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Shrimp eyes inspire new camera focused on helping self-driving cars see better

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Have you ever looked into an animal’s eyes and thought, ‘I wonder how they see the world?’ We have. We do it all the time. We wonder, for...

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Rand study shows it’s hard to gauge self-driving car safety

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, News

The great promise of automated vehicles is that they will be safer than human-driven ones, but finding the metrics to measure this is a...

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Dubai launches its self-driving taxi service

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 in Cars, News

It might not be flying taxis, but self-driving taxis on the road started test runs in Dubai on Sunday. At the annual consumer electronics...

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Volvo shifts safety strategy for self-driving future

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, News

Volvo, with a bevy of new tools to ensure passenger safety, is shifting its safety strategy from passenger protection to accident...

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Not everyone is ready to ride as autonomous vehicles take to the road in ever-increasing numbers

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 in Cars, News

Pennsylvania regulators this week gave the nod to Aurora, an autonomous vehicle software company, to begin testing its prototypes on state...

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Audi taps Huawei to help power self-driving cars in China

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 in Cars, News

Huawei will develop self-driving technology with Audi for cars that will be sold in China, the two companies announced today....

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Arizona is creating an autonomous vehicle research institute

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 in Cars, News

Arizona, a state that has been quite open to self-driving technology, has now created the Institute for Automated Mobility (IAM), a...

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AI photo-processing start-up that can help driverless cars detect pedestrians wins GTC Inception Awards

Posted on Oct 12, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

The GTC Inception Awards are the equivalent of Dragon’s Den for tech start-ups. Some 1,600 tech companies from across Europe entered the...

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Blockchain-connected autonomous vehicles for a congestion-free future

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Technology, Trucks

The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) and the Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA) have launched the MOBI Grand Challenge to unlock new...

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Pennsylvania approves its first self-driving car tests (update)

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

Self-driving startup Aurora is the first company to receive Pennsylvania’s blessing to test autonomous vehicles on its roads....

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Self-driving cars could change the way you get around in retirement

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

At The Villages retirement community in central Florida, there are approximately 125,000 residents and about 750 miles of road. And by the...

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Self-driving tech prototype Range Rover Sport completes trip around challenging UK road

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

A production model Range Rover Sport modified with autonomous technology completed a lap around the Coventry Ring Road, a route that...

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Driverless cars that can predict human behaviour backed by Hyundai

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

US-based tech firm Perceptive Automata has developed an AI system to power driverless cars that can predict human behaviour with the...

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Uber-funded research project pushes new ways to measure safety of driverless cars

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

A typical driving test considers basic skills: Can you parallel park? Do you merge safely? Do you know to yield to pedestrians? No such...

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Mercedes to offer level-3 autonomous driving on the next S-Class

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, News

Luxury automaker Mercedes Benz announced that the next S-Class, the company’s flagship sedan, will offer Level 3 autonomous driving...

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Arizona and Intel team up on Institute for Automated Mobility to develop driverless vehicle technology

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey today announced that he has signed an executive order creating the Institute for Automated Mobility (IAM), a...

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Waymo’s driverless cars hit a new milestone: 10 million miles on public roads

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, News

As it nears the launch of its first commercial service, Waymo is celebrating a new milestone: 10 million miles driven on public roads....

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Driverless car AI software will be built into Volvo cars by 2021

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Production of consumer vehicles with limited automation could be on our roads by 2021 thanks to a new driverless car AI computer built by...

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Self-driving range rover runs autonomous rings round Coventry

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Cars, News

A Range Rover Sport has completed the first ever self-driving lap of one of the UK’s most challenging road layouts....

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Take a spin on the city’s first electronic autonomous vehicle

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 in Buses, News

Edmonton’s foray into autonomous vehicles began Tuesday with the first crowd of keen commuters putting the driverless vehicle to the test...

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