autonomous vehicles

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News

I recently attended the 4th annual transportation technology conference hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and had the...

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Is your autonomous vehicle Sally the sports car or blood-thirsty Christine?

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, Technology

When automobiles first started to appear alongside horse-drawn buggies, horses were the initial victims of the technology. They would not...

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Special report: Human factors in autonomous vehicle development

Posted on May 27, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

The development of autonomous vehicles is putting a fresh spin on the science of human factors. All stakeholders need to understand how...

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Even as self-driving cars take to the road, drivers will still be in high demand

Posted on May 27, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Tesla’s Elon Musk recently announced plans to start deploying driverless taxis across the United States next year. It was the latest...

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Elon Musk may be a pain, but that doesn’t mean his ideas are crazy

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to wonder if Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, is off his rocker. I mean to say, how many leaders of US...

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Video: When will we see the mass deployment of autonomous cars?

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Automated vehicles won’t slow down to gawk at the scene of an accident. Nor will they keep changing lanes in an effort to get to...

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Tesla on Autopilot slams into stalled car on highway, expect more of this

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, News

Here’s a driving situation that I’m guessing most of us have all experienced at one time or another. You are driving along on a highway or...

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Mercedes-Benz’s experimental safety vehicle is more than just another autonomous concept

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Self-driving vehicles are being marketed as being safer than human drivers on the road, but there’s a large picture that automakers...

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Some hard truths about autonomous driving

Posted on May 25, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Like others here at CleanTechnica, I spend plenty of time on social media among Tesla fans and the wider EV community. While we certainly...

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This is why self-driving cars suck at making unprotected left turns

Posted on May 24, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Human or robot driver, left-hand turns in a car are tough. Unprotected turns? Even harder. Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by...

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Former Opel CEO Neumann joins board of U.S. self-driving software startup

Posted on May 24, 2019 in Cars, News

Former Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann has joined the board of directors of California-based Apex.AI, a company working to make open-source...

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