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US Army to beat Uber, Waymo and Tesla to building self-driving car: Why they need it more!

While civies like you and me, might not have any actual use for an autonomous car other than to feed our own desire to be lazy. However, in the field of war, autonomous vehicles are far from a luxury. According to the undersecretary of defence for research and engineering in the US, the requirement for ...

UK Driver Loses License For 18 Months For 'Silly' Tesla Autopilot Chauffeur Stunt

Despite the name, there's no question that Tesla doesn't want you to think of its Autopilot technology as a diving assistant and specifically not something that makes your electric car self-driving. But don't tell that to Bhavesh Patel who was recently fined for dangerous driving in the UK after turning on ...

One way to get self-driving cars on the road faster: let insurers control them

Thank you — please check your email to complete your sign up. Incorrect email format. Manage your newsletter preferences. There are, of course, security concerns about connecting an autonomous car to the internet. Waymo's CEO, John Krafcik, has said that its cars go online "only when they need to, ...

Cube (AUTO) Price Down to $0.012789 â€“ Down -4.99 Percent on Top Exchanges in the Last Day

As per cryptocompare: "Cube is an Ethereum-based security platform for the autonomous car . With the use of blockchain tecnology, Cube's team has created a security system that protects autonomous vehicles from hacking. AUTO is an ERC20 token that serves as a currency on Cube's platform.".

Cube (AUTO) Market Cap Reaches $96453985 as Price at $0.015371: Down -7.72% on ...

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Tesla Could Use SpaceX Starlink Network to Manage Data Uplinks

All in all, it seems a neat and tidy solution to the question of autonomous data, all handled within the confines of Elon Musk's corporate empire. We've reached out to Tesla to see what it has to say about the future of autonomous car communications through the SpaceX Starlink network, and will update if ...

The car that looks at symmetry in the rear-view mirror

As an editor, sometimes you're faced with a strange quandary. What if a design is interesting, potentially ground-breaking, but disagrees with you visually? The DS X E-Tense conceptual vehicle is fabulous no doubt, and makes some remarkable promises. My problem, however, is with its approach to ...

Second company applies for driver-free autonomous car permit

It's been nearly a month since the California Department of Motor Vehicles began offering permits to test truly driver-free autonomous cars on public roads, but so far the number of human being-free miles traveled by robot vehicles in the state is zero.

Autonomous Car Market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 10-15% till year 2025

According to Market Insights Reports, Autonomous Car Market provides a comprehensive analysis of the emerging point of care tests market segments, including their dynamics, size, growth, regulatory requirements, technological trends, competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities for instrument ...

Volkswagen May Manage a Fleet of Ride-Hailing Vehicles for Didi Chuxing

This is already evident in the bulk purchases of cars from Volvo by Uber, and Chrysler and Jaguar by Waymo for conversion into autonomous vehicles. Even if the much-discussed autonomous-car revolution never happens, ride-hailing companies may eventually need to buy their own fleets of vehicles ...

Massachusetts-based startup ClearMotion wants to smooth out your self-driving car experience

This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Transportation & Logistics Briefing subscribers hours before it appeared on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Autonomous cars are on their way to becoming a reality, but many hurdles remain before the vehicles can be ...

Autonomous Car Market by Manufacturers, Type and Application | Delphi, Denso, TRW, Valeo

Latest research study from HTF MI with title Global Autonomous Car by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2023. The Research report presents a complete assessment of the market and contains Future trend, Current Growth Factors, attentive opinions, facts, historical data, and ...

Are you safer in a robot, or autonomous, car than you are driving your self?

It's what you'd call a level two autonomous car . As a quick primer, there are five levels of driving automation (six if you include level zero, which as you may guess, offers zero automation). A level two car can take full control of the vehicle, including accelerating, braking and steering, but the driver must ...

Tesla Driver Nabbed Riding In Passenger Seat With Autopilot On

Not sure that would help in an autonomous car . Seat sensor is the answer. :/ Yurr. That's exactly why we don't need any autonomous driving technology. Let's stay doing the driving ourselves. TheBelltower. This can't be the full story. For a Tesla to be put into "drive," the car requires that your butt be in ...

On April 29-30 analysts noticed Cube (AUTO) move up by 6.78%

April 30, 2018 - By Louis Casey. It was good day for Cube (AUTO), as it jumped by $0.0011125932 or 6.78%, touching $0.0175233429. Cryptocoin Experts believe that Cube (AUTO) is looking for the $0.01927567719 goal. According to 5 analysts could reach $0.0350369574146517. The highest price ...

Global Autonomous Car Market 2018 Forecast- Google, BMW, Tesla, Audi, General Motors and ...

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Idiot Given Driving Ban After Switching on Tesla Autopilot and Jumping Into the Passenger Seat

You can't buy a fully- autonomous car right now. The best you can do is purchase a car with some sort of driving assist that feels pretty autonomous, but can't replace a human driver - like Tesla's Autopilot. Clearing people still don't understand that part, including one dickhead who was caught sitting in ...

Cube (AUTO) Total Cap Hits $95911830 as Price Down to $0.015285, Down -5.50 Percent in the ...

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Apple's latest VR patent looks to solve your motion sickness

Another scenario in Apple's motion sickness-fighting patent suggests that an autonomous car wouldn't even need windows, and that would cut down on feelings of motion sickness too. Instead of windows, virtual reality displays could show passengers what's outside and even give them the illusion of ...

Stanford graduate students teach local teenagers about engineering

On a sunny Saturday, 51 students from Bay Area middle schools and high schools traveled to Stanford's Mechanical Engineering building for an afternoon of engineering feats such as making an autonomous car work, building bird wings and even (hypothetically) saving the world from disease.

Global Autonomous Car Market 2018: Product, Application, Manufacturer, Sales and Segmentations

The recently published report titled Global Autonomous Car Industry 2018 Market Research Report is an in depth study providing complete analysis of the industry for the period 2018 – 2025. It provides complete overview of Global Autonomous Car Market considering all the major industry trends, ...

Autonomous Car Market Strategy Analysis 2018 To 2022

Global Autonomous Car Market Professional Survey Report 2018. presents an in-depth assessment of the Autonomous Car including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, standardization, regulatory landscape, deployment models, operator case studies, opportunities, future ...

Tesla driver busted in the passenger seat testing â€œautopilotâ€ on a freeway

Tesla driver busted in the passenger seat testing "autopilot" on a freeway. PEOPLE aren't getting the message that current autonomous car technology is designed to assist rather than replace drivers. Joshua Dowling. news.com.auApril 30, 20189:35am. Video; Image ...

Cube (AUTO) 24h Volume Hits $7367670 as Price Hits $0.016792

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Tesla Driver Offers Further Proof People Are Complete Idiots

If you're wondering how many times this website has complained about people mishandling semi-autonomous driving systems, we've completely lost count. However, if you want further evidence that we are justified in constantly wringing our hands over the matter, you're in luck. On April 20th, Bhavesh ...

NBC Points out Six Ways Autonomous Cars Will Change the World

A move towards a fully-autonomous future will change a lot of things around the world. There should be fewer accidents, individuals that weren't able to get around will be able to travel, and traffic should become a thing of the past. While these are the obvious changes that are set to happen, there are ...

Alexei Bayer: The age of Uber warfare

Uber sees its current business as a stepping stone to a new one: it is developing the driverless, or autonomous car . Meanwhile, military scientists are working on robotic soldiers – autonomous killers supplied with artificial intelligence, who will be able to make their own decisions whom to kill and how to ...

Cube (AUTO) 24 Hour Volume Hits $7066280 as Price Reaches $0.016546 â€“ Up 1.86 Percent ...

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OSU readying future engineers for jobs of the future

One possible scenario: A bus stopped at the curb is blocking the view of an autonomous car so it cannot "see" a person preparing to step into the street. ... "Instead of driving the ambulance, they can instead tend to victims in an autonomous car with drones at the ready to transport blood supplies to the ...

Cube (AUTO) Volume Hits $5568950 as Price Makes It to $0.016464 â€“ Up 7.64 Percent on Major ...

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Self-driving cars â€” by the numbers

55% — The percentage of consumers who would trust an autonomous car today if its safety record was proven to be better than a human-driven vehicle. $1.7 billion — The amount that Hyundai is investing in self-driving research. The South Korean automaker targets 2020 as the date to get its driverless ...

Investing in frontier technology is (and isn't) cleantech all over again

However, as more competing companies get to work on a new technology, the sense of urgency to acquire rapidly diminishes as the scarce, emerging technology quickly becomes widely available: there are now scores of AI, autonomous car , and AI chip companies out there. Furthermore, as technology ...

Engineers from Apple and Google are loving this viral Twitter challenge about describing their job ...

HBO. There's nothing a programmer likes more than a problem to solve. Perhaps that's why when Abstractions, a Pittsburgh-based conference about software development, issued a challenge on Twitter to find the best solution to a simple problem, it went viral. The challenge: Describe programming in ...

Shouqi-backed GoFun takes lead to apply autonomous driving tech in mobility area

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On April 27, GoFun, a car-sharing platform backed by state-owned Shouqi Group, showed off several autonomous driving technologies, such as autonomous pick-up and drop-off, automatic parking, vehicle formation and dispatch, at a conference in Beijing. Reportedly, GoFun will ...

Google's Sergey Brin flags concerns over AI 'revolution'

Mr Brin is president of Alphabet, the umbrella organisation that encompasses Google — which he co-founded with chief executive Larry Page — as well as its autonomous car unit Waymo, life sciences venture Calico and other offshoots of the internet company. Alphabet this week reported a 26 per cent ...

April 26-27 was a good day for Cube (AUTO) after 13.38% move up

April 27, 2018 - By Darrin Black. It was good day for Cube (AUTO), as it jumped by $0.0019357317 or 13.38%, touching $0.0164076306. Top Cryptocoin Analysts believe that Cube (AUTO) is looking for the $0.01804839366 goal. According to 7 analysts could reach $0.0381134696392927. The highest ...

15 Patents That Changed the World

Seventy years later, Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab project "No Hands Across America" drove 3,100 miles across the country in a semi- autonomous car that did all the steering while the driver did the accelerating and braking. Hundreds of patents for self-driving car technology exist, but the ...

Self-driving shuttle to be tested (slowly) in Minneapolis this weekend

The possible future of road travel will be demonstrated in Minneapolis this weekend, when the public can try out an autonomous shuttle bus. You might recall the self-driving EasyMile EZ10 made an appearance on Nicollet Mall during Super Bowl week, transporting visitors at a snail's pace through the ...

Global Autonomous Car Market Size 2018-2023| Hella, Magna, Gentex and Takata

The "Global Autonomous Car Market" report is a comprehensive study that provides an elite mixture of professional experts related to market scenario. The research team has followed global Autonomous Car market for a 10 years period beginning in 2013 and ending in 2023. The Autonomous Car ...

Green car briefs: Factory parking lot embraces solar tech

Autonomous-car technology company Waymo's first commercial self-driving taxi service will be able to operate 24/7 within the city of Phoenix, Arizona, later in 2018. It will cover a "geofenced" area of about 260 square kilometres. Waymo head John Krafcik said in April that the public "will be able to take ...

DS Automobiles' X E-TENSE Autonomous EV Previews the Future Cars of Year 2035

Have you ever imagined how the car of your dreams might look like in 2035? DS Automobiles might have an answer for you in the form of the DS X E-TENSE. Imagining a dream car for 2035 led DS Automobiles to create an asymmetric, three-seat concept founded on a unique association of two vehicles ...

Hyundai Mobis aims to achieve $41bn in sales by 2025 with focus on future cars

South Korea's leading auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. aims to generate 44 trillion won ($40.9 billion) in sales in 2025 by focusing on autonomous car technology and future vehicles. "We plan to grow sales of our core businesses - future cars and auto parts - by 8 percent annually to achieve 36 ...

GM income takes tumble in quarter

In interviews and on a conference call with analysts, GM executives gave updates on autonomous car development and said they see Ford's exit from most passenger car segments in North America as an opportunity: • The company remains on track to start carrying passengers in autonomous vehicles ...

VIDEO: Audi R8 Spyder ad campaign takes shots at autonomous driving

As he leaves his office, he gets into an autonomous car that meets him outside of his work. As he gets in, he greets it, saying "Evening, Clara", referring to the autonomous AI system of the car. "Home, please." he continues. A cup of espresso then rises from the center console (which is an admittedly ...

Audi Wants You To Remember How Fun Driving Is In Its New Ad

Audi's new spot, according to Adweek, was directed by Craig Gillespie, the man behind "I, Tonya," and is a stirring reminder that driving can be fun. The ad starts off in a packed futuristic city and sees David get into an autonomous car . His personal digital assistant, Clara, notices that something's off and ...

BMW Picks Israeli Start-Up Innoviz For Autonomous Car Radar

LiDAR sensors fire pulsed laser light to measure the distance to a target and help autonomous cars navigate their environment. Kfar Saba-based Innoviz was founded in January 2016 by former members of the elite technological unit of the Israeli Defense Forces with expertise in the fields of ...

Will Google's Waymo Get Permit to Test Autonomous Cars?

Alphabet's (GOOGL) autonomous car development company Waymo recently applied for a newly available permit to test driverless cars on some California roads. With this application, Waymo has become the second company to apply for testing of autonomous cars without a driver behind the wheels.

GM 1Q earnings fall 60 percent, triggering stock slide

DETROIT — General Motors' first-quarter net income fell 60 percent from a year ago, and its shares fell even though the numbers beat Wall Street estimates. The Detroit automaker says it made just over $1 billion from January through March, or 77 cents per share. A year ago the company made $2.6 ...

GM 1Q earnings fall 60 percent, triggering stock slide

In interviews and on a conference call with analysts, GM executives also gave updates on autonomous car development and said they see Ford's exit from most passenger car segments in North America as an opportunity: -- The company remains on track to start carrying passengers in autonomous ...

General Motors' earnings down 60 per cent, but US sales rise

DETROIT—General Motors' first-quarter net income fell 60 per cent from a year ago, and its shares fell even though the numbers beat Wall Street estimates. The Detroit automaker says it made just over $1 billion from January through March, or 77 cents per share. A year ago the company made $2.6 ...

Tesla Autopilot chief departs for Intel

In that case, the NHTSA ruled that Autopilot was not defective, but the NTSB decided Tesla shared part of the blame, prompting the company to make some changes in Autopilot. It's early in the growing world of autonomous car technology. The fatal Tesla crash last month came less than a week after an ...

Tesla Autopilot chief departs, may be headed to Intel

It's early in the growing world of autonomous car technology. The fatal Tesla crash last month came less than a week after an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. Federal agencies are investigating that incident. Electrek first reported on Keller's departure. The Wall ...

BMW chooses Israeli co Innoviz's autonomous car sensors

Israeli company Innoviz Technologies, which provides advanced laser-based sensor solutions (LiDAR), today announced that auto manufacturer BMW had selected its InnovizOne LiDAR sensor for installation in its autonomous and semi-autonomous series of vehicles starting in 2021. These vehicles ...

Autonomous fleets will make Uber and Lyft cheaper than owning a car by 2027

There are, of course, a number of things still standing in the way of the autonomous car takeover. But if the potential for saving millions of human lives doesn't convince the world to hand their keys to a responsible robot, maybe a financial appeal will do the trick. The Next Web's 2018 conference is just a ...

This startup hopes to keep barf bags out of self-driving cars

Anderson anticipates that ClearMotion will be available for widespread use within a couple of years. The company is also working on making it more comfortable for human-driven cars—which makes sense, since it could be a while longer before an autonomous car is anywhere close to your driveway.

GM 1Q earnings fall 60 percent, triggering stock slide

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' first-quarter net income fell 60 percent from a year ago, and its shares fell even though the numbers beat Wall Street estimates. The Detroit automaker says it made just over $1 billion from January through March, or 77 cents per share. A year ago the company made ...

Hyundai Mobis banks on self-driving car tech

While the auto parts company has already established a team dedicated to open innovation, it is considering inking M&A deals with a number of companies with expertise in car sensors, human machine interface and autonomous car platforms. BY KIM JEE-HEE [kim.jeehee@joongang.co.kr] ...

Hyundai Mobis banks on self-driving car tech

GM 1Q earnings fall 60 pct. but company beats estimates

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' first-quarter net income fell 60 percent, but the company handily beat Wall Street estimates as U.S. sales rose. The Detroit automaker says it made just over $1 billion from January through March, or 77 cents per share. A year ago the company made $2.6 billion, ...

GM 1Q earnings fall 60 percent, triggering stock slide

In interviews and on a conference call with analysts, GM executives also gave updates on autonomous car development and said they see Ford's exit from most passenger car segments in North America as an opportunity: — The company remains on track to start carrying passengers in autonomous ...

GM 1Q earnings fall 60 pct. but company beats estimates

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' first-quarter net income fell 60 percent from a year ago, but the company handily beat Wall Street estimates as U.S. sales rose. The Detroit automaker says it made just over $1 billion from January through March, or 77 cents per share. A year ago the company made ...

BMW Selects Innoviz for LiDAR & Computer Vision Software on its 2021 Autonomous Vehicles

We are proud to partner with a market leader like BMW to help enable the autonomous car revolution." In addition to LIDAR, Innoviz is working on computer vision, HD mapping, SLAM, and more to support an entire autonomous driving stack. LiDAR technology can also apply to additional market ...

Hyundai Mobis Is Transforming into a Future Technology-focused Company Expected to Record ...

During the transitional period before the completion of autonomous car , which is estimated to be at least 10 years from now, the ADAS market corresponding to Level 1 and 2 autonomous driving is also expected to grow fast. The global research firm, Strategy Analytics, predicted that the global ADAS ...

CapitaLand Eyes East China Business Park and More Asia Real Estate Headlines

... entered the driverless car space and was already carrying out tests. In so doing Alibaba now joins other Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and Baidu. According to a spokesperson for Alibaba, the online retail giant intends to hire about 50 more autonomous car specialists for its artificial intelligence ...

Global Electrical Steering Column Lock Market by Trends, Key Players, Driver, Forecast to 2024

For instance, in September 2017, Audi unveiled a fully autonomous car concept in Germany without a steering wheel that uses artificial intelligence assistance to deliver services. Moreover, in California, vehicles without steering wheels will be available to customers from 2018. Light commercial vehicles ...

'We've created these beautiful symbols of human freedom'

Mighty Apple has at the very least decided that for now the car market is too rough a playground for its talents, and even storied Tesla, backed by Musk's billions, has hardly found it easy to mass produce an electric or autonomous car . Twohig is convinced, though, that Byton has the right stuff. "This is ...

The 3 Automotive Trends No One is Talking About

With organisations such as Audi innovating in the autonomous car space, the fusion of the data from the various sensor systems will certainly impact the current trend of decentralising the ECU. Bringing subsystems together under one centralised ECU, labelled a fusion ECU, is one path being currently ...

The Australian tech company behind connected cars

Although wide-scale adoption of connected and autonomous car technologies may be decades away, there are models on sale now with such features. The Tesla Model S has an autopilot function which offers semi-autonomous driver assistance and some Mercedez-Benz models boast smart driver ...

Is Autonomous Vehicle Legislation Being Held Up? And Why?

Autonomous Car legislatorsSelf-DrivingTeslaU.S.UberUK. Follow Nikki on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Aminorjourney. Follow the show on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/TransportEvolve. Buy Transport Evolved SWAG : https://shop.spreadshirt.com/Transportevolved/. Support us on Patreon: ...

Autonomous Cars Will Get Safer With One Key Change, Jaguar Boss Reveals

Speth's point comes at a time of uncertainty in the industry, after the first fatal autonomous car accident on a public road in March. The accident involved a Volvo SUV driving in Arizona as part of Uber's autonomous car testing program, and led to the company pausing the program. Tesla, which offers a ...

In the Post-Driving Era, Audi Shows How Quickly We'll Become Nostalgic for the Wheel

In the ad, David's autonomous car isn't clearly branded as an Audi, though we're left to assume from his brand loyalty that he's stuck with the luxury automaker over the years. As a result, we end up with a classic "have your cake and eat it too" solution: Why own just one Audi when you can own two?

BYTON in Beijing: We Interview Four Of BYTON's Top Executives

With the recent troubles of once-promising Chinese electric vehicle startups like Faraday Future and Lucid Air, it's not hard to be a tad skeptical every time the next all-electric, connected autonomous car company based in China is announced. However, BYTON is a bit different and is really beginning to ...

Waymo's application for driverless testing challenged by consumer group

Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer group, has called on the Department of Motor Vehicles to make its application process for granting permits to autonomous car companies available to the public. The consumer group's challenge comes amid reports that Waymo has provided all the necessary ...

Alibaba's Cloud Computing Unit Inks Agreement With Oceanwide

According to a spokesperson for Alibaba, the online retail giant intends to hire about 50 more autonomous car specialists for its artificial intelligence research lab. Level 4 capability. Per sources road tests of self-driving vehicles are being conducted by Alibaba regularly and the online retailer has ...

NVIDIA, BlackBerry and the Future of the Connected / Autonomous Car

He not only praised the relationship with BlackBerry, but also spoke to the future of car technology. Mathias is out of Audi, which was also really early and aggressive in terms of the development of the autonomous car , and he likely is one of the leading experts on where the industry is and needs to go ...

Consumer Watchdog Calls on DMV to Open Robot Car Application Process to Public after Waymo ...

The department would not identify the applicant, but Consumer Watchdog learned it was Waymo, originally Google's autonomous car unit. A DMV spokesperson would not specify a timeframe but estimated it would take at least some weeks before a final decision is made on the application. Waymo's bid ...

Filling the gap: Competition for autonomous vehicle talent steep

CMU is the primary university in Pennsylvania that Aptiv recruits from. The company plans to add up to 100 new employees to its Pittsburgh operations by the end of the year. Uber Advanced Technologies Group, which halted autonomous car testing as a result of a fatal accident in Tempe, Ariz., also said ...

Jaguar to Introduce the I-Pace eTrophy Race Car to the Track in Berlin

In one well-targeted move, Jaguar insured that it will have a healthy production run of the model, after signing a deal with one of the most successful autonomous -car systems developers, Waymo. As per the contract between the two, Jaguar will supply Waymo with 20,000 I-Pace vehicles to be built and ...

Self-Driving Cars and Humans Face Inevitable Collisions

But an autonomous vehicle can scan its entire surroundings in a fraction of a second. It need not necessarily stop—or even slow down—to navigate the intersection safely. But an autonomous car that rolls through a stop sign without even pausing will be seen as alarming, and even dangerous, to nearby ...

Autonomous Car Market 2018 Analysis Report- North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast ...

The global revenue of Autonomous Car market was valued at __.__ M USD in 2016 and is expected to reach USD _._ M USD in 2022. In the future five years, we predict the CAGR of global revenue is __._%. The Global Autonomous Car Market Research Report 2018 report presents a basic overview of ...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Self-driving cars and humans face inevitable collisions

... fraction of a second. It need not necessarily stop — or even slow down — to navigate the intersection safely. But an autonomous car that rolls through a stop sign without even pausing will be seen as alarming, and even dangerous, to nearby humans, because they're assuming human rules still apply.

Letters: Self-Driving Cars Will Not Make Rail Obsolete

That autonomous car has to deal with other people on the road, the roads themselves, and state-specific regulations — none of which is within the control of any autonomous vehicle manufacturer. In addition, unless our economy is booming, and the vast majority of residents are cashing in, it's likely that ...

Mapbox Hires Former Tesla Autopilot Designer to Rethink Driverless-Car Maps

Autonomous-car developers such as Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo and General Motors Co.'s Cruise Automation have paid increasing attention to the vehicle's cockpit, understanding how the vehicle will need to communicate the world to passengers with changing needs. "The map needs to be the canvas that ...

Are cars about to start talking to you?

At this point however, none of the leading autonomous car manufacturers are testing voice announcements directed at pedestrians. This is probably a good thing. Many people still regard the use of the car horn as being offensive and rude, a robotic announcement from nearby cars may be even worse.

Toshiba has its eye on the wearables and edge computing space

One autonomous car creates around 4,000GB of data per day; imaging trying to send and process a whole fleet's worth of data in the Cloud in real time. One solution to this is the concept of edge computing; processing data locally – whether on the device itself or on a nearby hub for multiple devices ...

CA DMV Should Allow Citizens to View Applications Process for Driverless Autonomous Cars

Consumer Watchdog today called on the Department of Motor Vehicles to open its application process for granting permits to test driverless robot cars to the public as the department confirmed an applicant had provided all the information necessary to review the application. The department would not ...

Are we ready for the cybersecurity challenges of self-driving cars?

Systems isolation. Critical systems within an autonomous car must operate in isolation from one another, while still working together to create a consistent, coherent driving experience. This is likely the challenge that will be solved first, as we've already seen this to an extent with modern connected cars.

Tech Stocks Earnings Roster for Apr 25: PYPL, CTXS & FFIV

However, the sector continues to benefit highly from the emerging trends of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and increasing demand for cloud solutions and products. Moreover, growing adoption of autonomous car technology, advanced driver assisted ...

We're off to the self-driving car races

Tito Hamze visited Thunderhill Raceway Park, where every year angel investor and car-racing enthusiast Joshua Schachter hosts the self-driving car races. For two days, a slew of autonomous car companies that are working on all different parts of the self-driving stack get together, hang out and have ...

Self-Driving Cars and Humans Face Inevitable Collisions

But an autonomous car that rolls through a stop sign without even pausing will be seen as alarming, and even dangerous, to nearby humans, because they're assuming human rules still apply. What machines can understand. Here's another example: Think about cars merging from a side street onto a ...

Yamato and DeNA Test Autonomous Delivery System in Japan

On April 24, Yamato Transport Co. and DeNA Co. tested an autonomous vehicle delivery service to gauge the potential of self-driving technology in the field of logistics. The two Tokyo-based companies conducted the experiment in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, in which an electric car navigated ...

Tech Stocks Earnings Roster for Apr 25: PYPL, CTXS & FFIV

Moreover, growing adoption of autonomous car technology, advanced driver assisted systems (ADAS) and Internet of Things (IoT) presents significant growth opportunity. Our research shows that when a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) stock is combined with a positive Earnings ESP, the ...

ACT trial for automated vehicles

Canberra drivers are being invited to test self-driving cars, but it's not the cars under scrutiny, rather the human behind the wheel. Unlike NSW's autonomous car pilot scheme, the ACT program aims to establish how quickly a driver can resume control a vehicle after driving in automated mode.

Startup Voyage Wants to Open Source Self-Driving Car Safety

The company is including a "testing toolkit" as part of the release to allow people to design their own autonomous-car test scenarios. Voyage noted that input from a robust online community is what transformed the open-source operating system Linux from a flaw-ridden experiment into a viable product.

Autonomous car research at Stanford

With those eerily empty cars come questions about everything from traffic patterns (will we still need stop lights if cars can communicate?) to insurance (who pays for an autonomous car's accident?). And then there's the question of safety. "Computers don't get drunk," said Stephen Zoepf, executive ...

Global Autonomous Car Market: Latest Trends, Drivers And Challenges 2018 â€“ 2025

According to a new report published by Reports Monitor titled, "Global Autonomous Car Market, Growth Opportunities, Innovations and Forecast, 2018-2025," the Autonomous Car Market is rapidly growing from 2018 to 2025. An autonomous car also termed as driverless vehicle is a robotic vehicle ...

The Future Of Your Commute

In 2018, Audi is set to release a new semi- autonomous car that will be able to completely take over steering during traffic jams–one of the most annoying times to be at the wheel. But to successfully transition between the car driving itself back to human driving, the car has to be alert to precisely when the ...

Self-driving cars and humans face inevitable collisions

But an autonomous vehicle can scan its entire surroundings in a fraction of a second. It need not necessarily stop – or even slow down – to navigate the intersection safely. But an autonomous car that rolls through a stop sign without even pausing will be seen as alarming, and even dangerous, to nearby ...

This startup's CEO wants to open-source self-driving car safety testing

Another start-up, Comma.ai, has also released the software for its aftermarket autonomous car kit, following a tangle with regulators. And Chinese search giant Baidu is slowly developing an open-source platform called Apollo that it hopes will become the Android of self-driving cars. Cameron believes ...

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... supplying memory chips for these markets. That's especially true for autonomous cars. Micron began shipping its super-fast LPDDR4x memory chips to several automakers last year for use in self-driving cars. The company is also working to develop even more advanced autonomous car technology.

Global Radar Market Revenue to Expand at CAGR of 8.3% during Forecast Period (2017â€“2027 ...

Autonomous car development and privatization of space exploration are the major factors driving growth of the global Radar market. Early warning radar systems include radar-based systems used to detect moving threats at far away distances, and to alert the defense forces in order to allow ample time ...

How Will the Electrified and Autonomous Car of the Future Look Like?

An autonomous driving electric vehicle may not take to the sky any time soon but could one day start to look a bit like The Jetsons' flying car - a glass bubble without the long hood that is a signature feature of today's gasoline-fuelled cars. The key game-changing technology behind that prospect is the ...

Draper man luckily survives after boulder smashes into his car in Suncrest

DRAPER, Utah (News4Utah) - - A Draper man is lucky to be alive after a boulder decimated part of his car while he was driving through Suncrest. Gary Malin says it happened to him Sunday afternoon. "All of a sudden, a boulder came out of the sky, went through the roof, came through the windshield, ...

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Michigan, United Kingdom team up to address autonomy

Under the current Department of Transportation guidelines, state governments have responsibility over the nitty-gritty details, like insurance, licensing and inspections. The feds retain oversight over safety, design and public education. The UK saw its first autonomous car enter public testing in late 2016, ...

Road Rave: Who pays for autonomous driving fatalities?

The advent of autonomous cars has the potential to fundamentally change the massive automobile liability insurance industry . It boils down to this: how can you be considered at fault in a traffic accident when there's no steering wheel? Secondly, the insurance industry is likely to change along with the ...

Alibaba to put AI-enabled voice assistant inside cars

Last week, Alibaba confirmed with the Global Times that it is developing self-driving technologies, and media reports said that the firm's first mass-produced autonomous car will hit the road within this year. Drivers now can use Tmall Genie from their homes to lock and unlock cars and monitor such ...

Amazon Is Ramping up Its (Still Rather) Secretive Home Robot Project

... a bone in the form of a verbal command. The same sources tell Bloomberg that prototypes of Amazon's home robot make use of advanced cameras and computer vision software. That's essentially the same technology that helps an autonomous car navigate roads could help Vesta traverse the home.

Report: Amazon is turning Alexa into a home robot

Prototypes are said to have advanced cameras and computer vision software, helping them navigate around furniture and through doorways like an miniature autonomous car . The idea of domestic robots is not as far-fetched as it first seems, although even the world's largest technology companies still ...

Amazon Is Building Elon Musk's Immortal Robot Dictator And Its Name Is 'Vesta'

Also, in light of recent events (here and here, for instance) on the autonomous car front, I'm not sure it's very comforting that the same technology will be employed by Vesta as "he/she" meanders around your living room, cohabitating with small children and animals. The timing here is great, coming as it ...

UK and Michigan Will Collaborate on Self-Driving Car Rules

As the home of Detroit's Big Three U.S. automakers, Michigan also has a strong incentive to promote autonomous-car testing. Ford, General Motors, and Waymo (which works with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) more or less split their autonomous- car testing among Michigan and locations in California and ...

5 Biggest Predictions Ahead of Alphabet Earnings Call

The parent company of Google covers a number of projects like autonomous car firm Waymo, video streaming service YouTube, and smart home developer Nest. While search engines and advertising make up a large portion of the company's revenue, these areas could have wide-reaching social ...

Hyundai Mobis to test self-driving car in US

The autonomous car model will be tested in the US, from the middle of this month. The company plans to extend tests to Korea and Germany in the next few months. For the testing, Hyundai Mobis has chosen Kia K5 (Optima), which has been embedded with the company's autonomous driving system.

Global Self-Driving Car Hardware Market 2018-2023

Ford will build a production version autonomous car by 2021 • Waymo is preparing to launch its first commercial ride-hailing service in Phoenix, Arizona featuring fully driverless minivans(Chrysler Pacifica) later in 2018. For Self-driving car hardware volume, the year 2018 is expected to be somewhere ...

Amazon's Secretive â€œVestaâ€ Program is Reportedly Building Home Robots

"Vesta" prototypes can apparently navigate through homes using autonomous car technologies such as cameras and computer vision, though the robots' sizes and locomotion systems are not specified. According to the report, Lab126 has hired robotics industry mechanical engineers to aid in the project ...

Study shows first computer-driven cars will have noticeable impact on rush hour

"To create a more congestion-free city, the key is not in persuading more people to buy these cars but rather to induce them to undermine personal vehicle ownership, and to shift to autonomous car -sharing which is seamlessly integrated with transit," she says. "The results would be increasing mobility ...

Volvo and Mercedes relationship could be about to get deeper

It's a curious statement to make given Volvo's current collaboration with Uber to develop autonomous car technology. Geely and Volvo's involvement with Mercedes was initially thought to be to tap into the German brand's electric car technology, but the companies could yet collaborate on more.

Proposed Autonomous Car Legislation Is Petering Out After Recent Fatal Crashes

Federal lawmakers have been toying with proposed legislation to oversee the deployment of autonomous cars for months now, but that effort is appearing to stall out, following two recent crashes involving an Uber-owned self-driving car and a Tesla Model X. Article preview thumbnail ...

Intel (INTC) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

The buyout enables the company rapidly penetrate the autonomous car technology market, currently dominated by the likes of NVIDIA. Intel has also been a long-time supplier to Alphabet's Waymo division. Further, its partnerships with BMW, Nissan, Volkswagen AG, and Ferrari will boost sales of ...

Intel (INTC) to Report Q1 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

Moreover, Intel's acquisition of MobilEye now enables it to offer almost anything related to self-driving vehicles - cameras, in-car networking, sensor-chips, roadway mapping, cloud software, machine learning and data management. The buyout enables the company rapidly penetrate the autonomous car ...

Amazon is reportedly planning 'Vesta' home robot for 2019

Vesta prototypes can apparently navigate through homes using autonomous car technologies such as cameras and computer vision, though the robots' sizes and locomotion systems are not specified. Amazon's Lab126 consumer hardware R&D division has hired robotics industry mechanical engineers ...

Alibaba to put AI-enabled voice assistant inside cars

For example, search engine company Baidu has held road tests of its self-driving technology. Last week, Alibaba confirmed with the Global Times that it is developing self-driving technologies, and media reports said that the firm's first mass-produced autonomous car will hit the road within this year.

LiDAR firm Luminar unveils newest unit, aims to lead autonomous sector

Its 136,000 square-foot facility in Orlando, where it has cut down its build time from around a day to just 8 minutes, bears testament to the company's growing appetite for deploying its systems on every single autonomous car on the road, cite sources. Luminar's CEO Austin Russell was quoted stating that ...

UK and Michigan to collaborate on driverless cars

Deal to develop autonomous car rules and tech signed UK and Michigan, home of 'Motor City' Detroit. The UK and the US state of Michigan, home to America's centre of car making, Detroit, are to work together on the development of autonomous vehicles. The news comes after it was revealed Michigan ...

Drivers needed as world-first semi-autonomous vehicle trial launched

A Canberra company is looking for about 30 drivers to take part in a world-first trial of semi-autonomous vehicles. Seeing Machines on Monday launched phase one of its CanDrive program, which focuses on the behaviour of drivers behind the wheel of automated vehicles, and how they react when they ...

Who's the Lidar IP Leader?

MADISON, Wisc. — Among the host of sensors nowadays loaded into autonomous vehicles, lidar (light detection and ranging) projects as both critical and lucrative. As the automotive industry girds for a wave of autonomous car rollouts, Pierre Cambou, activity leader for imaging and sensors at ...

The 5 Most Amazing AI Advances in Autonomous Driving

These developments are exciting news and are expediting the arrival of the fully autonomous car . However, before we see autonomous cars on the road across the globe and it is treated as a normal phenomenon, two things will be key: one, the imparting of common sense in driverless cars, and two, ...

The robot revolution might not be as close as you think

Yes there are a few breakthroughs necessary to make the fully autonomous car a reality, but we know they'll happen. The mining industry is already using robot trucks in their mines. Farmers have robot machinery for their fields. Medium prices cars already have semi autonomous features for parking and ...

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LiDAR Company Luminar Making Moves to Dominate Autonomous Segment

With that kind of a schedule, Luminar could make enough units of its LiDAR system to be on every single autonomous car on the road. Getting build times down is just one step Luminar is taking to catch up to its competitors. Luminar has also doubled its staff to approximately 350 employees and hired ...

China's self-driving vehicles on track to take global leadership position, ahead of US

"Snow is unusual in Shanghai," says Li Xiao, an engineer at the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle Pilot Zone, "so we have to take the opportunity, to test the vehicle in the most adverse weather conditions." Alibaba confirms self-driving car tests, joining Baidu and Tencent in China's autonomous car ...

'Auditing AI is the key to the future, the machine should be able to explain its decisions ...

Tesla is driven by software and lots of sensors. It is probably 70 percent hardware and software, with only 30 percent being mechanical. What we call a car has become a new platform for developers, because you can develop so many applications on the Tesla platform. The autonomous car is also not ...

2019 Byton electric SUV concept unveiled

Aurora is headed by Google's former autonomous driving boss, Chris Urmson, and several pioneers of the autonomous car industry. Its technology enables Level 4 autonomy, meaning it will be able to drive itself without any human input. The automaker said its SUV will feature driver assistance systems ...

The Brave New World of Autonomous Vehicles

A fully autonomous car —a car driving itself under any conditions—"will require near-perfect roads with strong lane markings, extremely accurate maps updated instantaneously, and for now, no ice and snow." California alone is estimated to require $130 billion in road repairs, and the Department of ...

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Tech Giant Alibaba Starts Testing Its Own Autonomous Systems In China

Chinese tech company Alibaba has commenced testing self-driving cars in its home country, a new report has revealed. According to the South China Morning Post, Alibaba is running road tests of a selection of autonomous vehicles throughout China. It is claimed that the company's self-driving project ...

BMW Doesn't Think You Can Handle Autonomous Cars

BMW has revealed more about its plans to make cars smarter, but not necessarily fully autonomous. According to BMW board member Peter Schwarzenbauer who spoke at the company's FIZ Research and Development center near Munich, full autonomy is still a long way off. Schwarzenbauer said that ...

Motorists may need special licences to operate driverless cars

Motorists could need special licences to operate autonomous vehicles when they arrive on the roads of the UK, a new report has suggested. The Venturer report, conducted by insurance firm Axa and legal company Burges Salmon, points out that autonomous cars could lull drivers into a false sense of ...

Insight: Waymo - Google's self-driving division

The boss of the most powerful self-driving car technology company in the world has a Porsche 911 GT3 on order. And a Caterham in his garage. And two more Porsche 911s nestling alongside that: a 997-series C2 S and a 964-series Targa. Easy natured and always the evangelist, John Krafcik – CEO ...

Connecticut Launches Pilot Program For Autonomous Car Testing

Connecticut has launched a pilot program for self-driving vehicles that will see select prototypes driving on public roads throughout the state. Governor Dannel P. Malloy revealed the news on Tuesday, saying that autonomous vehicles represent the future of transportation. Hartford Courant reports that ...

OPINION: Get Ready for DLT 3.0

One possible example suggested by Igor Telyatnikov, president and COO of AlphaPoint, at the Synchronize 2018 conference in Manhattan involved a community-owned autonomous car , which would be a shared service. When no one in the community is using the vehicle, it would generate income as ...

Jack Ma plays coy about self-driving plans

Technology companies stand to gain from the autonomous car revolution. Software will become increasingly important as cars rely on maps and sensors to make sense of their surroundings, and as consumers spend less car time driving and more time working or plugged into the internet.

Jack Ma plays coy about self-driving plans

It also has a big stake in ride-sharing platform Didi Chuxing, which demonstrated an autonomous vehicle in February, as well as in NavInfo, a major provider of autonomous vehicle software. Technology companies stand to gain from the autonomous car revolution. Software will become increasingly ...

Bots know better: Maybe AIOps tools should drive your stack

This first fatality led Uber to halt its test program, and it renewed questions about the safety of autonomous vehicles. Right-sizing a cloud instance seems almost simplistic by comparison -- yet many IT pros would sooner buy an autonomous car than allow a bot to drive their cloud. I've heard a lot lately ...

Uber Impacts Bloomington Taxi Companies Differently

"We actually serve all of Indiana when requested, so that does happen time to time. And we've even been known to go to O'Hare Airport in Chicago." But McLary says he thinks ride sharing services could face tough competition in the future. "I really believe, firmly, that the autonomous car is going to be ...

DAV Foundation Secures Major Korean Investment from Block Crafters Capital

DAV's technology has the promise to be a key. part of the revolution in transport and logistics." The role of blockchain in the evolution of autonomous car development. is a natural fit, with the vehicles themselves representing the most. public example of a decentralized network of devices. Combining this.

Hyundai Mobis Testing New Autonomous Car

April 20, 2018—Hyundai Mobis will test its autonomous car model, named M.BILLY, in Michigan in the middle of April. The testing will be for level 3 and level 4 autonomous driving system development. Level 3 requires driver involvement in certain circumstances and level 4 means no driver intervention.

DAV Foundation Secures Major Korean Investment from Block Crafters Capital

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ArtCenter Grad Show may or may not portend the future of car design

And though Bang's Porsche 929 was a Level 4 autonomous car , it "could still be driven." Sam Firouzbakht showed a svelte, aerodynamic Lamborghini four-seater sedan concept he hoped would jog the Raging Bull into more aggressive design. "They're not shocking anyone anymore," Firouzbakht said.

eCall â€“ why prioritising network traffic saves lives

A connected fridge, for example, will have significantly different bandwidth requirements and traffic priority to an autonomous car or a "life line" emergency service, both of which depend on ultra-low latency and extreme high availability. The ability of operators to differentiate and prioritise emergency data ...

Vertiv makes a pitch for the Edge

... and the safety aspects of autonomous cars;; Human latency sensitive tasks where there is a limited time to respond, including smart retail, language translation and augmented/virtual reality;; Machine to machine tasks such as connecting devices inside an autonomous car , sub-units in a smart home, ...

Hyundai Mobis to test semi-autonomous car in US

Hyundai Mobis says it will test a self-driving vehicle in the US this year, with the aim to mass-produce a semi- autonomous car in 2022. The components subsidiary of Hyundai-Kia Group said it plans to start test driving a vehicle named M.BILLY on the motorways of Michigan this year as the company ...

Motor Mouth: WTF will we do with all the time in autonomous cars?

What will we do with all the extra time? Actually, if you're IPSOS, the French market research giant, the question is actually WTF — no, it's not what you think it is; it stands for What The Future, the name of its latest study into mobility — will we do once we no longer need, want or are allowed to drive our ...

China releases autonomous car guidelines, Alibaba interested

China has now become one of the few countries to allow autonomous vehicle testing on public roads. The government has recently released a national guideline for the same and wants to speed up the development of such vehicles in the county. The regulations will come into force from May 1, 2018.

M.BILLY Autonomous Test Car Coming to Michigan & US

Hyundai Mobis kicks off testing of its autonomous car M.BILLY on the roads around the world. The company now has three test cars, but will increase the number to over ten by the end of this year and increase engineers in the autonomous driving field more than 15% every year to put a concentrated ...

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As we sprint toward Level 5 autonomous cars (Audi has already announced that the 2019 A8 will be the world's first Level 3 autonomous car ), the fusion of the data from various sensor systems will certainly impact the current trend of decentralizing the ECU. One school of thought is to bring subsystems ...

Jaguar's move will not hit Shannon plans

If you can drive an autonomous car from Limerick, out to Lahinch and back, in the winter-time when it's dark, you know you've cracked it." When JLR announced its investment in January, it outlined all its new cars would be available in electric or hybrid version by 2020. Shannon was picked because it is ...

Study Shows That Autonomous Cars May Require Additional Licensing, Laws to Ban Drivers from ...

Isn't the freedom to do random things the whole point of an autonomous car ? At the very least, that's what automakers were telling us. But, according to the study conducted by Venturer, drivers experience a lag of around two seconds before they can take full control of a self-driving car. That may sound ...

New laws could ban driver distractions in autonomous cars

The news follows calls for autonomous car drivers to undertake a special driving test to receive a new licence before getting behind the wheel. Professor Natasha Merat from the Institute for Transport Studies also said drivers should be trained to take back control of the vehicles safely and quickly.

Ethical AI Kills Too: An Assement of the Lords Report on AI in the UK

It also has an interesting effect on philosophy, and in particular ethics: suddenly, a great deal of the millennia-long debates on the good and the bad, the fair and unfair, need to be concluded and programmed into machines. Does the autonomous car in an unavoidable collision swerve to avoid killing five ...

Hyundai Mobis: Autonomous Car 'M.BILLY' Ready to Hit the Road around the World

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 19, 2018--Hyundai Mobis (KRX:012330) kicks off testing of its autonomous car M.BILLY on the roads around the world. The company now has three test cars, but will increase the number to over ten by the end of this year and increase engineers in the ...

Hyundai Mobis to test self-driving car in US

Hyundai Mobis will soon start testing Level 3 and 4 functions of its autonomous- car components and software on the roads of a test track in Michigan. It plans to extend tests to Korea and Germany in the next few months. The leading auto parts manufacturer announced Thursday that M.Billy, a nickname ...

5 Takeaways From Robo Madness 2018

The first fully autonomous car will be available to consumers around 2030. The first commercial robo-taxi service won't be run by Uber. (Predictions from Ryan Chin of Optimus Ride and Shakeel Avadhany of ClearMotion.) 5. The huge amount of money and resources going into self-driving vehicles will ...

Hyundai Mobis: Autonomous Car 'M.BILLY' Ready to Hit the Road around the World

SEOUL, South Korea--Hyundai Mobis (KRX:012330) kicks off testing of its autonomous car M.BILLY on the roads around the world. The company now has three test cars, but will increase the number to over ten by the end of this year and increase engineers in the autonomous driving field more than ...

Mercedes-Benz Museum To Host Deutsche Telekom Museum Mobility of the Future

Will the autonomous car become a second office or living room? Will we still have cars of our own in the future, or will we share vehicles? How are cities going to change? In a nutshell, how will the scenarios relating to connected, autonomous, shared and electric driving change our everyday lives at ...

Hyundai Mobis: Autonomous Car 'M.BILLY' Ready to Hit the Road around the World

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hyundai Mobis (KRX:012330) kicks off testing of its autonomous car M.BILLY on the roads around the world. The company now has three test cars, but will increase the number to over ten by the end of this year and increase engineers in the autonomous ...

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Why ethical AI will make the world a more awesome place

An article on TechEmergence, by Daniel Faggella, describes a possible scenario where an autonomous car is hacked while driving on the highway. If the car manufacturer didn't design the car's kill-switch carefully, then pressing the switch could cause the car to spin out of control and harm people.

Mady Delvaux-Stehres (European Parliament): " There is no way a robot should be treated like a ...

If a vacuum cleaner, an autonomous car or an algorithm can all be considered robots, how to cover them in one definition? Should they be treated under the same legislation? This report seeks ,to cover the range of "smart autonomous robots" by taking into account today´s and tomorrow ´s technological ...

Latest Developments in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems | Fastest-Growing Technology in ...

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems Market is growing speedy for segments in automotive electronics, with steadily increasing rates of adoption of industry-wide quality standards, in vehicular safety systems, developing technology specific standards, such as Image Sensor quality and communications ...

Alibaba says making rapid progress in self-driving tech

According to a Reuters report, Baidu, the Google equivalent of China, also got permission to road-test its autonomous car technology. The permit allows the company to test its tech and cars on 33 roads with access to 105 kilometres in lesser-populated regions of China, the company had said. Baidu is ...

Rambus Releases Programmable Chip â€“ Preventing Car Hacking's One Aim

... these could result in seizing control of critical systems such as brakes or accelerators. Rambus claims its CMRT can be "seamlessly" embedded in electronic control units, infotainment head-end/gateway processors, as well as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous car chips.

Chongqing issues licenses for self-driving car road tests

The city opened 9.6 kilometers of public roads for autonomous car testing in Liang Jiang New Area on Wednesday. "From a closed test field to public roads, the new move shows not only the fast development of China's self-driving technology but also the solid progress of supporting policies and ...

Hyundai Mobis to test self-driving cars on US motorway and later in Germany

"We are focusing on developing high-precision sensors with an aim to mass-produce a Level 3 autonomous car equipped with independently developed sensors in 2022," said a company spokesman. The company said it will raise R&D spending to 10 percent of revenue by 2021. By Kim Jung-hwan ...

Hyundai Mobis to self-develop autonomous driving tech in US, Korea, Germany

Kia Motors' K5 midsize sedan-based autonomous car is currently equipped with a front camera, while the remaining 24 sensors are scheduled to be installed beginning in the third quarter of this year, the company said. As its first test bed, the company plans to start testing M.Billy in Michigan, US later ...

Hyundai Mobis to test semi-autonomous vehicle in US

[THE INVESTOR] Hyundai Mobis, Korea's biggest auto parts maker, said on April 19 it will test a self-driving vehicle in the United States this year, with an aim to mass-produce a semi- autonomous car in 2022. The company said it plans to start test-driving a vehicle named M.BILLY on the motorways of ...

Cohda inventor expands in Adelaide

The tick to start building the device, called Myriota and made by the company of the same name, comes from the founders behind the Cohda Wireless car communication system – a vehicle position monitoring system used worldwide in autonomous car development. Myriota will invest $2.72 million in ...

Hyundai Mobis to Test Semi-autonomous Vehicle in US This Year

SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea's biggest auto parts maker, said Thursday it will test a self-driving vehicle in the United States this year, with an aim to mass-produce a semi- autonomous car in 2022. The company said it plans to start test driving a vehicle named ...

Israeli chutzpah for the 21st century

"We are in an era of being flooded with lots of data and this means there must be a transformation on all fronts," Eibschitz explained, noting that by 2020 every "user" will produce 1.5 gigabytes of data every day and one autonomous car – remember, Intel owns Mobileye – will produce as much as four ...

Asia-Pacific Autonomous Car Market 2017 â€“ Recent Study Including Growth Factors, Applications ...

Questale published a new in-depth industry research that focuses on Asia-Pacific Autonomous Car market, delivers detailed analysis of market and future prospects of Asia-Pacific Autonomous Car market. The critical and significant data in the study makes the research a very important tool for experts, ...

6 surprising ways driverless cars will change our world

Saripalli envisions driverless shuttles scanning their surroundings with lasers, cameras, and radar to find the easiest place for a passenger to board. And Waymo, the autonomous car subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet, is testing buttons with Braille and other tools designed to make it easy ...

FCA to deliver thousands of Chrysler Pacifica minivans to Google

Continuing the Chrysler brand's long tradition of minivan innovation, FCA is to supply thousands of Chrysler Pacifica minivans to Waymo, the autonomous car division of Google, for the launch of its driverless taxi service, the third in a series of agreements between FCA and Google. When Chrysler ...

Apple Is Massively Expanding Its AI Research Operation in Seattle

Speaking to Bloomberg last summer, Cook provided a glimpse into the company's much-anticipated autonomous car project. At the time, he said: "We're focusing on autonomous systems. It's a core technology that we view as very important." However, he stressed that it is "probably one of the most ...

Connecticut May Be The Next State to Allow Self-Driving Car Tests

The desire to project a forward-thinking image (as well as attract investment from automakers and tech companies) is a common motivator for states in explicitly legalizing autonomous-car testing. The potential perils of that attitude recently became apparent when a fatal crash involving an Uber ...

The race to vehicle autonomy could be making us less safe

Euringer speaks of real estate freed up by the elimination of the need for parking lots, and of BMW's first steps to handle seemingly simple tasks such as asking your autonomous car to make a stopover while en route. It's all pretty optimistic stuff, a future where human mobility is safe, efficient and ...

Outstanding CEOs and Top Executives winner: Eric Meyhofer, Uber Advanced Technologies Group

At the time of this interview, Uber had halted autonomous car testing as a result of a fatal accident in Tempe, Ariz. Although Meyhofer could not comment on the case, he did provide a statement from the company about the incident, which read: "Our thoughts continue to be with Elaine's loved ones.

VW promises cars with autonomous parking tech in 2020

The main challenge now, aside from owning a car equipped with all the sensors required for the vehicle to valet park itself, is how to safely mix pedestrian traffic in parking lots with autonomous car traffic. It's no coincidence that VW is testing its autonomous parking system in an airport, as the long ...

Urban expert outlines his vision for the future

"There are no driveways, no garages — they're eliminated by the autonomous car . The road width is a single lane because the car goes in one direction, and it's circular because that's how autonomous cars behave," Professor Berger said. "It does not conform to the litany of planning and building codes ...

Autonomous Software Systems Could Redeem BlackBerry QNX

The greatest headache that BlackBerry QNX faces is to merge the different components in terms of hardware and software from different manufacturers into a single functional autonomous car . Despite the steady popularity of autonomous vehicles, the market is not fully commercialized. BlackBerry is ...

Cars May Drive Themselves, But Don't Start Getting Distracted

Every time a self-driving car has an accident, the question arrises of how regulators will need to adapt in order to match an autonomous future. If an autonomous car kills someone, who is at fault? The fully self-driving car still isn't ready for the general public, but every time we hear an automaker talk ...

The Industry Needs a Foolproof Way to Test Mass-Produced Autonomous Vehicles

Can the car dealer run a series of test to verify the autonomous car is safe to use? Or, the car might have some type of built-in self-test that's supposed to verify the car is safe? The owner certainly doesn't want to ship the car back to the factory, where it may have a more sophisticated test system.

Brand News: 10 Things You Need to Know for Wednesday April 18

Alibaba confirms self-driving car tests, joining Baidu and Tencent in China's autonomous car race, as Alibaba overtakes Amazon for e-commerce supremacy by one analysis. Bon-Ton stores are closing in the U.S.. Cannes Lions and ANA launch CMO Growth Council chaired by P&G chief brand officer ...

KT to launch self-driving bus in Pangyo next month

1 telecommunications company SK Telecom exhibited technology in February that showed autonomous vehicles communicating between each other at the K-City autonomous car testing site in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi. SK Telecom has been aggressively developing its autonomous driving platform, ...

Alibaba Jumps The Self-Driving Bandwagon In China

Chinese conglomerate Alibaba has confirmed joining its rivals Baidu and Tencent in the Chinese autonomous car race. A report published by South China Morning post quoting a spokesperson from Alibaba says the company was looking at hiring 50 more specialists for its Artificial Intelligence research ...

Alibaba enters the Chinese self-driving car race â€“ but who are its rivals?

Baidu has more than a dozen partnerships, as it entered the autonomous car sphere much earlier than its rivals. Baidu will also be producing China's first fully autonomous bus with King Long United Automotive Industry, a Chinese bus maker. Its self-driving system, Apollo, has been in development ...

Drivers may have to get new license and take another test for self-driving cars in future

Research conducted at UWE in 2016 found that it took just under two seconds for the driver to regain control of an autonomous car when travelling at 50mph. In that time, the car can travel about 45 meters. David Williams, technical director at insurance firm AXA UK, said: "AXA has supported the advent ...

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Eight million vehicles to ship with Level 3,4 and 5 autonomous technology in 2025, says ABI

Eight million cars shipped in 2025 will feature Level 3, 4 and 5 autonomous technology, predicts ABI Research. The advisory firm says OEMs are driving the rapid deployment of autonomous vehicles and the growth of sensor types that underpin the technology, such as Light Detection and Rangign ...

BMW expert: â€œThere won't be any acceptance problems with autonomous drivingâ€

In my experience, these negative arguments disappear once the drivers experience an autonomous car in real life. Then they are fascinated that the cars are already working very well, they develop trust in the new functionality very quickly and they acknowledge the positive aspects of comfort and safety.

Texting, TV, eating all OK in self-driving cars, police suggest

The review suggested examples of acceptable and unacceptable acts while operating the autonomous car . It said sleeping may be "unacceptable," but watching TV and videos, making calls and sending or reading e-mail messages while holding mobile phones, eating or reading could be "acceptable.".

UK Tech Firm Uses Virtual Reality To Help Autonomous Cars Learn How To Drive

The key to autonomous vehicle adoption is the development of the vehicle's 'brain', its ability to make appropriate decisions, that's what our technology helps with." Currently, this technology has been adopted by two (unnamed) major vehicle manufacturers and three autonomous car developers.

Worldwide Autonomous Car Market Outlook to 2021: Emerging Trends and Will Generate New ...

Autonomous Car Market Report cover definite aggressive standpoint including the piece of the overall industry and profiles of the key members working in the worldwide market. The Autonomous Car market report gives a top to bottom diagram of Product Specification, innovation, product type and ...

'I started pounding on the windows' -- Uber passenger describes attempted Denver kidnapping

... last September of its new CEO, former Expedia Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi. The latest debacle involves an Uber self driving car that killed a pedestrian in Arizona, an incident that has caused some autonomous car constituents to rethink the notion of testing such technology on public roads.

Apple Files a Patent for Augmented Reality to Enhance Driver Safety

The company is already heavily invested in the autonomous car segment. Currently, Apple is carrying out 45 self-driving vehicle prototype tests in California. All these vehicles get their own array of sensors which includes LIDAR and the cars monitor and record their surroundings on the move.

HOZON Auto Launches R&D Center in Silicon Valley to Explore Autonomous Driving

Chinese automaker HOZON Auto has officially opened its Autonomous Vehicle Research Center in Silicon Valley, marking a step-forward in building out its global strategic R&D layout, and opening up a new path for global autonomous driving technology. HOZON is the 13th car company to be granted ...

'There Should Always Be a Human Accountable for Any Action of a Robot' - Prof

Noel Sharkey: The robot could be sued if it creates harm or causes a misdemeanor, for instance, if an autonomous car , which is a robot, causes an accident on the road, the robot itself would be legally responsible. You would have to sue that car and the car would have to accrue funds and give money ...

With 'Hotspots' Launch, Domino's Delivers to Parks, Beaches

Delivery is key to Domino's business and so far the company isn't engaging the services of third-party players such as DoorDash or Grubhub, instead choosing to invest in its own drivers and fleet, such as with its partnership with Ford to test autonomous car pizza delivery. In January at ICR's annual ...

Malloy announces launch of Connecticut autonomous vehicle testing program

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) - Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced Tuesday that the state has launched its Fully Autonomous Vehicle Testing Pilot Program. The initiative, created by legislation signed into law last year, is designed to bring autonomous vehicle developers to Connecticut to ...

Connecticut Pilot Program May Bring Self-Driving Cars To Your Street

The state has launched a pilot program to test fully autonomous vehicles, an initiative lawmakers created last year to bring Connecticut to the forefront of the self-driving car industry. Up to four interested towns and cities will be selected to participate by allowing the testing of fully self-driven cars on their ...

Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Is Testing Self-Driving Cars, Report Says

Alibaba is the latest company to test self-driving cars in China, according to a new report. The Chinese tech giant has been conducting regular road tests and is looking to hire 50 people for its autonomous-car development program, according to the South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba.

This is why a new driving test could be brought in

The report referred to research conducted at UWE in 2016, which found it took just under two seconds for a driver to regain control of an autonomous car when travelling at 50mph. Cars can travel about 45 metres in this time. The Venturer consortium, which includes insurance firm AXA UK, UWE, Bristol ...

You face a whole new driving test if you want one of these cars

The recommendations were made following a series of tests at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. It comes after a woman in the US became the first pedestrian in the world to be killed by a fully autonomous car , after being struck by an driverless Uber vehicle in Arizona in March.

This is why a new driving test could be brought in

The recommendations were made following a series of tests at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol, reports Bristol Live. It comes after a woman in the US became the first pedestrian in the world to be killed by a fully autonomous car , after being struck by an driverless Uber vehicle in ...

Brits may have to take new driving test and get new licence to own driverless cars

Insurers could set premiums based on how well a driver can regain control of an autonomous car . In addition to this, laws preventing people sleeping, reading or watching films could be passed to help improve safety. David Williams, technical director at AXA UK, commented: "The exciting part about ...

Owners of autonomous cars may face bans on all distractions while the car is driving

According to a new study by autonomous vehicle consortium Venturer, drivers taking back control from an autonomous car needed a lag of around two seconds before they were in full control of the vehicle. At speeds of 50mph, this means a driverless car can travel up to 45 metres with neither the driver ...

Uber CEO Talks Multi-Modal Transportation Model

April 17th, 2018 by Steve Hanley. Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, told a mobility conference in the nation's capitol last week that his company is looking forward to becoming a multi-modal transportation company in the future. Recently, Uber made a significant investment in JUMP, the electric bike ...

Giddyup Call for Expediting Autonomous-Car Development

DETROIT – Horseless carriages debuted 130 years ago, but it took five decades after that before cars as we know them came about, says Nick Petouhoff, executive director-advanced development for automotive seating supplier Adient. It shouldn't take so long for the auto industry to get autonomous ...

Drivers need up to three seconds to retake control of autonomous cars

Law-makers have been urged to consider the time it takes a driver to take back control from automated systems after new research revealed a significant gap in reaction times. The latest Venturer report by AXA and Burges Salmon found delays of up to three seconds between a vehicle deactivating its ...

Autocar confidential: McLaren's SUV, Citroen Cactus, Mercedes design & more

The amount of testing required to fully develop an autonomous car will be about 50 million kilometres, which is 10 times the amount done for the latest 5 Series, according to BMW development boss Klaus Fröhlich. Mercedes design: The Mercedes board has freed up its designers to take more risks in ...

Global Autonomous Car Market 2018 Growth â€“ Nissan, General Motors, Audi, Google, Tesla and ...

Global Autonomous Car Market Analysis Report studies latest Autonomous Car market trends, development aspects, market gains and Autonomous Car market scenario during the forecast period (2018-2023). The fundamental overview of worldwide Autonomous Car market, key segments, product ...

New driving test and special licences for self-driving car owners recommended following Bristol ...

The report referred to research conducted at UWE in 2016, which found it took just under two seconds for a driver to regain control of an autonomous car when travelling at 50mph. Cars can travel about 45metres in this time. David Williams, technical director at insurance firm AXA UK, said: "AXA has ...

Autonomous car companies hitting the gas as Waymo files for driverless permit

The world of self-driving cars could be getting ready to step on the gas pedal again -- after a major setback that had the whole industry riding the brakes. "Suddenly, there was this crash -- and all these questions came up about, 'Wait, should we allow this stuff to move so fast? Should we trust it so quickly ...

McKinsey sees country topping world's autonomous car market by 2030

China will become the world's largest market for autonomous cars, with revenue from sales of such new cars and mobility services expected to exceed $500 billion by 2030, according to the latest report from global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. According to McKinsey, the market ...

Mechatronics department chair addresses future of autonomous vehicles in metro Atlanta

Kennesaw State's Interim Department Chair of Mechatronics Engineering Kevin McFall spoke about the future of vehicle technology after Waymo, an autonomous car development company, announced last month that their fleet of self-driving trucks will drive through metro Atlanta. According to ...

3 Stocks Your Kids Will Brag About Someday

Here's the kicker: You're not in a beach house and are instead in a virtual reality world while your fully autonomous car is driving you to visit your child. And that pediatrician is a robot. Too far-fetched? Maybe, but maybe not. And if it does come about, your grown-up offspring would likely be bragging to ...

RxEal poised to capitalize on the growth of the autonomous car sharing industry

Autonomous vehicles are racing into reality. It is no longer a question of if but when our roads will be lined with robots that will taxi human passengers from A to B. A handful of US states such as California have already legalized testing of self-driving cars, and the growth of the movement was highlighted ...

Cube (AUTO) increased $0.00106 on April 15-16

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What happens when a self-driving car kills someone?

There are several parties who could potentially see themselves blamed in situations like this, including the car manufacturer or the company that created the finished autonomous car . Volvo has already announced that it is happy to take full responsibility for accidents which are caused by the self-driving ...

Quick Shift: New study tackles high cost of parking

The maker of Post-it Notes (and everything else) is developing an electric, autonomous car product portfolio. This e-bike is BYOB: bring your own battery. Ford patents a weird loungelike car cabin. Tesla crash exposes a gap in the carmaker's use of data. Waymo looks to do driverless testing in California.

Ford's Self-Driving Car Service Will Launch 'at Scale' in 2021, Exec Says

The automaker recently launched an autonomous-car pilot program in Miami, and this will allow Ford to hit the ground running when self-driving cars start rolling off assembly lines, Farley said. The pilot program uses prototype autonomous cars as delivery vehicles for Domino's and Postmates, and tests ...

Despite fatalities, autonomous car makers keep their foot on the gas

By April there were still no signs of slowing down in the world of autonomous car development. On April 13 Volkswagen talked about tests it's running on an autonomous parking system at Hamburg Airport, Germany. Similar to what JLR is working on, VW's cars drive themselves around the parking lot ...

A Closer Look at Machine Learning Chip Maker Mythic

Mythic could also clash with Nvidia, which has designed an open source architecture for inference based on its Xavier autonomous car processor. Last month, Nvidia said that the new architecture, NVDLA, would be available as part of ARM's machine learning products, putting it in competition with Ceva ...

Tesla's Tussle With Feds Over Model X Accident Is a Fool's Errand

Coming on the heels of the Uber autonomous car fatality, the Tesla accident—and the company's combative approach to the investigation—likely won't inspire cooperation or help instill confidence in public officials who are growing more circumspect about self-driving technology. It also smacks of ...

Auto Bits: MIT survey wants to know how comfortable you are autonomous car technology

Auto Bits: MIT survey wants to know how comfortable you are autonomous car technology. Monday. Apr 16, 2018 at 9:36 AM Apr 16, 2018 at 9:36 AM. Tip of the Week BestRide.com is working with Car Talk, MIT and the New England Motor Press Association to extend the research done in understanding ...

Inside BMW's Autonomous Driving Campus

... to throw at autonomous car research are welcome. But making sure the automaker's 2021 plans (and beyond) come to fruition means it's decided to go all in on self-driving research. With that in mind, BMW opened its Autonomous Driving Campus near its headquarters in Munich, Germany, this week.

There's a Ford self-driving round games/meeting room in your future

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now. Whenever we have shown self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles as imagined 50 or 60 years ago, people are always playing board games or cards, because they didn't have iPads or ...

Volkswagen tests autonomous parking, aims for 2020 commercial launch

The Volkswagen Group is testing autonomous parking at Germany's Hamburg Airport, using VW, Audi, and Porsche vehicles. The company hopes to get the system into production by 2020, and plans to offer a host of other services in concert with it. Volkswagen claimed that German drivers spend an ...

When crises come, ethically challenged firms such as Uber are most vulnerable, Wharton prof says

The tragic death in Arizona of a pedestrian struck by an Uber autonomous car is a teachable moment. It illustrates how basically good people working hard to succeed in business can produce terrible outcomes, for themselves and for the world. And Uber's flaws are an extreme version of a blind spot ...

More steam left in the technology train

It's presence spans the original search engine business, which has well more than 50 per cent of the global search engine market share, YouTube, operating systems business Android, apps and autonomous car unit Waymo. Likewise Amazon is known widely for its massive online retail market share ...

'Passenger Brain' can be deadly in these early days of autonomous cars

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. I doubt Fitzgerald had ever considered an autonomous car , but he still adroitly sums up the dilemma facing everyone who wants to rush out ...

Several schools close as crews work to restore power after storm

More: Livonia firm invests $1.5M in autonomous car industry. More: Novi preps for city road work this summer along roads such as Taft, 13 Mile. In addition, Edison Elementary, 34505 Hunter in Westland, is also closed today because of a power outage. In the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools district ...

Volkswagen tests autonomous parking at Hamburg Airport

Volkswagen Group, along with Audi and Porsche, is carrying out a series of tests to demonstrate autonomous car parking at Hamburg Airport in Germany. Carried out in partnership between the Volkswagen Group and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the tests at the airport are based on a car ...

Autonomous car owners could be forced to sit a test

Driverless car owners could require a licence before they take to the road to help combat safety fears, a study has suggested. Currently no plans are in place for autonomous car owners to have any formal training before taking to the wheel, but fears have been raised after a recent crash in the US when ...

Waymo applies for driver-free autonomous cars tests in California | Analysis

The DMV provides so-called 'disengagement reports', which show how often an autonomous car's backup drivers need to take control of their vehicles during live roadtests. Waymo's report for 2017 revealed that happened, on average, once every 5,600 miles. According to a New York Times report, ...

Alibaba confirms self-driving car tests, joining Baidu and Tencent in China's autonomous car race

The autonomous driving market in China now has a major new player after Alibaba Group confirmed it has been conducting self-driving vehicle tests. Alibaba joins its rival internet giants Baidu and Tencent – which are collectively known as BAT – in the artificial intelligence-driven industry. The company ...

Mapix helping Edinburgh Formula Student autonomous project

Mapix Technologies Ltd has signed up as Platinum Sponsor of the Edinburgh University Formula Student (EUFS) Project, which aims to design, build, test and race both a manned Class 2 car and also an autonomous car in the Driverless Competition Class. Formula Student UK (FSUK) is the world's ...

Accommodating Visually Impaired into Self Driving Cars

The year 2012 saw a blind Steve Mahan drive a self-driving car into the premises of a Taco Bell in a viral video. This video showcased the potential of the autonomous car technology, which could possible change a visually impaired person's life. Mahan mentioned how amazing he felt he took sat behind ...

Ford determined to launch self-driving car service 'at scale' by 2021

Speaking recently to the Financial Times, Jim Farley, Ford's president of global markets, noted that his company is already running tests in Miami, giving it a decent amount of time to hone its autonomous-car technology while developing its broader business model. The Miami trial hit the streets in ...

Global Autonomous Car Market 2018 Players| Google, Tesla, Audi, General Motors, BMW and ...

Global Autonomous Car Market Report illustrates the present development status of Autonomous Car along with the growth of Autonomous Car expected during the forecast period during 2017-2022. Autonomous Car Market analyses the industry based on different factors like growth trends, consumer ...

Our cars seem to invite distraction

TO THE EDITOR: Regarding "Keep your eyes on the road, hands off the doughnuts" (April 9): What did the industry think was going to happen when we made phone usage easier and added cupholders, visor mirrors and other distractions to our vehicles? Further, it is common for automotive TV ...

The real reason that self-driving cars will increase auto-reliance rather than decrease it â€“ Vox

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April 14-15 was a good day for Cube (AUTO) after 4.28% increase

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Autonomous Car Bill is on the Governor's Desk

This week in the Nebraska legislature a bill that could make the state a leader in the autonomous car industry, has made its way to Governor Pete Rickett's desk. The bill was introduced by Senator Anna Wishart of Lincoln earlier this year and has gotten through all three rounds of voting in this year's ...

Experts Believe Autonomous Cars Should Meet Specific Standards After Fatal Accidents

Last month was a difficult one for autonomous vehicles. Multiple incidents occurred, including a fatal accident involving a driverless Uber and a pedestrian, a Tesla Model S driver crashing into a barrier, and one of General Motor's autonomous Bolts receiving a ticketing for not giving a pedestrian enough ...

How Will Self-driving Cars Disrupt Real Estate Trends?

Furthermore, the first non-Google employee to ride inside the company's autonomous car (before Waymo) was Steve Mahan – a legally blind passenger. These benefits may contribute to a decrease housing turnover rates, since such empowered individuals would become more independent and are ...

Uber Thinks Self-Driving Cars Still Have A Future After Fatal Crash

Tragically, 49-year old Elaine Herzberg was hit and killed by a Volvo XC90 fitted with Uber's self-driving technology after the autonomous car failed to detect her walking across the street in Phoenix. Testing of Uber's self-driving cars has been suspended following the accident. The supplier of the tech ...

Waymo Asks For California's Nod For Its Self-Driving Tests

According to a new report from San Francisco Chronicle, which cites sources briefed on the company's plans, Waymo will begin the road tests in locations close to its Mountain View-based headquarters, where the autonomous car development firm plans to deploy vehicles with backup drivers to study ...

Is BlackBerry Ltd. Stock's Turnaround on Track?

News about the partnership with Baidu for the autonomous car project development and the release of BlackBerry's Jarvis, a tool for car software engineers and developers, pushed the stock price to above $18 a share early this year for first time in five years before it plunged back to around $13 a share ...

Waymo gears up to test autonomous cars without safety drivers in California

Waymo, the autonomous-car unit of Google parent Alphabet, is the second company to apply. The identity of the first hasn't yet been made public. While around 50 companies are currently testing autonomous cars on California roads, regulations have up to now required a safety driver to be behind the ...

Volkswagen Group Testing Autonomous Parking At Hamburg Airport

The Volkswagen Group is testing autonomous parking at the Hamburg Airport with Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen models. These cars are fitted with autonomous driving technology and based on a map of the car-park at the Hamburg airport, the cars are driving to pre-determined parking spaces on their ...

Uber Sticking By Self-Driving Cars Despite Recent Fatality

Despite one of its self-driving prototypes being involved in a fatal crash recently, Uber is pushing ahead with the development of autonomous car technology. Last month, a 49-year-old woman was killed when a self-driving Volvo Uber prototype struck her in Arizona. The incident put a halt to testing of the ...

Is Apple really working on a self-driving car?

Shortly after Apple was given permission to test its self-driving cars, a Lexus RX450h sporting bulky autonomous car technology was spotted leaving Apple's facility in California. Equipped with six LIDAR sensors, several radar units, and multiple cameras, the unbranded car drove along with a safety ...

Are automakers on board?

OCALA, Fla.—In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-through of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to ...

Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers

Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous vehicles without safety drivers on some California roads, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It would be putting its cars — well, minivans — on streets around Mountain View, where it already has an ...

Waymo seeks no-driver autonomous car testing permit in California

Alphabet's self-driving division Waymo has applied to test driverless autonomous cars on California roads, the company has confirmed. The application was submitted earlier this week with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Assuming sources expanding on the matter are correct, Waymo plans ...

The BMW that really does drive itself

BMW unveils the prototype of a "level 5" autonomous car , which can drive itself on public roads without human intervention. The BBC's Victoria Fritz takes it for a spin. 3h ago. Share this with Facebook · Share this with Twitter · Share this with Messenger · Share this with Messenger · Share this with Email ...

NTSB goes head to head with Tesla

An autonomous car collided with a motorcycle in San Francisco last year. Police said it was the biker's fault. He'd instituted a "two objects occupying the same space" issues by lane-splitting. That's legal in California. An Uber auto-automobile killed a pedestrian in Arizona last month. Somehow all the ...

Exclusive: Waymo appplies for no-driver testing in California

It was the first company to receive a permit for road tests in California. Its cars have driven themselves from 5 million miles, 2 million of them in California. Waymo at one point designed a bubble-shaped autonomous car that had no steering wheel or brake pedal, but California officials would not allow it ...

The Cryptocurrency Cube (AUTO) had 15.36% rise for a day

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Peter Thiel-Backed Autonomous Car Supplier Slashing Costs, Scaling Up

Luminar Technologies Inc., the sensor startup backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, is rolling out a cheaper-to-make version of its laser technology and ramping up production to supply the key component for autonomous vehicles. The startup released a new sensor platform April 12 that reduces the cost of ...

Mastering a new AI-driven insurance world

... autonomous driving even in an ideal world where all vehicles are autonomous," says Michael Bruch, head of emerging trends at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS). "An environment with zero accidents or fatalities is unrealistic. Imagine a child running directly in front of an autonomous car , ...

Luminar Slashes Costs, Expands Production of Lidar for Self-Driving Cars

A fatal crash, in which an Uber autonomous car struck a pedestrian, has raised questions about the reliability of sensors and the software that interprets their output. Velodyne, which built the lidar units in the Uber car, said its sensors should have detected the pedestrian. Mobileye, which sells cameras ...

Lawmakers Want You to Be Able to Sue Robots

(For example, if the autonomous car that killed a pedestrian in March had done so because it decided to chase people down the sidewalk, Uber would still be held responsible.) As our robots get more complex, so will the conversations about their rights. There are also other, mind-bending complications ...

Will blind people be able to use driverless cars? Automakers feeling heat from advocates who say ...

'They're working on it. I don't push. They expose me to what they're working on, and so I'm patiently waiting.' Autonomous-car industry analysts say the needs of disabled people are being discussed as designers figure out how users will interface with the cars, but there are many competing demands.

Driverless cars give hope to blind, but are automakers onboard?

In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell. It's in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the lives ...

The BMW that really does drive itself

The BMW that really does drive itself. By. ZlotoNews. -. April 14, 2018. 0. 4. BMW unveils the prototype of a "level 5" autonomous car , which can drive itself on public roads without human intervention. The BBC's Victoria Fritz takes it for a spin.

The BMW that really does drive itself

BMW unveils the prototype of a "level 5" autonomous car , which can drive itself on public roads without human intervention. The BBC's Victoria Fritz takes it for a spin. 4m ago. Share this with Facebook · Share this with Twitter · Share this with Messenger · Share this with Messenger · Share this with Email ...

Researchers develop autonomous vehicles to help the blind

In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the lives of ...

Inside BlackBerry's Push to Dominate the Security Market for Autonomous Cars

In the past few months, automotive technology giants like Baidu, Ford, Jaguar, NVIDIA, Visteon, and Denso have trumpeted new partnerships with an unlikely ally in the race to make the best, most secure autonomous car : BlackBerry. "We're seeing this public validation. Not only are they picking us, but ...

Volkswagen's New Boss Is Here To Shake Up The Brands

Thanks to Uber, the Wild West, do whatever feels good era of autonomous cars and autonomous car testing may soon be coming to an end. Between that fatal crash and the incidents we've seen with the semi-autonomous Autopilot, one group in particular wants clarity on who is liable for these crashes: ...

China's new autonomous vehicle rules let any of its cities test robo-cars

The guidelines are another sign that the country wants to compete with America in developing driverless cars as quickly as possible. What's new: China's industry ministry published a set of national guidelines regulating driverless vehicle testing yesterday, reports Reuters. They join local guidelines for ...

Keeping the Driverless Car Unhackable â€“ Securing the IIoT in Autonomous Systems

"For an autonomous car , you have a mixed network environment. The networks can include WiFi, a satellite network, applications, and fleet management systems," said Leigh. "You have a private network over a public system as well as an in-car network that is controlling the car – turning the wheel and ...

Self-driving: What business leaders need to know right now

And, among the challenges along the way (especially with levels 3 and 4), a major question mark sits on the human being's ability to know how to be only partially responsible for his/her driving. In other words, knowing how to be on call at a moment's notice when the autonomous car hands back control ...

Cabify plans to overtake Uber using company culture

As known, the many battle-hardened competitors of this business are focusing their efforts not just on better service and lower fares for their passengers but also on the development of fully autonomous car , the Holy Grail of ride-hailing. Not having a driver's license myself – and above all not having ...

QOTD: Are These Crazy Canucks Onto Something?

Getting an autonomous car to interact properly with a human is part of the equation and thus far, seems to be ignored. That said, I'm sure autonomous cars will be inevitable, but on dedicated corridors. They won't be allowed on roads like the FDR Drive in NYC. The idea that all of our infrastructure will be ...

Today in Fleet â€“ Friday 13 April

New tech enables drivers to see around corners by Jonathan Musk - UK Connected Intelligence Transport Environment (UK CITE) demonstrated its latest connected and autonomous car innovations at Jaguar Land Rover's Gaydon site, which it says could lead ... Read More » · Auto Windscreens is Auto ...

Driverless cars give hope to blind - are automakers onboard?

The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the lives of the visually impaired. ... Autonomous-car industry analysts say the needs of disabled people are being discussed as designers figure out how users will interface with the cars, but there are many ...

Livonia firm invests $1.5M in autonomous car industry

Livonia-based Infineon Technologies is growing and investing $1.5 million in the autonomous auto industry, a move that creates 25 new jobs. Loading… Post to Facebook. Livonia firm invests $1.5M in autonomous car industry Livonia-based Infineon Technologies is growing and investing $1.5 million in ...

UF researcher tests self-driving cars for blind in Ocala

OCALA — In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the ...

UF researcher tests self-driving cars for blind in Ocala

The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change the lives of the visually impaired. "It was my first time behind the steering wheel in seven years and was absolutely amazing," Mahan said. Self-driving-car advocates say that in addition to helping the ...

China Lays Out Self-Driving Rules in Global Race â€“ China Daily

A Baidu's Apollo autonomous car is seen during a public road test for self-driving vehicles in Beijing, China March 22, 2018. (Photo: Reuters). China has laid out national guidelines for testing self-driving cars as it looks to keep pace with the United States in a global race to develop autonomous vehicles, ...

Uber sticking by self-driving cars despite recent fatality

Despite one of its self-driving prototypes being involved in a fatal crash recently, Uber is pushing ahead with the development of autonomous car technology. Last month a 49-year-old woman was killed when a self-driving Volvo Uber prototype struck her in Arizona. The incident put a halt to testing of the ...

Quick Take: Tencent, Changan Auto Announce Autonomous-Vehicle Joint Venture

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is setting up a joint venture with state-owned Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. Ltd., as the technology titan races into the booming autonomous-driving sector. Dadi Tongtu Information Technology Co. Ltd., a unit of Tencent, will spend 102 million yuan ($16.2 million) for a 51 ...

New tech enables drivers to see around corners

Chris Holmes, connected and autonomous car and chassis research, senior manager, Jaguar Land Rover, said: "The technologies demonstrated by UK CITE will significantly help drivers and autonomous cars of the future understand unseen road hazards." Ian Thompson, senior technical adviser at ...

Will autonomous cars affect the price of pizza?

But here's a slightly different autonomous car -related question that Ford's senior management have been pondering: how much would you pay for a pizza delivered by a self-driving car? This pizza poser grew from Ford's partnership with Domino's Pizza to trial autonomous deliveries in the American ...

Dealerships Have No Place In The Autonomous Car Future.

Something to think about. All those car dealership spots that help sales departments make budget and drive vehicle purchases for station partners may be a thing of the past. With the dawning of the age of the autonomous vehicles and fleets of these rides sporting Uber or Lyft decals, the auto dealership ...

China issues nationwide guidelines for road-testing of autonomous vehicles

In March, Beijing authorities issued temporary license plates for Baidu's self-driving vehicles for public road testing. The city has opened 33 roads adding up to a total length of 105 kilometers for autonomous car testing outside the Fifth Ring Road and away from densely-populated areas on the outskirts.

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Driverless cars give hope to visually impaired, but automakers unsure

OCALA, Fla. - In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to change ...

China lays out self-driving rules in global race to develop autonomous vehicles

SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China has laid out national guidelines for testing self-driving cars as it looks to keep pace with the United States in a global race to develop autonomous vehicles, the China Daily newspaper reported on Friday (Apr 13), citing the country's industry ministry. The rules lay out ...

Driverless cars give hope to blind - are automakers onboard?

OCALA, Fla. (AP) - In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to ...

Driverless car a boon to vision impaired

OCALA, Fla. — In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than eight million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to ...

Driverless cars give hope to blind - are automakers onboard?

"They're working on it. I don't push. They expose me to what they're working on, and so I'm patiently waiting." Autonomous-car industry analysts say the needs of disabled people are being discussed as designers figure out how users will interface with the cars, but there are many competing demands.

Driverless cars give hope to blind - are automakers onboard?

OCALA, Fla. — In 2012, Steve Mahan, who is blind, climbed into the driver's seat of a self-driving car and rolled up to the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in a video that's been viewed more than 8 million times online. The piece, produced by Google, captured the potential of autonomous-car technology to ...

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China lays out self-driving rules in global race: China Daily

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China lays out self-driving rules in global race: China Daily

FILE PHOTO: A Baidu's Apollo autonomous car is seen during a public road test for A Baidu's Apollo autonomous car is seen during a public road test for self-driving vehicles in Beijing Thomson Reuters SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has laid out national guidelines for testing self-driving cars as it looks ...

China lays out self-driving rules in global race - China Daily

FILE PHOTO - A Baidu's Apollo autonomous car is seen during a public road test for self-driving vehicles in Beijing, China March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer. The rules lay out requirements that vehicles must first be tested in non-public zones, that road tests can only be on designated streets and that a ...

China lays out self-driving rules in global race: China Daily

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China lays out self-driving rules in global race: China Daily

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China lays out self-driving rules in global race: China Daily

FILE PHOTO: A Baidu's Apollo autonomous car is seen during a public road test for self-driving vehicles in Beijing, China March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer. The rules lay out requirements that vehicles must first be tested in non-public zones, that road tests can only be on designated streets and that a ...

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His elderly father is unable to drive like he once was able to, which has caused his parents to see their friends as often as they once did. If autonomous car technology becomes safe enough, however, Lyft could afford to debut its ride-sharing service in places like where his father lives, Sheikh believes.