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News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

Florida bill considers ditching the backup driver in AVs

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

Is it time to revise Florida’s motor vehicle laws to prepare for a future dominated by driverless vehicles? At least two lawmakers think...

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How do you feel about riding in a self-driving car?

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 in Cars, News

New research from Thales has illustrated that 57 per cent of UK citizens would not feel safe riding in a self-driving car. The UK...

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Volvo’s self-driving car venture gets approval to test on Swedish roads

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 in Cars, News

Volvo’s Zenuity autonomous cars joint venture has won approval to begin hands-free testing of its software for self-driving cars on...

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Reimagining federal safety standards

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 in Cars, Policy & Regulation, Trucks

Self-driving vehicles may not cause accidents, but they will surely be involved in them. Experts believe vehicles that can route...

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Autonomous vehicles – will they be safer and where does this leave the “driver”?

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports, Trucks

Nearly 1.3 million people die every year in road crashes across the world and between 20 and 50 million people are injured or seriously...

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How China will help fuel the revolution in autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Self-driving cars could steer China’s automotive industry into the passing lane. From driverless taxis to automated cargo trucks,...

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No driver? No problem, says Ottawa autonomous vehicle advocate

Posted on Jan 27, 2019 in Cars, News, Trucks

On a wintry week when just about everything that could go wrong on local roadways  did go wrong, news the province would be easing...

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Michigan leans on manufacturing history in bid to become a hub for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 27, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Infrastructure, News

This week, Waymo announced that it will turn an old factory in the Detroit, Michigan area into a retrofitting facility for level four...

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Microsoft and MIT can detect AI ‘blind spots’ in self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 27, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Self-driving cars are still prone to making mistakes, in part because the AI training can only account for so many situations. Microsoft...

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Finding the ‘blind spots’ in autonomous vehicle artificial intelligence

Posted on Jan 27, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Autonomous vehicles are becoming more and more sophisticated, but concerns still abound about the safety of such systems. Creating an...

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Texas DOT forms connected and autonomous vehicle task force

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Policy & Regulation, Trucks

Texas Department of Transportation is going to create a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Task Force to become a central point for...

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As Google races ahead, German carmakers look to go faster on autonomous driving

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News

Germany’s top carmakers including BMW and Volkswagen are looking at ways to speed up development of the next generation of...

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Autonomous vehicles: Where are they taking us next? – Part 2

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

As the nation moves toward deployment of autonomous and connected vehicles, safety remains a top priority for public and private sector...

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Job cuts at enigmatic Apple car project underscore self-driving tech’s hard realities

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Little is known about Apple’s plans for the automotive space, after years of speculation ranging from electric cars to fully autonomous...

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Crowdsourced maps should help driverless cars navigate our cities more safely

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Swedish startup Mapillary is compiling a huge database of roadside objects such as signs and markings to help driverless vehicles get...

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Apple cuts autonomous car team by 200, shifting some to machine learning projects

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News

Apple’s autonomous car skunkworks endeavor, Project Titan, has spent years as one of the company’s most volatile divisions, going through...

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Adorable, unthreatening autonomous vehicles deliver meals around Virginia campus

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News

Critics of autonomous vehicles’ safety and reliability have various valid points, but no one’s going to be afraid of these...

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Chinese self-driving startup Roadstar.ai drops co-founder for alleged corruption, faked data

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News

The Drive’s Alex Roy likes to ask who the “Theranos of self-driving cars” is, and now we might have an answer… as...

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Russia’s Yandex has created what may be the most aggressive AV tech

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Back in the throes of the Cold War, Americans awoke on the morning of Oct. 4, 1957, to learn the Soviet Union successfully launched...

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Afraid of driverless technology? PAVE hopes to persuade you of AV safety

Posted on Jan 24, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Many people in the US are hesitant to climb into a self-driving car. The media tend to focus on aberrant incidents with autonomous test...

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