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Stanford wants to teach its autonomous race cars to learn from their past

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

Researchers at Stanford University are leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to help their autonomous prototypes learn from the...

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Sun plays tricks on Cadillac’s Super Cruise

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

For automakers and technology companies working on autonomous driving technology, making vehicles perform well in inclement conditions...

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Virtual tests for autonomous driving systems

Posted on Apr 1, 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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Lumotive announces a new ‘Beam-Steering’ Lidar for autonomous vehicles

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

Lumotive, a Seattle-based lidar startup developing technology for autonomous vehicles, recently introduced a disruptive...

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The convergence of 5G and AI: A venture capitalist’s view

Posted on Mar 31, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

As an emerging-technology investor, I am always on the lookout for new technologies that can improve existing markets and enable new ones....

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Watch a self-driving car handle hairpin turns like a race car

Posted on Mar 31, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Self-driving cars are trained to be overly cautious, but there may be situations where they need to make high-speed maneuvers to avoid a...

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Portland startup develops AV remote control

Posted on Mar 31, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

In an era of self-driving vehicles, roadside assistance could transform into on-road assistance. Instead of asking OnStar for help, riders...

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What’s next? Self-driving cars and Asia’s LNG market breaks free

Posted on Mar 31, 2019 in Cars, Technology

BloombergNEF held its annual New York Summit this week. Analysts hosted dozens of sessions on topics as varied as the future of...

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Elon Musk clarifies Tesla’s plan to retrofit cars for ‘Full Self-Driving’ with new HW3 computer

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

Tesla is preparing its most important retrofit program to date and something completely new in the industry: updating hundreds of...

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BMW finds a spooky way to promote autonomous driving

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

BMW is hard at work developing advanced self-driving features for its vehicles and has previewed its latest developments in the field with...

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Accelerating autonomous vehicle technology

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 in Cars, Technology

The automotive industry is currently looking at the technology innovation needed to move from today’s prototype autonomous vehicles to...

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Autonomous vehicle IP protection — when HAL is driving

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Each day, a fleet of lidar-guided, all-electric Chevy Bolts exits a downtown garage to roam San Francisco, attempting to blend in with...

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Autonomous vehicles are driving innovation

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

As the automotive and technology industries converge more tightly together, it’s accelerating the pace of innovation in the mobility and...

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Next step in photonic technologies: apply for funding

Posted on Mar 27, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Photonic technologies including lasers and fibre-optics contribute almost £13 billion to the UK economy. These technologies, which...

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Ego-motion and localization interface design for automated/autonomous driving

Posted on Mar 27, 2019 in Cars, Technology

For automated driving, which ranges all the way up to the autonomous-driving level, it’s essential that information about the current...

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BMW builds its own IT platform to process data from its autonomous vehicles

Posted on Mar 27, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

A self-driving vehicle needs more than additional hardware, these vehicles require access to vast amounts of quality data, along with...

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Autonomy: OEMs can prepare to thrive in changing world

Posted on Mar 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Most public discussion of self-driving or autonomous vehicles has focused primarily on engineering, logistics and technical feasibility....

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The war to remotely control self-driving cars heats up

Posted on Mar 26, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

EVEN IN THE middle of the day, the 50-mile trip from San Francisco to San Jose is a pain. Like a toddler, Bay Area driving toggles between...

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How malevolent machine learning could derail AI

Posted on Mar 25, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Artificial intelligence won’t revolutionize anything if hackers can mess with it. That’s the warning from Dawn Song, a professor at UC...

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Velodyne achieves $0.5 billion in lidar sensors shipped

Posted on Mar 25, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Velodyne is the highest volume supplier of lidar sensors to the automotive industry. In an in-depth article, David Hall spoke to Forbes...

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