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Apex’s electric supercar includes an AR race coach and partial self-driving

Posted on Mar 16, 2020 in Cars, News

How do you make a name for yourself as an EV startup when you have plenty of rivals? By promising a mix of breakneck performance with...

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Fiat Chrysler and AutoX confirm plans to work on robotaxis

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Cars, News

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is joining forces with the Chinese startup AutoX to bring self-driving robotaxis to China. The companies...

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US House panel will discuss self-driving cars next week

Posted on Feb 8, 2020 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

On February 11th, a House panel will hold a hearing that could help shape the future of self-driving vehicles in the US. The Consumer...

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Tesla accused of abruptly pulling self-driving from a used Model S

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla’s much-vaunted ability to add features to its cars over the air has turned into a real inconvenience for some drivers. An...

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UK begins testing unsupervised autonomous transport pods

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Shoppers at a UK mall have the opportunity to try out autonomous transport pods this week which — in a UK first — operate entirely without...

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UK begins testing unsupervised autonomous transport pods

Posted on Jan 21, 2020 in Buses, News

Shoppers at a UK mall have the opportunity to try out autonomous transport pods this week which — in a UK first — operate...

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Lyft’s autonomous vehicle partner Magna is done with self-driving tech

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 in Cars, News

Two years after teaming up with Lyft to collaborate on self-driving technology, Magna said that partnership’s coming to an end. The...

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Tesla Autopilot now recognizes traffic cones

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

Tesla’s Autopilot has been adept at recognizing other cars on the road, but those aren’t the only things you have to worry...

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Toyota’s e-Palette will transport athletes during the 2020 Olympics

Posted on Oct 10, 2019 in Buses, News

As part of its big robot push for upcoming the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Toyota says it will have 20 of its e-Palette...

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Outsight’s 3D camera for autonomous cars can identify clothing and ice

Posted on Sep 17, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Outsight, a new company co-founded by former Withings CEO Cedric Hutchings, has unveiled a self-driving car camera with new types of...

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University of Michigan’s self-driving car lab now runs on Verizon 5G

Posted on Sep 11, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) is continuing its very gradual 5G rollout, but this time it’s more about the future of...

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Tesla delays price hike for self-driving upgrade

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

You’ll still have at least a few more weeks to order a Tesla with the Full Self-Driving upgrade before the price hike kicks in. Elon...

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DoorDash eyes autonomous food delivery with latest acquisition

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, News

It’s no secret that DoorDash wants to deliver your food with autonomous vehicles. Early this year it partnered with GM to test...

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US government quietly kills autonomous vehicle committee

Posted on Aug 10, 2019 in News, Policy & Regulation, Trucks

The Department of Transportation’s Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation (ACAT) hasn’t been active since it was...

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US government quietly kills autonomous vehicle committee

Posted on Aug 10, 2019 in Editor’s Picks

The Department of Transportation’s Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation (ACAT) hasn’t been active since it was formed in...

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Ford bought a robotics company to boost its self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News

Back in April, Ford chief Jim Hackett admitted that the company overestimated the arrival of self-driving cars. He added that the...

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Waymo uses evolutionary competition to improve its self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 28, 2019 in Cars, Technology

The process of training self-driving car AI is seldom efficient when you need to either use a massive amount of computing power to train...

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GM won’t deliver self-driving cars by the end of the year after all

Posted on Jul 24, 2019 in Cars, News

General Motors and its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise will miss their goal of rolling out driverless cars by the end of the year....

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Intel’s ultra-efficient AI chips can power prosthetics and self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Even though the whole 5G smartphone thing didn’t work out, Intel is still working on hard on its Loihi “neuromorphic”...

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Luminar’s cheap LiDAR could be a big boost for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jul 12, 2019 in Cars, Technology

LiDAR (laser pulse-based radar) is an essential component of autonomous driving, as it’s what vehicles use to detect obstacles like...

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