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How truck automation may change roadside inspections

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Trucks, Videos & Podcasts

Here’s an exercise in future think: You know what can happen now at a roadside inspection of one of your trucks. But what might happen in...

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On self-driving cars that might misclassify a snowman as a pedestrian

Posted on Jan 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever eaten a papple? Probably not, and the odds are that you might not have even heard of one before either. It is a type of pear...

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How Apple’s self-driving car plans might transform the company itself

Posted on Dec 31, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

What would an Apple self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious plans to roll out...

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These five patents offer hints about what an Apple car could look like

Posted on Dec 31, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Apple (AAPL) hasn’t commented publicly on its plans for the project, nicknamed Titan, so it’s not clear exactly what will come...

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Largest ever cyber hack provides vital lessons for self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 29, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

They say it is the largest ever cyber hack. Unless you are living under a rock or inside an Internet-disconnected cave, you’ve undoubtedly...

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Zoox is only barely a car, and that’s its most promising feature

Posted on Dec 29, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

‘Tis the season for start-ups to make promises about how their self-driving cars will be imminently deployed — and for us to reflect upon...

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COMMENT: How to get ahead of the curve with autonomous technology

Posted on Dec 28, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The UK government recently put out a ‘call for evidence’ regarding autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, specifically Automated Lane Keeping...

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Apple car not coming before 2025-2027 at earliest, says analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

Posted on Dec 28, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

San Francisco: Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed that the launch of Apple Car is unlikely to happen until 2025-2027....

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Robocars 2020 in review: Winter to spring

Posted on Dec 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

2020 began with fear of the “Robocar Winter” — a slide into the “trough of disillusionment” for the self-driving car industry that began...

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Vacation home boon expected due to self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 27, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Your vacation home awaits you. According to the latest real estate reporting, the pandemic has spurred interest in so-called second homes,...

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Top-ranked analyst Toni Sacconaghi on Apple getting into self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 23, 2020 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

The world’s most valuable company is getting even bigger. Apple’s stock is extending its big run this week on a report that it’s hoping to...

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Man in New York rescued from inside snow buried car which spurs flurry of self-driving car tidings

Posted on Dec 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Snowstorms aplenty are upon us as the winter decides it is time to let loose. A recent news report about a snowfall calamity that luckily...

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Autonomous food delivery predictions for 2021 and beyond

Posted on Dec 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The coronavirus pandemic has forced more people to rely on food deliveries because of lockdowns, stay at home orders and quarantines....

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Self-driving cars and the Polanyi paradox of knowing versus telling

Posted on Dec 20, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

We can know more than we can tell. That’s an assertion made by philosopher Michael Polanyi in his 1966 book entitled The Tacit Dimension....

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Walmart says “Game on” for driverless freight

Posted on Dec 20, 2020 in Perspective, Trucks

Walmart has announced the start of truly driverless operations in their hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas beginning next year. This marks...

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COMMENT: The future of self-driving lies in open source

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The UK government’s announcement earlier in the year that all mobile network operators need to remove all Huawei technology from their...

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LiDAR vision – Helping bring autonomous trucks to your neighborhood

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

“Truck-truckin’ down the highway Sittin’ in the cab of A ten ton machine” The rock group, Bread, came up with this song 7...

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Regulating autonomous vehicles and ridesharing: Lessons from California

Posted on Dec 17, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

Sanjay Patnaik, director of the Center on Regulation and Markets and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development in Economic...

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Sustainable and attainable: Zoox unveils autonomous robotaxi powered by NVIDIA

Posted on Dec 17, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

When it comes to future mobility, you may not have to pave as many paradises for personal car parking lots. This week, autonomous mobility...

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Your car buying experience in an era of self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 17, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Many people liken the act of buying a car to the same agony as going to the dentist for a root canal. Well, maybe car buying is even worse...

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