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Hyundai Mobis develops ‘in-cabin systems’ utilizing the state-of-the-art autonomous driving sensors one after another!

Posted on Mar 24, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Hyundai Mobis (KRX:012330) said that it successfully developed the system for detecting rear-seat passengers with a ‘radar’ (ROA, Rear...

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SoftBank nears deal to invest in Didi’s self-driving unit: The Information

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

(Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp is close to finalizing a deal to lead a $300 million investment in the autonomous driving unit of...

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Tesla files patent for sourcing self-driving training data from its fleet

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla has filed a patent on how to source training data from its large fleet of customer vehicles in order to train its self-driving...

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MIT CSAIL’s VISTA autonomous vehicles simulator transfers skills learned to the real world

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

In a recent study, researchers hailing from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Toyota Research...

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Rivian shuts down all facilities over COVID-19 pandemic concerns

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Trucks

Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle startup that is backed by Amazon and Ford, is shutting down all of its facilities due to the spread of...

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AUTOCRYPT officially joins 5GAA (5G Automotive Association) as an ITS security expert

Posted on Mar 23, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

SEOUL, South Korea, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AUTOCRYPT, South Korea’s pioneer in security operations for C-ITS highways,...

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Baidu to build self-driving test facility in Chongqing as the Chinese city pushes ahead with smart city infrastructure

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

China’s Chongqing city government has tapped search giant Baidu to build a testing ground for autonomous vehicles, as Chinese cities race...

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Despite setbacks, coronavirus could hasten the adoption of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, News

This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of...

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LiDAR start-up Blickfeld closes Series A with participation of Continental and Wachstumsfonds Bayern

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of...

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Waymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, News

Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...

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NTSB criticizes Tesla Autopilot design in Model 3 crash report

Posted on Mar 20, 2020 in Cars, News

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published its final report on the fatal 2019 crash that involved a collision between a...

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Waymo expands autonomous driving data set and launches $110,000 challenge

Posted on Mar 19, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

In August 2019, Wamyo released the Waymo Open Dataset, which Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claimed at the time was the...

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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets

Posted on Mar 19, 2020 in Cars, News

Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...

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Ford releases a data set to accelerate autonomous car development

Posted on Mar 19, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

This week, Ford quietly released a corpus — the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset — containing data collected from its fleet of autonomous...

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Coronavirus shows there’s still no such thing as a totally human-free self-driving car

Posted on Mar 18, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make human drivers obsolete. But the coronavirus pandemic is exposing how a technology designed to be...

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Advances in sensor cleaning pave the way for autonomous driving

Posted on Mar 18, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Sensor systems provide pivotal environmental data to smart cars, allowing for automated and autonomous functionality. They can tell a...

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Toyota partners with China’s Momenta on high definition maps for autonomous cars

Posted on Mar 18, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp has partnered with Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta to...

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USDOT announces $20.3 million grant to improve transport with innovation

Posted on Mar 17, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced approximately $20.3 million in grant...

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Federal regulators move to make room in safety standards for driver-less cars

Posted on Mar 17, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Tuesday moved to make changes in some safety standards to help pave the way for driver-less vehicles....

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Reinventing mobility and manufacturing at once: Local Motors

Posted on Mar 17, 2020 in Buses, News, Technology

Some of the most consequential technological and economic advances happen where two innovation trends intersect. Local Motors, a company...

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