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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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Yandex begins public tests of its self-driving cars in Russia

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News

Russia’s Yandex has taken its self-driving efforts one step further, launching an autonomous ride-hailing service in the university...

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Waymo’s self-driving cars are far from perfect, report says

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News

Most stories about Waymo’s self-driving efforts in Phoenix have been positive, but a new report claims that the pilot program...

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Driver shortage in Japan speeds up commercial use of self-driving tech

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

In Tokyo, self-driving taxis that transport passengers for a fee are being trialed. A serious shortage of taxi drivers lies behind the...

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Baidu and Great Wall Motors plan to mass produce autonomous cars by 2020

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News

On August 27 at the launching ceremony of GWM WEY VV6, tech giant Baidu and Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) announced the...

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Jaguar land rover gives driverless cars ‘virtual eyes’ to signal awareness of pedestrians

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

Jaguar land rover has come up with a new concept technology in an effort to understand how humans will come to trust self-driving vehicles...

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There’s a good reason this self-driving pod has huge ‘virtual eyes’

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

Jaguar Land Rover’s “driverless pod with eyes” will either raise a smile or send shivers down your spine, depending on your disposition....

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Elon Musk claims a Tesla semi prototype drove “across the country alone”

Posted on Aug 27, 2018 in News, Trucks

NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM. Tesla might be sucking the life force of CEO Elon Musk, but at least the company’s got some some good news to show...

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Autonomous vehicle vision program receives big investment

Posted on Aug 27, 2018 in Cars, Finance, News

FLIR Systems, who specialize in thermal imaging, have made a strategic investment in CVEDIA, a Singapore-based machine learning and AI...

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