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G.M.’s President will take over its self-driving effort

Posted on Nov 29, 2018 in Cars, News

A top General Motors official is taking on a new role that underlines the auto industry’s intense push to develop and commercialize...

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Cognitive automation for the self-driving supply chain

Posted on Nov 29, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

How can systems evolve to allow prescriptive suggestions for resolving near real time problems? In other words, how can we build a...

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This 23-year-old robotics prodigy is leading the pack in the driverless truck race

Posted on Nov 29, 2018 in News, Trucks

For Alex Rodrigues, it all began with a robot named Muffin. As a junior high school student in Calgary, Alberta, Rodrigues competed and...

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How ADAS is paving the way for autonomous driving

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Whether you call them self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles, or even robo-cars, autonomous driving is a leading topic in automotive. The...

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If Waymo is having difficulty, everyone else must be in a right autonomous driving pickle

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo is taking a step backward in terms of the commercial readiness of its autonomous driving offering by reinstalling safety drivers and...

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INIT, Bestmile to integrate driverless vehicles into public transport

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Buses, News

Bestmile and INIT announced a partnership to incorporate driverless vehicles into public transport to provide fully-integrated mobility...

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Ohio cities sign up to be autonomous-vehicle testing grounds

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Four Ohio cities signed agreements with the state government this week to open their streets to the testing of connected and autonomous...

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Extremely precise Bosch sensor will help self-driving cars navigate roads more accurately

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Self-driving cars require an array of sensors to figure out things human drivers take for granted, like knowing the exact position of a...

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Anticipating autonomous: The UK’s driverless future

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

Smart Mobility Living Lab: London, November 28, 2018 Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and the anticipated societal benefits they will...

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Audi and Disney are creating media for self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 in Cars, News

If and when fully autonomous cars hit the road in earnest, you’re going to have a lot of free time on your hands. Audi and Disney...

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Uber removed the second backup driver from its self-driving cars ahead of the crash that killed an Arizona pedestrian

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, News

After one of the Uber’s self-driving test cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March, some employees blamed the safety...

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Demand for faster, cheaper deliveries is good news for autonomous vehicle makers

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, News, Trucks

Bots, drones and driverless cars and trucks are going to explode on the scene in coming years as demand for speedy delivery of goods...

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Waymo taps former NTSB chair to oversee safety of self-driving ride-share fleet

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary on the cusp of launching the first autonomous rideshare service in the U.S., has hired a former top safety...

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Can driverless cars gain market acceptance? (Part 3 Of 3)

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Successful industrialization of driverless cars will depend on getting over many significant hurdles. Failure only requires getting...

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Can driverless cars scale into industrial-strength businesses? (Part 2 Of 3)

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Will driverless cars (AVs, for Autonomous Vehicles) live up to the revolutionary potential imagined by many, including me? In part one of...

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15 hurdles to the industrialization of driverless cars (Part 1 Of 3)

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Will the future of driverless cars rhyme with the history of the Segway? The Segway personal transporter was also predicted to...

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Volvo and Luminar demo advanced lidar tech that gives autonomous cars detailed view of pedestrian movements

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Volvo and and autonomous vehicle sensor company Luminar gave a glimpse into the future of autonomous cars at the Automobility LA trade...

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Driverless cars will need cities covered in sensors, China’s Didi Chuxing says

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing wants to become one of the front-runners in developing self-driving cars, the company’s...

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Waymo reportedly returns safety drivers to its autonomous cars

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo is reportedly rolling out additional safety measures for its self-driving vehicle fleets, reintroducing safety drivers and...

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Through all the hype, self-driving cars remain elusive

Posted on Nov 27, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The relentlessly hyped arrival of autonomous vehicles looms as the greatest disruption in personal transportation since Henry Ford’s...

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