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Autonomous vehicle implementation predictions: Implications for transport planning

Posted on Oct 12, 2022 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Reports

The future is ultimately unknowable but planning requires predicting impending conditions and needs. Many decision-makers and...

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Tesla’s FSD Beta update 10.69.2.3 huge step back for Detroit driver

Posted on Oct 11, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

While Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a few of the most vocal Full Self-Driving beta testers have been raving about the latest updates to the...

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Lyft exec was wrong about driverless vehicles — but he still believes in their potential

Posted on Oct 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

DETROIT — In 2016, Lyft co-founder John Zimmer predicted most of the company’s rides would be self-driving within five years, a...

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Visual perception for self-driving cars! Part 5: Multi-task learning

Posted on Oct 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

We covered Object Detection and Segmentation in our previous blogs. They are very efficient and fundamental part for self-driving cars....

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Synthetic data generation — beating the data challenge of automated driving

Posted on Oct 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Data is critical to neural network (NN) development. Automatic annotation is the most effective and cheapest way to generate training and...

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XPeng G9 passes closed-field autonomous driving test in Guangzhou

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Beijing (Gasgoo)- China’s electric vehicle startup XPeng recently announced that its G9 model has successfully passed the autonomous...

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Similarities between Tesla FSD and Cruise, Argo AI, & Waymo you might not have noticed

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

I saw many takes on Tesla AI Day 2022 that fell into a couple of main buckets. Those were mostly about the robot, Optimus, and we’ve...

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AI ethics and AI law are moving toward standards that explicitly identify and manage AI biases

Posted on Oct 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Have you ever played fifty-two card pick-up? It is not a game that you would normally willingly undertake. Here’s why. Someone offers to...

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Even after $100 billion, self-driving cars are going nowhere

Posted on Oct 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The first car woke Jennifer King at 2 a.m. with a loud, high‑pitched hum. “It sounded like a hovercraft,” she says, and that wasn’t the...

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Advances in computer vision propel transportation autonomy

Posted on Oct 4, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Vision is a powerful human sensory input. It enables complex tasks and processes we take for granted. With an increase in AoT™ (Autonomy...

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Tesla/Mobileye: driverless car chase is speeding up

Posted on Oct 4, 2022 in Cars, Perspective

Driverless cars are appearing on US city roads. A technological fantasy is becoming a reality and rational optimism is replacing hype....

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Self driving Electric cars won’t solve traffic nor climate change, here’s why

Posted on Oct 3, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Elon musk, the CEO of tesla, has had his fair share of traction for talking about things like “self driving electric cars” or “underground...

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Why don’t you have a self-driving car yet? Part two outlines some social problems

Posted on Oct 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Many people are disappointed they don’t have or ride in a self-driving car yet, expecting it sooner. In part-one of this two part series...

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Mobileye files for an IPO (again!)- How will other autonomy companies react?

Posted on Oct 2, 2022 in Markets, Perspective

Mobileye started a computer vision revolution in 1999 when Amnon Shashua, a leading AI researcher at Hebrew University, founded the...

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AI ethics and AI laws reveal troubling concerns from Tesla’s AI Day showcase and the ever expanding AI ambitions of Elon Musk

Posted on Oct 2, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Tesla AI Day 2022 has now come and gone, settling down into the history books for all to reexamine and analyze to their heart’s...

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How Volvo is leaning on software to drive its next great safety revolution

Posted on Oct 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Volvo is one of those brands with a core identity so firmly cemented that no amount of marketing can counter it. Volvo is safety first....

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How Cruise (not Tesla) is leading the way in autonomous driving

Posted on Sep 29, 2022 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

General Motors (NYSE: GM)-owned Cruise is launching its autonomous ride sharing service in Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas by the end...

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Waymo claims superhuman ability to dodge accidents, so why aren’t they launched?

Posted on Sep 29, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Waymo today announced the results of a new study where they claim their Waymo driver system outperformed a model of an idealized top-grade...

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When will AVs actually start to smooth traffic flows?

Posted on Sep 28, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous vehicles have the ability to make traffic move smoother. But first, they need to be more widely deployed. And that means...

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How flash LiDAR is supporting software-defined vehicles

Posted on Sep 28, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

To learn more about software-defined vehicles and how flash LiDAR will be a key part of making that a reality, Matthew Beecham caught up...

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