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Driverless cars that can predict human behaviour backed by Hyundai

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

US-based tech firm Perceptive Automata has developed an AI system to power driverless cars that can predict human behaviour with the...

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Uber-funded research project pushes new ways to measure safety of driverless cars

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

A typical driving test considers basic skills: Can you parallel park? Do you merge safely? Do you know to yield to pedestrians? No such...

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Mercedes to offer level-3 autonomous driving on the next S-Class

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

Luxury automaker Mercedes Benz announced that the next S-Class, the company’s flagship sedan, will offer Level 3 autonomous driving...

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Measuring automated vehicle safety

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports, Trucks

RAND Corporation, October 11, 2018 This report presents a framework for measuring safety in automated vehicles (AVs) that could be used...

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Arizona and Intel team up on Institute for Automated Mobility to develop driverless vehicle technology

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey today announced that he has signed an executive order creating the Institute for Automated Mobility (IAM), a...

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Everyone’s in the self-driving car game now

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

In 2004, the US military wanted cars to drive themselves 142 miles across California’s Mojave Desert without ending up in a ditch. None...

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Waymo’s driverless cars hit a new milestone: 10 million miles on public roads

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, News

As it nears the launch of its first commercial service, Waymo is celebrating a new milestone: 10 million miles driven on public roads....

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Driverless car AI software will be built into Volvo cars by 2021

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Production of consumer vehicles with limited automation could be on our roads by 2021 thanks to a new driverless car AI computer built by...

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Self-driving range rover runs autonomous rings round Coventry

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, News

A Range Rover Sport has completed the first ever self-driving lap of one of the UK’s most challenging road layouts....

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Every part of a self-driving car will change, even the doors

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Even if self-driving cars never make it to the streets in large numbers — or if they are deployed only in geofenced areas —...

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Apple, Waymo, and even Amazon will have a huge advantage against Tesla in the race to launch self-driving taxis, one Wall Street analyst says

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas told Business Insider that major tech companies like Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon would have an...

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Research online: A way to monitor LTE signals for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Technology, Trucks

Proprietary receivers and navigation frameworks for autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) navigation with long-term evolution (LTE) cellular...

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The UK firm hoping to take on Google’s driverless cars

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles a different business leader from around the world. This week we speak to Stan Boland,...

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5G will enhance autonomous driving – but it should not be a requirement

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, Technology

The numbers suggest that European roads are the safest in the world, with an average 49 fatalities per one million inhabitants compared...

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Ford wants to turn autonomous car control into gaming

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Ford envisions a future where controlling a smart car will be similar to playing a game on a smartphone. The company has recently obtained...

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Alphabet’s Waymo is now in the ‘prove it’ stage of its self-driving journey

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News

After getting a fair amount of good publicity earlier this year, Alphabet’s (GOOGL – Get Report) Waymo has seen a pickup in...

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Ford’s self-driving car push offers promise of future growth

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News

Ford Motor Company’s (F)   push into autonomous driving offers a glimpse of how the over 100-year-old company will stave off...

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DOT seeking feedback on new autonomous vehicle guidance

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Trucks

On the heels of the U.S. DOT releasing updated guidance on automated vehicles, the department will accept for 60 days comments on the new...

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Expert: Require autonomous vehicles to be electric

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Transportation planners have long seen the arrival of autonomous vehicles as potential dream or potential nightmare, depending largely on...

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‘Navigate on Autopilot’ is conspicuously absent from Tesla software Version 9.0

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, Technology

Tesla began rolling out software version 9.0 to every Model S, Model X, and Model 3, according to the company’s blog. Calling it “our most...

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