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GM’s Cruise founder expects consolidation for makers of lidar self-driving vehicle sensors

Posted on Jan 9, 2021 in Cars, News, Perspective, Technology

The co-founder and president of Cruise, General Motors’ majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is predicting a...

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Self-driving cars and the newest ‘move over, slow down’ laws

Posted on Jan 8, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

You are driving along on a long stretch of highway and minding your own business. So far, your driving journey has been relatively...

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Self-driving cars are dangerous in the wrong hands

Posted on Jan 8, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Approaching a red light the other day, I half-expected my car to stop by itself. A split second later, I realised it would not and put my...

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Hyundai walks back confirmation it’s in talks over Apple Car

Posted on Jan 8, 2021 in Cars, News

(Bloomberg) — Hyundai Motor Co. backed away from a statement confirming it is in talks with Apple Inc. on developing self-driving...

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Apple in talks with Hyundai about car ambitions, auto maker says

Posted on Jan 7, 2021 in Cars, News

SEOUL— Apple Inc. has held talks with Hyundai Motor Co. about cooperation on driverless, electric vehicles, the South Korean car giant...

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Motional enlists Cox Automotive Mobility’s Pivet for its driverless fleet services

Posted on Jan 7, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

ATLANTA, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Cox Automotive and Motional, a leader in driverless technology, today announced a partnership...

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Why 2021 will be the year self-driving cars go mainstream

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Today, I’m going to reveal three ways to profit off the self-driving car megatrend, which is gaining momentum. The technology behind this...

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Waymo says it’s ditching the term ‘self-driving’ in dig at Tesla

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 in Cars, News

Waymo is saying so long to “self-driving.” The Google sister company says it is through using the term “self-driving cars” to describe its...

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Molex releases results of global automotive survey on the ‘car of the future’

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 in Cars, News

LISLE, Ill., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Molex, a leading global connectivity and electronics solutions provider, unveiled results...

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Self-driving cars and Asimov’s Three Laws about robots

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Those robots and their wild and crazy ways. Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will continue to spur widespread adoption of robots...

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Who will build the Apple car?

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

A current trend in the car industry is for new entrants such as Fisker to hand over the complicated and capital-intensive work of...

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Watch this Tesla Model 3 with ‘full self-driving’ make a 358-mile trip across California with almost no human intervention

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

A Tesla driver made a six-hour journey across California on Monday – without any intervention from the driver, save for a charging...

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Are self-driving cars visions of the future or a menace to the present?

Posted on Jan 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

It’s been a vision of the future even since before the Jetsons, Knight Rider, or even I, Robot: a car which drives itself without much...

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Self-driving cars turn off hype highway

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The future of the car will again be caught in the headlights of the annual CES consumer electronics show next week, but expectations for...

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Rolling out driverless cars is ‘extraordinary grind’, says Waymo boss

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car. The Google sister company raised $3.2bn,...

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Forget about a self-driving ‘iCar’

Posted on Jan 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Do you have an iPhone? Ever tried to unlock it using Face ID while wearing any kind of face covering? It doesn’t work, because the...

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‘Peak hype’: why the driverless car revolution has stalled

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

By 2021, according to various Silicon Valley luminaries, bandwagoning politicians and leading cab firms in recent years, self-driving cars...

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On self-driving cars that might misclassify a snowman as a pedestrian

Posted on Jan 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you ever eaten a papple? Probably not, and the odds are that you might not have even heard of one before either. It is a type of pear...

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How Apple’s self-driving car plans might transform the company itself

Posted on Dec 31, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

What would an Apple self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious plans to roll out...

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These five patents offer hints about what an Apple car could look like

Posted on Dec 31, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Apple (AAPL) hasn’t commented publicly on its plans for the project, nicknamed Titan, so it’s not clear exactly what will come...

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