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Self-Driving Cars Will Soon Be Everywhere — But You May Not Own One
Even as the capabilities of self-driving cars continue to evolve, it is not a given that consumers will choose to buy one. What is equally likely is that autonomous vehicles will transform the automotive industry entirely. According to some estimates, there could be as many as 10 million cars with self-driving features on the road by 2020. In fact, surveys suggest there will be fewer car owners and more driverless vehicles in the future.
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The golden years: Why we’ll all love self-driving cars when we’re older
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, most of the talk from automakers was about autonomous cars. That’s not surprising, given the CES audience and the rapid development of self-driving technology. Depending on the automaker, the promises of completely self-driving cars ranged from imminent to cautious, but all agreed that completely or mostly autonomous cars would hit our roadways in the next 10 years.
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Dubai is buying 200 Tesla vehicles as part of its ambitious self-driving taxi plan
Dubai is buying 200 Tesla vehicles as it looks to become a leader in the self-driving-car space. Tesla will supply 200 Model S and Model X vehicles to the Dubai Taxi Corporation's fleet, according to The National, a UAE-owned, English-language newspaper. Tesla CEO Elon Musk inked the deal with the Roads and Transport Authority at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday.
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If automation is already messing with our economy and our politics, just wait until self-driving trucks arrive
Tractor-trailers without a human at the wheel will soon barrel onto highways near you. What will this mean for the nation’s 1.7 million truck drivers?
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Intel buys Mobileye for $15 billion in self-driving car coup
Intel is buying Jerusalem tech giant Mobileye for $15.3 billion, the two companies announced Monday. Israeli daily Haaretz initially broke the story via its finance paper The Marker, but it was confirmed later in the day. Mobileye’s current market value is $10.5 billion. Intel has been working with Mobileye and BMW to get their own self-driving car models on the road, joining a host of manufacturers in a global autonomous vehicle race.”
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Laying a trap for self-driving cars
We spend a lot of time and words on what autonomous cars can do, but sometimes it’s a more interesting question to ask what they can’t do. The limitations of a technology are at least as important as its capabilities. That’s what this little bit of performance art tells me, anyway. You can see the nature of “Autonomous trap 001” right away. One of the first and most important things a self-driving system will learn or be taught is how to interpret the markings on the road. This is the edge of a lane, this means it’s for carpools only, and so on.
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Mercedes joins forces with Bosch to develop self-driving taxis
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler and supplier Robert Bosch [ROBG.UL] are teaming up to develop self-driving cars in an alliance aimed at accelerating the production of "robo-taxis". The pact between the world's largest maker of premium cars and the world's largest automotive supplier forms a powerful counterweight to new auto industry players like ride-hailing firms Uber and Didi which are also working on self-driving cars.
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Statistically Uber is '5,000 times worse than Google's Waymo at self-driving cars'
According to driving statistics published by California, Uber is the worst of six major self-driving car companies testing its vehicles in the state. The minicab firm experienced a “disengagement” – when the automated system forces the human driver/passenger to take over control of the vehicle – once every mile driven, with a total of 20,354 miles clocked up before it was banned from testing in the state.
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Alphabet claims Uber was hiding the self-driving technology that it allegedly ripped off
A new court filing from Alphabet claims that Uber hid a key piece of self-driving technology that it allegedly copied from Waymo, the Google parent company’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary. “They were hiding a device,” Alphabet said in a filing today, supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction that would prevent Uber from working on self-driving technology. Uber says it isn’t hiding anything and did not infringe on Alphabet’s patents.
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Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas will go between LA and NYC by the end of the year
Self-driving Teslas will be able to go between Los Angeles and New York City by the end of this year, Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.76% Chief Executive Elon Musk said Friday. Musk spoke at a TEDTalk in Vancouver on a number of topics, including the status of driverless cars and his new project, The Boring Co., which aims to create a network of tunnels that would lay the foundation for a series of underground roadways for cars.
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Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules
Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber, its competitor in the automated vehicle business, is going to trial. Judge William Alsup ruled that Uber could not force the lawsuit over theft of trade secrets into private arbitration. Instead, the trial will play out publicly, with evidence being presented mostly in the open. This is not the scenario that Uber wanted.
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Can we design machines to make ethical decisions?
When is it ethical to hand our decisions over to machines? And when is external automation a step too far?
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Self-Driving Car 'Guardian Angels' Protect You From Yourself
MIT researchers argue that for now, robot copilots make more sense than autonomous taxis.
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Autonomous RVs Will Disrupt the Airline Business
As a Director here at Pythian, and the host of the Datascape podcast, technology and business are two topics that are always on my mind. Currently, in the business world, there’s a lot of talk about self-driving transport trucks and how they will disrupt the transportation industry and potentially remove a lot of middle class jobs. As I started thinking about these things, I thought...
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Self-Driving Taxis Will Become the Most Disgusting Spaces on Earth
With the entire automotive industry looking toward a future of driverless mobility, commercially owned self-driving taxis seem poised to be on the frontline of tomorrow. However, nobody seemed to realize that these vehicles will eventually become little more than mobile toilets.
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The World's First Autonomous Ship Will Set Sail In 2018
A Norwegian container ship called the Yara Birkeland will be the world’s first electric, autonomous, zero-emissions ship. With a capacity of up to 150 shipping containers, the battery-powered ship will be small compared to modern standards (the biggest container ship in the world holds 19,000 containers, and an average-size ship holds 3,500), but its launch will mark the beginning of a transformation of the global shipping industry. This transformation could heavily impact global trade as well as the environment.
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Alliance of car manufacturers takes on Uber with its own driverless cab service
Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, working together as Alliance 2022, have announced a six year project that includes becoming an industry leader in the field of self-driving ride sharing vehicles. The plan is very light on actual details of how it plans on achieving this; it says that it plans to release 12 electric cars, and 40 vehicles capable of autonomous driving by 2022 but doesn’t go into much detail. Still, it’s interesting to see such major manufacturers taking steps towards an autonomous future for the taxi industry.
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Ford Disguised a Person as a Seat to Test How We React to Driverless Cars
A Ford van zooming around the Washington D.C. area last month, seemingly without a human in the driver’s seat, wasn’t self-driving after all: it was a man in a ‘seat suit.’ A fake driverless car might seem like a weird experiment, especially considering the fact that there’s an entire fake town for testing self-driving vehicles at Ford’s disposal.
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Self-driving cars are coming faster than you think. What will that mean for public radio?
Picture this: Your car is driving you to work. What do you do? Pull out your phone and start checking emails? Get a novel and start reading? Do you bother to turn on the radio and listen to Morning Edition? When you tell your grandkids one day that back in the day, in the twenty-oughts, you used to listen to the radio on the work, will it seem as archaic to them as the idea of a family gathering around a radio to listen at night does now? Why would you listen to a radio in the car if you could have a screen instead?
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Bill allowing 80,000 self-driving cars on the road passes Senate panel
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters' bill would allow as many as 80,000 self-driving cars exempt from safety standards to be sold in three years' time.
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