Nuro gets OK to test its driverless delivery vehicles on California public roads
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has been granted a permit to begin driverless testing on California’s public roads, paving the way for...
Read MoreHow COVID-19 could open the door for driverless deliveries
The COVID-19 pandemic has put an incredible strain on global supply chains, from medical supplies to household goods, as spikes in demand...
Read MoreAutonomous cars are harder to design than any other, says BMW
If you think you’re frustrated with BMW’s current design direction, just wait until cars get even more autonomous. At the moment, the most...
Read MoreGround-penetrating radar (GPR) sensors will be useful for AI self-driving cars, but not likely to strike gold
Recent news reports have heralded the latest research on Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) sensors and suggested that such devices will...
Read MoreZoox, citing COVID-19 shutdown, lays off its autonomous vehicle backup drivers
Zoox, the ambitious self-driving startup said to be worth over $3 billion, laid off almost all of its contract workers last week,...
Read MoreIntroduction to Collective Perception: how V2X is setting the scene for autonomous driving
When we talk about it, we frequently use the term “the self-driving car” as a singular object – however, the autonomous technology will...
Read MoreWhy you should wait to buy Tesla’s full self-driving option
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capability has the potential to change the automotive industry as we know it. However, it’s taking...
Read MoreCoronavirus puts ambitious plans for self-driving cars on the shelf
In two weeks, the coronavirus has brought the entire U.S. auto industry to a screeching halt. When it finally sputters back to life, many...
Read MoreThe venerable upstream parable helps in these trying times, and applies to the future of AI self-driving cars
It’s parable time. Some of you might be familiar with a parable that many refer to as the Upstream Parable or alternatively the River...
Read MoreNew gyroscope design will help autonomous cars and robots map the world
As useful as GPS is, it’s not a system that we can rely on all the time. There are many situations in which GPS might not be available,...
Read MoreThis is just a test: University of Iowa puts rural autonomous driving through its paces
At a casual glance, it looks like any Lincoln MKZ. But it’s smarter. “It can talk to a couple school buses in the Solon Community...
Read MorePhantom AI raises $22 million to develop ADAS products
Phantom AI, a startup developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for cars and trucks, today announced that it has raised $22...
Read MoreRobot vehicles make contactless deliveries amid Coronavirus quarantine
For the past two months, the vegetables have arrived on the back of a robot. That’s how 16 communities in Zibo, in eastern China, have...
Read MoreWaymo’s AI improves autonomous vehicle performance while saving costs
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle research division, today detailed a system — Progressive Population Based Augmentation (PPBA) — it...
Read MoreIt took a coronavirus outbreak for self-driving cars to become more appealing
Suddenly, a future full of self-driving cars isn’t just a sci-fi pipe dream. What used to be considered a scary, uncertain...
Read MoreEngineer says Uber owes him $180 million for run-in with Google
A star Silicon Valley engineer who defected from Google to Uber Technologies Inc. — only to be fired, tagged as the villain in a...
Read MoreCoronavirus: what differences could driverless vehicles make?
At the moment, it seems that every news story is covering the coronavirus pandemic. Considering this, it seems natural to question how our...
Read MoreLegacy truck players: Ignore autonomous trucking at your peril
The conversation about autonomous vehicles has been hard to ignore over the past few years. Indeed, it’s been almost deafening at times,...
Read MoreComing release of Tesla Autopilot ‘red light’ auto-stopping could trigger a self-driving downward spiral
Human drivers seem to effortlessly be able to detect red lights at traffic signals. Well, most of the time. Sometimes, a driver is...
Read MoreConnected vehicle project could ‘end motorway pile-ups’
Around 4,500 accidents still happen on UK motorways each year, contributing to 1,700 annual deaths and over 22,000 serious injuries, and...
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