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Tesla’s Autopilot in spotlight in new NTSB reports on crashes

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

(Bloomberg) — A Tesla Inc. vehicle that slammed into a California highway barrier in 2018 with its automated driver-assist function...

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Gordon Murray’s Motiv reinvented as electric autonomous pod with a single gullwing door

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

Gordon Murray Design (GMD) has released photos and specifications of its new Motiv autonomous city car. Developed in collaboration with...

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Tech start-up Pix Moving uses self-driving ideas to make flexible cities

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Pix self-moving spaces are clever autonomous mobile units. These modular systems can be reconfigured and stacked freely to form different...

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Deep Learning has limits. But its commercial impact has just begun.

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Technology

There has been increased hand-wringing across the AI community in recent months about the limitations of deep learning. It was a dominant...

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Tesla Self-Driving Computer architect Jim Keller is confident about solving autonomous driving

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Jim Keller, Tesla’s former head of Autopilot hardware and the designer of Tesla’s Self-Driving Computer chip, says that he is confident...

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Tesla accused of abruptly pulling self-driving from a used Model S

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla’s much-vaunted ability to add features to its cars over the air has turned into a real inconvenience for some drivers. An...

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Bosch says it could launch an autonomous car tomorrow

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

The German supplier’s senior vice-president of automated driving, Kay Stepper, told Autocar that its engineers have already cleared the...

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Waymo’s AI Content Search tool lets engineers quickly find objects in driving records

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

AI is the method by which self-driving cars perceive joggers, cyclists, traffic lights, road signs, trees, shrubs, and more, and it...

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Lexus to unveil its first Level 2 autonomous car this year

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

Lexus is set to unveil its first ever car with autonomous driving capabilities this year, albeit only with Level 2 autonomy initially....

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Qualcomm looks ahead to looming age of autonomous cars

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 in Cars, Technology

Qualcomm, long the world’s largest vendor of smartphone chips, is looking ahead to the looming age of autonomous cars and entering...

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Autonomous vehicle software firm moves to pit lane

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

A self-drive vehicle software company is the first to move into Culham Science Centre’s connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) building in...

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GM rolling out Super Cruise self-driving tech to 22 models across the board by 2023

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

The Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system has been limited to the CT6, but it will spread to more models this year including the...

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ThunderSoft and Didi Chuxing build strategic partnership focusing on intelligent automotive operating system

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

BEIJING, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — ThunderSoft( SZ:300496 ), a world-leading operating system technology provider, and Didi...

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Testbed enables infrastructure for autonomy, smart cities

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, Technology

A testbed in an active urban center can show real-world effects on GNSS as an aid for developing autonomous systems for green mobility,...

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What’s behind Tesla’s Neural Network for autopilot and self-driving?

Posted on Jan 31, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

According to the Tesla website’s seemingly recently updated Autopilot informational post: “A full build of Autopilot neural...

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Waymo’s head of design explains the challenges of creating an autonomous robot ‘driver’

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 in Cars, Technology

One of the more difficult aspects of Waymo’s autonomous-mobility service is the concept of a “driver.” Visions of an android cabbie leap...

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Apex.OS: An open source operating system for autonomous cars

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

The facets of autonomous car development that automakers tend to get excited about are things like interpreting sensor data, decision...

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Nio clings to Mobileye to advance AV tech

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

A troubled electric-vehicle upstart trying to take on Tesla Inc. is clinging to a supplier Elon Musk clashed with dramatically in 2016....

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Apple researchers train AI drivers to merge lanes in a simulated environment

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Apple has yet to openly discuss its self-driving vehicle research, but it’s a poorly kept industry secret. Around 5,000 employees —...

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New Apple self-driving car patent could turn Siri into your personal chauffeur

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Apple wants to patent a new technology that would allow you to use voice commands to tell your self-driving car where you want to go, with...

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