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Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle project with Aptiv will now be called Motional

Posted on Aug 11, 2020 in Cars, News

Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle joint venture with Aptiv has a new name: Motional. The company, which plans to test fully driverless vehicles...

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Waymo has partnerships with Fiat Chrysler, Volvo, Jaguar, Magna, &maybe Honda

Posted on Aug 10, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

There’s a race to full self-driving vehicles, and along the way also a competition for who has the best driver-assist systems. The latter...

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Maybe Baby Yoda ought to be adorned on the hood of every self-driving car

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Baby Yoda has taken the world by storm. Headlines have blared that resistance is futile when trying to defy the mind-force allure of Baby...

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Benefits of driverless cars will differ from city to city

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, News, Reports

The development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could make the urban environment more liveable and help make transport more sustainable....

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These Chinese autonomous vehicle start-ups are keeping their eye on the driverless road

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

In the auto industry, the dream of high-level automation free from human intervention is as strong as ever. The concept dates back eight...

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Driverless cars gain speed, despite global slowdown

Posted on Aug 7, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Automakers Volkswagen, Ford, and General Motors are betting billions that autonomous driving will get us moving again....

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New Mercedes digital system to enable on-demand automated driving

Posted on Aug 7, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Mercedes-Benz’s new generation of app-based digital services will, in future, allow drivers to decide whether they wish to drive their car...

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Video of man on hood of a semi-truck barreling down a Florida highway has insights for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Multiple videos captured an unlikely scene on Saturday when a semi-truck was spotted barreling along a Florida highway with a man clinging...

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Yandex begins testing self-driving cars in Michigan

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 in Cars, News

Moscow-based tech giant Yandex today announced it has expanded testing of its self-driving cars to Michigan. A fleet of Yandex’s...

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SK Telecom to use 5G for self-driving robot delivery service

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SK Telecom and Woowa Brothers are collaborating to develop robot delivery services using the Korean telecom’s 5G edge cloud technology....

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Self-driving cars can be a boon for those with disabilities

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

A new study has begun in Pittsburgh to study the impact of self-driving cars on those with disabilities. I’m going to skip to the end and...

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Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months in prison for stealing Google self-driving car files

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Cars, News

A U.S. judge on Tuesday sentenced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for stealing a trade secret from...

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AI needs to gain famed MacGyver shrewdness, including for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

MacGyver solved it again! Who or what is a MacGyver, you might wonder? Well, most people have heard of MacGyver, the TV series and main...

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Covid-19 puts autonomous vehicle vision on hold

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

The joint announcement made by Mobileye and Ford two weeks ago sounded as if they were on the verge of a technological breakthrough....

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3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor John Leonard teamed with professor of...

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This autonomous, electric vehicle concept for medical transport claims to be ‘pandemic proof’ — take a look

Posted on Aug 2, 2020 in Cars, News

Design consultancy Manyone released a concept for autonomous, “pandemic-proof” electric vehicles. NemBots (non-emergency...

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The top five ugliest cars today and why ride-looks might ultimately disappear due to AI self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 1, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Is your car ugly? I don’t mean whether it possibly has a smattering of unsightly dents or dings, nor whether the paint is chipped and...

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Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI  is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...

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Prosecutors suggest a27 monthprison term for former Waymo engineer, Anthony Levandowski

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Prosecutors have suggested a 27 month prison term for self-driving vehicle engineer Anthony Levandowski, The Information reports....

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Latest Tesla software update: Autopilot changes, successes, & fails

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

There’s no contesting the fact that Tesla updates its Autopilot driver-assist technology on a regular basis. Moreover, the best part...

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