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Motional to begin testing autonomous vehicles in LA as part of California expansion plan

Posted on Aug 10, 2021 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Motional, the autonomous vehicle company born out of a $4 billion joint venture with Aptiv and Hyundai, is expanding its presence in...

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Vroom Delivery and Tortoise partner with Urban Value Corner Store to bring robot grocery delivery to Dallas

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, News

DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Robots are coming to Dallas! But don’t worry about Skynet, these robots just want to bring...

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There is increasingly mounting AI technical debt that is going to inevitably sink some self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Getting in over your head. That’s what often happens when people take on debt. Shakespeare famously warned us about the dangers of going...

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Robo-vans could start delivering profits and not just pizza

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

There are executives across the globe trying to figure out how to profit from autonomous driving technology. For Yu Enyuan, it’s been a...

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How much more can autonomous cars improve? Waymo!

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The rush toward autonomous vehicles once made them seem imminent. But progress has slowed so dramatically that to some observers, autonomy...

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How should autonomous cars make life-or-death decisions? In the best of worlds, they won’t.

Posted on Aug 6, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

When serial entrepreneur Barry Lunn decided to start a driving software business, he attended several industry insider events where he...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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Word to the wise: Do not try asking an AI self-driving car to park in the red

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

You are giving a friend a lift in your car and as you approach their desired drop-off there is no apparent place to idle or park to allow...

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Apple once again expands California self-driving test fleet

Posted on Aug 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Apple has expanded its California self-driving test fleet to 69 cars and 92 drivers, according to a report from macReports. In May, it was...

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Apple once again expands California self-driving test fleet

Posted on Aug 3, 2021 in Cars, News

Apple has expanded its California self-driving test fleet to 69 cars and 92 drivers, according to a report from macReports. In May, it was...

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Arrival Van completes first autonomous ride without driver, road tests to follow

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Cars, News

EV startup Arrival has shared news that its electric van has completed a demonstration at a fully functioning parcel depot without a...

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Musing on that rising speculation about wanting to ditch the vaunted topmost Level 5 of the self-driving cars autonomous rating scale

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Standards are important. That is a general truism and backed up by the tremendous value we place on a myriad of existing and worldwide...

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Chinese giants GAC and Huawei will work together to develop a smart SUV

Posted on Aug 1, 2021 in Cars, News

GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On July 9, 2021, GAC Group officially announced an exciting joint project with tech...

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AI self-driving cars telling you to keep your hands, feet, and head inside the vehicle at all times

Posted on Aug 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Here’s an important announcement: Please keep your hands, feet, and head inside the vehicle at all times. That’s something you’ve...

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Argo AI can now offer the public rides in its autonomous vehicles in California

Posted on Jul 31, 2021 in Cars, News

Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle technology startup backed by Ford and VW, has landed a permit in California that will allow the company to...

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Teenage driver swerves to avoid squirrel, rams into Abraham Lincoln ancestry home, providing Honest Abe insights for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Honest Abe. That was the moniker given to our famous statesman and sixteenth president of the United States, namely Abraham Lincoln....

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Baidu will expand its robotaxi service to 30 cities in the next two or three years

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Cars, News

Baidu plans to expand its robotaxi ride-hailing services across 30 cities in China in two to three years to serve a wider range of users....

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Aurora leverages Uber ride data to plan high-speed robotaxi service

Posted on Jul 29, 2021 in Cars, Technology

Automated ride-hail services, a core goal for leading autonomous tech developers Alphabet’s Waymo and GM-backed Cruise, are being readied...

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Veritasium wants driverless cars on the road ASAP

Posted on Jul 29, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Driverless cars are surely coming in the not too distant future. We don’t exactly know when, but they should already be commercially (and...

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