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Canada’s first self-driving shuttle using public roads coming to Candiac

Posted on Aug 19, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

The City of Candiac will be the guinea pig for Canada’s first autonomous shuttle using public roads....

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Mando acquires California autonomous vehicle testing permit

Posted on Aug 17, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Mando, a global auto parts manufacturer of the Halla Group (CEO Chung Mong-won), announced on August 30 that it acquired the autonomous...

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Kodiak Robotics raises $40M for self-driving trucks

Posted on Aug 15, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Kodiak Robotics has emerged from stealth mode and raised $40 million in Series A funding to develop technology for self-driving trucks....

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A day in the life of a Waymo self-driving taxi

Posted on Aug 10, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Waymo is ready to start charging for its self-driving trips, but first, it needs to master the dreaded art of fleet management....

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Self-driving car startup AutoX is launching California’s first autonomous grocery deliver

Posted on Aug 9, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

AutoX wants to bring the grocery store to you. The self-driving car startup, which got permission to test self-driving cars in California...

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Interview with Elaine L. Chao, US Secretary of Transportation, on autonomous vehicles and future of roads

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Elaine L. Chao sits down with Fortune’s Alan Murray at Fortune’s 2018 Brainstorm Tech conference....

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FHA Administrator: We Won’t Mandate Self-Driving Vehicles

Posted on Jul 26, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

At a two-day symposium hosted by the Federal Highway Administration in Philadelphia, corporations, planners and regulators debated on...

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Armidale Regional Council wins first regional trial of new driverless bus technology

Posted on Jul 26, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Armidale Regional Council has committed $100,000 to a three-phase trial of a driverless shuttle service, the first of its kind in regional...

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Stanford engineers create new AI camera for faster, more efficient image classification

Posted on Jul 25, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Stanford engineers combine two types of computers to create a faster and less energy-intensive image processor for use in autonomous...

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Harvard’s study on what governments across the globe are doing to seize the benefits of autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jul 25, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University, July 2, 2018 This policy paper introduces some of the main policy and regulatory actions that...

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Baidu Q2 revenues surge with Apollo blooming development

Posted on Jul 25, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Chinese Internet giant Baidu achieved a blooming second quarter with revenues surging 32% year on year to RMB 26 billion and net profits...

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Elon Musk says Tesla A.I. chip project is ‘finally coming to fruition’

Posted on Jul 24, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company’s custom-built chip for handling autonomous driving is nearly ready. Tesla is one of a...

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Self-driving pioneer foresees industry future with autonomous vehicles: Interview with Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University

Posted on Jul 23, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Posted on Jul 23, 2018 Sebastian Thrun is considered to be one of the advanced thinkers of Silicon Valley. He invented Google Street View...

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The artificial intelligence crossroads in Formula 1

Posted on Jul 18, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

The march of Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting industries across all sectors, and so it is inevitable this technology has found...

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Self-driving car startup Zoox is raising $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation

Posted on Jul 18, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Zoox, a once-secretive self-driving car startup, is closing a $500 million raise at a $3.2 billion post-money valuation, Bloomberg...

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AI will create as many jobs as it displaces by boosting economic growth

Posted on Jul 17, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies are projected to create as many jobs as they displace in the UK over the next 20...

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Tesla is getting a China factory. This $4 billion startup will be waiting

Posted on Jul 17, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Xpeng has Alibaba and the government in its corner. Can it start selling electric cars before Elon Musk builds his factory?...

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Self-driving vehicles take test drives around Times Square

Posted on Jul 17, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Traffic in New York City can be maddening for anyone sitting behind the wheel, but now a company has come up with a plan to make things...

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Lincoln conducts test pilot program for Navya autonomous shuttle

Posted on Jul 16, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

What started out as legislation (LB989) to authorize a feasibility study in Lincoln, ended up as a statewide policy framework for...

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Swedish start-up debuts electric, driverless logging truck

Posted on Jul 16, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

The race to vehicle electrification and autonomy has a new leader in the clubhouse: the logging industry. Last week at the Goodwood...

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