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Alphabet’s Waymo valuation cut 40% by Morgan Stanley to $105 billion amid challenges in self-driving car market

Posted on Sep 27, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car division, is taking longer than expected to develop a commercialized product, leading analysts at...

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Renesas & StradVision collaborate on a deep-learning smart camera for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Sep 26, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor and SoC products, together with vision processing...

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Losing control is the biggest fear for autonomous car users, reveals study

Posted on Sep 26, 2019 in Cars, News

In a study conducted by Audi, it has been revealed that 70 per cent people among 21,000 participants see losing control of the car is...

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What happens when self-driving cars kill people?

Posted on Sep 26, 2019 in Cars, News

In recent years autonomous vehicles have moved from a fanciful science fiction topic to actual reality, with real cars driving on real...

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Self-driving startup Embark raises $70 million, opens freight transfer hubs for robot big rigs

Posted on Sep 25, 2019 in Finance, News, Trucks

Embark Trucks, a self-driving tech firm created by two twenty-something Canadian computer scientists, just landed $70 million in new...

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Pennsylvania groups partner to test autonomous vehicles

Posted on Sep 25, 2019 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

In the first project of its kind in the U.S., the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation received an $8.4 million grant last week from...

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Ford’s autonomous vehicles are coming to Austin, Texas

Posted on Sep 25, 2019 in Cars, News

Ford is bringing its autonomous vehicles to Austin, Texas, the company announced on Wednesday. Ford will start by mapping the streets of...

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Is the Scania AXL autonomous truck a self-driving workhorse of the future?

Posted on Sep 24, 2019 in News, Trucks

For over 100 years, automobiles have housed human passengers and the stuff they decided to take with them. Yet, the budding self-driving...

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Audi study finds high interest in self-driving cars, but far from a blanket statement

Posted on Sep 24, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, News, Reports

While autonomous cars and self-driving technology aren’t ready to roll in the near future, such technology is bound to become...

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Baidu snags autonomous car licenses, bringing China closer to driverless future

Posted on Sep 23, 2019 in Cars, News

The capital of central China’s Hubei province granted licenses for companies to test self-driving vehicles, boosting robocar-related...

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A European university is testing 5G for self-driving vehicles

Posted on Sep 23, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

The University of Warwick, in collaboration with National Instruments (NI), has installed and will be testing Europe’s first...

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Hyundai to set up $4 billion driverless car venture

Posted on Sep 23, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Hyundai Motor Group will spend $1.6 billion to develop autonomous vehicles with Aptiv Plc, marking one of the biggest investments yet by a...

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Robotaxis as the norm are still ‘far away’

Posted on Sep 23, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

If there’s a voice of reason in the autonomous vehicle industry, Bryan Salesky is it. One might think the CEO of Argo AI would have...

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Drivers’ jobs post-autonomy, ‘disruption in chunks’: Panel talks self-driving trucks

Posted on Sep 23, 2019 in News, Perspective, Trucks

Speaking earlier this month at the FTR Transportation Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, representatives from three autonomous truck...

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Zoox CEO Aicha Evans to talk self-driving cars at Disrupt SF 2019

Posted on Sep 21, 2019 in Cars, News

Aicha Evans, CEO of self-driving startup Zoox, is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in just two short weeks. Evans came on...

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Ride-sharing alone scares some just as much as taking a self-driving car, survey finds

Posted on Sep 21, 2019 in Cars, News

Would you rather take an Uber ride home alone late at night or have a self-driving taxi service come pick you up with no one at the front...

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Autonomous driving could explode soon — these chipmakers could cash in

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 in Cars, Markets, News

The semiconductor industry is huge, and the promising outlook for autonomous driving is a potentially big tailwind for some chip makers....

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FAW readies electric SUV offering Level 4 autonomous driving

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

China FAW Group Corp. plans to launch sales of a full-electric SUV capable of Level 4 “hands off” autonomous driving next year...

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Oxbotica unveils the software complexity associated with autonomous vehicle testing

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

According to Oxbotica, a leading autonomous vehicle software provider, autonomous vehicles driving on London’s complex and congested...

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Tech startups cite progress on path to self-driving trucks

Posted on Sep 20, 2019 in News, Technology, Trucks

Over the past year, startups working to commercialize highly auto­mated heavy-duty trucks competed for more capital and engineers, and...

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