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When Self-Driving Cars Don’t Realize They’ve Been In A Car Crash

Posted on Oct 18, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

Have you ever been in a car crash?The odds are that if you’ve been driving for any notable number of years you’ve unfortunately had your...

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Four years ago Elon Musk announced all Tesla cars have the hardware needed for full self-driving, so where is it?

Posted on Oct 17, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

Tesla announced on October 19, 2016, that all cars being produced have Full Self-Driving hardware.Almost four years later, numerous...

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Cruise gets the green light to test fully driverless cars in California

Posted on Oct 15, 2020 in Cars, News

Cruise, the self-driving company owned by General Motors, has been approved to test its driverless cars on public roads in California. The...

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Uber’s self-driving-car business has fallen behind Waymo and Cruise — here’s why the ride-hail giant might give up on ATG

Posted on Oct 15, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

To former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, mastering self-driving-car technology was a matter of life or death for the ride-hailing...

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Cruise can now test driverless vehicles on the streets of San Francisco

Posted on Oct 15, 2020 in Cars, News

Cruise,  the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates,...

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Riding in a self-driving car is Waymo relaxing than you might expect

Posted on Oct 14, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Despite what Elon Musk would have you believe, most Americans are still a long way off from experiencing a ride in a truly driverless...

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On the hit-and-maybe-run self-driving car dilemma (akin to ‘The Molly Problem’)

Posted on Oct 14, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Please prepare yourself for a driving scenario that we all dread and profusely hope will never occur. Wham, while driving your car, you...

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Velodyne Lidar and Baidu sign a three-year sales agreement

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

 Velodyne Lidar, Inc. recently announced that it has entered into a three-year sales agreement with Baidu for its Alpha Prime Lidar...

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Throwing wrenches at autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

If you need to quickly figure out whether or not an AV is safe, you might want to throw a wrench at it.  If it doesn’t crash, it’s worthy...

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Swiss lab tests out Chinese driverless delivery van

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, News

Swiss research lab EPFL is testing out a driverless delivery van from a Chinese supplier across its campus. The Autonomously Delivered...

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Hidden factor steering for trouble in latest Elon Musk versus Waymo self-driving cars squabble

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

There is an elephant in the room, but it seems as though nobody is noticing it. In the ongoing push toward the fielding of self-driving...

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The real question: When do we ban human drivers?

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Every year, about twenty million people die or suffer serious horrific (and permanent) injury every year, worldwide. With self-driving...

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Nissan leads driverless car project for London

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, News

A project has launched in London to bring driverless cars to the UK capital using Nissan’s electric Leaf. The ServCity project brings...

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Baidu fully opens Apollo Go Robotaxi service in Beijing

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, News

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Baidu announced on October 11 that it has fully opened its Apollo Go Robotaxi service to ordinary users in Beijing....

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Chinese self-driving cars ready to roll abroad

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Chinese startups in the field of self-driving or fully automated vehicles are beefing up their presence in foreign markets. Their move...

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You may not have heard, but the autonomous vehicle has now arrived

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

No one said it would be easy. Much less that its deployment would be immediate, or that it would be available to everyone around the...

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Self-driving car UX shifting gears from stony silence to avid chitchat

Posted on Oct 9, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

What usually happens today when you get into a ride-sharing car that you requested as a pick-up for your trip to a local store?...

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Waymo will allow more people to ride in its fully driverless vehicles in Phoenix

Posted on Oct 8, 2020 in Cars, News

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, announced it will be opening up its fully driverless vehicles to all customers of its...

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Uber still sees micromobility and AVs in its future, and could push Prop 22 beyond California

Posted on Oct 7, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Uber made headlines earlier this year when it offloaded Jump, the shared bike and scooter unit that once appeared to be a critical piece...

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Halloween trick-or-treating in an era of self-driving cars

Posted on Oct 7, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Halloween is almost here! Even if this year’s celebrations might be somewhat less extravagant and require added care and precautions,...

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