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Is your autonomous vehicle Sally the sports car or blood-thirsty Christine?

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, Technology

When automobiles first started to appear alongside horse-drawn buggies, horses were the initial victims of the technology. They would not...

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Mercedes-Benz’s experimental safety vehicle is more than just another autonomous concept

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Self-driving vehicles are being marketed as being safer than human drivers on the road, but there’s a large picture that automakers...

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Some hard truths about autonomous driving

Posted on May 25, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Like others here at CleanTechnica, I spend plenty of time on social media among Tesla fans and the wider EV community. While we certainly...

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This is why self-driving cars suck at making unprotected left turns

Posted on May 24, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Human or robot driver, left-hand turns in a car are tough. Unprotected turns? Even harder. Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by...

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Ford wants to use human-like robots to help self-driving cars make autonomous deliveries

Posted on May 23, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Ford wants to use self-driving cars as delivery vehicles, but that presents a problem: how do the packages get from the car to the...

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In Ford’s future, two-legged robots and self-driving cars could team up on deliveries

Posted on May 23, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Autonomous vehicles might someday be able to navigate bustling city streets to deliver groceries, pizzas and other packages without a...

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MIT’s AI makes autonomous cars drive more like humans

Posted on May 23, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Creating driverless cars capable of humanlike reasoning is a long-standing pursuit of companies like Waymo, GM’s Cruise, Uber, and others....

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Udacity, Mercedes-Benz create sensor fusion nanodegree as demand for self-driving car engineers rises

Posted on May 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Udacity and Mercedes-Benz’s North American R&D lab have developed curriculum for a sensor fusion nanodegree, the latest effort by the...

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Blickfeld and Koito announce the integration of LiDAR for autonomous vehicles

Posted on May 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Blickfeld a leading provider of solid-state LiDAR technology, and Koito Manufacturing, the leading global tier-one supplier of exterior...

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Researchers say ‘spidey senses’ could help self-driving vehicles avoid hazards

Posted on May 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Researchers want to give cars, planes and drones “spidey senses.” That is, they want to give autonomous machines sensors that...

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See mini self-driving cars work together to improve traffic flow

Posted on May 21, 2019 in Cars, Technology

On Monday, a team from the University of Cambridge unveiled a video featuring a fleet of mini robot cars capable of autonomously switching...

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Princeton summit bolsters driverless cars for all, including the mobility marginalized

Posted on May 21, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Professor Alain Kornhauser is a veritable force of nature when it comes to pursuing the cause of the mobility marginalized in the race...

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Mercedes-Benz safety-car concept monitors the road ahead and your kids

Posted on May 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Before humans give up the wheel for good, Mercedes-Benz believes there will be a transitional period where people and machines share the...

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Wind River Systems partners with autonomous vehicle security startup Karamba

Posted on May 20, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

California-based software developer Wind River Systems Inc. has partnered with Israel-based Karamba Security Ltd., a developer of...

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Hand gestures and horses: Waymo’s self-driving service learns to woo the public

Posted on May 19, 2019 in Cars, Technology

On a sunny spring day in suburban Phoenix, a white minivan stops at a crosswalk to let a man pass. He gives the vehicle a wave, signaling...

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No, Nissan’s position on Lidar is not the same as Elon Musk’s

Posted on May 17, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent disparagement of the laser scanning technology called lidar, calling it a “crutch” and any...

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Ultrafast motion-planning chip could make autonomous cars safer

Posted on May 16, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

About two years ago, we covered a research project from Duke University that sped up motion planning for a tabletop robot arm by several...

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Dataspeed and Cepton partner to bring LiDAR to autonomous vehicle

Posted on May 15, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Dataspeed Inc., an autonomous vehicle (AV) solution provider has announced a partnership with Cepton Technologies, Inc., a provider of 3D...

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Foretellix launches new approach to testing autonomous vehicle safety

Posted on May 15, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

Israeli startup Foretellix has launched a revolutionary autonomous vehicle development tool, Foretify, which brings a proven...

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Blind trust, culture clashes and robot empathy: Mercedes-Benz on autonomous cars

Posted on May 15, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

At CES 2019, Mercedes-Benz revealed the Urbanetic autonomous shuttle, a futuristic proof-of-concept to illustrate the kind of work that is...

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