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Self-driving firm Pony.ai gets funding from China carmaker FAW

Posted on Nov 3, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

(Bloomberg) — Self-driving technology startup Pony.ai struck a funding agreement with carmaker FAW Group, calling it the first...

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Waymo moved its self-driving cars in San Francisco to a ‘secured location’ in case of election chaos

Posted on Nov 3, 2020 in Cars, News

Waymo is pulling its autonomous vehicles out of San Francisco in anticipation of Election Day unrest, The Verge has learned. The Google...

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Cutting through the self-driving hype: A realistic view of an exciting opportunity

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Earlier this year, AI analyst Emerj pointed out that despite the bullish public pronouncements of the auto industry CEOs, it is “still a...

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Alibaba-backed autonomous car firm AutoX to test in four more cities

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SHENZHEN/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese autonomous vehicle startup AutoX, backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said it is preparing...

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The near-miss quandary is unavoidably messy for self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Reckless and fleckless drivers. I’m sure you experience their antics and angst-producing driving activities all the time....

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Waymo and other self-driving car companies readying real-world driverless transportation

Posted on Oct 31, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The driverless taxi era has finally arrived, in parts of Arizona, at least. Two weeks after Alphabet-owned Waymo started its driverless...

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Roborace crash showcases how difficult autonomous driving is

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Videos & Podcasts

One of the major points to defend motorsports is how it supposedly helps develop new tech for cars. If you think about Roborace, that’s...

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Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 in Cars, News

In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes and 29...

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Tesla has increased the price of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ option to $10,000

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Tesla  has made good on founder and CEO Elon Musk’s promise to boost the price of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software upgrade option,...

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Daylight Savings Time could miraculously be saved by self-driving cars

Posted on Oct 29, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Spring forward, fall back. Simple enough. That’s what is supposed to happen due to our acceptance of abiding by Daylight Savings Time...

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Lexus and TED reimagine the autonomous vehicle of the future

Posted on Oct 29, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

PLANO, Texas, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As the world builds toward autonomous driving, Lexus continues to keep the focus on what...

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China’s Ministry of Transport supports legal trials for autonomous car application

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Cars, News

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- China will encourage local authorities of cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Hebei to launch pilot projects focusing on...

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Mercedes targets evolution rather than revolution in self-driving car push

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

(Reuters) — As Tesla touts the cutting-edge nature of its new Full Self Driving software, rival Mercedes-Benz says it has developed a...

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The long road to automated cars

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 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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Via and Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture to offer shared robotaxi rides next year

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Cars, News

Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture, and on-demand shuttle startup Via plan to launch a shared robotaxi service for the public in a...

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J.D. Power survey finds drastic changes to commuting habits had minimal effect on sentiment in US about BEVs & self-driving

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology

Many vehicle owners in North America are driving fewer miles in the era of COVID-19, but their opinions of future mobility technology...

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Ford doubles down on testing autonomous cars in Miami-Dade

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 in Cars, News

After landing in Miami-Dade in 2018 with a fleet of self-driving cars, Ford announced Oct. 26 that it plans to broaden its presence in the...

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Motional and Lyft resume self-driving service in Las Vegas

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Cars, News

Motional (a mobility JV between Hyundai and Aptiv) and Lyft have announced the resumption of their self-driving mobility service in Las...

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XPengto release Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP) in Q1 2021

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective, Technology

XPeng plans Level 5 autonomous driving technology by 2025. XPeng Motors held its Tech Day this past Saturday and laid out the...

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Autonomous delivery vehicles deployed in Chinese cities amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

BEIJING – For the past three months, robots have been making parcel deliveries in Changshu. The autonomous delivery vehicles...

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