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Aurora self-driving startup worth $2 billion after new investment

Posted on Jan 21, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

The startup Aurora, which has an executive base drawn from Tesla, Uber, and Google, is set to be valued at over $2 billion following a new...

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Ricardo shows path to commercial success in the ‘Mobility-as-a-Service’ revolution

Posted on Jan 21, 2019 in Cars, Technology

The international automotive industry stands on the cusp of potentially the largest transformation since the dawn of mass production. This...

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Shifting gears, adjusting volume: LG working on tech to read driver’s gestures for Mercedes-Benz

Posted on Jan 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

LG Electronics Co. is the supplier for a Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz model that will feature a motion-detection system that can read a...

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Waymo self-driving cars are getting confused by rain, passenger says

Posted on Jan 21, 2019 in Cars, News

Prototype Waymo self-driving cars have been picking up passengers in Arizona since December. But the cars may still have some...

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Guest op-ed: PAVE explains its mission to demystify autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 21, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

As the co-chairs of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education, we are grateful for the response to PAVE’s launch during CES 2019 in Las...

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Harman CEO talks self-driving cars, voice assistants and more with TheStreet

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Though he thinks fully-fledged autonomous driving will take a while to take off, the CEO of Samsung’s (SSNLF) Harman unit is...

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Lyft and Aptiv’s self-driving car program has come a long way (but not far enough)

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 in Cars, Technology

The self-driving car club is getting bigger everyday. For a futuristic technology that hasn’t really hit prime time, there are a lot of...

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Ford rethinks Level 3 autonomy

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Ford Motor Co. is shifting its approach to autonomous-vehicle technology. In 2016, Ford said it would largely pass over Level 3 autonomy...

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We spoke to a Waymo One customer about how robot taxis get confused by rainstorms

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Last month, Waymo launched its first self-driving taxi service — Waymo One — in Phoenix, Arizona, but you would hardly know it by...

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New self-driving features are about to make the road safer for terrible drivers

Posted on Jan 19, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Distracted? Tired? Bad at staying in your lane? Just plain out of it? Don’t worry, your car’s got you. While fully autonomous...

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Tesla driver caught on camera seemingly asleep on Autopilot

Posted on Jan 19, 2019 in Cars, News

A Tesla Model S driver in Southern California was caught on camera seemingly asleep at the wheel while driving on Autopilot. Tesla...

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Welcome to the abnormalization of transportation

Posted on Jan 19, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Something odd is in motion in Los Angeles. On a recent day at the office, colleagues debated the merits of the Boring Company’s proposal...

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How AI is transforming the next generation of vehicles

Posted on Jan 18, 2019 in Cars, Technology

After more than a century on the road, the automobile is ready for a major redesign.The headliner of this year’s CES in Las Vegas wasn’t...

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“We now have the computing power we need to move at speed”

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

ZF CEO Scheider sees autonomous people movers as a growth market. At CES in Las Vegas, his company announced that mobility provider...

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Driverless grocery vehicles that deliver to customers’ doors are coming to the Boston area

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Cars, News

Stop & Shop is to roll out “driverless grocery vehicles” in the Greater Boston area this spring. The self-driving, mini grocery...

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Mr. Tomorrow: CES CEO Gary Shapiro on tech, jobs, self-driving cars, AI, robots and the future

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

CES is over. 180,000 people, 3 million square feet of display space, and armies of robots, gadgets, electronic gewgaws, and everything in...

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Top 5 digital transformation trends in automotive for 2019

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Nowadays, consumers want seamless 24/7 connectivity—anything less just won’t do. That’s why this coming year, we’ll be seeing the...

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How PAVE can make a difference in autonomous car education

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Some of the biggest mobility news at this year’s (boring) Consumer Electronics Show was the launch of Partners for Automated Vehicle...

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Presence of autonomous vehicles felt in US

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Perspective, Trucks

Technology is changing the transportation landscape as freight carriers move toward self-driving vehicles and public officials look for...

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From product to service – ZF gears up for future mobility

Posted on Jan 16, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

It’s a trend underpinned by era-defining technology that has fundamentally changed the way people interact, consume media and even travel....

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