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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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“Paving” a new way to autonomous-vehicle validation

Posted on May 30, 2019 in News, Technology

Siemens has announced its PAVE360 platform. The integrated validation and simulation environment, which extends digital-twin and...

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Foretellix and Metamoto partner to deliver measurable safety of autonomous vehicles

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Foretellix, an Israel-based start-up with a mission to enable measurable safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs), and Metamoto, a provider of...

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Data security for autonomous vehicles can and should be treated with respect

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The list of privacy and security issues that bubble up as the auto industry grapples with autonomous and shared vehicles is long and...

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Self-driving could get a big boost if this automotive radar startup is on the right track

Posted on May 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The hideously difficult, costly and time-consuming development of self-driving technology hungers for breakthroughs such as the one that...

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Ford and Agility Robotics collaborate on autonomous vehicle-to-robot doorstep deliveries

Posted on May 29, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Using autonomous vehicles to deliver packages directly to the doorstep of customers, without help from humans, could be more seamless with...

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Lidar maker Velodyne wins patent challenge from rival Quanergy

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Lidar is an important component for self-driving cars, acting as the “eyes” of an autonomous vehicle alongside data fused from...

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LiDAR drives our autonomous future

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Cars, robots and other machines are becoming more intelligent thanks to several technology advances that help these smart machines operate...

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Aurora backs LiDAR after Musk bashes it

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

CEO Chris Urmson of Aurora, a pioneer in autonomous driving, said that his company bought Blackmore LiDAR, which develops and manufactures...

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