FILE PHOTO: The unmanned delivery vehicle, Nuro, is seen during the Kroger annual shareholders meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., June 28, 2018. Courtesy of Kroger/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) – California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday authorized autonomous technology startup Nuro to test two driverless delivery vehicles in nine cities, a decision that comes as… Continue reading California allows startup Nuro to test driverless delivery vehicles
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Self-Driving Car Company Lays Off All Its Human Safety Drivers
Emergency Brakes The self-driving car startup Zoox just laid off all 120-something of its human safety drivers — and announced that it’s suspending all driving tests because of the coronavirus pandemic. Zoox has been testing its autonomous cars on the streets of California and Las Vegas, but can’t safely continue given California’s stated shelter-in-place rule,… Continue reading Self-Driving Car Company Lays Off All Its Human Safety Drivers
Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration
Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion to compel Uber into arbitration in the hopes that his former employee will have to shoulder the cost of at least part of the $179 million judgment against him. The motion to compel arbitration… Continue reading Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration
Qcraft raises over $24 million to train autonomous vehicle systems in simulation – VentureBeat
Qcraft, a robotics startup focused on autonomous vehicle (AV) development, this morning announced it has raised over $24 million in seed funding. (A spokesperson wouldn’t disclose the exact amount, but said it’s in the “dozens of millions.”) The company says it will use the capital to further develop its large-scale intelligent simulation platform, which generates… Continue reading Qcraft raises over $24 million to train autonomous vehicle systems in simulation – VentureBeat
Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver
To help safely navigate the complexities of the road, our self-driving technology needs to see and identify what’s around it. To perceive its surroundings, the Waymo Driver relies on our powerful custom sensor suite of lidar, cameras, and radars, while neural nets empower the “brain” of our self-driving system to understand the sensor data and… Continue reading Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver
Sensor cleaning from dlhBOWLES & RAPA
The two companies dlhBOWLES and RAPA have joined forces to clean the sensors. The eyes and ears of the autonomous vehicles are the ones Sensorswhich are available in a variety. Be it lidar, radar, camera or ultrasonic sensors – they have one thing in common: they have to be cleaned of dirt in order to… Continue reading Sensor cleaning from dlhBOWLES & RAPA
Levandowski is now found guilty
Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty of stealing Google’s trade secrets. First of all explained Levandowski innocent, but now he’s changed his mind. Already at the beginning of the Monthly, he was fined. The incident happened in 2015 when Levandowski was still at that time Google (now Waymo) announced. He took documents to build one Lidar systems… Continue reading Levandowski is now found guilty
UPS and Gaussin: autonomous driving
The delivery service provider UPS cooperates with the French company Gaussin for the use of autonomous vehicles. The world famous company UPS is very interested in autonomous driving. So you have shares in the startup TuSimple bought, with whom one has also been working for some time, to freight through autonomous Trucks over the highway… Continue reading UPS and Gaussin: autonomous driving
Waymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the company confirmed on Friday. While Alphabet-owned Waymo had already stopped operation of the autonomous driving vehicles in its fleet that have safety drivers on board, in the interest of minimizing the potential spread of coronavirus, it… Continue reading Waymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Anthony Levandowski Pleads Guilty to Stealing Waymo Secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the once-lauded engineer who cofounded Google’s self-driving car project and helped spark interest in autonomous vehicles, pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing a confidential Google document shortly before leaving the company. In the agreement, Levandowski agreed to a maximum fine of $250,000 and a maximum prison term of 10 years, though prosecutors expect to… Continue reading Anthony Levandowski Pleads Guilty to Stealing Waymo Secrets