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Baidu announces autonomous driving milestones at Baidu World 2021

Posted on Aug 18, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Baidu held its annual flagship technology conference, Baidu World 2021, where...

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Citywide gunshot detection could be bolstered via roaming AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Shots fired! It is certainly startling when you hear a loud bang that sounds like a gunshot. Imagine sitting in your living room and from...

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Waymo is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Joel Johnson laughs nervously from the backseat when his self-driving taxi stops in the middle of a busy road in suburban Phoenix. The...

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The Nuro EC-1

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on...

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Using AI self-driving cars to detect and help curtail eyesore graffiti around us

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Graffiti can invoke quite heated debates. Some assert that graffiti is a blight, a blemish, altogether offensive, and ought to be...

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Canadian Government invests $3.9M in an autonomous concept EV called Project Arrow

Posted on Aug 13, 2021 in Cars, Finance, News

Canada’s Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) is investing $5 million CAD ($3.9 million USD) in...

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Here’s why a mouse brain might just be the right solution for attaining full-blown AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 13, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Mighty mouse. I’m referring to the aspect that mice can be amazingly smart, mightily so. We already all would likely agree that mice are...

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Daimler & Bosch give up on their robotaxi dreams

Posted on Aug 11, 2021 in Cars, News

Daimler and Bosch are giving up on their robotaxi partnership, a joint project called Athena, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. The article...

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Congestion-free roads might be a self-driving car pipe dream

Posted on Aug 11, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Traffic snarls are everywhere and seemingly endless. Most major cities throughout the nation endure adverse congestion on their public...

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Audi Skysphere concept is like two cars in one

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, News

Moments before pulling the cover off the Audi Skysphere concept in Los Angeles on Monday, designer Gael Buzyn offered a succinct...

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Kiwibot partners with hospitality giant Sodexo to bring food delivery robots to more college campuses

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, News

Kiwibot, the robotic sidewalk delivery startup, has announced a partnership with food services and facilities management giant Sodexo to...

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May Mobility announces on-demand autonomous service in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, News

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — May Mobility, a leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and shuttle operations,...

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Driverless cars are proving to be job creators, at least so far

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

When self-driving car hype peaked a few years ago, so did fears of job destruction that would ensue as the technology took hold. One...

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Motional to begin testing autonomous vehicles in LA as part of California expansion plan

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Motional, the autonomous vehicle company born out of a $4 billion joint venture with Aptiv and Hyundai, is expanding its presence in...

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Vroom Delivery and Tortoise partner with Urban Value Corner Store to bring robot grocery delivery to Dallas

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, News

DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Robots are coming to Dallas! But don’t worry about Skynet, these robots just want to bring...

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There is increasingly mounting AI technical debt that is going to inevitably sink some self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Getting in over your head. That’s what often happens when people take on debt. Shakespeare famously warned us about the dangers of going...

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Robo-vans could start delivering profits and not just pizza

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

There are executives across the globe trying to figure out how to profit from autonomous driving technology. For Yu Enyuan, it’s been a...

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How much more can autonomous cars improve? Waymo!

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The rush toward autonomous vehicles once made them seem imminent. But progress has slowed so dramatically that to some observers, autonomy...

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How should autonomous cars make life-or-death decisions? In the best of worlds, they won’t.

Posted on Aug 6, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

When serial entrepreneur Barry Lunn decided to start a driving software business, he attended several industry insider events where he...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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