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Your car buying experience in an era of self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 17, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Many people liken the act of buying a car to the same agony as going to the dentist for a root canal. Well, maybe car buying is even worse...

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Building a self-driving car that people can trust

Posted on Dec 16, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Over the past year, we’ve seen a rise in robotaxis and autonomous vehicle use. Companies such as Waymo, Cruise, and Baidu have all made...

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In self-driving, Amazon invests while Walmart partners

Posted on Dec 16, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Amazo AMZN +2.4%n and Walmart WMT -0.1%, two of the largest retailers in the world, each have a presence in the autonomous vehicle...

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Lyft, Motional to launch multi-city U.S. robotaxi service in 2023

Posted on Dec 16, 2020 in Cars, News

DETROIT (Reuters) – Lyft Inc and Motional will launch a multi-city U.S. robotaxi service in 2023, the partners said on Wednesday....

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Mobileye’s autonomous cars use cameras to navigate freeways in Munich

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Mobileye, Intel’s autonomous driving division, today published an hourlong video of its test vehicle navigating urban and highway driving...

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Why do many self-driving cars look like toasters on wheels?

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

On Monday, the autonomous vehicle company Zoox—acquired by Amazon over the summer for a reported $1.2 billion—rolled out its robotaxi. The...

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Indy Autonomous Challenge to unveil official racecar at CES 2021

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 in Cars, News

Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS),organizers of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), will hold a...

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China Focus: Self-driving service helps forge “City of Intelligent Driving”

Posted on Dec 14, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective

CHANGSHA, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) — A white car parked on a wide street in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province,...

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LeddarTech joins STMicroelectronics Partner Program to accelerate customer time-to-market

Posted on Dec 14, 2020 in Cars, Technology

QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LeddarTech®, a global leader in Level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, announces...

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Amazon’s Zoox unveils robotaxi for future ride-hailing service

Posted on Dec 14, 2020 in Cars, News

Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., unveiled a fully autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel that can...

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Barking commands at a self-driving car won’t do you any good

Posted on Dec 13, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The powerful impact of the spoken word. I was in a local park the other day and someone had let their dog off its leash, allowing the...

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Elon Musk promised 1 million Tesla robotaxis by the end of 2020. Where are they?

Posted on Dec 12, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Elon Musk is the master of hype, notorious for using phrases like “the prophecy will be fulfilled”. No one should be surprised that he...

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5G-based, driverless green cars produced in east China

Posted on Dec 12, 2020 in Cars, News

JINAN, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — An automobile manufacturing base in east China’s Shandong Province has officially begun production...

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Purdue, West Point to partner on autonomous race car; will take on Brickyard in 2021

Posted on Dec 11, 2020 in Cars, News

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Indy Autonomous Challenge will bring together collegiate teams from around the world next October to run...

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To reach level 4 autonomy, these self-driving cars head to winter boot camp

Posted on Dec 10, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Is there a more magical seasonal sight than snowflakes falling on banks of snow under a white sky, the only bursts of color to break up...

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Here’s how you’ll get paid to ride in a self-driving car

Posted on Dec 9, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Self-driving cars are gradually getting ready for prime time. To-date, the public roadway tryouts of self-driving cars have primarily...

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GM’s Cruise begins testing autonomous vehicles without human drivers in San Francisco

Posted on Dec 9, 2020 in Cars, News

Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, has started testing self-driving vehicles without driver monitors in San Francisco,...

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Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow

Posted on Dec 9, 2020 in Cars, News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Driverless robot buggies started delivering hot restaurant meals to paying customers in one central Moscow...

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Without fanfare, Waymo opens robotaxi ride service to the public

Posted on Dec 9, 2020 in Cars, News

Last weekend, with surprisingly little fanfare, Waymo revealed it had passed a major milestone and opened up their really true full self...

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Apple shifts leadership of self-driving car unit to AI chief

Posted on Dec 9, 2020 in Cars, News

(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. has moved its self-driving car unit under the leadership of top artificial intelligence executive John...

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