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Global Autonomous Car Sales Market: Key vendors, Quality, Reliability And Innovations In ...

Questale published a new industry research that focuses on Global Autonomous Car Sales market and delivers in-depth market analysis and future prospects of Global Autonomous Car Sales market. The study covers significant data which makes the research document a handy resource for managers, ...

Family members of woman killed by Uber's self-driving car hire lawyer

PHOENIX: More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car . Phoenix attorney Patrick McGroder said he has been retained ...

Uber coughs up $10m in compensation to settle a discrimination lawsuit

Uber plans to end all autonomous-car testing in California for the foreseeable future, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company. The preliminary deal must be approved by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland. Kalanick resigned in June as chief ...

Edmonton takes steps to prepare for self-driving vehicles, despite death of US woman killed by ...

A self-driving Volvo vehicle, purchased by Uber, moves through an intersection in Scottsdale, Arizona, December 1, 2017. Reuters/Natalie Behring. X. - A A +. Listen. Questions about self-driving vehicles and their efficacy continue to swirl, days after an Arizona woman was hit and killed by an ...

This startup founded by former Google X engineer wants to put a robot security guard in every office

Cobalt's robots have the sensing, computation, and intelligence of an autonomous car . A fleet of Cobalt robots gives your guards super-human capabilities and omnipresent situational awareness across an entire organization. Robots are meant to keep offices safe by patrolling the premises, looking for ...

These are the automakers that stood out at the New York Auto Show

That kind of connection between driver and car is important, but not an excuse for drivers to get reckless, Doll said. "You can't take your eye off the road, despite whatever some manufacturers might be saying about their systems," he said when asked about the recent fatality involving an autonomous car .

Autonomous Car Market: Global Industry Insights, Competitive Market Share and Sales Growth ...

These report study based on the Autonomous Car Market. It is a complete overview of the market, covering various aspects prevailing market landscape. It accumulates comprehensive information and research methodologies. Autonomous Car Market Research Report is a meticulous investigation of ...

March 30-31 was a good day for Cube (AUTO) after 8.40% move up

Cube (AUTO) had a good 24 hours as the cryptocurrency jumped $0.000910000000000001 or 8.40% trading at $0.01174. According to Top Cryptocoin Experts, Cube (AUTO) eyes $0.012914 target on the road to $0.0185291645287486. AUTO last traded at OKEX exchange. It had high of $0.0121 and ...

Autonomous Car Market: Global Industry Insights, Competitive Market Share and Sales Growth ...

The report spread across 119 pages is an overview of the Global Autonomous Car Sales Market Report 2018. These report study based on the Autonomous Car Market. It is a complete overview of the market, covering various aspects prevailing market landscape. It accumulates comprehensive ...

How Nvidia is helping autonomous cars simulate their way to safety

Right now, the cost per mile for operating an autonomous car is in the hundreds of dollars — accounting for engineering time, data collection and tagging, insurance costs, and the time of a driver to sit in the cockpit of a car. Multiply that by the 11-billion-mile benchmark, and the massive expensive ...

Tesla's Model X was on autopilot mode when it crashed

Tesla's Model X that was involved in a fatal car crash last week was operating on autopilot mode when the accident happened. It was being driven by a 38-year-old Apple employee when it collided with a barrier in California, resulting in the driver's death. The accident was so severe that the SUV, which ...

One of GM's Cruise Self Driving Cars Just Got a Ticket in California

Autonomous car development is having a rough month. From a self-driving Uber striking and killing a pedestrian in Arizona to Tesla's Autopilot being engaged in a fatal crash in California, the news just keeps piling up. Now, an autonomous Chevy Bolt by GM's autonomous division, Cruise, has been ...

Self-Driving Chevy Ticketed For Tangling With Pedestrian

Shortly after an autonomous car struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, one of GM's self-driving cars was handed a ticket after police said the vehicle got too close to a pedestrian while making a right turn. The car is owned by the San Francisco-based startup, Cruise Automation, and was formally cited ...

Leaders in San Francisco Met With Autonomous Executives Over Driverless Car Safety

As ABC 7 News reports, city leaders and public safety officials in San Francisco met with executives from autonomous car companies to talk about the future of self-driving cars. While the summit had been planned for weeks, the fatal crash in Arizona probably changed the dialogue of the meeting.

General Motors' Cruise AV To Go Into Production In 2019

The entire car will not be manufactured at Orion as the roof-mounted modules which carry autonomous car hardware that includes cameras, radar and lidar will be made at the Brownstown plant of GM. The Brownstown facility, which is also in Michigan, currently serves as the production site for some ...

Driverless car safety being tested on Canberra's doorstep

Tests being conducted in Canberra on semi-autonomous cars will be used to help prevent safety problems with driverless vehicles, like the death of an American women last month who was killed by a self-driving Uber. Seeing driverless cars on the road may still be a couple of years away but the ...

Tesla confirms vehicle in fatal crash had been on autopilot

Moody's Investors Service downgraded the company's credit rating, concerned that it was burning through cash. The crash occurred five days after a woman was struck and killed by an autonomous car operated by Uber in Tempe, Arizona. It was believed to be the first pedestrian death associated with ...

Tesla Says Crashed Vehicle Had Been on Autopilot Before Fatal Accident

The crash occurred five days after a woman was struck and killed by an autonomous car operated by Uber in Tempe, Arizona. It was believed to be the first pedestrian death associated with self-driving technology. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. GREGORY SCHMIDT © 2018 The ...

Pressure on Waymo After Self-Driving Accidents

That fact will not keep legions of transportation and autonomous car experts from demanding Tesla take cars off the road, or at least disable the autopilot and give owners of its cars significant warnings. No matter how the Tesla incident plays out, the self-driving industry has suffered another blow.

Tesla in fatal California crash was in Autopilot

Earlier this month, Uber was forbidden from resuming self-driving tests in the US state of Arizona. It followed a fatal crash in the state in which an autonomous vehicle hit a woman who was walking her bike across the road. It was thought to be the first time an autonomous car had been involved in a fatal ...

New Mercedes S Class Review â€“ Enter the World of Royalty

The biggest highlight, however, is that the new S-Class is a Level-2 autonomous car . What this means is that this luxury chariot is capable of managing the steering and the paddle controls on its own. The driver can activate this system simply by a touch of a button. With the Adaptive Cruise Control ...

Nvidia CEO Believes Cryptocurrency Will Be Core Business for Company

They are also in the autonomous car driving industry and professional graphics visuals. Huang noted that the company saw these industries as their primary focus and they were going to concentrate on them more and more. The crypto craze only helped fuel the demand and need for GPU processors, ...

Uber Settles with Family of Autonomous Car Crash Victim

Midway through this month, a Uber Volvo XC90 autonomous test car hit and fatally injured a jaywalker in Arizona, marking the first-ever pedestrian victim of a self-driving vehicle. 4 photos. Elaine Herzberg, a 49-year-old Tempe resident, was involved in the deadly crash on March 18 as she was pushing ...

Uber Settles with Family of Autonomous Car Crash Victim

Midway through this month, a Uber Volvo XC90 autonomous test car hit and fatally injured a jaywalker in Arizona, marking the first-ever pedestrian victim of a self-driving vehicle. 4 photos. Uber's Volvo XC90 RoboTaxi. Elaine Herzberg, a 49-year-old Tempe resident, was involved in the deadly crash on ...

Bytes & Bolts Episode 1: A Tale of Two Leaks

It's the first reported case of an autonomous car knocking down and killing a cyclist. Is technology to blame or was it human error? Will India get to see autonomous cars, ever? We've got a view on that. And then there are other smart devices – after phones and TVs, it's now tyres. Tyres that can talk to ...

More family members of woman killed in Uber crash hire lawyer

PHOENIX: More family members of a woman killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car . Phoenix attorney Patrick McGroder said he has been retained by the mother, ...

More family of Uber car victim hire lawyer

More family members of a woman killed in the US by an Uber self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car . Phoenix lawyer Patrick McGroder said on Friday he has been retained by the ...

Tesla Says Crashed Vehicle Had Been on Autopilot Before Fatal Accident

Tesla said on Friday that its semiautonomous Autopilot feature had been turned on before a fiery crash of a Model X sport-utility vehicle that killed the driver last week in California, raising more questions about the safety of the company's self-driving technology. This is the second fatal crash in which the ...

Tesla Says Autopilot Was On Before Fatal Model X Crash, But That Driver Didn't Abide Warnings

Advertisement. But the confirmation that Autopilot was on should only add more questions for an industry currently trying to untangle how to approach self-driving cars in wake of this month's fatal Uber crash, the first known to involve a pedestrian and an autonomous car .

More family members of woman killed in Uber self-driving car crash hire lawyer

PHOENIX (Reuters) - More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car . Phoenix attorney Patrick McGroder said ...

More family members of woman killed in Uber self-driving car crash hire lawyer

Scientists Work to Reshape Driving, Data with CAREER Awards

Two Professors Receive NSF Funding for Their Projects on Autonomous Vehicles, Geometric-Based Data Analysis. April 2, 2018. A professor at The University of Texas at Dallas hopes within the next 10 years, you'll be driving an autonomous car that his research helped make possible. Cong Liu ...

On April 4-5 analysts noticed Cube (AUTO) fall by -1.23%

It was bad day for Cube (AUTO), as it declined by $-0.00013 or -1.23%, touching $0.01048. Global Cryptocoin Experts believe that Cube (AUTO) is looking for the $0.011528 goal. According to 6 analysts could reach $0.0291539811364906. The highest price was $0.01088 and lowest of $0.0102 for ...

From March 29-30 Cube (AUTO) has dropped more than -10.45%

It was bad day for Cube (AUTO), as it declined by $-0.00121 or -10.45%, touching $0.01037. Crypto Experts believe that Cube (AUTO) is looking for the $0.011407 goal. According to 9 analysts could reach $0.0277088192356046. The highest price was $0.01192 and lowest of $0.009764 for March ...

A Cruise Self-Driving Car Got A Traffic Ticket In San Francisco A Day After The Deadly Uber Crash

Just a day after the deadly Uber crash in Arizona, a self-driving car in San Francisco was ticketed for being too close to a pedestrian, according to KPIX, with a witness capturing a photo of the scene. Cruise, for its part, denies the car was doing anything unsafe, and said it has data to prove it. Cruise did ...

Can Tesla Absorb An Equity Raise Without Cratering The Stock

There are multiple reasons for the downdraft ranging from concerns about the Model 3 production not reaching the 2,500 per week guidance, the Uber fatality accident potentially impacting all autonomous car testing, Moody's downgrading the company's debt rating and Bernstein's report that Tesla and ...

Family Lawyer: Uber Autonomous Care Death 'Resolved'

PHOENIX (AP) – The family of an Arizona woman killed when struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle apparently has reached a settlement with the company. Cristina Perez Hesano, an attorney for the daughter and husband of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, disclosed no details and responded Thursday ...

Before Uber pedestrian death, cyclists had warnings about self-driving cars

Amy Martyn is a writer and investigative reporter now based in San Diego by way of Tijuana, BC, Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA. She primarily writes about how consumers, taxpayers and businesses are affected by corporate and government policies. Read Full Bio→ ...

Local business offers STEM classes to toddlers, young children

Graham Bartnick uses a computer to program a robotic top during class at Smarter Kids, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in The Woodlands. The early childhood class worked on STEM education through interactive robots and science applications. less. Graham Bartnick uses a computer to program a robotic ...

Jensen Huang on the Uber Tragedy and Why Nvidia Suspended Testing

Photo: Tekla Perry Nvidia's Jensen Huang says not only can an autonomous car drive itself in virtual reality, but a human experiencing virtual reality can control a real car. In this demo, the real car [right] drove through a parking lot outside the San Jose convention center while its sensors fed data to the ...

Uber Wanted To Put You In A Driverless Car By The End Of The Year

... on Uber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, that focuses on his effort to transition the company away from the unseemly culture fostered by its previous leader, Travis Kalanick. Way at the bottom is a mention to this month's terrible story involving an Uber-owned autonomous car that fatally struck a pedestrian.

Inside Chicago's high-tech bicycle-components company that last year raked in $700 million and is ...

SRAM is the leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art bicycle components in the US. In 2017 it enjoyed strong growth while its competition was flat. CEO Stan Day told Business Insider that SRAM's product innovation was the driver of its success. It was awarded 16 patents last year alone.

Nvidia CEO Distances His Company From Uber After Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash

Nvidia has suspended its U.S. self-driving car testing in response to the Uber crash. During the Q&A session, Huang said the company stopped "almost a day or two" after the crash, in which an Uber autonomous car struck pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. Nvidia has said it only has five or ...

How this all-wheel-drive muscle car can help you understand data analytics for cars

It's hard at this stage to imagine how this might work, but we could also adjust these settings remotely if we decide to send an autonomous car to pick up family members or even move the car from one location to another on its own. There's a level of control that, for now, is pure entertainment and related ...

Companies Wary of Testing Autonomous Cars Without Human Backup Drivers

Uber has suspended all autonomous-car testing while the incident is investigated, and is expected to let its permit to test self-driving cars with human backup drivers in California lapse. Toyota and Nvidia have suspended their test programs, and Boston temporarily halted NuTonomy's public tests ...

Motorcycle cop tickets a self-driving car in San Francisco

GM is seeking federal approval for a fully autonomous car that lacks a steering wheel, brake pedal or accelerator pedal to join its first commercial ride-sharing fleet in 2019, and it recently announced plans to build the car, which is based on a Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle, at a plant near Detroit.

San Diego â€” a 'temporary' paradise?

The future of East Mesa and transition to a autonomous-car future (i.e. less space for parking) also bear close attention. 3. The impact of the San Diego Trolley's Blue Line extension: Will the expected ridership boost to and from UC San Diego and Westfield UTC result in more and denser housing from ...

Google Backs Up A Startup Working On Remote-Controlled Autonomous Vehicle

However, it may take months to years for the Scotty Labs to successfully built and ship the remote controlling autonomous car . Scotty Labs need time to take their autonomous technology to autonomy 4 (levels of vehicle automation) for successfully achieving their goal. Currently, most of the tech giants ...

Waymo Partners With Jaguar on Self-Driving Cars

The autonomous car development company Waymo partnered with Jaguar to introduce a premium self-driving car. The new deal will add 20,000 all-electric I-Pace SUVs to the Alphabet project. This partnership is rumored to extend to 2026. A startup that is disrupting how rockets are made raised $35 ...

Samsung registers two drone patents in US

Global IT giants like Apple, Google and Amazon have staked out claims in the burgeoning industry, merging artificial intelligence and autonomous car technology with drones to develop so-called smart drones, which can be used for deliveries, security and aerial photography. BY JIN EUN-SOO ...

Robotics & Geopolitics: Self-Driving Pact May Tighten Global Ties

This week saw a self-driving pact between an automaker and autonomous car maker, retailer Walmart adding robots to scan shelves and assist customers, and FedEx canceling a planned distribution center because of increased automation utilization. Robotics Business Review has partnered with ...

Enough With the Trolley Problem

Should an autonomous car endanger a driver over a pedestrian? What about an elderly person over a child? If the car can access information about nearby drivers it might collide with, should it use that data to make a decision? The trolley problem has become so popular in autonomous-vehicle circles, ...

Is it time to say goodbye to the steering wheel?

A generation ago I might have predicted that this portfolio of techno-porn would soon transfer to road cars, but this will not happen because, when it arrives, the fully autonomous car will be guided by other means. Satellite signals from space, car-based radar and camera data will replace manual inputs ...

Digital Twins Are Modeling the World

IBM describes its digital twin vision this way: "The digital twin is a virtual doppelganger of ... a complex ecosystem of connected things, such as an autonomous car in the middle of rush-hour traffic in Los Angeles. It's not just a 3D model -- it's a living model in 3D that sees the car as part of a complex ...

After first pedestrian fatality, Arizona autonomous auto industry is at an intersection

Arizona's foray into autonomous car testing faces an abundance of scrutiny after an Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian last week. The incident, which claimed the life of Elaine Herzberg, 49, on March 18 while she was jaywalking across a Tempe street at night, was ...

On the Uber Autonomous Car Accident

Auto journalists and other various critics weighing in on last week's tragic Uber driverless car accident have split into two factions. Those of us who never want to see robotic cars take over blame Uber and its inattentive "safety driver", who appeared to be looking down, away from the road, when Elaine ...

Uber settles self-driving car crash case with victim's family

Uber has settled with the family of the woman hit and killed by a self-driving Uber car in Arizona, ending a potential legal battle over the first death caused by an autonomous car . Dashcam footage of the collision shows Herzberg, a homeless woman, walking her bike across a dark road in Tempe, ...

BMW & Daimler team up to merge their autonomous car units

Automotive giants BMW and Daimler have entered into an agreement to merge their ride-hailing and car-sharing units. The new partnership will try to fend off competition from ride-hailing giant Uber. As per the agreement, the joint venture which will be owned 50-50 percent by both the companies, will ...

NVIDIA Drives Autonomous Vehicles Forward Despite Uber Accident

While NVIDIA has a very small pool of its own self-driving test cars, the company's technology footprint throughout transportation industry is enormous. We learned that after the recent Uber accident where an Arizona woman died, NVIDIA is temporarily pausing the testing of their self-driving cars.

Uber reaches a settlement with the family of the woman killed by self-driving Uber vehicle

Released footage from the onboard cameras on the self-driving Uber vehicle, a Volvo XC90, raised questions about why the autonomous car failed to stop in time. According to reports, the XC90 was moving at 61 km/h (38 mph) in a 56 km/h (35 mph) zone at the time of the accident, and failed to slow ...

Lawyer for victim's family says matter with Uber 'resolved'

The family of an Arizona woman killed when struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle apparently has reached a settlement with the company. Cristina Perez Hesano, an attorney for the daughter and husband of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, disclosed no details and responded Thursday to inquiries by The ...

Some Easy Things We Could Do to Make All Autonomous Cars Safer

That data needs to be shared between autonomous car makers, government regulators, academic research labs, and ideally the public, so they can analyze what went wrong, learn from each other's mistakes, and all get safer faster. This seems fairly obvious, but self-driving car companies are racing to ...

Tesla Recalls 123000 Model S Cars Over Power Steering Issue

Autonomous Cars: Why General Motors Is In The Back Seat Vs. Waymo. 4:22 PM ET General Motors' much-hyped autonomous car business lacks notable short-term positive catalysts, with GM stock likely to fall further. 4:22 PM ET General Motors' much-hyped autonomous car business lacks notable ...

Liability Concerns Make Consumers Wary of Self-Driving Cars, Survey Says

The survey of more than 1,500 drivers found that consumers are unsure about riding in self-driving cars, and are concerned about what will happen if an autonomous car is involved in a crash. Yet consumers also have very high expectations for the technology, according to one of the authors of a report ...

Self-driving cars stuck in NJ Legislature's slow lane

Nicholas Sacco, D-Hudson, said there are many complications, citing one instance in which an autonomous car rammed a truck because it couldn't detect its paint and mistook it for open road. "We seem to be a long way from finding out every possible thing that can go wrong and until we know that, ...

Accidents, safety doubts could slow autonomous vehicle progress

A January survey by the American Automobile Industry found 63 per cent of consumers were fearful of riding in a totally autonomous car , down from 78 per cent a year earlier. Ms Chase said car companies had pointed to the prevalence of human-caused accidents to push for quick deployment of ...

Daily briefing: Russia expels diplomats, Koreas summit set, inside Antarctica

Russia will expel at least 150 western diplomats and close the US consulate in St Petersburg in retaliation for similar actions taken this week by British allies angered at the alleged Kremlin role in the poisoning of an ex-spy on UK soil. Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, announced the move on ...

Tougher US rules needed on autonomous cars: advocate

... American Automobile Industry found 63 percent of consumers were fearful of riding in a totally autonomous car , down from 78 percent a year earlier. Chase said car companies had pointed to the prevalence of human-caused accidents to push for quick deployment of autonomous driving technology.

Lexus VP: Self-Driving Cars Takeover Is 5 Years Away

Jeff Bracken, Group Vice President at Lexus, believes that the autonomous car takeover will happen, but it might take as much as a decade, he told Cheddar's Tim Stenovec at the New York International Autoshow on Wednesday. "We [at Lexus] don't feel like autonomous driving will be taking over the ...

Uber Reaches Settlement Over Fatal Autonomous Crash

Did you know the data an autonomous car gathers in it's operational life can be used to inform future generations of the software? That data can pooled from 10 or 100's of other autonomous cars collectively and that further reduce the time the software needs to learn how to drive. This will take a lot less ...

Uber pens settlement deal over self-driving accident death

Uber has reached a settlement with the family of a woman who died after being struck by one of the company's self-driving vehicles. The accident happened earlier this month, raising concerns over whether the technology is ready for public roads. Uber indefinitely suspended its autonomous car testing ...

Trouble for Silicon Valley's Top Car Companies

On this week's Energy Gang, we look at Uber's autonomous car accident and Tesla's Model 3 woes. Stephen Lacey March 29, 2018. X. Stephen Lacey. Editor-in-Chief Greentech Media. Stephen Lacey is the Editor-in-Chief of Greentech Media. He manages a team of writers focused on solar, storage, ...

Uber settles with family of victim in self-driving car crash

Uber settled with the family of the woman hit and killed by a self-driving Uber car in Arizona on March 18, ending a potential legal battle over the first death caused by an autonomous car . Related links. March 29, 2018 | 11:58 AM EDT. Read More. Up next in National. promo. 1:03. Uber settles with family ...

Autonomous Car Gets First-Ever Traffic Ticket In San Francisco

Jim Gorzelany , Contributor I write about how to maximize your automotive investment and more. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Chalk this up as another milestone for the autonomous cars of tomorrow being beta tested on public roads today: The first traffic ticket has now been ...

Uber Settles With Family of Victim Killed in Self-Driving Car Accident

Uber has settled with the family of a pedestrian who was killed when one of the company's self-driving cars hit her while she crossed a road in Tempe, Ariz. earlier this month. A lawyer representing the family of the deceased victim, Elaine Herzberg, told Reuters on Thursday that "the matter has been ...

'I would sue everybody': Deadly Uber crash could change legal course of self-driving cars (Video)

Stanton said lawsuits in autonomous car accidents could focus on design flaws and get into product-liability claims or negligence where there is problem with the person or company operating or overseeing its movements. "They are going to be very fact intensive," she said. By Mike Sunnucks – Senior ...

Tesla Q1 Sales, Spotify Listing, Jobs Data: Investing Action Plan

Tech firms and government officials curbed autonomous car testing after an Uber self-driving car killed a pedestrian in late March. Arizona suspended Uber's tests and chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) voluntarily halted its own tests. Automakers such as GM still see autonomous driving as a strategic priority, ...

No driverless cars in California? Why April 2 won't make history

And it doesn't appear that anyone in the self-driving car industry is in a rush to submit the paperwork that would let them put a fully autonomous car out among the 14.5 million automobiles that were registered in California as of 2016. "The DMV has the authority to begin issuing driverless testing and or ...

Micron Sees Opportunities in Secular Memory Demand Trends

He stated that an autonomous car is a data center on wheels. It needs to analyze a large amount of data and make real-time decisions for a safe and comfortable driving experience. This requires high-performance DRAM. This technology is still in the testing phase and is expected to become commercial ...

Autonomous vehicle verification co Foretellix raises $1.5m

"The industry's big challenge at the moment is not another sensor or a better camera, but the success of the autonomous car in coping with situations that the programmers never thought of. We therefore intend, among other things, to develop a scenario library for verification of autonomous vehicles.".

Growing opportunity for startups in the Global Autonomous Car Sales industry

Questale released a detailed assessment of trends in Global Autonomous Car Sales market. The research report includes diverse topics like total market size, key market drivers, challenges, growth opportunities, key players etc. We have also covered key market updates, the impact of regulations and ...

Experts Claim Uber's Autonomous Crash Was Avoidable

That's a little alarming because of all the systems the autonomous car has. Was It A Sensor Failure Or Something Bigger? Uber's vehicles are fitted with various systems to help them drive on their own, including cameras, sensors, and LiDAR. With all of the testing its doing and high-tech tech features that ...

Uber Settles With Family of Pedestrian Killed by Its Self-Driving Car

Arizona's governor suspended the company's autonomous-car testing permit, and various analyses have questioned Uber's choices in designing its autonomous-driving system. But other companies are pushing ahead with their self-driving car plans. Waymo, for example, confirmed earlier this week that ...

Waymo Leads Autonomous Car Field

Waymo's lead over GM derives in part from more physical autonomously driven miles, Tamberrino said. Its autonomous cars have driven 5 million miles on public roads over 10 years, in 25 cities. Waymo also has logged billions more in simulated miles. Waymo began developing a truly driverless ...

Uber settles self-driving car crash case with victim's family

Uber has reached a settlement with the family of the woman who was killed by its autonomous car in Arizona last week, heading off another high-profile legal drama for the company. Several agencies are still investigating the collision that caused the death of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, ...

Matter with Uber 'resolved,' says lawyer for dead woman's family

Video of a deadly self-driving vehicle crash in suburban Phoenix shows a pedestrian walking from a darkened area onto a street just moments before an Uber SUV strikes her. | Tempe Police Department via AP. By. Associated Press. PHOENIX — The family of an Arizona woman killed when struck by an ...

Uber settles with Arizona self-driving car crash victim's family

In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators examine a driverless Uber SUV that fatally struck a woman in Tempe, Ariz. Photo: National Transportation Safety Board. Image 2 of 6. This video grab made from dashcam footage released by the Tempe Police Department ...

It's Amazon's Turn in the Tech Hot Seat

Facebook has dropped since revelations that a political consulting firm took advantage of the company's formerly lax data rules. Nvidia shares are down almost 10 percent this week after the company said it would suspend tests of driverless cars on public roads in response to an Uber autonomous car ...

Uber isolated by partners and competitors in aftermath of Arizona crash

In this 2016 file photo, Uber's autonomous car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco. In a letter to Uber CEO, Arizona governor Doug Ducey said he expected companies developing self-driving technology to make safety their top priority. Photo: AP. Washington:Uber Technologies Inc. has found ...

Uber settled with the family of its autonomous car crash victim

The firm won't go to court over the first pedestrian death involving a driverless vehicle. The news: Reuters reports that a case between Uber and the family of the victim, who was fatally injured by an autonomous Uber in Tempe, Arizona, "has been resolved." There are no details about the settlement.

Uber reaches settlement with family of woman killed by its self-driving vehicle

Other companies with autonomous car projects, including Toyota and Nvidia, have temporarily halted self-driving car tests on public roads. The chip maker has been quick to point out that Uber does not use its self-driving platform architecture. "Uber does not use Nvidia drive technology. Uber develops ...

Law Firm Representing Uber Victim's Family Says Issue is 'Resolved'

Uber has suspended its autonomous car program in the four cities where it was testing it and isn't going to renew its permit to test those kinds of vehicles in California. Additionally, an Uber executive who worked on technology for autonomous vehicles, Lior Ron, is leaving the company. About a year ago, ...

Uber Reaches Settlement With Family Of Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Victim

The family of Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old killed by an Uber-owned autonomous car in Arizona, has reached a settlement with the ride-hailing company, according to Reuters. Article preview thumbnail · Almost Everyone Uses Two People For Testing Autonomous Cars Except Uber. Video released ...

Parking lots: Why autonomous cars could save acres of space

Autonomous cars could prove to be splendid news for parking, according to new research from the University of Toronto. Because self-driving cars can park themselves, you can get out beforehand. Since you don't need to open the door once parked you can cram many more cars in. But according to the ...

Uber reaches a settlement with the family of pedestrian killed by its self-driving car

Uber has agreed to a settlement with the family of Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old woman involved in a fatal accident with one of the company's self-driving cars on March 18. Herzberg was pushing her bicycle across a highway in Tempe, AZ at 10 pm when an Uber SUV, with a human monitor in the ...

China Auto Exec on Self-Driving Cars: 'You Can't Just Put Some Sensors on Top'

Baidu's Apollo autonomous car . Proponents of vehicle autonomy say it has the potential to eliminate most road deaths and significantly reduce urban gridlock. Photo: china stringer network/Reuters. U.S. autonomous-driving companies like Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo are the leaders in the technology, but ...

Uber reaches settlement with family of woman killed by its autonomous car

Above: U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators examine a self-driving Uber vehicle involved in a fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona, U.S., March 20, 2018. Image Credit: National Transportation Safety Board/Handout via REUTERS ...

Israeli Uber Executive Lior Ron Leaves Company

Waymo, an autonomous car company, accused Mr. Levandowski of stealing documents containing Waymo trade secrets. The lawsuit was settled in February when Uber agreed to pay Waymo $245 million. Last week, Uber suspended its autonomous driving tests following a fatal car crash in Arizona ...

Foretellix, which Wants to Fix Software Bugs in Autonomous Cars, Raises $1.5 Million

Building on his career at Verisity and Cadence, Mr. Hollander hopes to create a common verification language for the testing of various scenarios in autonomous car development. "Unfortunately, you could never fix all the possible software flaws," Mr. Hollander said. "But you could make sure you have ...

Global Autonomous Car Market 2018 â€“ Bosch, TRW, Valeo, AISIN, WABCO

The report on "Global Autonomous Car Market" is a professional report which provides thorough knowledge along with complete information pertaining to the Autonomous Car industry a propos classifications, definitions, applications, industry chain summary, industry policies in addition to plans, product ...

Futurists reveal vision for 'fluid' car parks that change with demand

If autonomous cars are to become the norm in the future, car parks could look a whole lot more compact, which will be a major boon to city planners. Parking your car is not only frustrating for the driver when there are limited spaces, but it causes headaches for city planners who have to account for ...

VR allows autonomous car to travel billions of miles

It can simulate different weather such as rainstorms and snowstorms; blinding glare at different times of the day, or limited vision at night; and all different types of road surfaces and terrain. Dangerous situations can be scripted in simulation to test the autonomous car's ability to react, without ever putting ...

Report: Uber's use of single lidar sensor caused blind spots on driverless cars

In switching from its first fleet of self-driving Ford Fusions to its current Volvo XC90s, Uber reduced the number of pedestrian-spotting lidar sensors from seven to one, causing blind spots around the car, according to the manufacturer of those lidar units. Similar to radar, lidar is used by autonomous cars to ...

Cop tickets a GM-owned self-driving car, though company disputes violation

Monday's incident involved a vehicle operated by Cruise, the autonomous-car company that GM acquired in 2016. A spokesperson for the company insisted its vehicle had kept a safe distance from the woman on the crosswalk and posed no danger to the pedestrian, CBS reported, adding that a test ...

Uber settles with family of woman killed by self-driving car

Uber has reached a settlement with the family of a woman killed by one of its self-driving cars in Arizona. Photograph: Angelo Merendino/AFP/Getty Images. The family of the woman killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a ...

The Uber accident that killed a woman in Arizona is a tragic lesson about self regulation that ...

The fatal accident last week involving an Uber self-driving car shows the shortcomings of leaving it up to corporations to regulate themselves. Arizona, where the accident happened, had few rules governing autonomous car testing, allowing Uber and other operators to make up their own rules.

Race to robot cars continues after fatal crash

Japanese auto giant Toyota also tapped the brakes on its autonomous car testing after the Uber accident, while German titan BMW maintained pace. US federal authorities on March 27 opened an investigation into a fatal accident in California involving a Tesla electric car, with one of the goals being to ...

Uber Has One Way Forward on Self-Driving Cars

One of Uber's driverless vehicles struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, last week, the first time an autonomous car has been involved in a fatal accident with a pedestrian in the United States. The car did not slow down before impact, police have said, and the human monitor inside made no ...

The challenges posed by a car that drives itself

Some analysts have pointed out that Uber has lagged behind its competitors in the performance of its self-driving car algorithms. John Krafcik, the chief executive officer of autonomous car development company Waymo, has claimed that his firm's car would have avoided the accident where Uber's ...

Blameless driverless cars (and their consequences)

She became the first pedestrian to be killed by an autonomous car . Humans are a curious species, more so after a negative event. So after this accident too, several questions were raised. The role of the pedestrian, who suddenly came in front of the car, is not in doubt. But for the first time, answers to a ...

Intel subsidiary says its self-driving tech would have detected woman killed in Uber crash; Nvidia ...

It has been a whirlwind week for the fledgling autonomous car industry as executives from companies focused on self-driving technology and vehicles either express confidence or hit the brakes on their own testing following a fatal crash in Tempe March 18 involving a self-driving Uber vehicle.

ETFs at Risk as Accidents Raise Doubts Over Self-Driving Cars

After a deadly accident involving Uber's autonomous car in Arizona on Mar 18, the fate of self-driving car technology is in question. Arizona banned Uber from testing vehicles on public roads and the California Department of Motor Vehicles said that Uber has indicated it will not renew its permit to test ...

Trib editorial: Learn from Uber's pedestrian fatality

Uber paused autonomous-car testing in Tempe, San Francisco, Toronto and Pittsburgh after the fatality. John Bares, who left his post heading Uber's self-driving operations last August to rejoin the local firm he helped found, Carnegie Robotics, said this is a tough time emotionally, but "for the longer ...

We can't trust the autonomous-car industry to self-regulate

We can't trust the autonomous-car industry to self-regulate. Originally published March 28, 2018 at 2:24 pm Updated March 28, 2018 at 2:34 pm. Investigators at the scene of a fatal accident March 18 involving a self-driving Uber car in Tempe, Arizona. The vehicle was in autonomous mode with an ...

A death blow to Uber's driverless project?

Even so the death-by- autonomous-car has rippled through the community of self-driving vehicle developers. As many as 50 companies are involved in one phase or another of driverless car testing in California alone. Uber's Arizona development center in Phoenix employs 400 people working with 150 ...

Uber Freight executive Lior Ron leaves company

Uber suspended its autonomous car tests earlier this week after a self-driving car struck and killed Elaine Herzberg, 49, as she walked her bike on a Tempe, Arizona, road. Arizona's governor blocked Uber from resuming tests on Tuesday. "We remain fully invested in and excited about the future of Uber ...

Robocar Testing: It's Simulation, Stupid!

I have to disagree. If a self-driving car gets into an accident that would have been unavoidable also by a human driver, or better yet, that was made less serious than it would have been with a human at the wheel, then the self-driving feature will be acceptable, or even desirable. The problems come ...

Uber self-driving death may have been due to lidar blind spot

At the time of the accident, Uber's autonomous car team was racking up testing miles in anticipation of a visit by Khosrowshahi. It had hoped to prove that the program was something he should get behind; its efforts to get to that point appear to have achieved the opposite. Khosrowshahi has ordered the ...

Teaching Cars to 'Think' for an Autonomous Future

"Behind the wheel of a self-driving car, everybody becomes a backseat driver," Behl said. "The autonomous car will need to inform passengers and others in various ways that the vehicle is under control, that it has situational awareness, that it can be trusted to respond properly to driving conditions, that ...

Teaching Cars to 'Think' for an Autonomous Future

"The autonomous car will need to inform passengers and others in various ways that the vehicle is under control, that it has situational awareness, that it can be trusted to respond properly to driving conditions, that the vehicle is predictable in behavior, not aberrant." During tests, automotive companies ...

The Most Important Self-Driving Car Announcement Yet

"Given the opportunity, autonomous car services will likely be willing to invest heavily in redeveloping urban infrastructure that would give them an economic advantage in serving the populations that live there," he wrote. "Especially if it would mean a monopoly on local transit. The results could change ...

Autonomous Vehicle Tragedy Raises Troubling Questions

The fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous car shocked the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry. On a mild day with a light breeze, the self-driving car's sensors and computer should have easily read the environment. What went wrong? The sensors might have been confused by the large, complex ...

Google AI Fund Backs Startup Working on Remote-Controlled Autonomous Cars

Teleoperations allows an autonomous car to be driven remotely, by a human who controls the car in real-time. The purpose to help out an autonomous car if its software gets into a jam. For example, when a self-driving car finds itself stuck if a lane is blocked for construction, it alerts a trained operator in a ...

Uber reportedly reduced the number of sensors on its autonomous cars

Uber is facing some intense scrutiny after one of its self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona ten days ago. The company (along with it's partner, NVIDIA) has stopped testing its autonomous vehicle in cities across the US, and the Arizona governor suspended the tests specifically in that ...

BlackBerry's self-driving car ambitions not deterred by Uber crash: Chen

... its testing on Monday. Chen said safety concerns may cause some companies to go back to the drawing board to improve the features their vehicles already have in place, but is unlikely to hurt BlackBerry's bottom line. "I really don't think it will set behind my autonomous car plan," Chen told BNN.

Growing opportunity for startups in the Global Autonomous Car industry

Questale released a detailed assessment of trends in Global Autonomous Car market. The research report includes diverse topics like total market size, key market drivers, challenges, growth opportunities, key players etc. We have also covered key market updates, the impact of regulations and ...

Keep Testing Self-Driving Cars, Even If They Kill People

Self-driving cars are likely to save lives. One tragic, accidental death should not stop that from happening. Keep testing. Eric Boehm| Mar. 28, 2018 1:10 pm. EM / MEGA / NewscomIf March 18 was a typical day on America's roadways, about 90 people lost their lives in car accidents during that 24-hour ...

Way north of 60: How autonomous car testing above the Arctic Circle could help Canada

ICTC in the News. Way north of 60: How autonomous car testing above the Arctic Circle could help Canada. By Viet Hoang28 March 2018 No Comments · Financial Post — Way north of 60: How autonomous car testing above the Arctic Circle could help Canada. https://bit.ly/2IZz5jw. Next Post. L'humain ...

Uber drops out of the self-driving car raceâ€¦ for now

Even if an autonomous car winds up being safer "on average" than regular vehicles, that's going to be cold comfort to the family of anyone who loses a loved one to a robot sedan. And no amount of artificial intelligence currently on the drawing board can match a human being's ability to take in all their ...

BMW and Daimler, Once Rivals, Join Forces to Fend Off Silicon Valley

Along with Volkswagen's Audi division, the pair dominate the global market for luxury vehicles. Still, they are in danger of being overwhelmed by the superior financial firepower of new competitors from the tech world. Alphabet, Google's parent company, which has invested in autonomous car technology ...

Tech sector hangs on to 2018 gain despite March rout

Nvidia shares have been hit hard this week after the chipmaker said it would suspend its self-driving tests worldwide after a pedestrian in Arizona was killed by an Uber autonomous car . And Amazon is sharply lower today on media reports President Donald Trump has been wondering aloud whether ...

Emails Show How Uber Wooed Arizona Governor Before Fatal Crash Ruined Their Relationship

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey directed the Arizona Department of Transportation to suspend Uber's testing of self-driving cars on Monday, in response to an incident last week in which an autonomous car struck and killed a pedestrian. In Ducey's letter to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the governor ...

Alphabet, Waymo Under Scrutiny Following Uber's Fatality

Google's Waymo (Alphabet's autonomous car project) chief John Krafcik says his company's self-driving car technology would have avoided such a disaster. And, maybe it would have. Google stock holders who think the impending $127 billion autonomous car market is now Alphabet's for the taking, ...

Genesis Shows `Turning Point' Battery Car: NY Auto Show Update

The news out of the New York International Auto Show usually mirrors what tri-staters tend to buy: luxury models and import brands. This year will be no different, though with a bit of a twist. The 2018 show will be a significant one for Detroit's premium lines, with General Motors Co.'s Cadillac and Ford ...

Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Response to Uber Crash

A Hyundai executive said his company will move more cautiously, while Toyota suspended its U.S. autonomous-car testing completely. Boston officials asked NuTonomy to suspend its tests in the city temporarily, and have reportedly allowed the tests to resume. Not every company is slowing down, ...

What Did Uber's Autonomous Car Know, And When Did It Know It?

Given the many sensors on the Uber autonomous car that killed a pedestrian last week, that tragedy should be one of the most well-documented road fatalities, ever. Yet, the only data released thus far is among the most low-tech—grainy video footage from the car's dash camera. That video was ...

Uber Reportedly Disabled Key Safety Feature Prior to Deadly Crash

Waymo Pushes Ahead With Autonomous Ride-Hailing Service Plans Despite Uber Crash. Waymo is also adding the Jaguar I-Pace to its fleet. READ NOW · RELATED. Intel Responds to Fatal Uber Self-Driving Car Crash. Experience, transparency, and redundancy are key, says Intel's autonomous-car ...

Waymo & Jaguar Partner to Supply 20000 Self-Driving EVs till 2020

Waymo, the autonomous car making company and subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, has announced a long-term partnership with automobile makers Jaguar Land Rover to make almost 20,000 autonomous cars by 2020 for Waymo's driver-less transportation service. Both the companies ...

Ambarella Demonstrates Its Fully Autonomous Vehicle on Silicon Valley Roads

The fully autonomous car combines software and algorithms based on over 20 years of autonomous vehicle research with Ambarella's low-power CV1 embedded computer vision processors based on its CVflow architecture. EVA's high-resolution stereovision cameras deliver the 360-degree short and ...

Ambarella launches Silicon Valley autonomous car demo despite Uber crash

Ambarella EVA self-driving car Semiconductor company Ambarella is getting serious about self-driving cars. Not long after unveiling its CV1 autonomous-car chip at CES 2018, Ambarella is preparing to launch a second-generation chip, called CV2. It's also demonstrating a self-driving car with a ...

Jaguar I-Pace electric car to join Waymo's self-driving car fleet

British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover and Waymosaid Tuesday the carmaker would sell Google's autonomous-car technology arm up to 20,000 of its new all-electric Jaguar I-Pace SUV to be used in self-driving service by 2020. While last week's news focused entirely on the fatal crash of a Volvo ...

Way north of 60: How autonomous car testing above the Arctic Circle could help Canada

Way north of 60: How autonomous car testing above the Arctic Circle could help Canada. Finland is figuring out the limitations of current driverless technology on the icy, snow-covered E8 highway, something Canada has been keen to do. Martti, an autonomous vehicle developed by the VTT Technical ...

NVIDIA introduces DRIVE Constellation simulation system for testing autonomous vehicles in the ...

NVIDIA has introduced a cloud-based system for testing autonomous vehicles using photorealistic simulation, creating a safer, more scalable method for bringing self-driving cars to the roads. NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation is based on two different servers. The first server runs NVIDIA DRIVE Sim software ...

Exclusive: Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal

The company has had its autonomous car program suspended in Arizona. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP. In fact, Uber was already planning to quietly upgrade the mapping cars it had in Arizona to autonomous vehicles. On 19 August, Chhabra wrote Seiden, the governor's deputy chief of staff, to let him ...

How to convince the customer: Daimler's driverless car agenda

"The autonomous car is not our craziest idea," said Stark while showing images of Volocopter, a self-flying electric helicopter company Daimler bought into last year. "After the robocab on the ground comes the autonomous drone." Stark is convinced that the future has already begun: "We have already ...

Uber gives up self-driving car testing rights in California

FILE – In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, Uber's autonomous car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco. By The Associated Press |. PUBLISHED: March 27, 2018 at 11:26 pm | UPDATED: March 27, 2018 at 11:27 pm. By TOM KRISHER | The Associated Press. DETROIT (AP) — Uber has decided to ...

Uber Ends Autonomous Car Testing In California

DETROIT (AP) – Uber has decided to stop testing autonomous vehicles on California public roads by letting its state permit expire on Saturday without renewing it. If the ride-hailing service wants to return to the state, it will have to get a new permit and address any investigations into a crash involving ...

Uber Won't Renew Permit To Test Self-Driving Cars In California After Fatal Crash

"I don't know all the specifics," Lyft co-founder John Zimmer said, according to Reuters. "I did see the video. It did look like both the tech and the driver could have or should have prevented that. But I don't know all the details." It's unclear if, or when, Uber plans to revive its autonomous car tests.

Nvidia hits the brakes on public autonomous tests after fatal Uber crash

Nvidia is now halting all tests regarding autonomous vehicle driving on public roads. The company formerly tested its driver-free technology in California, New Jersey, Japan, and Germany. But the fatal crash in Arizona involving one of Uber's self-driving cars pushed Nvidia into re-thinking its strategy.

Uber delays autonomous car testing in California

Uber Technologies says it doesn't plan to renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles in California following a fatal crash involving one its robot vehicles last week in Tempe, Arizona. The company will let its testing permit lapse at month's end, rather than resubmit for renewal and face potential scrutiny ...

Securing the Autonomous Connected Car

... the greatest consumer fears when it comes to self-driving vehicles. The state of California reported that in the first two months of 2018, there were six accidents involving autonomous vehicles. In two of those cases, the autonomous car with a test driver in place was attacked by a person outside the car.

Uber's Self-Driving Car Crisis Began Before Arizona Crash

During Cheddar's Morning Bell, Wakabayashi explained why the moment Uber decided to go up against the likes of Google's self-driving car company, Waymo, in the autonomous car sector they were entering a losing battle. "Part of it is just time. Waymo, or Google at the time, started in 2009 and ...

Uber gives up autonomous vehicle testing rights in California

A video image from a camera mounted on an Uber autonomous car that hit and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz. (Associated Press). Uber will not renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads when it expires Saturday. And the company will have some explaining to do if it ...

Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California

This comes following Arizona's decision to block Uber's self-driving cars in its city. In Arizona Governor Doug Ducey's letter to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Ducey said the video from the accident was "disturbing and alarming." California requires a number of things from autonomous car makers, like ...

After Fatal Uber Incident, Nvidia Defers Autonomous Car Testing On Public Roads

Nvidia today announced that it would suspend its testing of autonomous cars on public roads until it knows what went wrong last week, when a self-driven Uber vehicle featuring Nvidia's technology struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. The idea of self-driving cars is gaining a lot of traction these days ...

Uber gives up autonomous vehicle testing rights in Calif.

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, Uber's autonomous car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco. Uber has decided to stop testing autonomous vehicles on California public roads by letting its state permit expire on Saturday, March 31, 2018, without renewing it. Immediately after the crash, Uber ...

Uber gives up autonomous vehicle testing rights in Calif.

FILE – In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, Uber's autonomous car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco. Uber has decided to stop testing autonomous vehicles on California public roads by letting its state permit expire on Saturday, March 31, 2018, without renewing it. Immediately after the crash, Uber ...

Google's Waymo CEO: We'd Fight A Ban On Human Driving

When it comes to autonomous driving, car enthusiasts are first in line to nix the idea. There's a bit of an overarching fear that, one day, human drivers could be rendered unnecessary and manually controlled driving is banned altogether. But even the CEO of the company with the most advanced ...

Uber puts the brakes on testing robot cars in California after Arizona fatality

Uber plans to end all autonomous-car testing in California for the foreseeable future, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company. The move follows a March 18 crash in Tempe, Ariz., in which an Uber car operating in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian.

Waymo's self-driving Jaguar is the luxe autonomy needs

Waymo may not be charging for its autonomous car trials right now, but the company knows that it'll need something more special than a minivan when the digital driver wants paying. Witness, therefore, the news today that Waymo and Jaguar will collaborate to turn the new I-PACE all-electric SUV into ...

Tesla Falls Below Support Level On Autonomous-Car Woes

Shares of Tesla (TSLA) undercut a key support level Tuesday as it was sideswiped by self-driving-car troubles. X. Error loading player: No playable sources found. The stock tumbled 6%, near 285.40, falling below a key support level of 290-300 that has held up since the spring of 2017. Tesla fell to a ...

NVIDIA halts autonomous car testing after fatal Uber crash

NVIDIA has temporarily frozen all of its autonomous car testing on public roads, after the fatal Uber crash last week that killed a pedestrian. The chipmaker is one of Uber's partners on the ride-sharing firm's self-driving car project, supplying chipsets that power the onboard intelligence for the vehicle.

Uber's autonomous car tech partner Nvidia suspends self-driving tests

Following the fatal crash during an Uber self-driving car test last week, autonomous vehicle hardware and software supplier Nvidia has announced it's suspending its own self-driving vehicle tests. The chipmaker currently partners with Uber, Tesla, Volvo, and hundreds of other car makers, sensor ...

NVIDIA aims to make self-driving safer with virtual simulations

Another server is powered by the company's Drive Pegasus software, which runs all of NVIDIA's autonomous car technology and processes the incoming sensor data. The Pegasus server sends its responses back to the simulation machine for validation. That feedback loop occurs 30 times a second, ...

Can Jaguar and Waymo's I-Pace idea make driverless cars cool?

The fully autonomous car just took a giant step closer to reality as Jaguar announced a major new partnership with Waymo, formerly Google's self-driving car skunkworks. Together they are positioning the hot new I-Pace electric vehicle firmly at the pointy end of the next frontier in mobility. Waymo has ...

Jaguar & Waymo To Collaborate On Autonomous Car Sharing

Waymo and Jaguar have formed a partnership to bring autonomous cars to market in the near future. Speaking in New York City today where the New York auto show will take place this week, Waymo CEO John Krafcik told the press, "While we've been focused at Waymo on building the world's most ...

Waymo Pushes Ahead With Autonomous Ride-Hailing Service Plans Despite Uber Crash

Just over a week after a fatal crash involving an Uber self-driving car in Arizona, Waymo announced that it will launch a commercial autonomous ride-hailing service in the state later this year. The former Google self-driving car project already offers rides to a select group of "Early Riders" in Arizona, but ...

Uber disabled safety component in self-driving car before fatal crash, company alleges

New video shows both the inside and the outside of the autonomous car . Adam Housley reports. Last week, police released camera footage of the crash which showed both exterior and interior angles of the car ride leaving up to the moment the SUV struck Herzberg. The interior video showed the car's ...

Waymo Partners with Jaguar for Autonomous Fleet with 20000 All-Electric SUVs

Autonomous car company Waymo is about to gain another 20,000 electric cars to its fleet thanks to a new partnership with Jaguar. The Alphabet-owed Waymo will use Jaguar's I-Pace, an SUV that many have already noted is one of the best rivals to Tesla's growing 'ownership' of the electric vehicle ...

The all-electric Jaguar I-Pace is Waymo's latest self-driving car

Waymo Jaguar I-Pace In its days as the Google self-driving car project, Waymo used a fleet of modified Toyota Prius and Lexus RX hybrids. Then it graduated to the "Firefly," a custom-designed electric car. Then it ditched the cute Firefly for more practical Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. Now, Waymo ...

Waymo is building an autonomous, all-electric SUV with Jaguar

The automaker will work with Waymo to integrate autonomous car hardware, such as sensors, during manufacture, rather than retrofitting it after delivery. The first vehicles will be tested by the end of 2018, and are slated to join Waymo's consumer-hauling car fleet in 2020. Context: Waymo currently runs ...

Google's Waymo Finally Gets A Cool Autonomous Car With The Jaguar I-Pace

Waymo will add up to 20,000 Jaguar I-Pace electric SUVs to their fleet of autonomous cars in the next few years. Waymo so far has relied on these little toy cars. The new Jaguar I-Pace is a hot ride that will give Google's Waymo much more prestige. "This is just the beginning. The self-driving products of ...

Waymo to add 20000 driverless Jaguar I-Pace SUVs to ride-hailing service

Waymo, the autonomous car company owned by Google parent Alphabet, has announced a new partnership with Jaguar Land Rover. The tie-in will see 20,000 self-driving Jaguar I-Pace SUVs added to Waymo's fleet by 2020, ready for customers to hail. The company also confirmed that its full ...

Waymo's adding an all-electric self-driving Jaguar SUV to its autonomous fleet

Uber's autonomous car development has been called into question after the fatal crash. The company reportedly cut lots of corners, which may have cost the pedestrian her life, as it raced to compete with rivals such as Waymo. Arizona's Department of Transportation has since suspended Uber from ...

Uber Shouldn't Even Bother With Self-Driving Cars

Boston Consulting Group estimates that an average electric-drive autonomous car will cost about $34,000 by 2030. To get the economies of scale to make autonomous ride-sharing as profitable as possible, it adds, the U.S. alone would need nine million such vehicles on its roads. That outlay would ...

Jaguar and Waymo just announced an electric, fully autonomous car

Alphabet's autonomous driving company, Waymo, announced today that it's getting into the ride-sharing business—and that it's building a special car to do it. The company partnered with Jaguar Land Rover to make a completely autonomous, electric car, called the Jaguar I-Pace. Waymo is launching ...

Jaguar Land Rover to supply self-driving cars to Google's Waymo

Jaguar Land Rover has struck a deal to supply tens of thousands of electric vehicles to Google in a huge step into the market for self-driving vehicles. The Coventry-based car company has agreed a partnership to provide its first ever electric car, the I-Pace, to Waymo, Google's self-driving car arm.

Waymo Orders Up to 20000 Jaguar SUVs for Driverless Fleet

... catch up with Waymo, paused its testing last week in four cities after one of its Volvo SUV test vehicles struck a pedestrian walking her bike across a road in Tempe, Ariz. Investigators are reviewing the case; some autonomous-car specialists say the vehicle's sensors should have detected the woman.

Google's Waymo Partners With Jaguar Land Rover To Build 'Up To' 20000 Autonomous I-Paces By ...

Waymo made the announcement Tuesday in Manhattan, amid a particularly sensitive moment for the fledgling autonomous car industry, less than two weeks after the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads. A self-driving car owned by ride-hailing company ...

Waymo, a Google Spinoff, Ramps Up Its Driverless-Car Effort

Waymo, the autonomous-car company spun out of Google, announced a new alliance on Tuesday that would vastly expand its effort to ramp up a driverless ride service over the next two years. The company said it planned to buy as many as 20,000 electric cars from Jaguar Land Rover and outfit them ...

Jaguar self-drive car revealed in New York

The first self-styled "premium" autonomous car has been unveiled in New York - and it's a Jaguar. The vehicle, made in conjunction with Google's self-driving unit Waymo, will be tested on public roads this year. By 2020, the firms say 20,000 self-driving Jaguar sport utility vehicles (SUVs) will be part of ...

Arizona Shuts Down Uber's Self-Driving Car Fleet

Who is at fault: the auto maker, sensor maker, software developer, driver, or the company that operates the autonomous car ? ... car fatality and resulting banishment of Uber's test fleet could mark a crossroad for the company's decision to hitch its future to being first to market with an autonomous car .

Waymo and Jaguar will build up to 20000 self-driving electric SUVs

A fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona, last Sunday marked the first fatality involving an autonomous car in the US. In response, Uber temporarily halted its self-driving testing, while the governor of Arizona suspended the ride-hailing company from further testing in the state.

Arizona Governor Suspends Uber Self-Driving Vehicle Testing On Public Roads

The Arizona Governor temporarily suspended Uber's autonomous car testing operations. The ride-hailing service could no longer perform trials on public roads until further notice. ( Roslan Rahman | AFP/Getty Images ). The fatal accident involving an Uber's self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian in Tempe ...

Uber 'disabled Volvo SUV's safety system' before autonomous car hit and killed pedestrian

Uber disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in its autonomous Volvo SUV before it hit and killed a pedestrian last week, according to the safety system manufacturer. Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv Plc, which produces Volvo's radar and camera, said Uber may have disabled the ...

Here's the real nightmare scenario for self-driving cars

After nearly 10 years of relentless hype for autonomous ("self-driving") vehicles, the bloom seems to be coming off the rose. In terms of the hype cycle outlined by research consultancy Gartner, autonomous vehicles are plunging down from the "peak of inflated expectations" into the "trough of ...

Siemens to Roll Out New Simulation Platform for Self-Driving Vehicles

In autonomous car applications, PreScan would feed the simulated data to DRS360, essentially as if it were real-world information. "DRS360 doesn't know if it's real or virtual because our sensor data is so good," Tideman said. "So it enables you to test massive numbers of scenarios as if they were real.".

Uber's self-driving car testing suspended in Arizona after fatal crash

While 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg crossed at a dimly lit section of the road rather than a managed crosswalk, Uber's autonomous car had a few seconds to apply the brakes but didn't appear to do so in the released video footage. Equally, the safety driver there to grab back control if the car looks like its ...

Uber autonomous testing suspended by Arizona state after fatal accident

Testing must occur safely. All indications we have had in the past show that traffic laws are being obeyed by the companies testing here." Although there have been crashes involving self-driving vehicles, including a well-documented one involving a Google autonomous car in 2016, this latest incident is ...

Uber barred from resuming Arizona self-drive trial

The head of Google's autonomous car division Waymo has also said its tech would have been "able to handle" such situations. Velodyne - the firm that designed the collision-avoidance sensors that Uber employs - previously told the BBC that it was "baffled" by the accident because its equipment was ...

Autonomous cars come with many shortcomings

Recently, a cyclist was hit by an autonomous car that was being tested by Uber. Unfortunately, the cyclist succumbed to her injuries. Uber immediately suspended all its autonomous car tests in the United States and sent out a release that stated that their thoughts are with the family of the deceased.

Arizona Governor Suspends Autonomous Uber Testing

The turnaround from Ducey, who previously welcomed autonomous car testing, could mark a shift against the technology, even in low-regulation states. Uber had already suspended the program and promised to cooperate with investigators. Meanwhile, rival Waymo is still testing its own self-driving cars ...

Karamba Security Names New Executives, Expands its Advisory Board

HOD HASHARON, Israel and BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., March 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Karamba Security, a world-leading provider of end-to-end automotive cybersecurity prevention solutions for autonomous and connected cars, today named two executives to its management team and two ...

Arizona suspends Uber autonomous vehicle tests after fatal crash

In a lightly veiled dig at Uber and its relative inexperience in autonomous car development (it started testing driverless systems in 2015, six years after Waymo), Shashua said: "Experience counts, particularly in safety-critical areas...I firmly believe the time to have a meaningful discussion on a safety ...

Arizona governor suspends Uber from testing autonomous vehicle following fatal accident

Last week saw the first recorded pedestrian death caused by an autonomous car when Elaine Herzberg was struck by one of Uber's autonomous vehicles as she wheeled her bicycle across the road in the city of Tempe, Arizona.

Uber's self-driving car tests are suspended by Arizona governor

In May 2016 Tesla driver Joshua Brown was killed when his semi- autonomous car hit a truck in Florida after he had put the vehicle into autopilot mode. An investigation later found that Brown had taken his hands off the car's steering wheel for extended periods of time, despite automated warnings not to ...

Uber self-driving car tests suspended in Arizona

"The move by Ducey is notable for the governor, who is an advocate for fewer regulations in a bid to attract companies and high-paying tech jobs to the state," Fortune reported late Monday. "As Governor, my top priority is public safety. Improving public safety has always been an emphasis of Arizona's ...

Arizona bans Uber's self-driving cars as rival weighs in on fatal crash

The incident took place in the city of Tempe, in the Phoenix area, last week and is believed to be the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous car . A human was in the driver's seat at the time, but the car was confirmed to be operating in autonomous mode when it struck a 49-year-old woman at ...

New cars are quickly getting self-driving safety features

This Aug. 24, 2016, file photo shows a Lidar, that detects obstacles using laser sensors, installed above the car plate of an autonomous vehicle during its test drive in Singapore. Smaller versions of those spinning 360-degree mechanical laser sensors that sit atop self-driving cars are coming to ...

Just How Safe Is Driverless Car Technology, Really?

The death in Arizona was the first fatality involving a fully autonomous car . In Florida in 2016, the driver of a Tesla Model S who was operating the car in its so-called "Autopilot" mode died when his vehicle collided with a truck that turned into its path. The driver-assist system required the human driver to ...

From ADAS to Autonomous Cars: Key Design Lessons

It's especially critical because hardware accelerators are gaining prominence in autonomous car SoCs, and here, on-chip communication technologies such as heterogeneous cache coherency can play a crucial role in allowing SoCs to carry out near-real-time embedded processing for handling the ...

Arizona puts brakes on Uber self-driving car tests

... chief says his tech would have averted fatal Uber crash. March 26, 2018. The CEO of Waymo, the Google subsidiary tasked with developing driverless cars, has said the recent death of a pedestrian in an accident involving an autonomous car would not have occurred with his company's technology.

Intel Responds to Fatal Uber Self-Driving Car Crash

He said an autonomous car should pull information from cameras, radar, and lidar independently, rather than fusing the information provided by all three into one data stream. He said Mobileye has built independent "end-to-end" systems for all three sensors types. While he did not say so explicitly, ...

Waymo's Krafcik Joins Industry Chorus Questioning Uber's Techonology

And Uber's human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous car projects," the Times reported. Krafcik very clearly had an opinion about the issue. (Toyota pauses testing of autonomous vehicles in wake of Uber fatality. Click Here for the story.) "We won't ...

Blockchain, IoT, and the health data revolution (VB Live)

Its decentralized nature and smart contracts offer powerful new advantages in an IoT ecosystem. For instance, autonomous car systems become safer and more protected against hacks without a single point of failure. Blockchain spreads the information, and hence the risk, over many nodes and servers, ...

Uber's former self-driving chief still believes in dream of safer roads

Waymo CEO John Krafcik, talking about the Tempe crash over the weekend at the National Automobile Dealers Association in Las Vegas, said its self-driving car could have "handled that situation," according to Forbes . Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, is planning to begin an autonomous car ...

Around the World, Driverless Car Rules in Flux

Japan is working on autonomous car rules in time for the 2020 Olympic Games. Japan aims to show off autonomous cars at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Credit: Olympics.org. Japan is most active for driverless car rules at the national level, but with provisions that reach to individuals. The country wants ...

Uber's Self-Driving Car Accident: Did AI Fail Us?

On March 12, MIT Technology Review ran a story that started like this: "It is the year 2023, and self-driving cars are finally navigating our city streets. For the first time, one of them has hit and killed a pedestrian, with huge media coverage. A high-profile lawsuit is likely, but what laws should apply?".

Check out self-driving cars, DARPA and more at TC Sessions: Robotics May 11 at UC Berkeley

These days, Ursom is the CEO of Aurora Innovation, an autonomous car company he cofounded with Tesla alum Sterling Anderson. The Bay Area-based company has been building systems for Volkswagen and Hyundai, and announced a partnership with NVIDIA earlier this year. Ursom will be joining ...

Waymo CEO Krafcik Has 'a Lot of Confidence' His Tech Would Have Avoided Deadly Uber Accident

In a pioneering self-driving car company's first public comments on the Uber autonomous car accident March 18 that killed an Arizona woman, Waymo CEO John Krafcik said his tech could "handle" that very scenario. "I want to be really respectful of Elaine, the woman who lost her life, and her family," ...

China hopes to build chips that control millions of driverless cars

Given that the nation is home to over 300 million cars, a decent share of the market for autonomous-car chips, which Gartner predicts will reach $5 billion, is up for grabs just in China. But the firms could also give Western rivals such as MobilEye, Nvidia, and Intel a run for their money. Source: Bloomberg.

SpaceX Software Executive Joins Self-Driving Startup Aurora

Hosein joins Aurora with the same title, Aurora said in an emailed statement. Aurora was co-founded by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, former executives from autonomous-car projects at Google, Tesla Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc., respectively. The star power of the founding trio ...

Quick Shift: Uber autonomous program problems come to light

Uber's self-driving problems come to light: After an Uber autonomous car hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona last week, the company's self-driving car program has come under intense scrutiny. The New York Times obtained internal documents from the company showing that driver takeovers of ...

Will New Approval Put Baidu Ahead in the Self-Driving Space?

Also, this technology presents significant growth opportunity for automakers. BCG anticipates the autonomous car market to be worth $42 billion and $77 billion by 2025 and 2035, respectively. The research firm forecasts that by 2030, approximately one-tenth of new cars sold globally will be self-driving.

Waymo chief says his tech would have averted fatal Uberâ€¦

Another was spotted air drumming as the autonomous car passed through an intersection. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's chief executive, was due to visit Arizona in April. People working in the development group were under pressure to give him an issue-free ride in an autonomous car . The trip was called ...

Uber's self driving car not up to snuff

The cars were having trouble driving through construction zones and next to tall vehicles, like big rigs. And Uber's human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous car projects. Waymo, formerly the self-driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads ...

BMW will spend more on autonomous driving, electric cars

FRANKFURT, Germany — BMW's profits this year will at least equal last year's results as the automaker sinks billions into developing electric and autonomous car technology to meet expected changes in how people get from one place to another, the company said Wednesday. Chief Financial Officer ...