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Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI  is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...

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Prosecutors suggest a27 monthprison term for former Waymo engineer, Anthony Levandowski

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Prosecutors have suggested a 27 month prison term for self-driving vehicle engineer Anthony Levandowski, The Information reports....

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Ford’s slumping sales buoyed by autonomous vehicle investment

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

Washington, DC (CNN Business)Ford reported Thursday that its revenues fell 50% in the second quarter, but it posted a profit due to...

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RTI joins the Baidu Apollo autonomous driving partner ecosystem

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in News, Technology

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework provider for smart...

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StradVision joins South Korea’s K-Unicorn Project, a tech industry investment program for fast-growing startups

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in News, Technology

SEOUL, South Korea, July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — StradVision, whose AI-based camera perception software is a leading innovator in...

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Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development forming Woven Planet Holdings and two new operating companies

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in News, Technology

Effective January 2021, Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development, Inc. will expand and improve its operations into a holding...

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BMW patents joystick to replace steering wheel in autonomous cars

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

The road to the autonomous driving future is certainly not going to be easy. Some car makers are even starting to doubt we’ll ever get...

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Continental is supercharging the development of driver-assistance tech

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 in News, Technology

No self-driving cars are available today, but like it or not, they’re coming. Automakers and supplier companies around the world are...

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BMW iVenturesinvests in GenXComm, a company improving the performance of 5G networks using photonic circuits

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 in Finance, News, Technology

The long-awaited rollout of ultra-fast 5G networks promises to greatly improve the performance of mobile devices worldwide, but 5G...

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Lucid Air EV introduces DreamDriveautonomous tech with OTA updates

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 in News, Technology

Full details of the Lucid Air are not yet available, but we are getting a better picture of exactly what you’ll be getting with this...

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Elon Musk says Tesla doesn’t want to crush rivals, and the company is open to licensing its self-driving software and battery technology

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric automaker is considering getting into the business of lending software and supplying hardware to its...

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Horizon Robotics, FAW’s tech subsidiary to ally on AI, ADAS, autonomous driving

Posted on Jul 27, 2020 in News, Technology

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese leading AI chip developer Horizon Robotics inked on July 23 with FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development (called...

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Lidar startup taps investment banker as new CFO

Posted on Jul 25, 2020 in Finance, News, Technology

Luminar Technologies Inc.’s new finance chief is set to promote the company’s new distance measurement technology for self-driving cars,...

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Self-healing software for driverless cars

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

Researchers in Austria are testing out self-healing technology that corrects the internal errors of software used for driverless cars....

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COAST Autonomous selects LeddarTech’ssolid-state LiDAR technology as the most reliable solution to achieve maximum safety levels for its autonomous “Bigfoot” delivery vehicle

Posted on Jul 24, 2020 in News, Technology

QUEBEC CITY and PASADENA, Calif., July 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LeddarTech®, an industry leader in environmental sensing...

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Industry survey finds >57% of auto tech leaders expect COVID-19 to increase consolidation; >85% predict lasting impact on shared mobility

Posted on Jul 24, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

A global survey of more than survey found that more than 120 auto tech leaders by Informa Tech Automotive Group found that 57% expect that...

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Elon Musk on Tesla self-driving: ‘I can almost go from my house to work with no intervention’

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Elon Musk said that he is testing Tesla’s latest alpha built of its self-driving system and claim that he can “almost” go from his house...

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St. Petersburg, Fla., officials consider AV shuttle pilot

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 in Buses, News

(TNS) — A driverless shuttle could carry people up and down Bayshore Drive this fall, if city and county officials sign off on it. The...

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Scenario-based simulation drives advanced automation

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 in News, Technology

Last year, as the result of the £13.5m (US$17.1m) HumanDrive research project, led by Nissan and eight other consortium partners including...

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Beep and Local Motors announce strategic partnership to broadly deploy autonomous, electric shuttles

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 in Buses, News

ORLANDO, Fla., July 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Beep, a Florida-based autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider and Local Motors...

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