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When a tree falls on top of a self-driving car

Posted on Nov 5, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

A popular riddle that has been asked since at least the 1800s is whether a tree that falls in a forest will make a sound if there isn’t...

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Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta appears to detect and avoid road debris in video

Posted on Nov 4, 2020 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta has impressed with its capacity to navigate city streets, and it now looks like it can also detect and...

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Elon Musk’s next big thing could be using the SpaceX Starlinknetwork to connect Tesla vehicles

Posted on Nov 4, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk upended the auto industry when his company launched the fully-electric Model S sedan in 2012. In the eight...

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Cutting through the self-driving hype: A realistic view of an exciting opportunity

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Earlier this year, AI analyst Emerj pointed out that despite the bullish public pronouncements of the auto industry CEOs, it is “still a...

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Under the skin: How HD radar may advance self-driving vehicles

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Things that most people can take for granted, such as the elevation of an object (for example, a car on the ground compared with a bridge...

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The near-miss quandary is unavoidably messy for self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 2, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Reckless and fleckless drivers. I’m sure you experience their antics and angst-producing driving activities all the time....

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Waymo and other self-driving car companies readying real-world driverless transportation

Posted on Oct 31, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The driverless taxi era has finally arrived, in parts of Arizona, at least. Two weeks after Alphabet-owned Waymo started its driverless...

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Forbes China Innovation Summit: Autonomous vehicles poised for growth

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The bright future anticipated for years for autonomous vehicles increasingly appears to be becoming a reality. Related revenue is forecast...

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Will AEB systems testing scenarios evolve?

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Auto makers have had the opportunity to establish realistic, minimum safety goals for assisted driving and autonomous driving. They have...

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Daylight Savings Time could miraculously be saved by self-driving cars

Posted on Oct 29, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Spring forward, fall back. Simple enough. That’s what is supposed to happen due to our acceptance of abiding by Daylight Savings Time...

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Mercedes targets evolution rather than revolution in self-driving car push

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

(Reuters) — As Tesla touts the cutting-edge nature of its new Full Self Driving software, rival Mercedes-Benz says it has developed a...

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The long road to automated cars

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Sergey Brin knows a little about ground-breaking technology. But when the Google co-founder said in 2012 that we could ‘count on one hand’...

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A clearer roadmap

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

There are four trends now shaping the automotive market and in a report published in 2016 by McKinsey & Company (“Automotive...

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Tesla should sell its self-driving computer chips, says comma.ai’s George Hotz

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

George Hotz, CEO of comma.ai, argues that Tesla should sell its self-driving computer chip and create some competition to Nvidia in the...

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XPengto release Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP) in Q1 2021

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective, Technology

XPeng plans Level 5 autonomous driving technology by 2025. XPeng Motors held its Tech Day this past Saturday and laid out the...

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Autonomous delivery vehicles deployed in Chinese cities amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

BEIJING – For the past three months, robots have been making parcel deliveries in Changshu. The autonomous delivery vehicles...

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How to practically enable vehicle autonomy in urban settings

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The auto industry is currently experiencing a rapid shift to autonomous vehicles (AV). This evolution is spearheaded by new, innovative...

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With fully autonomous driving distant, Lidar finds its place

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

The promise of self-driving cars and robotaxi fleets once seemed just around the corner, but reality is setting in. Makers of the...

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Autonomous vehicle testing: in pursuit of perfection

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

In March 2019, Boeing’s entire fleet of 737 MAX airliners was grounded indefinitely following two crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. “For...

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Autonomous cars are gaining momentum in California

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

(TNS) — This was meant to be the year that robot cars went mainstream. The self-driving car industry, largely based in Silicon Valley,...

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