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Chandler named to council for autonomous vehicle group; city official to appear in virtual panel

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

The city of Chandler was named to the Public Sector Advisory Council with the Partners for Automated Vehicle Education, according to a...

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Collecting crash data to help autonomous cars with rare events

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Crashes are rare events. Yes, there are nearly six million (6M) crashes every year in the United States alone. But in a non-coronavirus...

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Consumers express confidence in autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in News, Technology

In what is said to have been one of the world’s most advanced demonstrations of self-driving vehicles on public roads, research findings...

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Toyota and Amazon expand tie-up with eye on future car technology

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

NEW YORK/DETROIT/BANGALORE – Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it has agreed with an affiliate of Amazon.com to expand their collaboration as...

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Connected cars: First step toward autonomous driving

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Autonomous vehicle technology is expected to greatly impact connected cars, as much more data will come from an AV, and much more data and...

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AutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai, competing with Didi’s pilot program

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous vehicle startupAutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi,...

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Repurposed: the self-driving Linden LEAP shuttle

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Buses, Perspective

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, plans for the Linden LEAP autonomous shuttle have changed from transporting people to transporting...

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Why excessive AI politeness could be oddly inconsiderate, implications too for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Does it seem to you that civility and politeness are on the wane? Many would surely agree that politeness appears to have been placed on...

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AutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai, competing with Didi’s pilot program

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Cars, News

Autonomous vehicle startupAutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi,...

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How to make cities ready for autonomous vehicles, and AVs ready for cities

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

For any disruptive technology, targeted at any market, there must be a ‘killer app’: a concrete use-case with a well-defined ROI to...

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Tallysman offers AccuAuto embedded GNSS antennas for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in News, Technology

Tallysman Wireless has added a line of AccuAuto vehicle antennas aimed at the autonomous vehicle market....

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Hainan issues regulations on autonomous vehicle road testing, demonstration

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in News, Policy & Regulation

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Hainan’s authorities issued on August 14 the Administrative Rules on the Regulation of Road Testing and...

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‘This is our future’: Fairfax tests region’s first self-driving shuttle for public transit

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Buses, News

The Washington region is about to experience self-driving vehicles in public transportation. Fairfax County and Dominion Energy are...

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Drive-in theaters are coming back, but self-driving cars could be an outdoor movie spoilsport

Posted on Aug 15, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

One of the “new normal” predictions is that indoor movie theatre going will tend to gravitate toward attending outdoor drive-ins. That is...

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Elon Musk: Tesla Full Self-Driving is going to have ‘quantum leap’ w/ new rewrite, coming in ‘6 to 10 weeks’

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 in News, Technology

Elon Musk says Tesla’s Autopilot/Full Self-Driving (FSD) rewrite is going to result in “quantum leap” improvements, and the rewrite is...

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Pandemic will move autonomous vehicle development forward, J.D. Power says

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Automotive engineers and large elements of the automotive press are very excited about the idea of production vehicles that can operate...

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Urban autonomy: The next stage of self-driving

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

The auto industry is undergoing a major shift, from human-driven cars to autonomous vehicles (AV). Subsequently, the transportation...

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Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle project with Aptiv will now be called Motional

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle joint venture with Aptiv has a new name: Motional. The company, which plans to test fully driverless vehicles...

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Mental wayfinding has unexpected AI importance, including for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Do you know where you are right now The odds are that you do. I don’t mean that you perhaps know that you are at a particular street...

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Nvidia’s self-driving vehicle approach — from Tesla to DHL to Mercedes

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

I dove into Waymo’s automotive partnerships and Mobile’s automotive partnerships this week, and I wanted to do the same with Nvidia....

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