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Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw
The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opposite right now: The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of those with human drivers.
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Report: Ford, Google to build self-driving cars together
Ford and Google could be planning joint venture to get self-driving cars on road faster.
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Google and Ford to build self-driving car company, report claims
Google and Ford plan to announce at CES that they will partner to create an independent company to build autonomous vehicles, according to a report from Yahoo! Autos. Yahoo Autos said three sources "familiar with the plans" believe Ford will announce the partnership in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. Neither Ford nor Google would confirm the partnership plans.
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The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code?
Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to choose who they kill when they crash? And who gets access to the code that determines those decisions?
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How mapmakers are helping driverless cars stay on track
HERE, a California-based company that creates detailed digital maps, is working to help self-driving cars navigate roads even in extreme conditions when lane markings aren't visible. "[A] snowstorm may be the extreme case for most autonomous cars," says HERE's John Ristevski. "But you've still got to have a solution for a suddenly featureless road."
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G.M., Expecting Rapid Change, Invests $500 Million in Lyft
The founders of Lyft, the ride-hailing service, have long imagined that the future of transportation would involve fewer cars on the road. Now General Motors is helping the start-up reach that goal. Lyft announced on Monday that G.M. invested $500 million in the company, or half of its latest $1 billion venture financing round. The funding, which recently closed, values Lyft, which is based in San Francisco, at $4.5 billion.
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Google's self-driving cars are learning to cope with the rain
Google's self-driving car fleet is mainly based in California, a part of the world where there's not much rain. Now the company is thinking about equipping its vehicles for more inclement weather: and that means wipers for the sensing equipment as well as the windshield. In its latest monthly report on the autonomous automobiles, Google lays out some of the challenges that bad weather presents, as well as some ideas about how it's going to develop...
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Driverless cars at Ford tackle snow problem
Motoring giant Ford says it has conducted successful tests of its driverless cars in snowy conditions. The company said it had been running sensor tests for more than a year, but was now driving autonomous cars in a controlled, snowy environment. Snow presents a challenge to driverless cars because the sensors they use to detect road markings and hazards do not work well in wintery weather.
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Google's self-driving cars failed 272 times in 14 months
Google's self-driving cars aren't perfect, but they're still better than human drivers. The company has revealed that its human drivers had to take control of its robotic vehicles 341 times win the last 14 months, after a total of 424,999 miles (468 682,361km) of driving. As part of the agreement to test self-driving cars in California each company involved -- so far Bosch, Delphi, Google, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, and Volkswagen Group -- were asked to submit...
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U.S. government pushes for self-driving cars
The Obama administration on Thursday proposed a 10-year, $4 billion push to spark the development of self-driving cars, hoping to one day eliminate roadway deaths altogether. The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulators said they would seek unified national regulations on self-driving cars. They will also encourage automakers to claim an exemption to safety standards allowing companies to test new...
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Obama Just Pledged $4 Billion to Develop Autonomous Cars
The dream of autonomous cars crisscrossing American roads just got a huge boost from the Obama Administration. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced Thursday that the US government plans to invest nearly $4 billion over the next 10 years to help “accelerate the development of safe vehicle automation through real-world pilot projects.” This money will be included as part of the fiscal 2017 budget that the White House will release in February.
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The cloud will own and drive your car
Questions about cloud security and the connected car.
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Driverless shuttle bus to take to Dutch public roads in world first
An electric, driverless shuttle bus will take to the Dutch public roads on Thursday, rolling six passengers along a 200 meter (yard) stretch of road in the first trial of its kind worldwide. The WePod, one of a fleet to be rolled out in coming years, will ride back and forth in the central Dutch agricultural town of Wageningen. At 8 kilometers (5 miles) per hour, it's not going to set a speed record, "but an unmanned vehicle has never been used on public roads," the project's technical...
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US says Google computers qualify as drivers
So what happens when they break the law?
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Forbes Autonomous Vehicles Could Drive Car Insurance Companies Out Of Business
When autonomous vehicles rule the roads, they will eliminate the estimated 90 percent of traffic accidents caused by human error, which could save 30,000 lives per year and, according to an advisor to car insurance companies, wipe out car insurance companies. “Cars are not going to crash nearly as frequently, and they’re not going to crash as severely as we’ve seen in the past, so you could say it could be the demise of the car insurance...
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Michigan Says Its Potholes Make It the Best Place to Test Driverless Cars
Michigan and California, vying for control of our driverless future, are each proposing crumbling World War II military sites as ideal locations to test robot cars. Michigan’s secret weapon? Better potholes.
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Google Makes The Case For A Hands-Off Approach To Self-Driving Cars
California regulators say autonomous cars should have a licensed driver, but a top Google engineer says that makes as much sense as putting a steering wheel or brake pedal in the back of a cab.
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The self-driving utopia we almost had
Half a century after its heyday, the Alden StaRRcar clearly wasn’t made for its world. It looks like a white flatiron with wheels or a sleek, plastic bullet, dwarfed by the regal sedans of 1960s Detroit. It belongs in one of Buckminster Fuller’s domed cities, a vehicle for traveling under the geodesics of a bubble-topped Manhattan. Its future wasn’t one of highways, but of narrow cement tracks looping gracefully between city and suburb...
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Google is designing the seats, interior moldings, and even the lighting inside its self-driving car
Will Google's self-driving car come with Corinthian leather bucket seats, fuzzy upholstery, or moon roofs? It's still early, as the robo-cars are currently just prototypes, but Google is already hard at work trying to answer some of those questions, judging by a recent job posting. The company is seeking an Automotive Interiors Engineering Lead who can weigh in on industrial design concepts and define all the car's "interior systems."
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Google says it bears 'some responsibility' after self-driving car hit bus
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday it bears "some responsibility" after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month. The crash may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle and the fault of the self-driving car. The Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader said it made changes to its software after the crash to avoid future incidents.
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