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Read MoreUAE’s first autonomous vehicle to be unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2019
Dubai-based high-performance luxury sports car developer W Motors will unveil the UAE’s first autonomous vehicle at Auto Shanghai 2019 in April this year. The UAE-based W Motors, in partnership with sister company Iconiq Motors will give a first glimpse of ‘Muse’, a fully electric vehicle that has Level 4 (high automation) and Level 5 (full automation) autonomous driving systems that is planned to be on...
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Read MoreBlackBerry, federal government pour $350M into autonomous cars
BlackBerry and the federal government are spending a combined $350 million on autonomous vehicle technology, which they say will create hundreds of new jobs and co-op placements. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement alongside BlackBerry CEO John Chen Friday morning at the BlackBerry campus in west Ottawa’s Kanata North neighbourhood....
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Read MoreThe woman in charge of laying the groundwork for Waymo’s self-driving taxis in cities across the US reveals why humility is key to the company’s future
It’s assumed that if you want to work at Alphabet, your best path runs through a computer-science program at a major university. That’s true – but you could also get to the Googleplex by working on a farm. Ellie Casson, the head of local policy for Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving division, is proof. After growing up in a town of just 8,000 people in New York’s Dutchess County, she studied urban planning at...
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Read MoreNo driver? No problem when Vancouver, Surrey put driverless shuttle to the test
The future of transportation is as close as Vancouver and Surrey this month when the cities host demonstrations of a driverless shuttle. The demos of autonomous electric vehicles are part of the municipalities’ bid to win $50 million in the federal government’s Smart Cities Challenge. Vancouver and Surrey joined forces to compete for the prize offered by Infrastructure Canada to the community that most...
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Read MoreAutonomous trucking still distant
The future of autonomous trucks is further down the road than people believe, but final-mile delivery by robots is closer to larger use, said Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group, giving his assessment of future disruption at the SMC3 Jump Start conference....
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Read MoreArgo AI acquires permit to test autonomous vehicles in California
Argo AI, the self-driving car startup that burst onto the scene in 2017 with $1 billion in backing from Ford, has obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in California. The permit, issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, is for one vehicle and two drivers....
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Read MoreBMW-backed Mapillary provides hyper mapping services for driverless vehicles
Autonomous vehicle networks rely on real-time mapping data during navigation on public roads. Such requirements are stringent, as most maps today are updated on a monthly or yearly basis. When using old maps, driverless cars could be prone to encountering unforeseen structures and signs. Swedish startup Mapillary wants to enhance mapping services for networks of self-driving cars, connected cities and...
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Read MoreApple cuts autonomous car team by 200, shifting some to machine learning projects
Apple’s autonomous car skunkworks endeavor, Project Titan, has spent years as one of the company’s most volatile divisions, going through almost as many leadership and employee changes as the company’s Siri team. Now Titan is dealing with another staffing shakeup: Apple confirmed today that 200 employees were dismissed from the project, with some moving to “other initiatives” within the company, including...
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