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There’s a good reason this self-driving pod has huge ‘virtual eyes’

Posted on Aug 28, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Jaguar Land Rover’s “driverless pod with eyes” will either raise a smile or send shivers down your spine, depending on your disposition....

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Do you know how many types of LiDAR are there?

Posted on Aug 27, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

LiDAR has various applications in surveying, sensors, drones and laser scanning. So people are fairly acquainted with this technology,...

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An under-the-radar self-driving car startup is launching California’s first autonomous grocery delivery

Posted on Aug 27, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

AutoX wants to bring the grocery store to you. The self-driving car startup, which got permission to test self-driving cars in California...

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Sebastian Thrun: ‘The costs of the air taxi system could be less than an Uber’

Posted on Aug 26, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Sebastian Thrun isn’t your ordinary Silicon Valley computer geek-cum-Stanford professor. The 51-year-old artificial intelligence and...

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The no-tech safety solution for driverless cars: People

Posted on Aug 26, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Humans have always played an important role in the safety of the nation’s roads and they will continue to for many years, even during the...

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Ground-penetrating radar tech for self-driving cars curbs weather risks

Posted on Aug 25, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Autonomous vehicles need to stay in their lanes and if hazardous weather conditions dominate the morning, day or night drive, then the...

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VTT’s robot car, Martti, speaks 5G and takes step toward automation

Posted on Aug 24, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Nokia have joined forces to hook the VTT’s robot car, Martti, up to a 5G network, which...

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Sensors midwest 2018: LiDAR ToF measurements crucial for auto apps

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

A simplified description of time-of-flight (ToF) measurement would the measurement of the amount of time an object takes to travel a...

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How Intel plans to save your life in autonomous driving

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

There were a few big takeaways from the Autonomous Driving 2018 Conference in Novi, MI. Perhaps the largest? Someone can imagine a...

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Carmera’s human-driven sensors could pave the way for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

An obvious setback for self-driving cars is the lack of eyeballs for noticing things like road construction or pedestrians.  That’s...

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Why hi-resolution radar is a game changer

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Ultra high-resolution imaging radar is quickly becoming the trailblazing technology for autonomous driving. 4D picture offers real-time...

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Wanted in China: Detailed maps for 30 million self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 23, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Chen Dan had doubts about betting millions of dollars to make high definition maps of Chinese roads. That was until she took charge of the...

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VW approached self-driving startup Aurora

Posted on Aug 22, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Volkswagen AG is on the hunt for self-driving technology and recently tried to buy Aurora Innovation, an autonomous-driving startup...

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V2X is here to stay—Now let’s use it for autonomous cars

Posted on Aug 22, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Despite the controversy, the automotive industry continues to invest heavily in autonomous vehicles. Most of the discussion on the...

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IoT failures have consumers concerned about self-driving and healthcare

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

IoT failures and digital problems occur for 64% of consumers, according to a new study. The 10,000 respondents also reported fears over...

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Apple’s ‘Project Titan’ car could warn you what it is about to do, well before it does it

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Apple has come up with a way to allow a self-driving car to communicate much more than lane changing information to other drivers of...

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Sensors midwest: LiDAR, it ain’t just for the car

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

The way light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) technology is presented in the media, one could be misled into believing its only viable use...

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A new map management process for visual localization in outdoor environments

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

Researchers at ETH Zürich’s Autonomous Systems Lab have recently developed a map management process for visual localization systems,...

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Elon Musk confirms: Video streaming coming to Teslas in Firmware Version 10

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Elon Musk responded to a tweet today to confirm that video streaming will be coming to Teslas in version 10 of the firmware for its...

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A hardware-agnostic framework for automated driving development on embedded systems

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Today, developing automated driving (AD) systems means providing truly unique features to customers. For OEMs, this means offering...

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