Coronavirus puts ambitious plans for self-driving cars on the shelf
In two weeks, the coronavirus has brought the entire U.S. auto industry to a screeching halt. When it finally sputters back to life, many...
Read MoreThe venerable upstream parable helps in these trying times, and applies to the future of AI self-driving cars
It’s parable time. Some of you might be familiar with a parable that many refer to as the Upstream Parable or alternatively the River...
Read MoreNew gyroscope design will help autonomous cars and robots map the world
As useful as GPS is, it’s not a system that we can rely on all the time. There are many situations in which GPS might not be available,...
Read MoreThis is just a test: University of Iowa puts rural autonomous driving through its paces
At a casual glance, it looks like any Lincoln MKZ. But it’s smarter. “It can talk to a couple school buses in the Solon Community...
Read MorePhantom AI raises $22 million to develop ADAS products
Phantom AI, a startup developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for cars and trucks, today announced that it has raised $22...
Read MoreRobot vehicles make contactless deliveries amid Coronavirus quarantine
For the past two months, the vegetables have arrived on the back of a robot. That’s how 16 communities in Zibo, in eastern China, have...
Read MoreWaymo’s AI improves autonomous vehicle performance while saving costs
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle research division, today detailed a system — Progressive Population Based Augmentation (PPBA) — it...
Read MoreIt took a coronavirus outbreak for self-driving cars to become more appealing
Suddenly, a future full of self-driving cars isn’t just a sci-fi pipe dream. What used to be considered a scary, uncertain...
Read MoreEngineer says Uber owes him $180 million for run-in with Google
A star Silicon Valley engineer who defected from Google to Uber Technologies Inc. — only to be fired, tagged as the villain in a...
Read MoreCoronavirus: what differences could driverless vehicles make?
At the moment, it seems that every news story is covering the coronavirus pandemic. Considering this, it seems natural to question how our...
Read MoreLegacy truck players: Ignore autonomous trucking at your peril
The conversation about autonomous vehicles has been hard to ignore over the past few years. Indeed, it’s been almost deafening at times,...
Read MoreComing release of Tesla Autopilot ‘red light’ auto-stopping could trigger a self-driving downward spiral
Human drivers seem to effortlessly be able to detect red lights at traffic signals. Well, most of the time. Sometimes, a driver is...
Read MoreConnected vehicle project could ‘end motorway pile-ups’
Around 4,500 accidents still happen on UK motorways each year, contributing to 1,700 annual deaths and over 22,000 serious injuries, and...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles can reduce drink driving, claims study
New Delhi: Drink driving has been a major concern for the policymakers across the world as this has been the reason behind many fatal road...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle developer StreetDrone publishes safety report
Autonomous vehicle technology developer StreetDrone has published a 30-page report entitled, Putting Safety First in Autonomous Vehicles....
Read MoreBMW wants a transforming steering wheel for autonomous cars
Ever since Bertha Benz first drove the Patent Motorwagen back in 1886, steering wheels have been round things that you turn to steer the...
Read MoreHyundai partners with Aptiv to form autonomous driving JV
New Delhi: South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Group has joined hands with auto parts manufacturer Aptiv to form a joint venture that...
Read MoreLuminaries battle in Lincoln-Douglas style debate about the future of self-driving cars
Several self-driving car luminaries assembled online via a Zoom-casted battleground this week to undertake a Lincoln-Douglas style debate...
Read MoreArlington gets $1.7M for Via Rideshare to provide free rides for UTA, integrate autonomous vehicles
The City of Arlington recently received an almost $1.7M Integrated Mobility Innovation grant from the Federal Transit Administration to...
Read MoreThere’s a baby sea lion on Highway 101, what would a self-driving car do?
There was a bit of extra excitement in the San Francisco Bay Area traffic last year when a baby sea lion decided it was time to checkout...
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