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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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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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Using Deep Learning, AI Supercomputing, NVIDIA works to make fully self-driving cars a reality

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Self-driving cars could revolutionize transportation, reducing traffic and accidents, increasing productivity, and providing newfound...

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‘Will your self-driving vehicle need a license?’

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

In attempting to legislate the testing and ultimately the impending regular use of self-driving vehicles, a lot of government entities are...

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How will autonomous cars respond to emergency vehicles?

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

As we get closer to the widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles, there’s still discussions about what sensors will be required to...

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Waymo begins experimenting with self-driving taxi prices

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, has kept mum about how much it will eventually charge people to ride in its...

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Renovo partners with aiPod to deploy self-driving cars in London and beyond

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Cars, News

Renovo is licensing its technology to yet another self-driving startup — this time aiPod — in its bid to sell a platform that will enable...

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