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Movement rises to keep humans, not robots, in the driver’s seat

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Car enthusiast McKeel Hagerty’s future changed in March 2017. He was at a car event in Vancouver, British Columbia, when a stranger...

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Elon Musk eyes early 2019 release for Tesla’s custom AI chip

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Elon Musk has announced that Tesla’s new custom AI chip is about six months away from being installed in new production cars. The CEO said...

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Futuristic autonomous cars don’t have to ‘lack soul,’ Peugeot designer says

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

French car maker Peugeot doesn’t think the future of self-driving cars has to look like sci-fi-inspired pods. Instead, a design executive...

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Arizona is creating an autonomous vehicle research institute

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Arizona, a state that has been quite open to self-driving technology, has now created the Institute for Automated Mobility (IAM), a...

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Pennsylvania approves its first self-driving car tests (update)

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Editor’s Picks

Self-driving startup Aurora is the first company to receive Pennsylvania’s blessing to test autonomous vehicles on its roads....

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Webinar: Autonomous vehicles: Driving employment for people with disabilities

Posted on Oct 16, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Webinars

National Center for Mobility Management, October 16, 2018 Celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month and learn about the...

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Shrimp eyes inspire new camera focused on helping self-driving cars see better

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Have you ever looked into an animal’s eyes and thought, ‘I wonder how they see the world?’ We have. We do it all the time. We wonder, for...

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BMW board member in denial about EV revolution (yikes)

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

As we recently reported, Klaus Frölich, BMW’s board member in charge of development, recently opened up about the company’s “nightmare”...

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Rand study shows it’s hard to gauge self-driving car safety

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, News

The great promise of automated vehicles is that they will be safer than human-driven ones, but finding the metrics to measure this is a...

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GM’s driverless vehicles require a ‘degree of harmonization’ with governments, innovation chief says

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Ahead of General Motors’ launch of a driverless vehicle fleet in 2019, the legacy automaker is hoping for some cooperation with...

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What’s it like to be driven in a driverless car?

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

As driverless car technology becomes more sophisticated, companies are getting closer to developing a truly driverless experience. Compelo...

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Keeping disruption in perspective

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Big shifts are coming to the auto retail world, and dealers say they’re getting ready for them. But don’t fall for all the...

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Futuristic autonomous cars don’t have to ‘lack soul,’ Peugeot designer says

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, Technology

French car maker Peugeot doesn’t think the future of self-driving cars has to look like sci-fi-inspired pods. Instead, a design...

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Dubai launches its self-driving taxi service

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, News

It might not be flying taxis, but self-driving taxis on the road started test runs in Dubai on Sunday. At the annual consumer electronics...

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Volvo shifts safety strategy for self-driving future

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, News

Volvo, with a bevy of new tools to ensure passenger safety, is shifting its safety strategy from passenger protection to accident...

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Change is coming to automobile dealerships

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” I was...

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The beauty & the beast at #MondialParis

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, Technology

There were two cars that stole the show and competed for the most desirable automobile at the Mondial de l’Auto 2018 à Paris....

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Not everyone is ready to ride as autonomous vehicles take to the road in ever-increasing numbers

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, News

Pennsylvania regulators this week gave the nod to Aurora, an autonomous vehicle software company, to begin testing its prototypes on state...

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Money and manpower: Autonomous trucks’ two transparent trends

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 in Perspective, Trucks

I’m an outlier when it comes to predicting the advent and everyday use of autonomous vehicles in trucking in that I tend to believe this...

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Audi taps Huawei to help power self-driving cars in China

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 in Cars, News

Huawei will develop self-driving technology with Audi for cars that will be sold in China, the two companies announced today....

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