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New driverless car technology could make traffic lights and speeding tickets obsolete

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Imagine a daily commute that’s orderly instead of chaotic. Connected and automated vehicles could provide that relief by adjusting to...

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Waymo gets the green light to test fully driverless cars in California

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, News

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, has been granted permission to operate fully driverless cars without human drivers...

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Toyota, Tri-ad, and Tokio Marine & Nichido fire insurance to establish business alliance to develop advanced automated driving technology

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD), and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire...

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Introducing crowdsourced pavement quality maps

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

Lvl5, a company that creates HD maps for self-driving cars, today released a list of states with the best and worst road quality. The...

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Volkswagen looking to Waymo among others for autonomous tech partnership

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, News

Volkswagen is looking to expand relationships with autonomous mobility companies for future intel developments. Working with giants in the...

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Cities could be the first customer for HD maps this startup built for autonomous cars

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Lvl5 has taken a novel, crowdsourced approach to building and updating its high-definition maps that auto manufacturers could use to help...

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Autonomous cars? We want autonomy cars

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Three of us in a Brock Yates Edition 1985 Audi 4000 that was terrible new and worse now. A single crack runs diagonally across the...

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Audi not all-in with autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 30, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The way Audi executive Reinhard Fischer sees it, the impending world of self-driving cars will share the road with ones driven by people –...

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The link between autonomous vehicles and blockchain

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

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are on the verge of completely revolutionizing the way we think about the transportation of both goods and...

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Finalists revealed for Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Dubai’s transport authority announces shortlist for competition to spur development of autonomous solutions....

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Self-driving cars expected to shake up insurance industry

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Insurers are bracing for change as they plan for a future with self-driving cars. Although the hope is that autonomous vehicles will...

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Volkswagen, Intel, and Mobileye will launch a self-driving taxi service in Israel in 2019

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Volkswagen and Mobileye, the computer vision firm owned by Intel, announced Monday a plan to launch a commercial self-driving ride-hailing...

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Look, ma, no hands: Despite the hype there are no autonomous cars for sale, yet

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, News

Many drivers are convinced it’s possible to buy truly “autonomous” cars, when in fact there’s no such thing available for sale, according...

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AstaZero unveils mixed reality testing for driverless cars

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

The Sweden-based AstaZero proving ground is one of the most advanced sites for testing autonomous vehicles and new automotive...

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Illinois initiative to test, research connected, autonomous vehicle tech

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) launched a new statewide, multiagency initiative to develop a testing program for...

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Tech startup developing self-driving system for parking lots

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

At a time where lots of tech companies are trying to one-up each other in developing software and sensors for next-gen self-driving...

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Tesla’s new Navigate on Autopilot update “shows a path towards full self driving”

Posted on Oct 29, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Tesla has started rolling out the software update that brings the latest version of Autopilot to its vehicles, including the Navigate on...

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Driverless cars will kill cyclists, warns nature magazine

Posted on Oct 28, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Moral psychologist Azim Shariff believes that autonomous cars will be programmed to redistribute risk away from some people and towards...

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Tesla cars inch closer to their self-driving future with a big update to Autopilot

Posted on Oct 28, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

The best thing about Tesla cars isn’t just that they’re zero-emission vehicles that are better for our planet’s health;...

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Driverless cars may increase cases of motion sickness

Posted on Oct 27, 2018 in Cars, News

Driverless cars may increase cases of motion sickness or kinetosis, to give it it’s official title . There are already a few...

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