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Samsung to build 5G and V2X networks for autonomous car tests at South Korea’s K-City

Posted on Dec 6, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Samsung is collaborating with the Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA) to develop mobile network infrastructure for autonomous...

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to unveil ‘fully road legal autonomous transport cars’

Posted on Dec 6, 2018 in Cars, News

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has slightly delayed the launch of its first tunnel, but Musk said that it will also include the unveiling of...

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Ford CEO denies allegations of GM-eclipsing layoff plans

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, News

On Wednesday, Ford CEO Jim Hackett contested a claim that the automaker plans widespread layoffs in a restructuring whose extent is...

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Driverless future a long way off

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

“Without drivers to pay, to carry, or to protect, autonomous vehicles will be much less expensive to produce than conventional delivery...

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Did that car just wink at you? Daimler previews car-to-pedestrian signals

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Technology

If you’re walking or driving in San Jose, California, later this year and have the sense that a late model Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan...

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Riding in Waymo One, the Google spinoff’s first self-driving taxi service

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Waymo, the self-driving subsidiary of Alphabet, launched its first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service here in the Phoenix suburbs...

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Uber’s self-driving cars are set to return in a downsized test

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, News

Eight months after one of Uber’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, the ride-hailing company is close to putting its...

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For self-driving cars, sensors galore

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Self-driving cars bring both opportunities and challenges to photonics-based sensors. Autonomous vehicles will need dozens of sensors...

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Waymo launches nation’s first commercial self-driving taxi service in Arizona

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, News

On the chilly October day the New York City subway opened in 1904, the marvel of engineering and grit was greeted with horns, steam sirens...

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Bosch and Veniam ensure seamless vehicle-to-everything connectivity

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

What is true for people is also true for cars: communication works best with a common language and a good connection. To enable connected...

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Uber will soon put its self-driving cars back on the road, months after one got into a fatal crash

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, News

Uber Technologies is close to putting its self-driving cars back on the road in a downsized test that it had suspended after a car hit and...

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Waymo’s service launch highlights its lead — and how much farther it has to go

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

There’s a decent amount of fine print attached to Waymo’s launch of a commercial self-driving service in Phoenix, and little...

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Welcome To ‘Waymo One’ world: Google Moon Shot begins self-driving service—with humans at the wheel for now

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo, the Alphabet Inc. unit that started out as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, begins operating today in metro Phoenix as the...

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REPORT: Almost 1 million driverless ‘robotaxis’ could be on US roads by 2022

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, News

The race to commercialise autonomous vehicles is one of the key battlegrounds in big tech. And aside from building out the technology, the...

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Journey: the picture history of the driverless car

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

For nearly 100 years, researchers have chased the same goals....

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Tech Mahindra & H2O.ai set up CoE to provide AI solutions to enterprise customers

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, News

Tech Mahindra and open source artificial intelligence firm H2O.ai today announced the establishment of a Center of Excellence to provide...

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BMW is on verge of adding automakers to self-driving consortium

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, News

BMW AG, long an advocate of collaboration among rival manufacturers in the race toward self-driving cars, is in talks with at least two...

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2018 LA Auto Show — more on autonomy & security, few innovative electric cars

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, News

The 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show 2018 shows a new face, new trends, and that electric vehicles (EV) are here to stay — despite a fairly low...

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A not-so-sexy plan to win at self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, News

ARIEL MOORE EXHALED sharply and lifted her arms to the sky. “I have arrived alive!” she said to no one in particular. “I have arrived...

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Why autonomous vehicles won’t reduce our dependence on cars in cities

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is progressing rapidly, but have we really thought through how they’ll work in reality?...

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