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Life as a driverless car regulator
Life as a driverless car regulator We spoke to Lucy Yu of the UK Government's Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, about life as a dr...
Luxoft LUI AR Autonomous System by Olaf Preissner
We received an interesting article about the Luxoft LUI AR Autonomous System, which offers a Virtual Interaction with the car. This was written b...
Google’s self-driving car project is now a new company called Waymo
Google’s self-driving car project is now a new company called Waymo
This new Google company Waymo, exists under the Google parent company Alp...
A Breakdown of the self-driving car industry in China
By: Jianyu (Fisher) Shi strategic business development; Udacity self-driving car alumni;
China will be one of, if not the bigg...
Volvos self driving vision of the future
Volvo announced this week that it is now working with internet giant Baidu, to develop and build level 4 Self driving cars in China. This represents a...
Google / Waymo driverless cars will know when the police are coming...
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Udacity Launches a Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree Program
Autonomous vehicles were once more science fiction than reality until recently. Today many innovative companies around the world are getting into th...
BlackBerry teaming up with Ford for QNX in connected cars
BlackBerry’s QNX division is one of the Canadian company’s rare bright spots: The software maker’s operating system is a k...
Insurance for Driverless / Autonomous Vehicles
There are now Insurance companies who are looking at what is currently specialist insurance, covering certain levels of autonomomy for vehicles. Insur...
BMW to build new Autonomous vehicle test facility in Czech Republic
BMW to open a dedicated automated driving proving ground
The BMW Group will use this facility to test vehicle technologies such as electrification, d...
The importance of the RV rear view camera
The ability to see behind you whether you are driving a car, motorhome or a trailer, is essential for safety and maneuvering. In fact, the federal go...
Love Hertz: Why the Auto industry is courting Car Rental Companies
Love Hertz: Why the Auto industry is courting Car Rental Companies
Rental car company Hertz: an enabler for driverless cars? (Photo: Hertz) ...
UK announce Autonomous Bus and Taxi services to start in 2021
The United Kingdom has now announced that 2021 will be the launch date for driverless / autonomous public transport services on the UK’s roads. ...
Driverless Cars are just like their owners with Hyundais AI
While dеvеlорmеnt for drіvеrlеѕѕ tесhnоlоgу continues to march on, it’s been wеll documented that most Amеrісаnѕ aren’t rеаdу fоr іt. Thе ...
Autonomous Car Heaven or Hell
Will autonomous cars make this traffic a distant or a fond memory in future?
Auckland’s Southern Motorway Friday Sept 30 2016 at 5 pm.
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Introducing Vera - Volvos self driving truck
Volvo released its plans in September, for an Autonomous truck called Vera. This is an all electric cabinless vehicle, that is claimed will form part ...
What's driving the discussion on Autonomous vehicles?
What's driving the discussion on Autonomous vehicles?
Here is a useful website that considers the statu...
Waymo become the first Autonomous vehicle developer to test drive in California...
Self-driving technology giant, Waymo, have announced on their blog that they have just become the first Autonomous vehicle developer to gain permissio...
About Cube - The Autonomous Car Security Platform
We have recently been advised about the Cube Autonomous Car security platform. We expect Blockchain to be integrated more widely into Autonomous drivi...
Udacity - The Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
Udacity - The Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
This Udacity program is the only one of its kind, where almost anyone in the world can learn to b...
Is autonomous driving and battery power at odds?
Aссоrdіng tо Gеnеrаl Motors' tеѕt cars and Tеѕlаѕ predictions, thе wоrld іѕ hеаdеd tоwаrd a futurе thаt'ѕ bоth drіvеrlеѕѕ аnd аll-еlесtrіс. In rеаlіtу...
Innoviz LiDAR & Magna team for Autonomous driving system
Magna teams with Innoviz LiDAR for Autonomous driving system
Global automaker supply leader Magna International is teaming up ...
Google shows photos of its 4th Generation Self-driving Car
Photos of Google’s 4th Generation Self-driving Car (Now Waymo)
Photo credit: Hannes Möseneder
The First Self-driving bus route starts in Germany
German railway company Deutsche Bahn has introduced an autonomous bus to drive passengers along a pre-programmed route in Bavaria. In case of an emerg...
Legislators to consider Michigans driverless car legalization
Michigan could become the first state to legalize driverless cars. A new Senate bill to amend the Michigan vehicle code calls for the approv...
Tesla Autopilot software to use advanced radar technology
Tesla, the Electric carmaker, announced recently that its Autopilot software will be upgraded to use more advanced radar technology, with le...
EasyMile opens North American headquarters
On 5th December 2017, EasyMile officially opened its North American headquarters in Denver, Colorado, which is co-located within the Panasonic bui...
Waymo - Autonomous ride hailing is now open for business
By Driverless.global Admin - 27 October 2018 Waymo recently announced that it has commenced the charging of passengers for using its Autonomous Ride ...
Tesla ramps up Model 3 Sedan Electric Car & announces 7% job...
Aѕ Tеѕlа rаmрѕ uр рrоduсtіоn оf a nеw Elесtrіс Vеhісlе, thе jоb cut announcement was made. Thе firm advised thаt it nееdѕ to сut thousands оf jobs tо...
Lyft announce shared network plans for Autonomous driving
Lyft announce shared network plans for Autonomous driving
Lyft recently announced that they will set up a business unit to develop their own le...
Nvidia delivers its self-driving car safety report to the feds
Nvidia, one of the world’s best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards, released its autonomous driving safety report on Tuesday. The Sa...
SafetyNex adaptive cruise control & predictive brake systems
Imagine a robotized car that would slow down automatically when approaching a tiny curve, or an intersection or a priority, of a stop sign etc ... i...
AIDriving Hopes to Enhance Fleet Safety With Artificial Intelligence
AIDriving Hopes to Enhance Fleet Safety With Artificial Intelligence
According to the industry's general view, the way to autonomous driving is...
Artificial intelligence - A view by Professor Stephen Hawking
One of the UKs and perhaps the world's most well-known scientists, the late Professor Stephen Hawking, believed that thinking machines may pose a thre...
Uber request to resume Autonomous vehicle testing on public roads
The autonomous ride hailing company have just released a voluntary safety report, to try to get permission to continue their aborted self-driving car ...
Continentals Self-Driving Autonomous Vehicle - The CUbE
The CUbE - Continental Self-Driving Autonomous Vehicle technology takes to the streets
This is an anacronym for Continental Urban mobility Exper...
Tesla begins its new Autopilot roll out by the end of 2016...
Tesla Motors Autopilot to rollout earlier than expected
Following a previous announcement that its autonomous Autopilot vehicles ...
Integration of IoT to provide the Connected Car market with huge growth...
Since the аdvеnt of internet оf things (IоT), thе соnnесtеd саr mаrkеt hаѕ wіtnеѕѕеd trеmеndоuѕ grоwth аrоund thе wоrld. Vаluеd at $51,910.9 mіllіоn і...
Ridecell Autonomous Vehicles Drive onto Public Roads
Auro, Autonomous Driving Division of Ridecell, Granted California Autonomous Vehicle Operations Testing License
Ridecell Inc., the leading platform ...
Uber launches a groundbreaking Driverless car service
Uber launched a groundbreaking driverless car service on WednesdayThis puts them ahead of all the other major OEM auto manufacturers and the te...
3 groups to test Driverless cars in Ontario early 2017
Driverless cars to hit the road in Ontario early next year
(JARED WICKERHAM / AP FILE PHOTO)
Three groups have been approved to test self-...
Could the Okanagan's transit future be hydrogen powered rail?
Hydrail is powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology which emits only water
The Coradia iLint trains are the world's first and only hydrogen fuel cell...
Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code
Microsoft has now created an A.I. that can write its own code
Researchers at Microsoft and University of Cambridge have developed an Artifi...
The Countries best prepared for Autonomous Vehicles
As connected and autonomous vehicle (AV) technology continues to make impressive strides, which countries are best positioned to harness its massive p...
MIT rolls launches a driverless scooter
MIT rolls out its driverless scooter An autonomous mobility scooter runs new algorithms that are said to work both indoors and outdoors ...
GM & its Driverless car Blockchain solution
GM has recently announced a Patented Blockchain Solution for Driverless Cars. The vehicle OEM giant sees the future of Autonomous driving on the ...
Leti, Transdev and IRT Nanolec announce new Autonomous Vehicle perception sensors
PILOT PROGRAM TO ASSESS NEW PERCEPTION SENSORS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES GRENOBLE & ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France – July 5, 2018 Leti...
D3 Engineering - D3 DesignCore™ DMS
D3 DesignCore™ DMS Kit features FotoNation algorithms and TI automotive processors in a production-intent design for rapid development of driver...
Volvo Self-driving cars will be unmarked to make sure others don't 'bully'...
The first self-driving cars to come to Britain will be unmarked to prevent other drivers slamming their brakes or driving erratically to see how th...
Fords Driverless Car Strategy: Embrace Technology - Go Slow
A self-driving car at Ford’s campus in Dearborn, Mich. It uses radar and lidar, a kind of radar using laser beams, to identify obstacles. ...
The Challenges that are facing fully autonomous cars
CEVA,has kindly shared the following article with us, concerning their growing knowledge base about Computer Vision and the Challenges that are facing...
Volvo and Autoliv create a joint venture for Driverless / Autonomous vehicle...
Surely another serious indicator to those who may still think Autonomous vehicles will not take off?
Autoliv are a Tier one supplier to many Vehicle ...
Street Drone release new autonomous test vehicle
New vehicle is aimed at universities
The UK start-up StreetDrone has released its first autonomous vehicle, an affordable platform designed to be use...
Self Driving Cars - China now has a roadmap for 2021 sales...
China issues roadmap for rapid development of self-driving cars
Article By Jake Spring | SHANGHAI
China has issued a long-term roadmap with ...
Artificial Intelligence - the Vaticans view
Artificial Intelligence - the Vaticans view
Credit: John Williams RUS via Shutterstock
A new conference at the Vatican drew experts in vario...
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Samsung make an $8 Billion USD bid for Harman
Samsung's $8 billion bid for Harman makes big bet on car tech
Samsung Electronics Co.’s planned acquisition of Harman International Industries ...
My car knows where you’re walking, thanks to V2X
My car knows where you’re walking, thanks to V2X
Imagine being behind the wheel, and the harsh glare of the sun obstructs your view of a ...
Here’s why Seattle will be the first place you try a self-driving...
Daimler Trucks North America spokesman allowed a robotic truck to drive him nearly 25 miles. He never touched the steering wheel or brakes. Hi...
An Uber Self-Driving Truck delivers 50,000 Beers
Drivers on Colorado’s interstate 25 may have gotten a good scare last Thursday, and it wasn’t a Halloween prank—glancing into the ca...
Renaults new venture into the Media
It was announced recently that in a shift away from Car manufacturing, Renault SA will purchase a 40% stake in the French media group, Challenges. &nb...
Solid-State LiDAR - Quanergy's Self-Driving to the Masses?
Could Quanergys new $250 Solid State Lidar bring Self Driving to the Masses?
One of the big hurdles when equipping vehicles with sensors for ...
Protecting connected cars from cyber threats
Article by https://advisory.ey.com
As connected cars plug into various networks, they become more vulnerable to hackers. Fortunately, ther...
Uber and Waymo - Locked Horns
Uber and Waymo - Locked Horns Uber continue to be the ride hailing company to beat, but this could possibly be acheived by a lawsuit brought abou...
Self-Driving Cars Will Make Owning a Car Unnecessary
Thanks to technology, alternatives to car ownership are more prevalent and viable than ever. Leading the push are ridesharing companies like Uber and...
CRCC test new virtual road based Train - ART
CRCC test new virtual road based Train - ARTChina based CRRC Corporation Limited have begun the testing of a new virtual road based "Train" called ART...
Solving the hardest problem for any Autonomous vehicle - Perceptive Automata
Have a listen to an in depth interview with Sam Anthony, the CEO from Perceptive Automata in August 2018. He explains how his company claim to have so...
Mitsubishi Electric develop autonomous driving in snow
Mitsubishi Electric just beat Google to one of self-driving cars’ most significant hurdles
The Japanese company has come up with a method for a...
French car-sharing startup Vulog raised €17.5 million.
The investment comes from the UK’s Frog Capital and the Czech Republic’s Inven Capital. The startup previously raised €8.4 million tw...
Luxoft and Intel® develop a new Cockpit Computer
Collaboration to Create a Fully Integrated Digital Cockpit Computer Reference Platform.
Luxoft, a global IT service provider, and Intel® have co-...
EasyMile & TLD introduce Autonomous baggage tractor - TractEasy
The EasyMile and TLD partnership, will see them develop the first autonomous baggage tractor, the TractEasy.
The TractEasy is on display at a trade s...
Autonomous Infrastructure by Overland ATS
Autonomous Infrastructure by Overland ATS
There are two varieties of autonomous vehicle transportation. The first we are all familiar with: car...
Faster Autonomous vehicle development time with Nuclear fusion technology?
It has recently been claimed that the development time for autonomous vehicles could be quicker due to Nuclear fusion. Research in the UK has been ta...
IDAR - Lidar, Camera & Image sensor Hybrid device
IDAR is a new hybrid sensor combines a camera, solid-state lidar, and onboard image processing to change how it sees in response to its surroundings.
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Shenzen to become World's First Entire Electric Bus Fleet
Chinese City will Switch Entire Bus Fleet to Electric
The city of Shenzen, China is home to a staggering 16,000 buses. To compare, that's more buses ...
Addison Lee plans self-driving taxis by 2021
Would you trust a taxi with no driver?
Taxi firm Addison Lee is betting its customers will be ready to, in London at least, in just three years' time...
GM to mass produce autonomous Chevrolet Bolts in January
GM to mass produce autonomous Chevrolet Bolts in January
General Motors today said it will be the first company to mass-produce autonomous vehicles...
The VW I.D Buzz Cargo - An Autonomous Electric Vehicle
Volkswagen introduced an interesting new vehicle at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show, the I.D. Buzz Cargo. This will eventually replace the very well-kn...
New Autonomous Mobility Platform company - Apex.ai
There is a new Autonomous Mobility Platform company emerging called Apex.ai. Founded by engineers, they claim to have an application agnostic, Self-dr...
The Challenge of Quality Video Analysis
The problem facing many strategic, high growth markets that leverage real time video is no optical system or camera is optimized to deliver high-quali...
Wireless access - a key short term challenge for the autonomous car...
A key short term challenge for the autonomous car: wireless access
The major challenge of a short term roll out of the autonomous car? Not AI, but wi...
Otonomo raises $12 million USD to make data from connected cars useful...
Otonomo raises $12 million USD to make data from connected cars useful
Even if self-driving cars aren’t part of our daily lives yet, vehi...
Mobility on Demand Market to hit $200B by 2024
The mobility on demand market is set to grow from its current industry value of more than US$100 billion to over US$200 billion by 2024, according to ...
China to launch Worlds first driverless Railway subway line
The Peoples Daily recently reported that the worlds first driverless subway line will commence service in late 2017 on the Yanfang line in southwest...
Waymos Self Driving Vehicle Safety report - 2017
Waymos Self Driving Vehicle Safety report - 2017Each year, over 1.2 million deaths occur in vehicle accidents globally. Worse still this figure is ris...
Ford to test self-driving cars in Washington DC
Ford recently announced a partnership with the city's government to begin testing self-driving cars in early 2019.
Ford's self-driving car sta...
How does Blockchain relate to the Driverless / Autonomous vehicle?
Blockchain facilitates secure connection of the Autonomous and semi autonomous vehicle to the internet. This enables highly secure data connectio...
Autonomous & Connected Mobility with Luxoft & LG at CES 2019
Luxoft and LG Electronics to present a forward-looking vision for Autonomous and Connected Mobility at CES 2019----------------------------------
Las...
Ceva Deep learning Software Framework wins award
CEVA advise us that their CDNN2 deep learning software framework is the recipient of another award. Embedded Computing Design named CDNN2 th...
