Autonomous car insurance drives new opportunities
Venture Beast
AUGUST 23, 2021
Startups are emerging to take on the challenge of insuring autonomous cars, which pose new liability questions. Read More.
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Top 5 autonomous car roadblocks
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 31, 2021
Tom Merritt tells us the things that are getting in the way of autonomous car adoption.
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6+ issues for autonomous vehicles (and any Apple Car)
Computerworld Vertical IT
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Once upon a time, everybody seemed to believe autonomous vehicles (AVs) would soon be wheeling themselves merrily on every road. Even before we get to that, here are six problems the Apple Car – and anyone else developing such vehicles – must solve. That didn’t happen. Shared AVs seems like a more promising approach.
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Roadblocks to autonomous cars: Top 5
Tech Republic Security
AUGUST 31, 2021
Tom Merritt tells us about the things that are getting in the way of autonomous car adoption.
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DuckieNet lets developers test autonomous vehicle systems using toy cars
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
DuckieNet is an open source platform for developing, testing, and evaluating autonomous navigation and perception algorithms with miniature car models. Read More.
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Toyota is buying Lyft’s autonomous car division for $550 million
The Verge
APRIL 26, 2021
Lyft is selling its autonomous vehicle division to a subsidiary of Toyota — the latest in a series of acquisitions that is seeing the world of self-driving cars grow increasingly smaller. The company follows its rival Uber in off-loading its costly autonomous vehicle division in a bid to stop losing so much money.
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Honda gears up to mass-produce level 3 autonomous cars by March 2021
Venture Beast
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Honda said that it will be the world’s first automaker to mass-produce sensor-packed level 3 autonomous cars. Read More.
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Man arrested for allegedly trying to steal a Waymo autonomous car
TechSpot
MARCH 5, 2024
As reported by the LA Times, 34-year-old Vincent Maurice Jones, believed to be an unhoused Los Angeles resident, got into the driver's seat of the autonomous vehicle and tried to drive away, but could not operate the controls. Once Waymo representatives realized what was happening, they asked Jones to get. Read Entire Article
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California DMV allows AutoX to test autonomous cars without drivers behind the wheel
Venture Beast
JULY 17, 2020
The California DMV awarded autonomous car startup AutoX a permit authorizing it to test driverless vehicles on streets within a designated part of San Jose. Read More.
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Aurora expands autonomous car and truck testing to Texas
Venture Beast
JULY 20, 2020
Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora will soon begin testing self-driving cars and trucks in Texas, specifically the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. Read More.
Pony.ai is the first autonomous car company with a taxi license in China
The Verge
APRIL 25, 2022
has received a license to operate its autonomous taxi service in China, making it the first company to win the country’s approval (via Reuters ). Starting in May, the Toyota-backed robotaxi service will operate 100 autonomous vehicles in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, and will later expand to serve other portions of the city.
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The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Starship Technologies is flooding college towns with autonomous electric delivery bots that trundle goods to your location in their locked storage compartment. While the safety of human pedestrians around large vehicles with autonomous capabilities is still being debated, this time, the roles were reversed.
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CES 2024: Qualcomm AI Chip for Virtual and Mixed Reality Could Compete with Apple Vision Pro
Tech Republic
JANUARY 10, 2024
Plus, Qualcomm continues to commit to autonomous car tech. The Snapdragon XR+ Gen 2 refines Qualcomm’s hardware that enables virtual and mixed reality meetings.
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The State of Self-Driving Cars: Autonomous Advances
TechSpot
MARCH 20, 2023
Significant advances have been made in the technology that powers self-driving cars in the last decade, but there's still further to go. We dive into the current state of self-driving cars in 2023. Read Entire Article
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Chinese Engineer Accused of Stealing Apple’s Autonomous Vehicle IP Pleads Guilty
IT Toolbox
AUGUST 23, 2022
Xiaolang Zhang admitted to stealing a 25-page document containing detailed schematic diagrams of a circuit board used in self-driving cars. The post Chinese Engineer Accused of Stealing Apple’s Autonomous Vehicle IP Pleads Guilty appeared first on Spiceworks.
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Autonomous Testing Is Like Autonomous Driving: The AI Needs Human Assistance
Forrester IT
JANUARY 9, 2019
The US Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has defined a scale to describe the autonomous capabilities that self-driving cars have — i.e., their levels of automation. link] Level 5 is full automation, which allows self-driving cars to operate with no human assistance.
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Are All Levels Of Autonomous Vehicles Equally Safe?
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Read Kathleen Walch’s article in Forbes to learn more about the six levels of autonomous vehicles. Have you ever dreamed of the day where your car could drive for itself […].
Uber sells off its self-driving division to autonomous car startup Aurora
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Startup Aurora has agreed to acquire Uber's ATG self-driving vehicle branch. Uber will invest $400 million in Aurora as a part of the deal. Read More.
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Apple shuts down its secretive electric car project
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
It has been an open secret for years that Apple was working to develop an electric car with autonomous capabilities. Now it seems those efforts have been shelved, according to an announcement from Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a vice president in charge of the effort. Read Entire Article
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Many people think driver assistance features make a car fully autonomous
TechSpot
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The findings come from a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a nonprofit organization funded by auto insurance companies that aims to reduce vehicle-related deaths and injuries.
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To understand the road to autonomous networks, you’ll need ODA and a self-driving car
TM Forum
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Autonomous networks will be a crucial component of digital transformation for communications service providers (CSPs), but how do we get there? Participants in the Global Architecture Forum at Digital Transformation Asia have some ideas.
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The Apple Car Is Coming, and It's Reportedly a Fully Autonomous EV
Gizmodo
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Apple’s long-rumored but not officially announced electric vehicle has hit a number of bumps and detours during the course of its development, but now a new report is claiming that Apple has solidified the Apple Car’s roadmap, which will result in a fully autonomous self-driving electric vehicle by 2025. Read more.
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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018
CTOvision
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area.
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Uber safety driver charged over fatal autonomous car crash
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
The safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber test vehicle that killed a pedestrian in Arizona, in 2018, was charged with negligent homicide. Read More.
Seattle launches permit system for companies testing self-driving vehicles on city streets
GeekWire
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Tech companies and automakers that want to test self-driving cars on Seattle streets now have to obtain a permit showing they comply with safety and liability regulations. Companies seeking a permit will have to notify the city before beginning testing and display company logos prominently on their self-driving cars. Waymo Photo).
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The Future With Level 5 Autonomous Cars
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Read Kathleen Walch’s article about the life with level five autonomous vehicles: Have you ever wondered about a future where fully autonomous cars dominate the roads, and how this will impact your life?
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Idriverplus raises over $14.6 million for autonomous street cleaners and cars
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
million in funding to further develop its autonomous robot and vehicle platform. Beijing-based self-driving startup Idriverplus raised $14.6 Read More.
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Supercharged customer care needs proactivity
TM Forum
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
CSPs are bombarded with hype about blockchain, autonomous cars and augmented reality, but before any of the new technologies can deliver value, operators must master the fundamentals of proactive customer service.
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Basemark raises $7.9 million for autonomous car graphics software
Venture Beast
JULY 7, 2020
Basemark, a maker of graphics software for autonomous vehicles, has raised $7.9 million in equity funding from ETF Partners. Read More.
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Mobileye’s autonomous cars use cameras to navigate freeways in Munich
Venture Beast
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Mobileye, Intel's self-driving vehicle division, published a video showing one of its cars navigating a highway in Munich. Read More.
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Sony and Honda thinking about adding a PlayStation 5 inside autonomous cars
TechSpot
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
At CES 2020, Sony announced a new sub-division titled Sony Mobility Inc., whose primary focus was to produce electric vehicles. The initial prototype shown was the Sony Vision-S, a four-door sedan with a top speed of around 150 MPH. Details were scarce until earlier this year when Sony revealed a.
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Waymo driverless cars will introduce new visual cues to state their intentions, avoid exit door collisions
TechSpot
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Waymo has apparently been addressing the communication and interaction challenges for its autonomous vehicle (AV) fleet over the years. Alphabet's subsidiary, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is now ready to test some of this research by using the LED roof dome on its Jaguar I-Pace AV vehicles.
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It’s the end of the road for the Apple Car
Computerworld Vertical IT
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Fresh claims that Apple has shelved its project to build a semi-autonomous vehicle have emerged, and this time they ring true. What happened to the Apple car? Bloomberg claims Apple has halted development on the Apple Car project (Project Titan) because the company no longer thinks the project is viable.
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The Impacts of Autonomous Cars On Urban Planning
IT Toolbox
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Autonomous vehicles would have a huge effect on urban planning. The question is, what would the cities do to prepare themselves for this transition? For starters, it's important that they maintain everything, ranging from complex intersections to lane markings, to the specifications made by vehicle software designer.
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Domino's starts self-driving pizza delivery service with Nuro autonomous cars
TechSpot
APRIL 12, 2021
Domino's customers can select the self-driving pizza delivery service when placing a prepaid order from Domino's in Woodland Heights, at 3209 Houston Ave, depending on the service's availability. Once ordered, customers will receive alerts informing them about the order's state and a unique PIN to withdraw the goods from the.
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Fiat joins BMW's autonomous car platform initiative
Computer Weekly
AUGUST 16, 2017
Car makers Fiat and BMW are working in collaboration with Intel and Mobileye to develop a scalable platform for self-driving vehicles
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New Tech: Transportation Technology And The Self-Driving Economy
Forrester IT
MARCH 22, 2018
Less than a year ago, my colleague Laura Koetzle and I published a report on the transformative effects of autonomous vehicles on the global economy. While conducting the research in the year leading up to that publication, the news cycles were sparsely populated (at best) with stories of the marvel of self-driving cars.
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5G connected cars: Can telcos take the driver’s seat?
TM Forum
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Global automotive manufacturers are busy striking new partnerships with the telecoms industry, both to connect cars to 5G and to give consumers a choice of communication service providers (CSPs) when connecting their vehicles. Like GM, Audi also has an eye on autonomous driving, but it is not announcing any CSP partnerships.
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Autonomous vehicles should benefit those with disabilities, but progress remains slow
Venture Beast
AUGUST 21, 2020
Autonomous cars hold great promise for people living with disabilities, but carmakers need to prioritize those features in vehicle design. Read More.
GM-backed Cruise begins testing self-driving cars in Seattle to learn from hilly, wet environment
GeekWire
AUGUST 28, 2023
A Cruise autonomous vehicle in Seattle. Stephen Brashear Photo for Cruise) Cruise , the autonomous vehicle company backed by General Motors, will begin testing its cars in Seattle on Monday, the company told GeekWire. The cars will have humans in them — for now.
Your Next Car Might be Driverless, If Google Has Their Way
CTOvision
AUGUST 26, 2014
Goggle has created a virtual version of California’s roadways where they have been testing their self-driving cars. Google is testing its autonomous cars in a ‘Matrix-style’ version of California (theverge.com). Google lobbies to test self-driving cars in Matrix-style virtual world (theguardian.com).
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Data streaming: More bandwidth is needed before self-driving cars can fully function with autonomy
Tech Republic Cloud
DECEMBER 4, 2020
The variety of computing platforms and data make it difficult to fully integrate an autonomous car system in which all vehicles communicate with each other, expert says.
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A former Apple engineer stole autonomous driving secrets and sold them to China, the DoJ says
TechSpot
MAY 18, 2023
Software engineer Wang Weibao was hired by Apple in 2016 to work on Project Titan, Cupertino's electric self-driving car that has been a work-in-progress tech for a decade now. The developer spent 18 months in Apple's offices, before getting a new job related to autonomous driving from another company in China. Read Entire Article
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Imagination Technologies launches PowerVR multi-core GPUs for IoT to autonomous cars
Venture Beast
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Imagination Technologies has announced its IMG B-Series, a new expanded range of graphics processing unit chip designs with multi-core customization. Read More.
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