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Uber issued permit to test self-driving vehicles on California public roads

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in Cars, News

Uber Advanced Technologies Group has been issued a permit that would allow the company to put its autonomous vehicles back on public roads...

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GM rolling out Super Cruise self-driving tech to 22 models across the board by 2023

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

The Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system has been limited to the CT6, but it will spread to more models this year including the...

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ThunderSoft and Didi Chuxing build strategic partnership focusing on intelligent automotive operating system

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

BEIJING, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — ThunderSoft( SZ:300496 ), a world-leading operating system technology provider, and Didi...

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Telefonica targets autonomous vehicle boost

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Telefonica unveiled an R&D centre which it claimed is the most advanced for the development of connected cars in southern Europe, as...

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Self-driving safety truck to be operated in live work zone in Florida

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 in News, Trucks

COOPERSBURG, Pa., Feb. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Royal Truck & Equipment Inc., in collaboration with Kratos Defense, announced...

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PRoPART project successfully demonstrates highly accurate positioning solution for automotive use

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

The European PRoPART (Precise and Robust Positioning for Automated Road Transports) project, funded by the European Global Navigation...

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Snow and ice pose a vexing obstacle for self-driving cars

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 in Cars, News

In late 2018, Krzysztof Czarnecki, a professor at Canada’s University of Waterloo, built a self-driving car and trained it to navigate...

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Dubai’s RTA unveils legislation governing autonomous vehicle trials

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced legislation enacted to streamline the trial runs of autonomous vehicles in...

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What’s behind Tesla’s Neural Network for autopilot and self-driving?

Posted on Jan 31, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

According to the Tesla website’s seemingly recently updated Autopilot informational post: “A full build of Autopilot neural...

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An engineering student is helping envision a self-driving future for people with disabilities

Posted on Jan 31, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

The weekend she was supposed to be presenting a plan to improve transit service for people with disabilities using self-driving shuttles,...

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Study analyses potential impacts of autonomous vehicles on public health

Posted on Jan 31, 2020 in Cars, News

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has taken part in a study that analysed the potential risks and benefits of...

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Irizar presents Europe’s first autonomous electric bus

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 in Buses, News

Irizar presented to Malaga City Council an all-electric and autonomous bus, which in a few months will be used by Avanza in Malaga, Spain...

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Apex.OS: An open source operating system for autonomous cars

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

The facets of autonomous car development that automakers tend to get excited about are things like interpreting sensor data, decision...

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Elon Musk contradicted a bold claim he made last year about Tesla’s self-driving capabilities

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 in Cars, News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday walked back a prediction he made last February that Autopilot, the electric-car maker’s...

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Self-driving company Waymo teams up with UPS for package delivery

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 in Cars, News

Waymo  will start delivering parcels for UPS using its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans in Phoenix as part of a broader partnership...

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Ford plans mobility testing site behind Detroit train station project

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. plans a vehicle testing site behind Michigan Central Station, the abandoned train depot the automaker is...

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U.S. consumers would take personal vehicles over robotaxis, survey finds

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, Knowledge Center, News, Reports

NEWS, CARS, KNOWLEDGE CENTER, REPORTS U.S. consumers aren’t as enthusiastic as the rest of the world about giving up vehicle...

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Nio clings to Mobileye to advance AV tech

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

A troubled electric-vehicle upstart trying to take on Tesla Inc. is clinging to a supplier Elon Musk clashed with dramatically in 2016....

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Apple researchers train AI drivers to merge lanes in a simulated environment

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Apple has yet to openly discuss its self-driving vehicle research, but it’s a poorly kept industry secret. Around 5,000 employees —...

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Aurora can now give the public rides in its self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Cars, News

Aurora has been given permission by California regulators to transport passengers in its self-driving vehicles, TechCrunch has learned....

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