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Segway unveils a more durable electric scooter and autonomous delivery bot

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Wear and tear is a major issue in the realm of electric scooters, resulting in a short lifespan of individual scooters and poor unit...

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Kia to showcase new autonomous driving technologies at CES 2019

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology

Kia Motors is previewing a range of new technologies developed for the post-autonomous driving era at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019,...

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Baraja raises $32 million for autonomous vehicle lidar with prism-like optics

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Lidar startup Baraja has raised $32 million in a series A round of funding led by Sequoia China and Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO...

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Don’t throw rocks at the Google self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Violence is not the answer, or at least so says Arizona transportation executive Rob Antoniak. On the heels of a December investigative...

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Several companies to test autonomous bus technologies for public transit

Posted on Jan 2, 2019 in Buses, News

Several companies have confirmed their involvement with a self-driving bus test project on East Japan Railway Company’s (JR East’s) Bus...

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11 big autonomous vehicle & AI stories — #NewsBonanza

Posted on Jan 2, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Technology

Following up on EV battery and EV charging #NewsBonanza posts, here’s one on 11 autonomous vehicle & AI stories from the past couple...

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Engineer who spurred court battle over autonomous tech forms new self-driving truck biz

Posted on Jan 2, 2019 in News, Technology, Trucks

Anthony Levandowski, the autonomous tech engineer who was at the center of a prominent court battle between Google‘s self-driving venture...

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Samsung tops in self-driving car patents

Posted on Jan 1, 2019 in Cars, News

Samsung Electronics filed the largest number of patents related to self-driving cars in Europe, data showed on Monday, far above...

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“I don’t want to be their real-world mistake”: People lash out at Waymo’s self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 1, 2019 in Cars, News

Not everyone is a fan of self-driving cars. Chandler, Arizona, is one of the Phoenix suburbs where Alphabet-owned Waymo is testing...

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The most amazing artificial intelligence milestones so far

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hot topic of the moment in technology, and the driving force behind most of the big technological...

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5 profound lessons in the mobility space in 2018

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Looking back, like so many of us are wont to do at the end of the Gregorian calendar year, 2018 was a year like so many: ups, downs,...

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5 transportation technologies that will boom or bust in 2019

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, Technology

As we enter 2019, we wanted to take a moment to discuss some of the hottest transportation technologies and assess their prospects for the...

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Kroger — not Uber, Google or Cruise — may be on the leading edge of driverless adoption

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

For all the multi-billion-dollar investments by automakers and Silicon Valley, regulatory hand-wringing around the globe, and geeky...

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Self-driving cars keep tapping the brakes

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, News

In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless-car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for now, the...

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The 10 worst self-driving stories of 2018

Posted on Dec 30, 2018 in Cars, News

One hour after publishing my “10 Best/Worst of Automotive Tech 2018,” I realized it was too short. A “Worst 100”...

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Tesla wants more employees to participate in Autopilot Hardware 3 testing

Posted on Dec 30, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is calling for more employees to participate in the testing of Autopilot Hardware 3, with offers of discounts on the...

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CES is apparently going to be everything to everyone when it comes to mobility

Posted on Dec 30, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

Having signed up to attend CES as a media representative, my inbox has turned into the fertile ground for some of the most vague, most...

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Vehicles of the future: Autonomous, connected and data centric

Posted on Dec 28, 2018 in Cars, Technology

The march towards autonomous vehicles continues to accelerate. While expert opinion differs on the specific timing and use cases that will...

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Dallas wants self-driving vehicles for planned redevelopment

Posted on Dec 28, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News

If Dallas’ Valley View Center site is indeed ripe for redevelopment in the thriving neighborhood it helped create, one certain...

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Tesla to start testing new Autopilot Hardware 3 in employee vehicles

Posted on Dec 27, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla is working to bring to market its new Autopilot Hardware 3, which consists of a new neural net computer that they claimed will be...

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