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Using artificial intelligence to create aperture radar

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Carmakers are seeking to balance cost with capability as they increase the advanced driver assistance capabilities of their cars. Tesla,...

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There is increasingly mounting AI technical debt that is going to inevitably sink some self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Getting in over your head. That’s what often happens when people take on debt. Shakespeare famously warned us about the dangers of going...

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Robo-vans could start delivering profits and not just pizza

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

There are executives across the globe trying to figure out how to profit from autonomous driving technology. For Yu Enyuan, it’s been a...

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This parking garage is a high-tech research lab

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

An urban laboratory is opening inside a Detroit garage to let researchers test new parking technologies for cities coping with shifting...

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Self-driving cars would be nowhere without HD maps

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Self-driving vehicles may be loaded with sensors and artificial intelligence, but they’re limited without a really good map....

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How much more can autonomous cars improve? Waymo!

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The rush toward autonomous vehicles once made them seem imminent. But progress has slowed so dramatically that to some observers, autonomy...

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Autonomous-vehicle demo rides proposed to shape public opinion

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective

How does the auto industry get people to warm up today to the prospect of riding in self-driving cars tomorrow? One way to stoke public...

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How should autonomous cars make life-or-death decisions? In the best of worlds, they won’t.

Posted on Aug 6, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

When serial entrepreneur Barry Lunn decided to start a driving software business, he attended several industry insider events where he...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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Word to the wise: Do not try asking an AI self-driving car to park in the red

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

You are giving a friend a lift in your car and as you approach their desired drop-off there is no apparent place to idle or park to allow...

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AutoX robotaxis now using NVIDIA DRIVE, NVIDIA acquiring DeepMap, & DiDi booming on NVIDIA DRIVE’s back

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Five years ago, in a blogging competition about “what will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that...

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Teleoperation: The “picks and shovels” of the autonomous vehicle gold rush

Posted on Aug 3, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have already racked up thousands of uninterrupted hours of autonomous driving. But there are still plenty of...

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Maven’s CEO Geller maps autonomous trucking timeline

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

There’s a growing consensus in the automotive and tech worlds that autonomous vehicles will first be commercialized for trucking, delivery...

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Hyperdrive Daily: The driverless shuttle helping Toyota win gold

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Buses, Perspective

On a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, a self-driving shuttle weaves through the Olympic flag-strung buildings of the Games Village. It’s a...

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Musing on that rising speculation about wanting to ditch the vaunted topmost Level 5 of the self-driving cars autonomous rating scale

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Standards are important. That is a general truism and backed up by the tremendous value we place on a myriad of existing and worldwide...

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AI self-driving cars telling you to keep your hands, feet, and head inside the vehicle at all times

Posted on Aug 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Here’s an important announcement: Please keep your hands, feet, and head inside the vehicle at all times. That’s something you’ve...

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How ground-penetrating radar could help self-driving cars ‘see’ better

Posted on Jul 31, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

First patented in the early 1900s, ground-penetrating radar has been used by geologists, archaeologists, and aeronautics engineers ever...

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Why Tesla’s ‘beta testing’ puts the public at risk

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

One of the greatest tricks technology companies ever played was convincing their human guinea pig users that they were a privileged group...

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Teenage driver swerves to avoid squirrel, rams into Abraham Lincoln ancestry home, providing Honest Abe insights for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Honest Abe. That was the moniker given to our famous statesman and sixteenth president of the United States, namely Abraham Lincoln....

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