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Volvo seeks communication norm as autonomy advances

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, News

Volvo Cars calls for a new, global standard in how autonomous vehicles safely can communicate with all other road users as it introduces...

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Feds strip Willow Run robot car test site of proving-ground designation

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

A massive robot car test site at the former Willow Run bomber plant west of Detroit and nine other similar sites across the country have...

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U.S. Department of Transportation Releases “Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0”

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Policy & Regulation, Trucks

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today released new Federal guidance for automated vehicles, advancing its commitment to...

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Honda putting $2.75 billion into G.M.’s self-driving venture

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

In the race to develop self-driving cars, General Motors has picked up another hefty ally. Honda, the Japanese automaker, has agreed to...

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Tesla shares slow as peers push forward their own self-driving cars

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

The market euphoria triggered Monday by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk’s weekend settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission is...

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Here’s the electric Jaguar that Waymo wants to turn into a self-driving car

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo’s self-driving car service is supposed to kick off by the end of this year, but before the robot cars start taking riders...

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Bringing Honda into autonomous vehicle mission is a logical step, says GM President

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Dan Ammann, General Motors president, speaks to CNBC’s Phil LeBeau and the “Squawk on the Street” team about the...

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UK to have driverless cars on its roads in the coming 3-4 years, says minister

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Britain will see truly driverless cars on its roads in three to four years but there will still be a role for diesel cars for many years,...

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GM-Honda is latest big move in global investment wave into autonomous car tech

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

News that Honda will spend a total of $2.75 billion to support development and deployment of autonomous vehicles with General Motors Corp....

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Toyota, SoftBank to team up in self-driving and other technology

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Toyota Motor Corp and SoftBank Group Corp will announce a partnership on automated driving and other technology on Thursday, sources with...

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Former GM vice chair, former Chrysler president on autonomous cars race

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Bob Lutz, former GM vice chairman, and Jim Press, former president of Toyota Motor North America and Chrysler, discuss Honda’s...

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Want safer factory robots? Make them more like self-driving cars

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, Technology

For robot cars to achieve peaceful coexistence with the humans inches away on roads and highways, they must be encased in an invisible...

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Tesla’s ‘leaked’ email about using employees to beta test full self-driving cars makes no sense

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Everyone knows I love Teslas. I just drove a Model S across France, and it was marvelous. But I also have to call it like I see it, and...

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Ford wants to avoid chaos by teaching all self-driving cars a common language

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, News

It’s time to talk. Ford is calling on other automakers and technology companies to jointly develop a common language that self-driving...

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Honda putting $2.75 billion into G.M.’s self-driving venture

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

In the race to develop self-driving cars, General Motors has picked up another hefty ally. Honda, the Japanese automaker, has agreed to...

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China has put the automotive renaissance into hyper drive

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

A tri-fold automotive renaissance, led by technology, has been playing out over the past few years. Electric vehicles finally have been...

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Waymo’s self-driving car crashed because its human driver fell asleep at the wheel

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 in Cars, News

In June, one of Waymo’s self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans crashed on the freeway outside of the company’s office in Mountain View,...

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TuSimple building safest self-driving truck with 1,000 meter perception range

Posted on Oct 2, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

TuSimple, a global autonomous truck technology leader, publicly demonstrated its Level 4 fully autonomous driving solution – the first of...

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While we wait for automation, NXP announces new automotive radar systems

Posted on Oct 2, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Automakers have been installing radar sensors in vehicles for more than two decades to enable adaptive cruise control and blindspot...

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Engineer spends $6,000 invalidating Waymo’s lidar patents

Posted on Oct 2, 2018 in Cars, News

An engineer with no connection to the self-driving industry has spent $6,000 of his own money to stop Alphabet’s self-driving car...

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