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Citywide gunshot detection could be bolstered via roaming AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Shots fired! It is certainly startling when you hear a loud bang that sounds like a gunshot. Imagine sitting in your living room and from...

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Today I’m talking to Bryan Salesky, the co-founder and CEO of Argo AI, a startup that’s trying to build the tech stack for self-driving...

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Waymo is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Joel Johnson laughs nervously from the backseat when his self-driving taxi stops in the middle of a busy road in suburban Phoenix. The...

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Autonomous trucks must pair with supply chain automation

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

The trucking and logistics industry has talked for years about how autonomous vehicles will be the solution to the driver shortage. The...

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More efforts are called for management of smart driving: analysts

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Sitting in the driver’s seat with breakfast in one hand while the other on the steering wheel, driving at 70-80 kilometers per hour...

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Driverless? No, but how about the car as co-pilot?

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

(Bloomberg) — Some 17 years ago, the U.S. military kicked off the race to build a self-driving car by sending a fleet of fledgling...

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The Nuro EC-1

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on...

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True Level 5 autonomy isn’t possible, & nobody really even wants that

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

I know that headline alone is going to give a few people on here an aneurysm, but before you get mad enough to fall over dead (or faint...

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Using AI self-driving cars to detect and help curtail eyesore graffiti around us

Posted on Aug 15, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Graffiti can invoke quite heated debates. Some assert that graffiti is a blight, a blemish, altogether offensive, and ought to be...

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Here’s why a mouse brain might just be the right solution for attaining full-blown AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 13, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Mighty mouse. I’m referring to the aspect that mice can be amazingly smart, mightily so. We already all would likely agree that mice are...

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Congestion-free roads might be a self-driving car pipe dream

Posted on Aug 11, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Traffic snarls are everywhere and seemingly endless. Most major cities throughout the nation endure adverse congestion on their public...

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Why sensor technology is the key to autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

We still have a long way to go to achieve roadways filled with self-driving vehicles. The current capabilities of sensors, while helpful,...

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Driverless cars are proving to be job creators, at least so far

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

When self-driving car hype peaked a few years ago, so did fears of job destruction that would ensue as the technology took hold. One...

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A new era of connected vehicle cloud platforms approaches

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

The automotive industry is on the cusp of immense change. Products are becoming more software-based, customers have new expectations on...

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Using artificial intelligence to create aperture radar

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Carmakers are seeking to balance cost with capability as they increase the advanced driver assistance capabilities of their cars. Tesla,...

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There is increasingly mounting AI technical debt that is going to inevitably sink some self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Getting in over your head. That’s what often happens when people take on debt. Shakespeare famously warned us about the dangers of going...

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Robo-vans could start delivering profits and not just pizza

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

There are executives across the globe trying to figure out how to profit from autonomous driving technology. For Yu Enyuan, it’s been a...

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This parking garage is a high-tech research lab

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

An urban laboratory is opening inside a Detroit garage to let researchers test new parking technologies for cities coping with shifting...

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Self-driving cars would be nowhere without HD maps

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Self-driving vehicles may be loaded with sensors and artificial intelligence, but they’re limited without a really good map....

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How much more can autonomous cars improve? Waymo!

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The rush toward autonomous vehicles once made them seem imminent. But progress has slowed so dramatically that to some observers, autonomy...

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