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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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Autonomous driving has serious problems that could lead to very long delays

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

Whack-a-mole is not good enough. A Chinese demonstration of the inadequacies of Tesla’s autopilot (see here) also clearly shows that the...

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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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