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Parallel Domain says autonomous driving won’t scale without synthetic data

Posted on Nov 16, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Achieving autonomous driving safely requires near endless hours of training software on every situation that could possibly arise before...

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Watch Tesla FSD Beta challenge GM’s self-driving Cruise on public roads

Posted on Nov 15, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

We will say up front that this is certainly not a “race” in the typical sense of the word. However, the video above does...

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Reports of the death of self-driving cars are greatly exaggerated

Posted on Nov 15, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Recent weeks have seen a number of reports of the death of self-driving cars, triggered mostly by the closure of Argo.AI, the self-driving...

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The tiny hurdle in the way of driverless cars going mainstream

Posted on Nov 15, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

A whopping 42,915 people died in car crashes in 2021 in the U.S. alone, a stunning statistic considering how much tech is flooding the...

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Location data: the keystone of the software-defined car

Posted on Nov 14, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The rise of the software-defined vehicle heralds an age of electric, automated and connected driving, with the user experience shaped by...

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Ford vs. GM: Same industry, two increasingly different companies

Posted on Nov 13, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

DETROIT — “Same industry. Two different companies.” That’s how influential Morgan Stanley auto industry analyst Adam Jonas recently...

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Tesla starts rolling wide Full Self-Driving v11 update: Exciting and scary

Posted on Nov 12, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Tesla is starting the rollout of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) v11 update, which is supposed to be the wider release to everyone who bought...

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Waymo’s driverless taxis keep making incremental progress, while others flounder

Posted on Nov 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Waymo keeps (driverless) trucking along. The Alphabet division made a couple of announcements this week meant to highlight the progress —...

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Are airports the ideal testbed for the newest technologies?

Posted on Nov 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Airports are increasingly turning to emerging technologies to improve the airport experience for customers and employees alike — and...

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Gathering data for autonomous driving in adverse weather conditions

Posted on Nov 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous driving is fundamentally changing the way people and goods are transported and could benefit the future society in significant...

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Autonomous vehicle survivors on edge

Posted on Nov 10, 2022 in Markets, Perspective

There’s a phrase that keeps getting tossed around in the autonomous vehicle business: trough of disillusionment. Cruise CEO Kyle...

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Autonomous vehicles and the future of roadway design and construction

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 in Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

Transportation engineering is one of the major disciplines within the Civil Engineering profession. Hundreds of thousands of students...

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Real-world testing of autonomous trucks ramps up

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Over the past year, the autonomous trucking sector has accelerated efforts to test its technology in real-world applications. Through its...

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Mercedes-Benz won’t follow Tesla into the robotaxi game

Posted on Nov 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Mercedes-Benz CTO Markus Schäfer is energized by his visit to Silicon Valley. The executive is at the automaker’s Sunnyvale, California,...

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Will 2027 change trucking’s technology track?

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a recent ACT Research study predicting a massive Class 8 truck prebuy in 2026, ahead of the next...

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Self-driving cars were supposed to take over the road. What happened?

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Washington, DC (CNN Business) — For over a decade, companies from Google to General Motors have poured billions of dollars into the...

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Is Mobileye stock a buy now?

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Finance, Markets, Perspective

Mobileye (NASDAQ: MBLY) went public again on Oct. 26 after spending the past five years as a subsidiary of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). The...

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AI ethics and AI law grappling with overlapping and conflicting ethical factors within AI

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Do two wrongs make a right? Whichever way that you decide to answer that longstanding and vexing question, the odds are that you are...

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Former head of Tesla AI explains why they’ve removed sensors; others differ

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

In a recent interview, Andrej Karpathy, who formerly was head of AI for Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD products, outlined their reasoning...

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Argo.ai shuts down – What will happen to its LiDAR unit?

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Argo.ai, an autonomous vehicle (AV) unicorn, announced on October 26, 2022, that it would terminate operations across its locations in...

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