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Read MoreBackup driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with negligent homicide
PHOENIX — The backup Uber driver involved in the first self-driving vehicle fatality has been charged with negligent homicide for being distracted in the moments before fatally striking a woman in suburban Phoenix....
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Read MoreAutonomous bus makes debut in China’s Chongqing
CHONGQING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A medium-sized bus equipped with autonomous driving technologies made its debut Thursday in Chongqing Municipality, a vehicle-manufacturing powerhouse in southwestern China....
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Read MoreYandex self driving group gets $150 million, partners with Uber to bring autonomous vehicles to U.S.
On paper, a lot is happening with Yandex’s self-driving vehicles. Yandex NV YNDX -1.2%, a Russian multinational company that specializes in Internet-related products and services and sometimes called the Google GOOGL -3% of Russia, will spin-off its autonomous vehicle business and form a new company – Yandex Self Driving Group B.V. (or Yandex SDG) with Uber UBER -0.5%....
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Read MoreBaidu launches its ‘Apollo Go’ robotaxi service in China’s capital city of Beijing
Three weeks after launching its “Apollo Go” robotaxi service in the Chinese city of Cangzhou, China’s tech giant Baidu Inc. announced that the service has officially launched in the capital city of Beijing....
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Read MoreU.S. NHTSA’s autonomous vehicle test tracking tool is light on data
In June, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing (AV TEST), a program that purports to provide a robust source of information about autonomous vehicle testing. Today marked the official launch of AV TEST after several months of ramp-up, beginning with a tool for tracking driverless pilots in 17 cities...
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Read MoreMotional releases expanded self-driving data set with over 1.4 billion annotated lidar points
Roughly a year ago, Scale and NuTonomy released a driverless data set called NuScenes that they claimed at the time surpassed corpora like KITTI, Baidu’s ApolloScape, and the Udacity Self-Driving Car library in size, scale, and accuracy. Since then, new and more diverse corpora like the Waymo Open Dataset, the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset, and Lyft’s autonomous vehicle data set have emerged, but...
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Read MoreLidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger
Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging with special purpose acquisition company Gores Metropoulos Inc., with a post-deal market valuation of $3.4 billion....
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Read MoreWaymo self-driving trucks hit the road in Texas
Texas will see more of Waymo in the months and years to come. On Tuesday, Alphabet’s self-driving car division said it’s officially ready to deploy its autonomous trucks in the Lone Star state....
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Autonomous bus makes debut in China’s Chongqing
CHONGQING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A medium-sized bus equipped with autonomous driving technologies made its debut Thursday in Chongqing Municipality, a vehicle-manufacturing powerhouse in southwestern China....
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