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New digital publication delivers the ground truth about autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — With one of the most anticipated—but often misunderstood—technologies on the horizon, Argo...

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LiDAR paves the way for AVs – Q&A with Innoviz

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Innoviz Technologies develops and manufactures solid-state LiDAR (which stands for Light Detection and Ranging) sensors and perception...

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Who will build the Apple car?

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

A current trend in the car industry is for new entrants such as Fisker to hand over the complicated and capital-intensive work of...

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Are self-driving cars visions of the future or a menace to the present?

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

It’s been a vision of the future even since before the Jetsons, Knight Rider, or even I, Robot: a car which drives itself without much...

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Watch this Tesla Model 3 with ‘full self-driving’ make a 358-mile trip across California with almost no human intervention

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

A Tesla driver made a six-hour journey across California on Monday – without any intervention from the driver, save for a charging...

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What Biden presidency means for AV industry

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Policy & Regulation, Technology

2020 has been a year of uncertainty and as the U.S. heads into 2021 under President-elect Joe Biden, the next four years could prove...

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Micro mirror gives autonomous vehicles vision upgrade

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in News, Technology

Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Society have developed a new type of microscanner mirror that integrates with LiDAR to provide...

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Oxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of...

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Are artificial cities the answer to AV road safety?

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

Roads are unpredictable places. Though there are plenty of rules in place for conduct on every highway in every part of the world, we...

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Teledyne is buying FLIR to create a super-sized sensor shop with thermal and laser vision

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

Industrial sensor giant Teledyne will acquire FLIR, an Oregon-based company that makes thermal-imaging and night vision technology, the...

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4D imaging radar looks to advance ADAS and Level 5 automation

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

In contrast to cameras and LiDAR, 4D imaging radar uses echolocation and the principle of time-of-flight measurement to find things in its...

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Lidar startup Aeva raises another $200M ahead of its debut as a public company

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

Aeva, the lidar company started by two former Apple engineers, has raised an additional $200 million in private investment from Hong Kong...

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Self-driving cars turn off hype highway

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The future of the car will again be caught in the headlights of the annual CES consumer electronics show next week, but expectations for...

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This year, autonomous trucks will take to the road with no one on board

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

Companies like Tesla, Uber, Cruise, and Waymo promise a future where cars are essentially mobile robots that can take us anywhere with a...

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Tesla’s China rival Xpeng to use lidar sensors from DJI affiliate Livox

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in News, Technology

The battle is heating up between Tesla and its Chinese challenger Xpeng as the latter makes clearer its stance on the future of autonomous...

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Rolling out driverless cars is ‘extraordinary grind’, says Waymo boss

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car. The Google sister company raised $3.2bn,...

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Forget about a self-driving ‘iCar’

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Do you have an iPhone? Ever tried to unlock it using Face ID while wearing any kind of face covering? It doesn’t work, because the...

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‘Peak hype’: why the driverless car revolution has stalled

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

By 2021, according to various Silicon Valley luminaries, bandwagoning politicians and leading cab firms in recent years, self-driving cars...

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How truck automation may change roadside inspections

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Trucks, Videos & Podcasts

Here’s an exercise in future think: You know what can happen now at a roadside inspection of one of your trucks. But what might happen in...

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On self-driving cars that might misclassify a snowman as a pedestrian

Posted on Jan 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever eaten a papple? Probably not, and the odds are that you might not have even heard of one before either. It is a type of pear...

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