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Ford wants to turn autonomous car control into gaming

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

Ford envisions a future where controlling a smart car will be similar to playing a game on a smartphone. The company has recently obtained...

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Alphabet’s Waymo is now in the ‘prove it’ stage of its self-driving journey

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News

After getting a fair amount of good publicity earlier this year, Alphabet’s (GOOGL – Get Report) Waymo has seen a pickup in...

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Ford’s self-driving car push offers promise of future growth

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News

Ford Motor Company’s (F)   push into autonomous driving offers a glimpse of how the over 100-year-old company will stave off...

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DOT seeking feedback on new autonomous vehicle guidance

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Trucks

On the heels of the U.S. DOT releasing updated guidance on automated vehicles, the department will accept for 60 days comments on the new...

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Toledo, Ohio, wins $1.8M grant to deploy driverless bus downtown

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Buses, Finance, News

Toledo, Ohio, is getting in on the autonomous vehicle movement, with plans for a driverless bus loop around its downtown....

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Ford’s patent lets you pilot a self-driving car with your phone

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Cars, News

Motion controls allow gamers to more accurately simulate driving a vehicle, and in the future, that tech might be applied to actual cars,...

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Dying is easy. Making a self-driving car is hard. Tesla & Waymo at the crossroads.

Posted on Oct 6, 2018 in Cars, News

Tesla is in the process of rolling out firmware Version 9, which includes features which are supposed to unlock more of the self-driving...

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What hurdles do self-driving cars face as Waymo gets ready for prime time?

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

As self-driving cars edge closer to deployment for the general public, a spate of stories from The Information, Motor Trend, and Forbes...

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Tech companies building new ‘circle of service’ for driverless trucks

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in News, Technology, Trucks

On Oct. 2, a panel of technology experts at the McLeod Software user conference in Birmingham shared a vision of automated workflows for...

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What’s working for driverless cars

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Cars, News

Teague Sanders, Whittier Trust VP and portfolio manager, discuss the small-caps doing well in the autonomous driving space....

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Indian IT companies joining carmakers and startups to develop autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Cars, News

For most parts of the brief trial around the campus, HCL Technology’s autonomous car—a retrofitted Ford sedan—felt like it was being...

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Tesla’s autopilot is better than you, statistically

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Cars, News, Technology

 In the first quarterly report on the safety of its autonomous vehicles, Tesla said it recorded one accident for every 3.34 million miles...

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The White House will promote autonomous cars without forcing you to use one

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 in Cars, News

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has taken important steps to simplify the legal framework surrounding autonomous...

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Trump plans to drop 10 U.S. self-driving car test sites

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

Ten sites picked by the Obama administration to be nation’s hotbeds of self-driving car testing will soon have to compete with the...

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$24 million raised to build an open source network for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Buses, Cars, Finance, News, Trucks

DAV Foundation has raised $24 million in fundraising to develop an open source platform for self-driving vehicles, on the ground, in the...

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GM beats Tesla in latest autonomous driving test

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, News

When looking at the autonomous driving space, here’s how to identify the current leaders. There are component makers that allow...

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Navya autonomous shuttle: Self-driving a reality at Paris Motor Show 2018

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Buses, News

The latest version of the Navya autonomous shuttle was unveiled at the Paris Motor Show this week, highlighting the French...

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Volvo seeks communication norm as autonomy advances

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, News

Volvo Cars calls for a new, global standard in how autonomous vehicles safely can communicate with all other road users as it introduces...

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Feds strip Willow Run robot car test site of proving-ground designation

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

A massive robot car test site at the former Willow Run bomber plant west of Detroit and nine other similar sites across the country have...

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U.S. Department of Transportation Releases “Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles 3.0”

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 in Buses, Cars, News, Policy & Regulation, Trucks

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today released new Federal guidance for automated vehicles, advancing its commitment to...

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