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Elon Musk Just Tweeted a Brutal Admission About Tesla’s Self-Driving Cars. Every Leader Should Be This Honest

Posted on Aug 24, 2021 in News, Perspective

If you want to know what Elon Musk thinks about something, there’s a good chance there’s a tweet for that. Usually, those...

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Autonomous car insurance drives new opportunities

Posted on Aug 23, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

In 2017, Kyle Vogt, the founder of GM-backed autonomous car company Cruise, promised that the startup would begin testing driverless...

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On The Rancorous Controversy Over Dedicating Freeway Lanes Expressly For Autonomous Vehicles Such As AI Self-Driving Cars

Posted on Aug 23, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

We have all sorts of dedicated lanes these days on our freeways and highways. The ubiquitous carpool lane has been around for many years....

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Angst And Worries That Forbidden Knowledge Could Be Revealed By Developing AI Self-Driving Cars

Posted on Aug 21, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

I have a vexing question for you.Are there things that we must not know?This is an age-old question.Some assert that there is the...

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Smart Cities – Is LiDAR Making Them Smarter?

Posted on Aug 20, 2021 in News, Perspective

Networked devices are all around us. Some of them enable autonomy of things or AoT™. Increasingly, these devices are also providing a path...

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Wait… how is blockchain tech meant to help create self-driving cars?

Posted on Aug 20, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

We’ve heard about the lovefest between blockchain tech and mobility for ages, with lots of hype around peer-to-peer (P2P) payments for...

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The value of standards in the automotive industry

Posted on Aug 19, 2021 in Perspective

The automotive industry is revving up its innovative engines, with leading automakers spending as much as 11 figures annually (paywall) on...

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For robot trucks, navigating highways is just one bump in the road

Posted on Aug 18, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

On a recent scorching day on the outskirts of Tucson, Ariz., a tractor-trailer equipped with an autonomous-driving system from technology...

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PNT powers unmanned vehicles for transportation, ag and more

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

What is complementary / alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)? In this month’s cover story, five of our marketing partners...

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Plus demos Level 4 autonomous trucking capabilities

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

Late last month, the Cupertino-based autonomous trucking company, Plus, demoed its Level 4 autonomous trucking technology to the public. A...

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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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