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Opinion: Self-driving car bill provides opportunity to save lives

Posted on Aug 26, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Self-driving cars and smart infrastructure enable dramatic improvements in safety and hold incredible promise to decrease deaths and...

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Former GM R&D boss, Larry Burns tells the tale of the automated car in new book

Posted on Aug 26, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

For most people, self-driving cars are a relatively recent concept popularized by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and videos of a blind man riding in...

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How Intel plans to save your life in autonomous driving

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

There were a few big takeaways from the Autonomous Driving 2018 Conference in Novi, MI. Perhaps the largest? Someone can imagine a...

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An interview with self-driving visionary Larry Burns, co-author of “Autonomy”

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Lawrence Burns is a former vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors, who has been an advisor to Waymo...

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Why hi-resolution radar is a game changer

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Ultra high-resolution imaging radar is quickly becoming the trailblazing technology for autonomous driving. 4D picture offers real-time...

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Don’t believe the naysayers: Self-driving cars are already here in many ways

Posted on Aug 22, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Yes, it’s true: The promise of self-driving cars zooming around while their human operators doze off, read, or watch movies is not...

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Meet Renovo, the Amazon Web Services of autonomous driving

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The autonomous driving space is in a very exciting place right now. Not just because of the eventual convenience of having our cars drive...

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The self-driving startup teaching cars to talk

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

HORNS HONK. HANDS wave. Lights flash. Fingers fly and eyes meet. This orchestra may seem a mess to anyone stuck in the pit at rush hour,...

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Forget working from home, autonomous vehicles will drive a boom in working from car

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

When Yahoo’s then-CEO Marissa Mayer banned working from home back in 2013, it accentuated a debate that had been percolating for some...

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Self-driving cars should look down, not just ahead

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE like snowbird retirees. Given the freedom to live, or operate, anywhere in the country, they turn their backs on...

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Research predicts adoption rates of connected autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 17, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

In this installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we explore how the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis,...

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A driverless streetscape? Plan on it.

Posted on Aug 17, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Like every American metro area, the Chicago region faces head-spinning changes to the way people get around in coming decades. Driverless...

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A Waymo engineer told us why a virtual-world simulation is crucial to the future of self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 16, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Waymo has racked up over eight million self-driving miles since the former Google Car project kicked off almost a decade ago. But that...

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Data security and privacy in the connected car age

Posted on Aug 16, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Today’s smart car is smarter than ever before. The numbers prove it: The average connected car has the power equivalent of 20 computers,...

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Breaking the psychological barrier to autonomous vehicle adoption

Posted on Aug 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Psychology, not technology, appears to be the main barrier toward the adoption of autonomous vehicles. A survey by the American Automobile...

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Smart vehicle architecture needed

Posted on Aug 14, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

The traditional architecture approach will no longer support the growth in content and complexity. There isn’t enough computing power to...

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The challenging journey to self-driving

Posted on Aug 14, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

In Swat CEO Jarrold Ong’s vision of the future of transport, autonomous vehicles play a big role. His company is one of two involved...

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To make self-driving cars safe, we also need better roads and infrastructure

Posted on Aug 14, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous...

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Autonomous vehicles fall into the trough of disillusionment … but that’s good

Posted on Aug 14, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Autonomous vehicles have plunged into the Trough of Disillusionment! When I say it like that, it seems like the end is near, that the...

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Baidu executives talk spinoffs, iQiyi, and monetizing self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 13, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

There was a lot to like when Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) reported its second-quarter financial results on July 31. The company reported...

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