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AutoX’s fully driverless robotaxi fleet exceeds 1,000 units

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in Cars, News

AutoX, an autonomous driving company, announced on Wednesday that its fully driverless RoboTaxi fleet has exceeded 1,000 units, making it...

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California robocar ‘disengagement’ reports tell us a little

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Each year, the state of California requires all parties testing self-driving car systems in California report all the times their system...

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Electro-photonics bridges a sensor logjam for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in News, Technology

BOSTON, Feb. 9, 2022 — Photonic computing company Lightmatter, with Boston University College of Engineering and the Harvard John A....

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Waabi’s new simulator could scale autonomous vehicle tech faster

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in News, Technology

Testing autonomous vehicles on public roads is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor, and one that Raquel Urtasun, former chief...

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GM’s robotaxis are only coming out after dark

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Washington, DC (CNN)Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, started offering robotaxi rides this week in San Francisco....

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Embark gives self-driving truck to carrier Knight-Swift in pilot program

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in News, Trucks

Feb 8 (Reuters) – Self-driving truck company Embark Technology Inc (EMBK.O) on Tuesday said it was handing over a few of its trucks...

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What’s the difference between autonomous vehicles and driver-assistance tech?

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Your new car is packed with a bunch of driver-assist features. But that doesn’t exactly make it an autonomous vehicle. So what’s the...

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Automation won’t eliminate truckers

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology, Trucks

Even though U.S. job openings are close to 11 million— including 580,000 openings in transportation, warehousing, and utilities—truckers...

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GM’s robotaxis are only coming out after dark

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Cars, News

Washington, DC (CNN)Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, started offering robotaxi rides this week in San Francisco....

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Continental considers partial IPO of automated driving business, report says

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Finance, News

BERLIN — Continental wants to make its automated driving business more independent and is considering a partial IPO, Handelsblatt...

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Musk looks increasingly isolated as automakers embrace lidar

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Elon Musk is skeptical of putting lidar sensors on vehicles, but a growing number of his competitors are quietly adding the technology to...

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Automotive simulation platform Morai secures $20.8M Series B to expand its global footprint

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Morai, which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving...

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Tesla cut a steering component from some cars to deal with chip shortage, sources say

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in News, Technology

Under pressure to hit fourth-quarter sales goals while coping with widespread semiconductor shortages, Tesla decided to remove one of the...

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Automotive simulation platform Morai secures $20.8M Series B to expand its global footprint

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Finance, News, Technology

Morai, which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving...

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Audi and Aptiv invest $285 million in ‘orchestral director’ for self-driving car data

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

An automotive software firm little known outside the industry has raised $285 million in fresh funds to help realize carmakers’ ambitions...

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Lucid’s LiDAR-based DreamDrive Pro is cheaper than Tesla FSD in the US, more expensive in Canada

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Semi-autonomous driving technology is a hot topic right now. Sadly, much of that attention has been less than positive but Lucid has just...

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How computer vision can create smart transportation systems

Posted on Feb 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

There are three attributes that every smart city—or any place of human settlement for that matter—must possess in abundance—livability,...

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Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta runs into a pole in what could be the first FSD accident caught on video

Posted on Feb 4, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

A Tesla vehicle using Full Self-Driving Beta has been caught on video running into a pole in what could be the first accident on the FSD...

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Strict literal interpretation is a hardheaded drawback of machine learning and likewise bad for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Feb 4, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Pretend that you took all words at their literal interpretation, all of the time, wherever you...

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Audi’s top lawyer says don’t expect to be sleeping while your autonomous car drives you

Posted on Feb 4, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

There’s a lot of talk about autonomous vehicles and the freedoms they will supposedly allow but at this point, it’s still hard to see with...

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