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Velodyne Lidar to drive autonomous cleaning vehicles in China to fight Coronavirus epidemic

Posted on Feb 27, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Velodyne Lidar announced a sales agreement with Idriverplus to provide Puck™ sensors over three years. The LiDAR sensor from Velodyne will...

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Oxbotica and Cisco join forces on driverless data challenge

Posted on Feb 27, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

UK autonomous vehicle software specialist Oxbotica has teamed up with IT giant Cisco to develop technology for tapping into the potential...

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Tesla reports fully autonomous miles for first time in years, but it’s nothing to get excited about

Posted on Feb 27, 2020 in Cars, News

Tesla has reported some fully autonomous test miles for the first time in years in the California DMV disengagement report, but it’s...

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How a Toronto company is making self-driving technology a reality on our roads

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

X-Matik founder and CEO Nima Ashtari sits behind the steering wheel of a cargo van while it drives itself down the Don Valley Parkway....

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Michigan Governor signs orders to advance mobility

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

DETROIT — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed executive orders Feb. 25 to create a council on future mobility and electrification,...

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To self-drive in the snow, look under the road

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Car companies have been feverishly working to improve the technologies behind self-driving cars. But so far even the most high-tech...

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Forum: Don’t forget autonomous vehicles in drive towards sustainable development

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The chairman of the Sustainable Infrastructure Committee at the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore, Dr Sanjay C. Kuttan, raised...

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The rudest drivers tend to drive these car brands, which AI self-driving cars ought to ‘keep in mind’

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

What kind of car do you drive? I don’t mean whether it is a four-door or two-door, nor whether it is red in color or blue. Specifically,...

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California DMV releases autonomous vehicle disengagement reports for 2019

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, News

This morning the California Department of Motor Vehicles released a batch of 2019 reports from the companies piloting self-driving...

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Apple greatly reduced autonomous vehicle testing in 2019, fleet of 23 cars drove only 7,500 miles

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Cars, News

According to numbers submitted by Apple to California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, 23 of the company’s 69 registered...

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Altran and 5TONIC to innovate the future of mobility using 5G

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

PARIS, Feb. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Altran, the global leader in engineering and R&D services, and 5TONIC, an open research...

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Phantom images trick autonomous cars into braking

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

In a new research paper, Phantom of the ADAS, published on IACR.org, the researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Cyber...

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CEO of Ford-backed Argo: Self-driving taxis won’t be purely electric for a while

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

It’s widely assumed that future autonomous vehicles will be purely electric. However, the CEO of Argo AI, the self-driving company...

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EXCLUSIVE-Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai raises $500 mln in Toyota-led funding: sources

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

HONG KONG/BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Autonomous driving firm Pony.ai has raised around $500 million in its latest funding round,...

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Northwestern team develops decentralized swarming algorithm for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Self-driving vehicles need to navigate safely and flawlessly without crashing into others or causing unnecessary traffic jams. To make...

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Why Volvo is redefining autonomous driving

Posted on Feb 24, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Volvo has been one of the leading proponents of the industry’s long-term quest for fully autonomous cars. But now it has become the latest...

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The new bipartisan AV bill is a good start, but it’s missing ADAS urgency

Posted on Feb 24, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Policy & Regulation

In “Draft of bipartisan driverless car bill offered by House panel,” Jessica Wehrman from Roll Call reports on a new draft of an AV Bill...

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W Motors is set to open the first hypercar factory in the Middle East

Posted on Feb 24, 2020 in Cars, News

In 2015, W Motors achieved global prominence when cinema audiences watched Vin Diesel drive a cherry-red sports car through the windows of...

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This tweet reminded me that driverless cars can still blow our minds

Posted on Feb 24, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

I saw a tweet today that jolted me out of my self-imposed cynical journalist mindset as it relates to self-driving cars. It was a short...

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Self-driving car rules lag for years as technology speeds ahead

Posted on Feb 24, 2020 in Cars, Policy & Regulation

Lawmakers in Washington, as dozens of companies test self-driving cars, worry about a decades-old question: whether the nation’s auto...

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