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Baidu Q2 revenues surge with Apollo blooming development

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

Chinese Internet giant Baidu achieved a blooming second quarter with revenues surging 32% year on year to RMB 26 billion and net profits...

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Networked lighting to eliminate auto blind spots

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

It is a horror scenario for every driver: Suddenly, a previously invisible pedestrian comes out of the dark between two street lights or...

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Nissan: AVs useless without humans

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Nissan is collaborating with NASA to develop what is billed as the “world’s safest traffic control system,” to get autonomous vehicles...

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Winners revealed in Govt £12.1m autonomous vehicle giveaway

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Finance, News, Trucks

The Government has announced the winners of a collaborative R&D competition for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), with £12.1m...

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New material promises breakthrough IR sensing for autonomous cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

To overcome the issues inherent with using video or other forms of visible light detection (such as poor performance in fog, snow, and...

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Tesla’s autonomous ‘coast-to-coast’ drive on hold while autopilot team focuses on safety

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, News

Tesla’s autonomous coast-to-coast drive, originally promised in 2016, is on hold while the company’s Autopilot team stays “heads down” on...

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Autonomous-car tech investment skyrockets on SoftBank deals

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

Private investment in autonomous-vehicle companies soared in the second quarter to more than in the last four years combined, according to...

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FIR sensors are the future of autonomous vehicle technology

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

The advent of autonomous vehicle technology is causing the automotive industry to undergo radical change. Every tech business seems to...

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Liability and risk in programming autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Many readers will remember the Knight Industries Two Thousand (or KITT) from the 1980s – the fascinating self-aware car driven by the...

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The future autonomous vehicle market: Adapting to the speed of IoT

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

The Internet of Thing (IoT) industry is booming, and everywhere you look, new innovations are taking place across a variety of industries,...

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Brainstorm: Autonomous vehicles’ biggest challenge

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Q: What is the largest challenge that autonomous vehicles will have to address before becoming ubiquitous? By: Ron Demcko, Fellow, AVX...

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The role of GNSS in driverless cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Growing awareness of the vulnerabilities of GNSS signals — weak, unencrypted and easily jammed or spoofed — have made GNSS less important...

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Preparing for automated vehicles: Traffic safety issues for states

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Policy & Regulation, Reports, Trucks

Governors Highway Safety Association, August 1, 2018 Automated vehicles will bring new and perhaps unanticipated traffic safety issues to...

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On sceptics and enthusiasts: What are the expectations towards self-driving cars?

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

Automation in transport is increasing rapidly. While it is assumed that automated driving will have a significant impact on travel demand,...

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Tackling road congestion – What might it look like in the future under a collaborative and connected mobility model?

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

Traffic congestion continues to be the bane of many metropolitan areas and has exercised the minds of experts for at least the last 60...

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Cepton LiDAR goes Anti-MEMS route

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

Chemistry is just applied physics… or so a physicist would tell you. And autonomous vehicles are just a collection of applied sensors – if...

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Baraja lifts curtain on Spectrum-Scan™ LiDAR for autonomous vehicles

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

Baraja has unveiled Spectrum-Scan™ LiDAR, which uses prism-like optics and shifting wavelengths of light to create powerful eyes for...

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AI-Based autonomous vehicle to secure airports

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in News

A driverless all-terrain vehicle equipped with GPS and cameras trained to recognize animals is soon to join the security fleet at the...

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Imperial plans deployment of seven automated trucks by year’s end, CNRL to start pilot in 2019

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in News, Trucks

Imperial Oil plans to begin experimenting with up to seven autonomous hauler trucks at its Kearl site by the end of the year, while...

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County gurus prepare for inevitable automated vehicles

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Cars, News, Trucks

Automated vehicles – self-driving and self-parking cars, trucks, air and watercraft – are no longer things of science fiction. The...

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