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Waymo doesn’t want its self-driving cars to annoy the hell out of you

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Cars, Technology

It’s all about balance when it comes to riding in self-driving cars. The sensor-loaded cars pick up so much more information than a...

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Cheaper sensors could speed more self-driving cars to market by 2022

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Cars, Technology

The first heavily automated mass-market vehicles for consumers could go on sale as soon as 2022, if one or more vehicle manufacturers...

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Uber unveils next-generation Volvo self-driving car

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Uber Technologies Inc unveiled its newest Volvo self-driving car in Washington on Wednesday as it works to eventually deploy vehicles...

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Hyundai Motor invests in Aurora, which is helping it create self-driving hydrogen SUVs

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Hyundai Motor and its Kia division are investing in self-driving tech firm Aurora, which is working with the Korean auto giant to create...

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Self-driving urban vehicle transports people by day, collects trash by night

Posted on Jun 11, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Swedish startup Scania is developing a self-driving urban concept vehicle that is designed on a modular system that could allow it to...

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Don’t tell lidar foe Elon Musk but this maker of the robo-car vision tech just raised $170 million

Posted on Jun 10, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Innoviz Technologies, a maker of laser lidar sensors for self-driving and highly automated cars, just closed a $170 million funding round,...

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How Bosch maintains record pace despite multiple global challenges

Posted on Jun 10, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Some of the biggest European auto suppliers have seen their profits slump over the past year, but Robert Bosch — the largest of them...

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Tesla Autopilot safety stats said imbued with statistical fallacies, interpret cautiously

Posted on Jun 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

As I’ve mentioned in my column posts, Tesla and Elon Musk’s vision for the realization of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars is...

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TNO and Siemens put connected and automated driving in the fast lane

Posted on Jun 7, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

At the ITS European Conference in Eindhoven, June 3 -6, 2019, TNO and Siemens announced that Streetwise, TNO’s real-world scenario...

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Bans on facial recognition will impact self-driving cars, reciprocally so

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Recent headlines have made well-known the ban that San Francisco has enacted on facial recognition within its borders, becoming the first...

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Bosch demos new systems to improve autonomous vehicle safety, performance

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

Remember that old Saturday Night Live bit where the best way to improve almost anything is “more cowbell?” Based on a series of...

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Tesla now offers early software updates to Full Self-Driving buyers, report says

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla has been offering an option called Full Self-Driving option on its cars for years now, despite the FSD technology not being ready...

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Harnessing integrated toolchains in autonomous vehicle development

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 in Cars, Technology

The starting point of any vehicle development process is occupant safety. Shifting responsibility from driver to car maker to prevent...

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Take the next step in automated driving with a comprehensive development tool

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Technology, Webinars

Software for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving represents a strong driver of innovation within the...

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Radar finds new place in self-driving technology

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Cars, Technology

On a mid-March afternoon, 3 inches of fresh snow blanketed M-14, a state highway in southeast Michigan. Lane markings were covered in a...

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SoftBank’s service to help power self-driving buses, farm machinery

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Buses, News, Technology

Japan’s SoftBank said on Monday it will launch a service this year that would use satellite navigation data and the telco’s...

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Radar sensor module to bring added safety to autonomous driving

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Cars, Technology

When a child runs out onto the road, the average human driver takes 1.6 seconds to hit the brake pedal. The reaction time is cut to 0.5...

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Tesla Autopilot, at times unsafe for automatic lane changes, lays bare machine-learning brittleness

Posted on Jun 2, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

In my column of last Sunday, I analyzed a Tesla Autopilot incident involving a Tesla Model 3 that slammed into a stalled car on a highway,...

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This is what it’s like to control an autonomous car from miles away

Posted on Jun 1, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

The exit ramp is a long, curving slope, and you have to make sure the 50-foot big rig you’re driving carefully navigates the bend...

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Autonomous cars will need airbags and seatbelts for foreseeable future

Posted on May 31, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Autonomous vehicles usually are depicted with passengers lounging in lavish cockpits that look like living rooms. They have seats that...

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