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AI pioneer Raquel Urtasun launches self-driving technology startup with backing from Khosla, Uber and Aurora

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

One of the lingering mysteries from Uber’s sale of its Uber ATG self-driving unit to Aurora has been solved. Raquel Urtasun, the AI...

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SMRT Ventures, Yinson invest in driverless vehicle start-up

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

MooVita, a local autonomous vehicle start-up, has secured a multimillion-dollar investment from SMRT Ventures and Malaysia-listed energy...

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ISEE brings autonomy to shipping hubs with self-driving yard trucks

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in News, Trucks

Robotaxis may still be a few years out, but there are other industries that can be transformed by autonomous vehicles as they are today....

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AI pioneer Raquel Urtasun launches self-driving technology startup with backing from Khosla, Uber and Aurora

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in Finance, News, Trucks

One of the lingering mysteries from Uber’s sale of its Uber ATG self-driving unit to Aurora has been solved. Raquel Urtasun, the AI...

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Oh, Canada: NuPort brings autonomous trucking to Toronto roads with NVIDIA DRIVE

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in News, Technology, Trucks

Autonomous truck technology is making its way across the Great White North. Self-driving trucking startup NuPort Robotics is leveraging...

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Autonomous vehicle makers help fight COVID-19 in Guangzhou

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, News

Chinese autonomous vehicle makers are participating in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus in Guangzhou, South China’s...

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Aurora brings in outsiders to boost safety efforts, public trust of driverless vehicles

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in News, Trucks

Aurora, the autonomous vehicle company that acquired Uber ATG last year, has assembled a team of outside experts, shared new details about...

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What’s it like being a passenger in a self-driving taxi?

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Elon Musk and Uber have both made claims that there’d be millions of driverless taxis on our roads by now and, well, there aren’t. Most of...

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Harrowing tales of teenage drivers in everyday traffic amidst adult drivers and those emerging self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Adult drivers oftentimes detest teenage drivers. This is not ostensibly a generational differences issue. The cold hard facts are that...

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Stock take: Legal groundwork laid for self-driving cars on UK roads

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Policy & Regulation

The UK government is developing legislation to permit autonomous cars to drive on public roads, which will address a range of issues such...

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NHTSA may have to take the wheel on automation

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

New bills introduced in Congress in the past year would affect automakers by increasing agency oversight and enhancing regulations related...

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Why the dream of truly driverless cars is slowly dying

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

We were told there’d be fully-autonomous vehicles dominating roadways across the globe by 2018. When that didn’t happen, we were told...

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Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in Cars, News

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit...

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Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC

Posted on Jun 7, 2021 in News, Trucks

Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose...

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Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit...

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Self-driving cars could be decades away, no matter what Elon Musk said

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

In 2015, Elon Musk said self-driving cars that could drive “anywhere” would be here within two or three years....

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The Mars autonomous helicopter named Ingenuity gets confounded by timestamp glitch, providing insightful lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever glanced at a snapshot and asked someone when they took that photo? I’m sure that you have. You undoubtedly wanted to place...

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Silicon Valley company DeepMap announces ‘RoadMemory’ a scalable mapping service for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Silicon Valley mapping startup DeepMap Inc announced its new crowd-sourced mapping service for autonomous vehicles today called...

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That California woman using her car to thwart a mountain lion and save her beloved dog provides valuable lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

What would you do? A woman in California heard her beloved pet dog barking frantically outside of her home and wondered what in the heck...

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Meituan unmanned delivery team to be nearly tripled in size

Posted on Jun 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Beijing (Gasgoo)- Meituan’s unmanned delivery center will reportedly add another 500 jobs, covering algorithm, engineering, and other...

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