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Tesla’s Autopilot in spotlight in new NTSB reports on crashes

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

(Bloomberg) — A Tesla Inc. vehicle that slammed into a California highway barrier in 2018 with its automated driver-assist function...

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The engineers behind Google’s Bookbot have launched a delivery robot startup

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 in Cars, News

The engineers behind Google’s short-lived Bookbot — a robot created within the company’s Area 120 incubator for experimental products —...

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COAST Autonomous signs MOU with Saint Leo University in Florida

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 in Buses, Cars, News

PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — COAST Autonomous (“COAST”) announced today that it has signed a...

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Aptiv’s self-driving cars have given 100,000 paid rides on the Lyft app

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 in Cars, News

What started out as a temporary pilot project to test a robotaxi service in Las Vegas has turned into a multi-year partnership between...

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We still can’t agree how to regulate self-driving cars

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

There was a sense of déjà vu on Capitol Hill today as a House panel convened yet another hearing on how to best regulate autonomous...

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Gordon Murray’s Motiv reinvented as electric autonomous pod with a single gullwing door

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Gordon Murray Design (GMD) has released photos and specifications of its new Motiv autonomous city car. Developed in collaboration with...

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Is it time to curb our enthusiasm for autonomous driving?

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

It wasn’t that long ago that some people within the automotive industry were claiming that fully autonomous cars would be on the road by...

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Fiat Chrysler and AutoX confirm plans to work on robotaxis

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Cars, News

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is joining forces with the Chinese startup AutoX to bring self-driving robotaxis to China. The companies...

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Are autonomous vehicles still a utopian dream?

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

An autonomous car in Arizona was involved in a fatal crash. Permits for pilot projects in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space have been...

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Friendships are faltering but there’s hope that AI self-driving cars might cause a friendship uplift

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Friendships. It’s an easy word to say, but a much harder word to put into practice. Sadly, friendships right now are waning and becoming...

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Tech start-up Pix Moving uses self-driving ideas to make flexible cities

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Pix self-moving spaces are clever autonomous mobile units. These modular systems can be reconfigured and stacked freely to form different...

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Deep Learning has limits. But its commercial impact has just begun.

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Technology

There has been increased hand-wringing across the AI community in recent months about the limitations of deep learning. It was a dominant...

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Investors hit the brakes on automotive startups

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Finance

Last year, Ted Serbinski called his accelerator, TechStars Detroit, the “‘comeback city’s’ startup ecosystem.” Since 2015, the accelerator...

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US House panel will discuss self-driving cars next week

Posted on Feb 8, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

On February 11th, a House panel will hold a hearing that could help shape the future of self-driving vehicles in the US. The Consumer...

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Those three clever dogs trained to drive a car provide valuable lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Feb 8, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

We’ve all seen dogs traveling in cars, including how they like to peek out an open window and enjoy the fur-fluffing breeze and dwell in...

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Tesla Self-Driving Computer architect Jim Keller is confident about solving autonomous driving

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Jim Keller, Tesla’s former head of Autopilot hardware and the designer of Tesla’s Self-Driving Computer chip, says that he is confident...

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Tesla accused of abruptly pulling self-driving from a used Model S

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla’s much-vaunted ability to add features to its cars over the air has turned into a real inconvenience for some drivers. An...

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Bosch says it could launch an autonomous car tomorrow

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

The German supplier’s senior vice-president of automated driving, Kay Stepper, told Autocar that its engineers have already cleared the...

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Waymo’s AI Content Search tool lets engineers quickly find objects in driving records

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

AI is the method by which self-driving cars perceive joggers, cyclists, traffic lights, road signs, trees, shrubs, and more, and it...

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The federal government just granted its first driverless car exemption

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

Nuro, the self-driving startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, has a new delivery robot. The R2 is the company’s second-generation...

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