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Waymo’s driverless taxi service can now be accessed on Google Maps

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Waymo One, the ride-hailing service that uses driverless vehicles in the suburbs of Phoenix, can now be accessed and booked through Google...

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The long road to automated cars

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Sergey Brin knows a little about ground-breaking technology. But when the Google co-founder said in 2012 that we could ‘count on one hand’...

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Apple loses multiple top managers from self-driving car division

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Cars, News

Apple Inc. has lost multiple top managers of its self-driving car team in recent months, a sign of attrition at the division involved in...

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Robot shuttles are not robotaxis, explains IDTechEx

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

BOSTON, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Robotaxis are nothing more than repurposed autonomous cars used for ride-hailing. Some may be...

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What you should do if you see an AI self-driving car behaving badly

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Humans can be troubling. How so? Consider your daily commute. The odds of coming across a driver that is doing something untoward is...

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BMW’S i4 sedan is the electric 4 Series you’ve been waiting for

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Cars, News

Months after revealing its first new electric vehicle in nearly a decade, the iX SUV, BMW is ready to pull back the curtain on its next...

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The dream of the truly driverless car is officially dead

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Lyft’s quest for driverless cars is over. The company recently announced the sale of its self-driving unit to the auto giant Toyota....

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New research says human drivers are accelarousal-prone which is especially eye-catching for AI self-driving cars

Posted on May 28, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

I feel the need, the need for speed. We all know that famous line. I feel the need, the need for acceleration. That’s a line that doesn’t...

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FLIP. First fully autonomous vehicle by SberAutoTech

Posted on May 27, 2021 in Cars, News

MOSCOW, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SberAutoTech, a Sber ecosystem company, has revealed a prototype of its own autonomous vehicle...

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Apple seeks to bite into self-driving electric vehicle market

Posted on May 26, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The scramble for the $5 trillion car market is afoot. The leaders in self-driving tech and electric mobility will be the winners. Apple...

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Self-driving cars raise liability questions for insurers

Posted on May 26, 2021 in Cars, Finance

(TNS) — The advent of self-driving cars is raising questions in the insurance sector about who should pay when the vehicles crash and how...

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Study shows many motorists feel less safe with autonomous cars on the roads

Posted on May 26, 2021 in Cars, News

A joint study from the American Automobile Association (AAA) and Harvard has revealed how uncomfortable many drivers are about sharing the...

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Memorial Day traveling is going to be dicey, not so in an era of AI self-driving cars

Posted on May 26, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The Memorial Day weekend is almost here! And it is time for a deserved road trip, a refreshing getaway, a chance to finally stretch your...

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Silicon Valley is resetting expectations for self-driving cars and settling in for years of more work.

Posted on May 25, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

After years of hype, billions of dollars of investments and promises that people would be commuting to work in self-driving cars by now,...

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JD.com, Meituan and Neolix to test autonomous deliveries on Beijing public roads

Posted on May 25, 2021 in Cars, News

People in a Beijing suburb will begin to see autonomous delivery mini-vans across their neighborhood, moving cautiously alongside human...

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Infusing a dose of human driver skepticism into the AI driving systems of self-driving cars

Posted on May 24, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Are you skeptical about most things? Maybe you are rarely skeptical. In that case, it might be that you take life as it seems to exist and...

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The costly pursuit of self-driving cars continues on. And on. And on.

Posted on May 24, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

It was seven years ago when Waymo discovered that spring blossoms made its self-driving cars get twitchy on the brakes. So did soap...

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From driverless cars to robotic warehouses, China looks to automation to solve population issues

Posted on May 24, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

GUANGZHOU, China — Qin Jiahao has been working at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s logistics operations for around six years. Now a huge...

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Solving big city murder cases and other crimes via AI and self-driving cars

Posted on May 22, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The nationwide murder rate is heading in the wrong direction. It is decidedly on the rise, rather than on the decline....

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Chinese startup Pony.ai can now test driverless vehicles in three California cities

Posted on May 22, 2021 in Cars, News

Chinese robotaxi startup Pony.ai has been given permission by California regulators to pilot its autonomous vehicles without a human...

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