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Mobileye makes big robotaxi & autonomous consumer vehicle moves

Posted on Jan 8, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The vast majority of the talk about robotaxis centers around Tesla and Waymo, but I have wondered more than a few times if...

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Volvo Cars set to debut unsupervised autonomous driving in California

Posted on Jan 7, 2022 in Cars, News

Volvo Cars has announced plans to launch its new Ride Pilot unsupervised autonomous driving feature to customers in the state of...

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The first model from Baidu’s new EV brand JiDU to use the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin System-on-a-Chip to support L4 autonomous driving

Posted on Jan 7, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

JiDU Automotive, the new electric vehicle venture formed by China’s internet technology giant Baidu Inc and Chinese automaker Geely,...

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Those fish that rained down from the skies on a Texas town was not a fishy tale (it happened), netting some quite catchy insights for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 6, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Sometimes, when it rains, it pours. Those raindrops keep falling on your head, though if you are inside your car the odds are that the...

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May Mobility and Via have launched autonomous vehicle services in three cities

Posted on Jan 6, 2022 in Cars, News

May Mobility and Via have launched autonomous vehicle services in three cities in the past eight months to beef up public transit. The...

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Tesla rival Lucid plans to launch in Europe this year

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 in Cars, News

Electric vehicle maker Lucid plans to start selling its cars in Europe this year. The California-headquartered firm, which competes with...

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Cadillac’s autonomous future looks too rich for my blood

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 in Cars, Perspective

Cadillac announced a pair of autonomous vehicle concepts that are a definite improvement over last year’s toaster-shaped thingamajig, but...

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Intel’s Mobileye unveils a chip that could bring self-driving cars to the masses

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Self-driving car technology is currently limited to test programs and specialized vehicles, but Mobileye thinks it can play a key role in...

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Qualcomm wants to make it easier to build semi-autonomous cars

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Qualcomm believes it can widen the field for semi-autonomous driving features, and it’s launching a new platform to make that...

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Mobileye and Geely team up to build a self-driving car you can buy

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Mobileye, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Intel, and Geely, China’s largest automaker, are joining forces to develop a...

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Milton Keynes to hold large-scale driverless car trial

Posted on Jan 3, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

A major trial of driverless cars on the public roads will begin in Milton Keynes later this month. The Fetch car system, backed by the...

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The road to affordable autonomous mobility

Posted on Jan 3, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Reports, Technology

As autonomous vehicle services roll out and scale, the pace and nature of that transition have significant implications across the...

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Japanese manufacturers to play catch-up to Tesla and others with self-driving tech

Posted on Dec 31, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

Japanese automakers have begun playing catchup with their U.S. and Chinese competitors, who have already developed and are offering...

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Crashing the self-driving party of Tesla & co.

Posted on Dec 30, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Self-driving cars — and their current hands-free precursors from the likes of Tesla TSLA -1.5%, Cadillac, Audi, and Ford — may be...

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Waymo partners with Geely to make electric AVs for ride hail in the US

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous driving technology arm, is partnering with Chinese automaker Geely to build an all-electric, self-driving...

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Driverless cars and AI ethics

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

In my last blog, I discussed the market growth of driverless cars, and identified a number of leading companies investing globally in this...

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Alexa shockingly tells 10-year-old girl to put a penny into an electrical socket, which provides important lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Hey, Alexa, be careful about what you say, especially to kids. A recent news report indicates that via a household Echo Dot, Alexa urged a...

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Driverless car market leaders innovating the transportation industry

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in Cars, Markets, Perspective, Technology

An autonomous car is one that can sense its surroundings and drive itself without the help of humans. It is not required for a human...

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Pony.ai and FAW Nanjing reach strategic cooperation to develop L4 autonomous driving technology

Posted on Dec 24, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

Autonomous driving company Pony.ai announced on Friday that it has reached a strategic cooperation with FAW Nanjing Technology, a...

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Observant human drivers cleverly watch tall trucks in traffic so as to reveal up ahead roadway snafus, which astute AI self-driving cars ought to do likewise

Posted on Dec 23, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Let’s go on a safari! As you head out onto the savanna, you keenly observe that the area is rife with wildlife. Whoa, right over there is...

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