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On the hit-and-maybe-run self-driving car dilemma (akin to ‘The Molly Problem’)

Posted on Oct 14, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Please prepare yourself for a driving scenario that we all dread and profusely hope will never occur. Wham, while driving your car, you...

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Velodyne Lidar and Baidu sign a three-year sales agreement

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

 Velodyne Lidar, Inc. recently announced that it has entered into a three-year sales agreement with Baidu for its Alpha Prime Lidar...

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Imagination Technologies launches PowerVR multi-core GPUs for IoT to autonomous cars

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in News, Technology

Imagination Technologies has announced its PowerVR IMG B-Series, a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) chip designs with multi-core...

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Electric vehicles creating a roadmap to autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

With one stroke of the pen Governor Newsom of California has insured a robust outlook for the future of electric vehicles in California....

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Throwing wrenches at autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

If you need to quickly figure out whether or not an AV is safe, you might want to throw a wrench at it.  If it doesn’t crash, it’s worthy...

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Alphabet subsidiary Waymo shares new details about its self-driving Class-8 trucks

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in News, Trucks

Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, which spun out of Google’s self-driving car project, has been actively developing autonomous vehicles for...

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Waymo Continues Autonomous Trucking Development Push

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in News, Perspective, Trucks

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google owner Alphabet Inc., is talking more about its push into autonomous trucking.The company said...

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Swiss lab tests out Chinese driverless delivery van

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, News

Swiss research lab EPFL is testing out a driverless delivery van from a Chinese supplier across its campus. The Autonomously Delivered...

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SiaSearch works with Motional for database boost

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in News, Technology

SiaSearch, a Berlin-based automated driving data handling platform, has announced it has partnered with Motional, a mobility joint venture...

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Hidden factor steering for trouble in latest Elon Musk versus Waymo self-driving cars squabble

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

There is an elephant in the room, but it seems as though nobody is noticing it. In the ongoing push toward the fielding of self-driving...

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Daimler, Swiss Re launch mobility insurance venture

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Finance, News, Technology

FRANKFURT: Swiss Re and carmaker Daimler announced a joint automotive and mobility insurance venture on Monday, seeking to tap into a...

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The real question: When do we ban human drivers?

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Every year, about twenty million people die or suffer serious horrific (and permanent) injury every year, worldwide. With self-driving...

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Nissan leads driverless car project for London

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, News

A project has launched in London to bring driverless cars to the UK capital using Nissan’s electric Leaf. The ServCity project brings...

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Baidu fully opens Apollo Go Robotaxi service in Beijing

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, News

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Baidu announced on October 11 that it has fully opened its Apollo Go Robotaxi service to ordinary users in Beijing....

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Chinese self-driving cars ready to roll abroad

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Chinese startups in the field of self-driving or fully automated vehicles are beefing up their presence in foreign markets. Their move...

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Baidu fully opens Apollo Go Robotaxi service in Beijing

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Baidu announced on October 11 that it has fully opened its Apollo Go Robotaxi service to ordinary users in Beijing....

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Stuttgart airport set to welcome highly automated and driverless parking with the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in News, Technology

Automated parking to drive down the airport stress: Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, and the parking garage operator Apcoa want to introduce...

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Elon Musk says Tesla will release a beta version of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ feature next week to some drivers. It probably won’t make the cars fully autonomous.

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in News, Technology

Tesla will release a new beta version of its “Full Self-Driving” driver-assistance package next week, Tesla CEO ElonMusk...

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Split-second ‘phantom’ images can fool Tesla’s Autopilot

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 in News, Technology

SAFETY CONCERNS OVER automated driver-assistance systems like Tesla’s usually focus on what the car can’t see, like the white...

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You may not have heard, but the autonomous vehicle has now arrived

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

No one said it would be easy. Much less that its deployment would be immediate, or that it would be available to everyone around the...

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