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Pop star Grimes auctioning her soul, provides AI insights including about Elon Musk and self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 3, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Claire Boucher, popularly known by her artist name of Grimes, opted to put together an art show entitled Selling Out that offers her...

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AI Weekly: Autonomous vehicle companies pivot to charitable deliveries during the pandemic

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology

Early on, the pandemic — which passed a grim milestone in the U.S. this week of over 100,000 dead — motivated the shuttering of businesses...

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With rumors swirling of a Zoox acquisition, how would Amazon use autonomous driving?

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

While still unconfirmed by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), the rumor makes enough sense. The e-commerce giant is spending a fortune making...

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Self-driving ‘Apple Car’ may combine LiDAR with other sensors for better decision-making

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

As work on the “Apple Car” progresses, Apple is coming up with new ways to improve automated driving systems, including using...

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Autonomous open-wheelerswill race at Indianapolis next year for a $1 million prize

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Motorsport may have once been a technological wellspring from which road car tech could sometimes be skimmed, but today, the link between...

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AVs gather momentum amid Coronavirus but roadblocks remain

Posted on Jun 1, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Gone are the days when autonomous vehicles (AVs) were confined to the realms of science fiction. Over the past few years, driverless cars...

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Heroic Kansas soldier runs over active shooter, saves lives, vital implications for AI and self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 1, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Quite a harrowing moment occurred recently when a man with a rifle started randomly shooting at people while standing on the Centennial...

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Autonomous driving firm Aurora has doubled staff in past year

Posted on May 30, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

While the world struggles with the coronavirus pandemic and its entire, gigantic, enormous economic fallout, it’s perhaps surprising to...

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Who will own the cars that drive themselves?

Posted on May 29, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

It was a difficult question even before the coronavirus pandemic hit: When self-driving cars eventually rule the roads, will Americans own...

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Speaking of space launches, here’s how Apollo 12 was saved by a steely-eyed missile man, plus lessons for self-driving cars

Posted on May 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

This is an exciting week for space travel and kudos goes to NASA and SpaceX for being on the verge of launching astronauts into space from...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s contribution to autonomous vehicles

Posted on May 27, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

In 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a futuristic science fiction movie called Total Recall. The core of the movie was a typical...

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Amazon buying Zooxmay save $20 billion, put Tesla on its heels

Posted on May 27, 2020 in Finance, Perspective

(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc.’s talks to buy driverless vehicle startupZoox Inc. has analysts speculating the deal could save the...

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For better or for worse, ballot harvesting for election voting would be a cinch with self-driving cars

Posted on May 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

There is a lot of controversy about ballot harvesting. First, some prefer to call it ballot collecting, since the word “harvesting” seems...

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Pedestrians and cyclists make Guangzhou ‘efficient’ for testing self-driving cars

Posted on May 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

WeRide, a Chinese robotaxistartup, recently compared its results testing self-driving cars in both Silicon Valley and Guangzhou, China....

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Carmakers push forward on EVs as self-driving hits pandemic speed bumps

Posted on May 25, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Detroit — The coronavirus pandemic is proving to be yet another obstacle for the self-driving and ride-sharing movement, delaying the...

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How will Waymo monetize autonomy?

Posted on May 22, 2020 in Finance, Perspective

Autonomous driving will be huge a beneficiary of the lingering effects of social distancing. Just as with e-Commerce for grocery,...

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Carmakers won’t be the ones steering the development of driverless vehicles

Posted on May 22, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Futurists have been predicting the coming of autonomous driving for many decades now. But while billions of dollars have been invested in...

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Self-driving cars are being trained in virtual worlds while the real one is in chaos

Posted on May 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Brandon Moak felt as if a freight train had hit him. It was mid-March, and the cofounder and CTO of the autonomous- trucking startup...

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Here’s why Elon Musk keeps raising the price of Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ option

Posted on May 20, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Tesla is raising the price of the top tier “Full Self-Driving” version of its Autopilot driver assistance package by around $1,000 on July...

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Autonomous vehicles: Who needs ’em?

Posted on May 19, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

To develop autonomous vehicles (AVs) capable of handling almost every corner case is cruelly hard. Equally tough and yet less often...

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