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UPS Expands Self-Driving Semi Partnership

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in News, Trucks

Operating a shipping and logistics company in the age of Amazon has spawned new pressures that force organizations to be more aggressive...

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Test Riders In Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Won’t Stop Complaining

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Cars, News

Waymo, the Alphabet-owned self-driving car company, is getting some critical reviews from its passengers in Phoenix and San Francisco....

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Council Members to Take Self-Driving Vehicles for a Spin

Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Cars, News

Autonomous vehicles are coming to San Antonio, and a few members of City Council will be among the first to test them. On Monday, the City...

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Waymo’s robot taxi service is improving, but riders still have complaints

Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Cars, News

Waymo is operating its self-driving ride-hailing service in two cities: Phoenix, with some paying customers and some riding for free, and...

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Toyota reveals the bizarre autonomous and electric vehicles that will whisk athletes and visitors around for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Cars, News

Toyota, the Japanese worldwide partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, has released its full lineup of electric vehicles that will be...

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Low-cost LiDAR startup Oryx Vision shuts down

Posted on Aug 25, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Israel-based low-cost LiDAR startup Oryx Vision Ltd. has shut down as of Thursday, Oryx’s CEO Ran Wellingstein said in a Friday interview...

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Pony.ai and Toyota partner to build self-driving cars and services

Posted on Aug 25, 2019 in Cars, Markets, News

Guangzhou, China-based self-driving car startup Pony.ai today announced it’ll team up with Toyota, the Japanese auto giant with a roughly...

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Self-driving car companies depend on cheap labor from Venezuela

Posted on Aug 23, 2019 in Cars, News

In order to teach a car to drive itself, its artificial intelligence needs to be presented with thousands of examples of things it might...

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China is betting on slow but steady to win the self-driving car race

Posted on Aug 23, 2019 in Cars, News

Over the past two years, China has been setting the stage for a revolution in autonomous driving. Just don’t expect that revolution to...

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RoboSense and Aidrivers announce a partnership to deliver superior autonomous solutions for industrial transportation

Posted on Aug 22, 2019 in Markets, News, Trucks

SHENZHEN, China & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RoboSense, the leading supplier of LiDAR perception system solutions, and...

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Audi to join Daimler, BMW self-driving tech alliance, report says

Posted on Aug 22, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

FRANKFURT — Audi will join an alliance with rivals Daimler and BMW to develop advanced autonomous driving systems, German...

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Tesla delays price hike for self-driving upgrade

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

You’ll still have at least a few more weeks to order a Tesla with the Full Self-Driving upgrade before the price hike kicks in. Elon...

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With new funding, startup Plusai set to unveil Level 2 driverless vehicles

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Finance, News, Trucks

Sequoia Capital-backed PlusAI Inc. is close to raising about $200 million in new funds at a valuation of more than $1 billion to bankroll...

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Porsche invests in Israeli start-up to improve the safety of autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, Markets, News

Volkswagen-owned Porsche acquired a minority stake in Israeli firm TriEye Wednesday, with the aim of improving safety features in its...

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Waymo open-sources data set for autonomous vehicle multimodal sensors

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary that hopes to someday pepper roads with self-driving taxis, today pulled back the curtains on a portion of...

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DoorDash eyes autonomous food delivery with latest acquisition

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, News

It’s no secret that DoorDash wants to deliver your food with autonomous vehicles. Early this year it partnered with GM to test...

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Waymo: Building cars is a “distraction” from self-driving tech

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

When it comes to building and perfecting the self-driving car, some companies have elected to build a full vehicle from the ground up,...

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Thousands of autonomous delivery robots are about to descend on US college campuses

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Cars, News

The quintessential college experience of getting pizza delivered to your dorm room is about to get a high-tech upgrade. On Tuesday,...

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Molex demonstrates strength in autonomous vehicle design with V2X next generation capabilities at AV 2019

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Cars, News

LISLE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Molex, a leading supplier of high-speed networking, datacom, rugged industrial and automotive...

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First on-demand autonomous shuttle trial opens to the public

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Buses, News

Singapore’s first on-demand autonomous shuttle public trial has been officially launched at Sentosa, marking a major milestone since...

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