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Hawaii OKs autonomous vehicles for public roads

Posted on Sep 22, 2020 in News, Policy & Regulation

Just weeks after committing to a four-year long pilot project to turn Hawaii’s highways into data-collecting laboratories, Hawaii Gov....

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A new way for autonomous racing cars to control sideslip

Posted on Sep 21, 2020 in News, Technology

When race car drivers take tight turns at high speeds, they rely on their experience and gut feeling to hit the gas pedal without spinning...

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German space agency’s modular self-driving truck is just a life-size children’s toy from the ’70s

Posted on Sep 21, 2020 in Buses, News, Trucks

Swiss Army Knives are brilliant. Why have one knife when you can have six in one handy, pocket-sized package? They are the epitome of...

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Leddar Techacquires Phantom Intelligence assets

Posted on Sep 21, 2020 in Finance, News, Technology

QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LeddarTech®, a leader in level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, is pleased to...

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Driverless transportation to return to Arlington, Texas

Posted on Sep 21, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

(TNS) — Driverless transportation will return to Arlington in March as the city continues testing best uses for the burgeoning technology....

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Cambridge’s self-driving shuttle bus trial delayed due to Covid-19

Posted on Sep 20, 2020 in Buses, News

An autonomous vehicle trial in Cambridge has been delayed and will no longer run on the guided busway. Delays caused by Covid-19 and...

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Self-driving taxi concept wins ‘New Designers’ Ford award

Posted on Sep 18, 2020 in Cars, News

The COVID-19 crisis has presented new challenges for mobility, with social distancing impacting public transportation, the flow of traffic...

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Zoox becomes fourth company to land driverless testing permit in California

Posted on Sep 18, 2020 in Cars, News

Zoox,  the automated vehicle technology startup that was acquired by Amazon this year, has been issued a permit from California regulators...

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Autonomous bus makes debut in China’s Chongqing

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 in Buses, News

CHONGQING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A medium-sized bus equipped with autonomous driving technologies made its debut Thursday in Chongqing...

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GAC NIO announces partnership for perfecting intelligent mobility ecosystem

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 in Finance, News, Technology

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- GAC NIO, a joint venture between GAC Group and NIO, announced on Sept. 16 its partnership formed with several Chinese...

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Alibaba launches logistics robot for last-mile deliveries to lower costs and as pandemic pushes automation

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 in Cars, News

China’s biggest e-commerce player Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled an autonomous logistics robot aimed at bringing down the cost of...

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Tesla driver found asleep at wheel of self-driving car doing 150km/h

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 in Cars, News

Police in Canada have charged a man with speeding and dangerous driving after he was found asleep at the wheel of his self-driving car as...

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Phoenix Motorcars wins grant with Houston Metro and EasyMile for development of first FMVSS compliant autonomous shuttle bus in the US

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 in Buses, News

ONTARIO, Calif., Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Kickstarting the autonomous bus revolution in the US, the city of Houston is set to...

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Driverless car software looks six seconds into the future

Posted on Sep 16, 2020 in News, Technology

Researchers in Munich have developed software for driverless car systems that avoids accidents by computing multiple variants of a traffic...

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World-first Level 4 fully autonomous vehicle parking system rolled-out on Human Horizons’ HiPhi X

Posted on Sep 16, 2020 in News, Technology

SHANGHAI, Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Human Horizons, a leading Chinese smart mobility and autonomous driving research company,...

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Baidu Apollo head says technical issues and high costs likely to delay full roll-out of robotaxis until 2025

Posted on Sep 16, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

The head of Baidu’s autonomous driving open platform said that full commercial operations are still several years away with technical...

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Shanghai plans to launch ICV road testing fully across Jiading District by 2022

Posted on Sep 15, 2020 in Infrastructure, News, Technology

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese megacity Shanghai has so far launched the roads for autonomous vehicle tests in Jiading, Lingang and Fengxian...

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Baidu showcases newest autonomous car without safety driver

Posted on Sep 15, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- At the Baidu World 2020, Baidu showcased the newest autonomous car it jointly developed with Hongqi, FAW Group’s...

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ACEINNA launches OpenIMU ROS Driver for development of robotic navigation systems

Posted on Sep 15, 2020 in News, Technology

ACEINNA, one of the world’s leading developers of inertial based guidance and navigation systems for autonomous vehicles and devices,...

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AI researchers devise failure detection method for safety-critical machine learning

Posted on Sep 15, 2020 in News, Technology

Researchers from MIT, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania have devised a method for predicting failure rates of...

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