Rumors about the end of the Titan project from Apple are making the rounds. The Apple Group has been researching Autonomous Driving for several years, even though it has never officially been known. In general, Apple does not like to look in the cards. However, there was some evidence of their involvement in autonomous driving.… Continue reading Apple: Will the project Auto pulped?
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We spoke to a Waymo One customer about how robot taxis get confused by rainstorms
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Robomart: Food on wheels for Boston
Startup Robomart plans to use grocery stores in autonomous vehicles for the US city of Boston. Together with the grocery store “Stop and Shop”, Startup Robomart is planning an automated vehicle from this spring Boston to roll. It should contain food that can be bought away from the car. Stop Shop Robomart Autonomous Car as… Continue reading Robomart: Food on wheels for Boston
Cooperation of Magna & Lyft
The cooperation between the supplier Magna and the driving service Lyft is bearing fruit, which will be presented at the NAIAS. The NAIAS, the North America International Auto Show in Detroit, was once the first important auto show of the year. But in the meantime, the CES has outgrown the fair, especially in the area… Continue reading Cooperation of Magna & Lyft
Pony.ai: App for robot taxi service
Chinese startup Pony.ai has released an app to call a robot taxi. The Chinese company Pony.ai has recently announced that his fleet wants to increase automated vehicles. In addition, the company tests their vehicle technology in Peking, Now it was announced that you can call a robot car with a new app. The service is… Continue reading Pony.ai: App for robot taxi service
Waymo: AI for everything
Once again, Google’s sister Waymo takes a look behind the scenes and reveals that a new architecture of artificial intelligence. That the Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in autonomous driving is clear. Also at Waymo one puts with preference on this technology. AutoML scheme. Source: Medium.com Especially in the field of sensor evaluation and… Continue reading Waymo: AI for everything
Ford VW cooperation: Further details
The two manufacturers Volkswagen and Ford announced further details about their cooperation. Already last year became knownthat the car maker Volkswagen and ford Autonomous Driving and E-Mobility will work together and create a common cooperation block form. Some details have been worked out. Hackett & Diess – bosses of Ford and VW. Source: AN Yesterday,… Continue reading Ford VW cooperation: Further details
AutoML: Automating the design of machine learning models for autonomous driving
AutoML: Automating the design of machine learning models for autonomous driving Waymo TeamBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 15 By: Shuyang Cheng and Gabriel Bender* At Waymo, machine learning plays a key role in nearly every part of our self-driving system. It helps our cars see their surroundings, make sense of the world, predict how others will behave, and decide… Continue reading AutoML: Automating the design of machine learning models for autonomous driving
China’s Waymo rival quietly launched an Uber-style app for driverless cars
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Tesla is ahead of automakers in 3 key categories, tech money manager says
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Tesla won't have a presence at this year's Detroit Auto Show but the electric-car maker is miles ahead of the competition in three key categories, ARK Invest founder and CEO Catherine Wood told CNBC on Monday.
Traditional automakers have been making sizable investments into electrifying their vehicles, but Tesla is leading the industry in battery technology, artificial intelligence and data collection, she argued.
“We believe that [the] transportation industry is going to shift wholesale to electric, and Tesla is ahead of the pack,” Wood said on “Fast Money.”
It will be hard for other producers to catch up, because it is in Tesla's “DNA,” she added.
Wood, whose tech-heavy fund finished 2018 in the green and is continuing the upward trend thus far in 2019, thinks Tesla is at a cost advantage because it produces its own batteries for the Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles. Other car companies need to vertically integrate, she said.
Also, the type of battery that Tesla uses gives it an additional edge over other carmakers. Tesla's vehicles operate with a lithium-ion cylindrical battery like those used in consumer electronics instead of the lithium-ion pouch batteries.
“So Tesla is riding down the consumer electronics cost curve, which is much, much lower than that lithium ion pouch,” Wood said.
“They've done an amazing thing from an engineering point of view no one else thought was possible. That puts them way ahead of the game,” she said.
Wood said she expects other car manufacturers will turn to Nvidia for brain power but criticized the chipmaker's “design cadence.”
“Everybody else will use Nvidia, but their design cadence is more like 3-5 years,” she said. “Tesla's is every year to two years, so completely different dynamic.”
Tesla, Wood said, has also collected billions of miles of data from its own customers and continues to gather more than a billion miles each quarter. Google parent Alphabet's Waymo comes in second, with about 200 million miles worth of data, she added.
“That's what powers an autonomous vehicle, and that's where we're going,” Wood said.