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Taking autonomous driving to the next level with HD maps

Posted on Sep 4, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Technology, Trucks, Webinars

In this 60-minute webinar, Christian Hering, Product Manager EB robinos at Elektrobit and Frans de Rooij, Regional Director, Product...

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Autonomous driving: BMW Group focuses on Level 3 and 4

Posted on Sep 4, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

The levels of autonomous driving are representative of an ever greater autonomy of the car and reduced reliance on the active cooperation...

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Assessing technology, liability, safety and public acceptance in the autonomous future

Posted on Sep 3, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology

Carol Schweiger, President of Schweiger Consulting and Chairperson of the New England Intelligent Transportation Society, discusses...

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‘Special report: Implications of the Uber Phoenix crash’ by Automotive World

Posted on Sep 3, 2018 in Cars, News

Automotive World has published a new report, ‘Special report: Implications of the Uber Phoenix crash’ which investigates the development...

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You can ride a driverless shuttle for free in Calgary starting Saturday

Posted on Sep 3, 2018 in Buses, News

Calgarians will soon be some of the first people in Western Canada to take a free ride on a public, driverless vehicle....

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COMMENT: Uber’s mess won’t derail autonomy, but industry must rein in the hype

Posted on Sep 3, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Uber has proven to be one of the most disruptive and polarising forces in the mobility industry. The company has never been far from...

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NXP acquires OmniPHY to accelerate autonomous driving and vehicle networks

Posted on Sep 3, 2018 in Cars, News

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), the world’s largest supplier of automotive semiconductors1, has acquired OmniPHY, a provider...

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Are you ready? An autonomous vehicle shuttle proposed for downtown Napa

Posted on Sep 2, 2018 in Buses, News

Downtown Napa could be getting a shuttle service with a difference – autonomous vehicles with hands-off drivers who would take over only...

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The CEO of OTTO Motors has some intriguing ideas

Posted on Sep 1, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

I am in the middle of a market study on the autonomous mobile robot market. When doing this kind of study, you talk to as many executives...

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Autonomous home delivery: Last-mile logistics

Posted on Sep 1, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

The impact of autonomous (driverless) vehicles on home delivery has been a hot topic over the past few years, mostly because of the...

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Driverless buses to make test-runs in Dublin in three weeks’ time

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Buses, News

Driverless buses will be road tested in Dublin next month and the public will be able to take a free trip on board....

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Transdev, Babcock Ranch unveil first autonomous school shuttle

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Buses, News

Transdev, the mobility partner for Babcock Ranch, is completing more than two months of testing on school shuttle routes that will...

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Michigan driverless auto tech’s cross-border breakthroughs

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Cars, News

In August of 2017, two cars took a remarkable journey. They began in Southeast Michigan and drove through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel into...

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Tesla decreases the price of Enhanced Autopilot after delivery temporarily, still hasn’t fixed Full Self-Driving price

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

It is an interesting time for Tesla Autopilot and its different option packages ahead of upcoming updates. Tesla is now temporarily...

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Volvo teases potentially self-driving 360c concept in videos

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Is Volvo preparing to show its vision for self-driving cars to the world? New teaser videos that highlight an upcoming concept called the...

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Driverless tractors are here to help with the severe labor shortage on farms

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in News, Trucks

The world population is expected to top 9 billion by 2050, according to forecasts from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture...

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What risks are we willing to accept for a world of self-driving cars?

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The car, notes Lawrence D. Burns in his book “Autonomy,” is “terribly inefficient.” The internal combustion engine converts less than a...

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Apple reports first autonomous vehicle collision in California

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Cars, News

Apple said that its first autonomous vehicle crash in California occurred last week....

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What do Alphabet, Baidu and Yandex have in common? Search engines and self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Cars, News

Yandex, the Russian Internet company, has launched the “first autonomous ride-hailing service in Europe” in Innopolis, a...

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Autonomy: The quest to build the driverless car (review)

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

How has autonomy become a commonplace term in our conversations? It seems only a short time ago that autonomous vehicles seemed futuristic...

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