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Tesla Autopilot has gone live for select beta testers
The new Autopilot 7.0 software has been sent out to a small group of Tesla Model S drivers, who now get to test out highway autosteer and parallel autopark.
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Self-Driving Golf Cart Heads to University Campus, Retirement Communities, and Resorts
The startup Auro says its self-driving golf cart will lead to autonomous shuttles for theme parks, vacation resorts, and retirement communities.
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Should police have the capability to take control of driverless cars?
Future: Police orders driverless car to halt, vehicle obeys and rolls to a stop.
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Google’s Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers
Google, a leader in efforts to create driverless cars, has run into an odd safety conundrum: humans. Last month, as one of Google’s self-driving cars approached a crosswalk, it did what it was supposed to do when it slowed to allow a pedestrian to cross, prompting its “safety driver” to apply the brakes. The pedestrian was fine, but not so much Google’s car, which was hit from behind by a human-driven sedan.
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Laser Breakthrough Could Speed the Rise of Self-Driving Cars
The eyes of a self-driving car are called LIDAR sensors. LIDAR is a portmanteau of “light” and “radar.” In essence, these sensors monitor their surroundings by shining a light on an object and measuring the time needed for it to bounce back. They work well enough, but they aren’t without their drawbacks. Today’s self-driving cars typically use LIDARs that are quite large and expensive. Google, for instance, used $80,000 LIDARs with its early designs.
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Toyota investing $50M to research cars that can think for themselves
At a press conference this morning, automaker Toyota announced that it will be investing $50 million into establishing joint research facilities at Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to bring artificial intelligence technology to the road and into the home. The five-year collaboration will be coordinated by former Program Director for DARPA's (Defense Research Project Agency) Defense Sciences Office, Professor Gill Pratt.
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Laser can 'disable self-drive car'
A homemade gadget can disable the systems that allow self-driving cars to see where they are going, a security researcher has said. Jonathan Petit demonstrated how a modified, low-cost laser could create ghostlike objects in the path of autonomous cars. The cars slowed down to avoid hitting them. If enough phantom objects were created, the car would stop completely, Mr Petit told tech magazine IEEE Spectrum.
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Google hires ex-Hyundai CEO to head up self driving car project
Google has hired auto industry veteran and former Hyundai U.S. CEO John Krafcik to run its self-driving car program. He is credited with turning around Hyundai's U.S. operations.
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First driverless pods to travel public roads arrive in the Netherlands
The first self-driving electric shuttle for use on public roads has been delivered to the Netherlands. The "WEpod" will take passengers between the two towns of Wageningen and Ede in the province of Gelderland from November. Autonomous public transportation does exist in other parts of the world, such as the ParkShuttle bus in Rotterdam, the Heathrow Pod in London and the LUTZ Pathfinder in Milton Keynes, which...
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Driverless pods set to hit public roads for the first time
Driverless pods sound like a thing of the distant future, but the first wave of autonomous shuttles are just around the corner. Better watch out, guys. The self-driving revolution has well and truly begun, and kicking things off is Wepod. The robot-controlled shuttle is hitting the Netherlands’ public roads in November, making it the first driverless car to take to public roads without someone behind the wheel.
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Self-driving taxis will begin trials in Japan next year
Self-driving cars are a few years away from becoming a thing, right? Not in Japan, where the company Robot Taxi has announced that it'll start testing robotic taxis in 2016. A report by the Wall Street Journal reveals that the firm will begin by offering autonomous rides to 50 people in Kanagawa prefecture, just outside Tokyo. The limited trial will ferry the participants from their homes to local stores and back...
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The biggest challenge for driverless cars: getting rid of the drivers
It's easy to dream about a future full of autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs), in which combustion engines have been relegated to history, transportation is a service, and urban spaces are adaptable and multimodal, shared by AEVs, bikes, and pedestrians in shifting configurations. I did a little utopian musing about it last week. What's more difficult is envisioning the path from here to there.
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Volvo: We will be responsible for accidents caused by our driverless cars
Volvo president accepts full autonomous car responsibility and calls for improved driverless vehicle laws.
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Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian
If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a decade or more. These fully automated vehicles could potentially be safer than regular cars, and might add various efficiencies to our roads, like smoother-flowing traffic.
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Driverless trucks move iron ore at automated Rio Tinto mines
The first two mines in the world to start moving all of their iron ore using fully remote-controlled trucks have just gone online in Western Australia's Pilbara.Mining giant Rio Tinto is running pits at its Yandicoogina and Nammuldi mine sites, with workers controlling the driverless trucks largely from an operations centre in Perth, 1,200 kilometres away. Josh Bennett manages the mining operations at Yandicoogina mine north west of Newman and is closely involved with running 22 driverless...
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No human drivers in 20 years: Steve Wozniak
The Apple co-founder and chief scientist at Fusion-io talks about the disruptive trends that excite and concern him.
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Study of self-driving cars shows other drivers are good at hitting them
A preliminary study from the University of Michigan Transportation Institute took a look at autonomous vehicle crashes reported by Google, Delphi, and Audi, all of which have licenses to operate self-driving vehicles in a number of states. The researchers, Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak, compared that data to adjusted statistics pertaining to conventional vehicles. The study showed that self-driving vehicles were actually involved in...
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Volvo Unveils Concept 26 – The Car of the Future
Driverless cars could become the norm sooner than we think, thanks to Volvo’s latest concept design. Concept 26 – named after the average daily commute to work of 26 minutes – is an autonomous concept vehicle that sets out to bring choice and freedom back to the driver by allowing them to delegate the driving to the car while they want to do something else.
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The competition is fierce, the key players are billionaires, but the path—and even the destination—remains uncertain.
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California Just Outlawed Driverless Cars
The California Department of Motor Vehicles just enacted a whole spate of new laws aimed at regulating the testing of self-driving cars—and major players like Google are not happy. As Automotive News reports, the rules put strict limitations on automakers planning to test autonomous cars on the state's public roads. There are four key aspects to the new law...
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