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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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Lidar gets rid of moving parts thanks to liquid-crystal metasurfaces

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

The market for lidar sensors for use in autonomous vehicles is now hotly contested; almost every month a new supplier appears on the...

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Ricardo develops technology to avoid motion sickness in autonomous vehicles

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

With a widespread public expectation that autonomous vehicles will offer comfort levels approaching those of a living room environment,...

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Velodyne’s Godfather of laser sensors hits $500 million milestone, sets his sights on safer self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 22, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Spinning laser lidar sensors, invented by Velodyne’s David Hall more than a decade ago, helped kick off a race to create self-driving...

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Autonomous vehicle timing is a MEMS thing

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

Engineering is always about tradeoffs, but autonomous vehicles are pushing that to the limit with conflicting requirements....

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On the ‘edge’ with driverless cars

Posted on Mar 20, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

How soon will it be before you pull up at a stop light in your car, and the car next to you has no one behind the wheel? Maybe sooner than...

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Reducing human error road accidents with automotive technology

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Human error in road accidents is estimated at 94 percent, making mistakes by drivers a major concern for public safety. In order to get a...

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ON Semiconductor and 3M collaborate to accelerate automated vehicle technology

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

ON Semiconductor and 3M have mutually announced their partnership to help improve the navigation systems in vehicles equipped with...

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Ford develops lighting signals for driverless cars to ‘speak’ to pedestrians

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

When it comes to signaling, light is one of the most reliable methods for catching someone’s attention in busy locations. This...

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Driverless trucks ride at night with TuSimple’s improved camera system

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in News, Technology, Trucks

In its quest to roll out the country’s first commercialized fleet of autonomous trucks, TuSimple has added an improved camera and vision...

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Toyota doubles down on Nvidia tech for self-driving cars

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Toyota is deepening its relationship with Nvidia as the automaker, and its research arms in Japan and the U.S., ramps up its autonomous...

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A new startup aims to be a ‘Designated Driver’ for autonomous vehicles in need of assistance

Posted on Mar 18, 2019 in Cars, Technology, Trucks

In 1997, General Motors introduced OnStar, a cellular communications system allowing a driver to connect to a human operator at the touch...

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