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Posted on Mar 14, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

Today’s automobile needs a great deal of infrastructure to be useful. A major part of the infrastructure is the civil transportation...

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The autonomous EV quarter car offers modular private zones for hire

Posted on Mar 13, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

The Quarter Car is a ride-sharing vehicle with private zones inside. The creative work of London-based industrial design studio...

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Phantom Auto readies autonomous vehicles for delivery center work

Posted on Mar 13, 2020 in News, Technology, Trucks

Sometimes, an autonomous truck isn’t really autonomous. Like the yard trucks that Phantom Auto is going to put into use with its...

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Rolls-Royce and ASI Mining plan to optimize MTU engines for autonomous operations

Posted on Mar 12, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

Rolls-Royce and ASI Mining have agreed to ensure compatibility of MTU engines and ASI’s Mobius command and control software for autonomous...

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Mitsubishi Electric introduces MEMS LiDAR solution for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 12, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a compact light-detection and ranging (LiDAR) solution incorporating a...

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Toyota extends partnership with CARMERA for an autonomous driving initiative in Michigan

Posted on Mar 11, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (“TRI-AD”) and leading road intelligence company CARMERA Inc. (“CARMERA”) announced...

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TomTom, Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development, Inc. and DENSO collaborate on advanced mapmaking for automated driving

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

AMSTERDAM, March 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TomTom (TOM2), the location technology specialist, Toyota Research Institute –...

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Porsche uses autonomous tech to improve workshop efficiency

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Porsche has partnered with Berlin-based startup Kopernikus Automotive to use autonomous driving technologies for vehicles at the marque’s...

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Autonomous tech company Locomation signs deal with Wilson Logistics

Posted on Mar 9, 2020 in News, Technology, Trucks

Autonomous-trucking technology provider Locomation and Wilson Logistics, a Springfield, Mo.-based trucking and transportation logistics...

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Inside the next-gen tech on Waymo’s self-driving Jaguar I-Pace

Posted on Mar 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

A little more than two and half years ago, Waymo  engineers began working on a hardware sensor suite that would improve upon previous...

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Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles

Posted on Mar 6, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Nothing is more important to an autonomous vehicle than sensing what’s happening around it. Like human drivers, autonomous vehicles need...

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SiLC Technologies raises $12m in seed funding to deliver long-range, single-chip LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, machine vision, and augmented reality

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

MONROVIA, Calif., March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — SiLC Technologies, Inc., (SiLC), the leading developer of integrated single-chip FMCW...

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StradVision developing groundbreaking animal detection software for ADAS systems and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — StradVision, an industry leader in AI-based camera perception for ADAS systems and...

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Ford Motor Company is using simulation to design the passenger experience for its future self-driving vehicles

Posted on Mar 5, 2020 in Cars, Technology

In the industry’s race to develop self-driving vehicles, most automakers are getting a little extra help from tech companies....

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Tesla to release more self-driving features in March — city street autopilot?

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla plans to release more features to expand its full self-driving capabilities later this month, according to CEO Elon Musk. While Musk...

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Waymo’s next-generation self-driving system can ‘see’ a stop sign 500 meters away

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo unveiled its fifth-generation self-driving system Wednesday, which the Alphabet-owned company claims can see farther and more...

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Uber details VerCD, the AI tech powering its self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out...

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Is Elon Musk right? Are cameras the right answer for autonomous vehicles ?

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The use of wireless technologies is an integral part of modern life.  Radio, TV, Wi-Fi and Cellular technologies are part of the backbone...

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Swift Navigation and Deutsche Telekom announce partnership

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

US: Swift ​​Navigation​, ​​a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, today announced...

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China’s Geely invests $326 million to build satellites for autonomous cars

Posted on Mar 3, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said on Tuesday it was investing 2.27 billion yuan ($326 million) in a new...

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