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Hyundai wants its cars to park and hook up to EV chargers on their own in the future

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Hyundai and Kia are the latest automakers to demonstrate how future autonomous cars could eliminate one of the most annoying aspects of...

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Goldman Sachs invests in Deep Map to provide a reliable solution for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Finance, News, Trucks

In order to provide safe and best solution for autonomous vehicles, Goldman Sachs invested in Deep Map, Inc. The company joins Generation...

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General Motors names new President, will double resources for EVs and self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

General Motors today announced the appointment of Mark Reuss as company president, effective immediately. Reuss currently leads the Global...

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Suppliers face more cost pressure as industry shifts to EVs, self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Europe’s largest automotive suppliers are likely to see a stable market in 2019, but many are looking farther ahead to prepare for a...

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DoorDash and GM’s Cruise team up to pilot food delivery via self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

General Motors (GM) is partnering with DoorDash to enable on-demand food deliveries via driverless cars. The duo announced that a pilot...

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Segway unveils a more durable electric scooter and autonomous delivery bot

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Wear and tear is a major issue in the realm of electric scooters, resulting in a short lifespan of individual scooters and poor unit...

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Kia to showcase new autonomous driving technologies at CES 2019

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology

Kia Motors is previewing a range of new technologies developed for the post-autonomous driving era at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019,...

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Baraja raises $32 million for autonomous vehicle lidar with prism-like optics

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Lidar startup Baraja has raised $32 million in a series A round of funding led by Sequoia China and Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO...

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Don’t throw rocks at the Google self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Violence is not the answer, or at least so says Arizona transportation executive Rob Antoniak. On the heels of a December investigative...

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Several companies to test autonomous bus technologies for public transit

Posted on Jan 2, 2019 in Buses, News

Several companies have confirmed their involvement with a self-driving bus test project on East Japan Railway Company’s (JR East’s) Bus...

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Engineer who spurred court battle over autonomous tech forms new self-driving truck biz

Posted on Jan 2, 2019 in News, Technology, Trucks

Anthony Levandowski, the autonomous tech engineer who was at the center of a prominent court battle between Google‘s self-driving venture...

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Samsung tops in self-driving car patents

Posted on Jan 1, 2019 in Cars, News

Samsung Electronics filed the largest number of patents related to self-driving cars in Europe, data showed on Monday, far above...

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“I don’t want to be their real-world mistake”: People lash out at Waymo’s self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 1, 2019 in Cars, News

Not everyone is a fan of self-driving cars. Chandler, Arizona, is one of the Phoenix suburbs where Alphabet-owned Waymo is testing...

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Kroger — not Uber, Google or Cruise — may be on the leading edge of driverless adoption

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

For all the multi-billion-dollar investments by automakers and Silicon Valley, regulatory hand-wringing around the globe, and geeky...

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Self-driving cars keep tapping the brakes

Posted on Dec 31, 2018 in Cars, News

In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless-car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for now, the...

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The 10 worst self-driving stories of 2018

Posted on Dec 30, 2018 in Cars, News

One hour after publishing my “10 Best/Worst of Automotive Tech 2018,” I realized it was too short. A “Worst 100”...

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Tesla wants more employees to participate in Autopilot Hardware 3 testing

Posted on Dec 30, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is calling for more employees to participate in the testing of Autopilot Hardware 3, with offers of discounts on the...

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Dallas wants self-driving vehicles for planned redevelopment

Posted on Dec 28, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News

If Dallas’ Valley View Center site is indeed ripe for redevelopment in the thriving neighborhood it helped create, one certain...

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Tesla to start testing new Autopilot Hardware 3 in employee vehicles

Posted on Dec 27, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla is working to bring to market its new Autopilot Hardware 3, which consists of a new neural net computer that they claimed will be...

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Toyota gives their take on interiors for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Dec 27, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

CES is less than two weeks away and Toyota Boshoku will use the event to introduce two interior concepts for autonomous vehicles. The...

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