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Dubai to make 56% of taxi fleet environmentally friendly, 5% self-driving by 2023

Posted on Aug 29, 2021 in News

Dubai is set to make 56 percent of its taxi fleet environmentally friendly by 2023 and also aims to convert 5 percent of the cars to...

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Self-driving electric cars could mean the end of short haul flights

Posted on Aug 28, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

One of the worst forms of transport for CO2 emissions is domestic and short haul flying. Research from the BBC via BEIS/Defra in 2019...

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Gatik joins the driverless self-driving car club

Posted on Aug 28, 2021 in News, Perspective, Trucks

On the “we-were-told-there-would-be-jetpacks” spectrum of protracted transportation breakthroughs, self-driving vehicles are slowly...

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Alphabet’s Waymo to stop selling lidar self-driving car sensors

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Cars, Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) self-driving unit Waymo said on Thursday that it has ended a...

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Meet The Autonomous Driving Influencers Of TikTok

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Perspective

“Would you try this?” That’s what Arizona State University retail store manager and mother to three Sophia Lovasz asked...

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Cruise is buying solar energy from California farmers to power its electric, self-driving fleet

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Cars, News

Cruise, the self-driving car company under General Motors, has launched a new initiative called Farm to Fleet that will allow the company...

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Waymo to stop selling lidar self-driving car sensors

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Cars, Technology

San Francisco: Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet Inc., has decided to stop selling light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors to...

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China’s Hainan permits road test for self-driving vehicle

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in News

China’s tropical province of Hainan has issued a permit for testing a self-driving vehicle on certain public roads. Hainan’s...

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Chances of collisions involving urgently underway police cars and AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Code 3. That’s the usual parlance for indicating that a police car will activate its flashing lights and engage a blaring siren as the...

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Autonomous trucking startup Locomation & ZF to jointly develop electric steering systems that support automated highway driving

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in News, Trucks

Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking startup Locomation announced a new partnership with German automotive component supplier ZF...

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Building a CASE for connected and autonomous vehicles with 5G connectivity

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

There are few topics as exciting as what the future of transportation will look like in the next five to 10 years. With 5G and connected,...

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Toyota suspends all self-driving vehicles at Paralympic Games after collision with athlete

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 in Buses, News

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced an immediate halt to all of its e-Palette self-driving transportation pods operating at the Tokyo...

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Nuro is building a test track and factory for its delivery robots in Las Vegas

Posted on Aug 26, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Nuro, a start-up which makes autonomous delivery vehicles, announced Thursday that it’s building a factory and a closed course test-track...

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Nuro is building a test track and factory for its delivery robots in Las Vegas

Posted on Aug 26, 2021 in Cars, News

Nuro, a start-up which makes autonomous delivery vehicles, announced Thursday that it’s building a factory and a closed course test-track...

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Xiaomi acquires autonomous driving firm as it looks to boost nascent electric vehicle business

Posted on Aug 26, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has acquired an autonomous driving start-up, jumping into an extremely competitive...

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Xiaomi acquires autonomous driving firm as it looks to boost nascent electric vehicle business

Posted on Aug 26, 2021 in Cars, News

GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has acquired an autonomous driving start-up,...

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Spartan Radar Raises $10 Million in Seed Funding to Advance Autonomous Vehicle Radar Software

Posted on Aug 26, 2021 in News, Technology

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Aug. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Spartan Radar, a provider of biomimetic automotive radar solutions, today...

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Musk admits Full Self-Driving system ‘not great,’ blames a single stack for highway and city streets

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 in Cars, News

It hasn’t even been a week since Tesla hosted its AI Day, a livestreamed event full of technical jargon meant to snare the choicest of AI...

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Can Tesla and other fully autonomous cars really work in the real world?

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a hoot. It features one of the highest levels of automation found on a production Merc yet, and that...

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Do Passengers Want Self-Driving Cras To behave More Or Less Like Them?

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Recent studies have shown that people have negative attitudes about using autonomous systems because they don’t trust them. Moreover,...

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