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Read MoreFiat Chrysler partners with Aurora to develop self-driving commercial vans
Aurora, the autonomous vehicle technology startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has struck a deal with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to develop self-driving commercial vehicles. The partnership will focus on integrating Aurora’s technology into FCA’s line of Ram Truck commercial vehicles, a portfolio that includes cargo vans and trucks....
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Read MoreOn the road to self-driving trucks, Starsky Robotics built a traditional trucking business
More than three years ago, self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics was founded to solve a fundamental issue with freight — a solution that CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher believes hinges on getting the human driver out from behind the wheel....
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Read MoreLyft and Aptiv have completed 50,000 self-driving car rides in Las Vegas
For the last couple of years at CES, Lyft and Aptiv have made a big deal about offering rides in their self-driving BMWs. We’ve done it a few times, and the cars seemed perfectly competent. What we kind of forgot is that Lyft keeps these cars running in Sin City all the time and now, the company has announced on Friday that it’s just completed its 50,000th driverless ride....
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Read MoreMIT’s AI makes autonomous cars drive more like humans
Creating driverless cars capable of humanlike reasoning is a long-standing pursuit of companies like Waymo, GM’s Cruise, Uber, and others. Intel’s Mobileye proposes a mathematical model — the Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) — it describes as a “common sense” approach to on-the-road decision-making that codifies good habits like giving other cars the right of way....
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Read MoreFormer Opel CEO Neumann joins board of U.S. self-driving software startup
Former Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann has joined the board of directors of California-based Apex.AI, a company working to make open-source self-driving software reliable enough to be used in commercially available vehicles, the startup said....
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Read More‘Mini-city’ for self-driving vehicles launches in Greenbelt
A former research farm in Ottawa’s Greenbelt is being turned into a hub for testing the algorithms, sensors and other technology that will allow vehicles to drive themselves. Invest Ottawa, the city’s economic development agency, launched the Ottawa L5 test track on Friday....
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Read MoreAmazon reportedly considering acquisition of driverless startup TuSimple
According to a report from TMTPost, Amazon could be looking to acquire self-driving startup TuSimple. The two companies are reportedly negotiating a potential acquisition deal; and if confirmed, would be a huge win for both sides....
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Read MoreMay Mobility to begin testing autonomous shuttles in Rhode Island
May Mobility may not be a household name, but the Michigan-based has had quite a few large companies invest into its autonomous shuttle plan. Toyota AI and BMW i Ventures co-led an $11.5 million seed investment into the Ann Arbor-based startup early in 2018....
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