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Four-seasons road mapping touted as WatCAR breakthrough for AVs

Posted on Nov 12, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

A research project aimed at developing three-dimensional, high-definition mapping (3D HD) could give Ontario an edge in the race to...

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How software will dominate the automotive industry

Posted on Nov 11, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The rise of autonomous vehicles will cause a tectonic shift in the mobility industry―and incumbents must evolve along with it. Toptal...

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Rules of the road evade driverless cars

Posted on Nov 10, 2018 in Cars, Technology

People have been imagining driverless cars since at least 1958, when Walt Disney Co. aired “Magic Highway U.S.A.” It’s been almost...

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The amazing ways Toyota is using artificial intelligence, big data & robots

Posted on Nov 9, 2018 in Cars, Technology, Trucks

A great way to understand the future priorities for a company is to see where they invest resources. When you look at where Toyota, the...

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How do self driving cars see? (And how do they see me?)

Posted on Nov 8, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer questions about your interactions with technology....

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Next-generation technology is coming to a self-driving car near you

Posted on Nov 7, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Typically, navigation systems for autonomous cars use visible light to identify foreign objects. This works most of the time. But in...

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Tencent builds autonomous driving team in Silicon Valley

Posted on Nov 7, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Tencent is building an autonomous driving team in Silicon Valley, in the latest sign of the Chinese tech giant moving into new areas as...

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Choosing an IMU for your autonomous-vehicle project

Posted on Nov 6, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Sensing technologies for electronic situational awareness has seen lots of progress, driven by all the attention currently being given to...

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ADAS complexity will create new maintenance costs and vulnerabilities for fleets

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Cars, Technology

An increasing number of vehicles are equipped with advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as collision avoidance, surround view,...

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Artificial Intelligence hits the barrier of meaning

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Cars, Technology

You’ve probably heard that we’re in the midst of an A.I. revolution. We’re told that machine intelligence is progressing at an astounding...

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AImotive unveils third-generation neural network for self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

AImotive has been working on its autonomous vehicle (AV) technology for a number of years, focusing on vision-first technology that will...

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This startup wants to bring ‘common sense’ to self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

A little-known name in the world of autonomous driving is paving the way for a new type of self-driving car—one that can use “common...

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Driverless cars can only take you so far. This is how smarter cities are being built

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Cars, Technology

In the sunny climes of Tel Aviv, Israel, the Smart Mobility Summit, held from October 29 to 30, brought together city administrators from...

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Addressing the challenges of autonomous driving

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

One of the hottest topics within the automotive world at the moment is autonomous driving, and both existing automotive manufacturers and...

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Optimus Ride taps Nvidia for its level 4 autonomous cars

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Optimus Ride, an autonomous technology startup based in Boston, today revealed Nvidia’s Drive AGX Xavier as its development platform of...

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Deep dive into Tesla’s autopilot & self-driving architecture vs lidar-based systems

Posted on Nov 4, 2018 in Cars, Technology

In this article, I’m going to try to take a very technical and complicated subject — namely, the technical details of Tesla’s and others...

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Hiding between two announcements — Tesla full self driving just a few streets away

Posted on Nov 3, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

There have been a couple of big Tesla autonomy announcements in the past week or so. First of all, Tesla pushed out a Navigate on...

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Next Renault Captur getting PHEV option, semi-autonomous driving tech

Posted on Nov 2, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

The second-generation Renault Captur is expected to debut at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, next fall. It will arrive with the usual ICE...

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Autonomous cars face big hurdles; They will succeed, but when?

Posted on Nov 2, 2018 in Cars, Technology

The automotive industry is spending fortunes developing autonomous vehicles with no payback in sight, while the technology required to...

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China’s Baidu sees hotpot, backseat karaoke in driverless future

Posted on Nov 1, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Baidu Inc.’s making a concerted effort to catch up in the driverless car race. The search giant showcased its “Apollo” self-driving...

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