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VW acquires minority stake in autonomous-drive software company

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

Volkswagen Group has acquired a minority stake in eastern German software startup FDTech, in a bid to strengthen its expertise in...

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Miniature Lidar

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

The Micro-Motion Technology (MMT) platform of miniature lidar solutions from Cepton Technologies Inc. are designed for autonomous driving....

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Daimler claims massive growth in mobility services

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Daimler claims 24.4 million people worldwide are using its various mobility services. That’s an increase of 64 percent over the...

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Volkswagen reinforces competences in highly automated driving

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Friedrich Eichler, Head of Chassis Development of the Volkswagen brand, says: “We are working flat out to integrate highly automated...

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Baidu researchers develop a new auto-tuning framework for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Researchers at Chinese multinational tech company Baidu have recently developed a data-driven auto-tuning framework for self-driving...

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Humans—not technology—are the leading cause of self-driving car accidents in California

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Self-driving cars will eventually hit the roads. But it might still be humans we’ll need to worry about when that happens....

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How do you get people to trust autonomous vehicles? This company is giving them ‘virtual eyes.’

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

One of the biggest challenges facing car companies developing driverless vehicles has little do with sophisticated robotics or laser...

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Waymo success spells big upside for Alphabet, Morgan Stanley says in street-high forecast

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

The accelerating success of Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, spells big upside for stakeholders, according to Morgan...

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Tesla’s ahead of the competition. Can it stay in front?

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Tesla got a big jump on the competition in the battle to create the perfect electric car with driverless capabilities. More escapades like...

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CleanTechnica exclusive: Electric autonomous Byton prototype is a showstopper at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Bringing a 21st-century mobility prototype to the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is a bold move that needs to be backed up. Byton...

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The top startups paving the way for self-driving vehicles

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Trucks

How far away are we, really, from a fully autonomous vehicle future? According to recent reports about how self-driving vehicles handle...

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Byton teams up with Aurora to test autonomous cars in America

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Nicolas Zart, CleanTechnica’s under assistant West Coast promo man, spent last weekend hobnobbing with the swells at the annual Pebble...

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Today in VC: Autonomous vehicles and blockchain

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Trucks

Autonomous driving and blockchain have particularly excited (and confused) the venture world over the last year, and today is no...

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$3 billion deal could turn Manassas into key supplier for self-driving car components

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

Micron, a publicly traded semiconductor manufacturer based in Boise, Idaho, announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $3 billion to...

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‘I hate them’: Locals reportedly frustrated with Alphabet’s self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Alphabet’s self-driving cars are annoying their neighbors in Chandler, Arizona. More than a dozen locals who work near Waymo’s...

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Driverless taxi debuts in Tokyo in ‘world first’ trial ahead of Olympics

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News

A self-driving taxi has successfully taken paying passengers through the busy streets of Tokyo, raising the prospect that the service will...

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AI will be the most influential technology in coming years, say state IT chiefs

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

Development of artificial intelligence platforms will be the most impactful information technology topic for state governments over the...

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Brits not ready to buy autonomous cars, says Close Brothers Motor Finance

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News

MORE than half of British motorists aren’t yet willing to buy an autonomous car, according to Close Brothers Motor Finance....

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ZF invests in future engineers with expanded FIRST presence

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

The tens of billions of dollars being spent to develop self-driving vehicles has exacerbated a frustrating problem in the auto industry:...

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Toyota and Uber extend collaboration to automated vehicle technologies

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) today announced that they have agreed to expand their collaboration with...

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