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VW’s ID Roomzz previews a full-size electric SUV due in 2021

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

Volkswagen’s growing electric car lineup will include something for those who like the reassurance of a full-size SUV. The automaker...

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Truck makers count on connected tech to improve productivity

Posted on Apr 15, 2019 in Technology, Trucks

Truck makers are embracing connectivity as the transportation and logistics industry looks for digital technology to improve efficiency....

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Yole anticipates $6B market for autonomous-vehicle LiDAR in five years

Posted on Apr 15, 2019 in Cars, Markets, News, Technology

The LiDAR market was worth $1.3 billion in 2018, according to market research firm Yole Développement (Lyon, France), which recently...

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Audi’s self-driving EV concept filters out rush-hour stress

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

Many folks are cool on autonomous cars because we actually like to drive, but nobody wants to be stuck in rush hour or city congestion....

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Cambridge startup teaches driverless cars to behave around cyclists, can deploy on any road now

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

“Cambridge is a great place to test [autonomous vehicles] because the roads are complex and difficult,” says the cofounder of driverless...

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ZF launches coPILOT system for next-gem ADAS

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

German auto parts supplier ZF on Friday announced the debut of ZF coPILOT, an intelligent advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) leading...

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Affectiva raises $26 million to bring emotional intelligence AI to car safety systems

Posted on Apr 11, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Affectiva today announced the close of a $26 million funding round to advance its emotion and object detection AI for monitoring vehicle...

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Creating autonomous vehicles that think like humans

Posted on Apr 11, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Utopia is one of those goals often dreamed of, but rarely achieved. But in attempting to create the technology aimed at achieving...

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Gaming will be a key differentiator in autonomous vehicles

Posted on Apr 9, 2019 in Cars, Technology

In the last few weeks, two major automakers announced new in-car gaming initiatives: Tesla announced last week that it’s expanding...

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This compact and cheap lidar could steer small autonomous vehicles

Posted on Apr 9, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Researchers in Sweden have developed cheaper, lighter and more efficient lidar technology that could pave the way for smaller autonomous...

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Wayve says self-driving cars don’t need sensors. Experts aren’t so sure.

Posted on Apr 8, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Why weigh down a self-driving car with a lot of sensors, HD maps, and equipment when you don’t have to?That’s the philosophy of...

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Startup says end-to-end machine learning is “only scalable solution” for self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 8, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

It’s a solution that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would approve. No lidars, no high-definition maps. No hand-coded rules. A small startup in...

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Students battle it out in autonomous vehicle AI algorithm competition

Posted on Apr 8, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

The Japan Automotive AI Challenge recently took place, an event where university students can pit there AI algorithm against others,...

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MEMS based LiDAR to overcome conventional limitations

Posted on Apr 8, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The big challenge is to come up with a LiDAR design which hits the performance and robustness targets and is able to be produced in mass...

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Self-driving cars in 10 years: EU expects ‘fully automated’ cars by 2030

Posted on Apr 6, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

The European Union commissioner for transport expects full self-driving capability by 2030, she said this week at City as a Lab conference...

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Austria’s AI brain has a plan to take down Waymo and Tesla

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

Think of the European automobile industry and countries like Germany come to mind, with its luxury cars whizzing down the speed-limit-less...

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Autonomous driving tech startup Wayve has completed a test run without pre-mapped roads

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

Wayve, a UK-based autonomous driving technology startup, recently completed a test run of a car equipped with its technologies on a road...

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Virtual tests for autonomous driving systems

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Sensors in autonomous vehicles have to be extremely reliable, since in the future motorists will no longer constantly monitor traffic...

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Wayve claims ‘world first’ in driving a car autonomously with only its AI and a SatNav

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Projects like Google’s Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem, basing most...

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Apple is working on skid recovery and automatic safety systems for self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 2, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Apple’s self-driving vehicle technology has the potential to make being a passenger even safer than before, with the company coming...

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