As the self-driving car navigated the narrow, winding streets leading to San Francisco’s Coit Tower, Jesse Levinson narrated from the back seat like a proud parent. “Isn’t that cool, how we slowed down for that person and then nudged around him?” said the chief technology officer of self-driving startup Zoox. “See how steep this street… Continue reading Secretive robot-car maker Zoox opens up
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A Self-Driving Truck Startup Keeps It Simple, Stupid
If anything has changed between today and the halcyon days of 2016, it’s that those building and marketing self-driving tech are now less… promise-y. The robots are still coming, the software developers and hardware mavens and balance sheet-wielding CEOs insist. But more and more, they emphasize that this work is hard, the problems varied, the… Continue reading A Self-Driving Truck Startup Keeps It Simple, Stupid
Pony.ai increases fleet
Chinese startup Pony.ai is increasing its fleet by nearly 200 autonomous vehicles. The startup Pony.ai already has in China some successes and now wants to increase its fleet of autonomous vehicles. Currently there are over 20 vehicles and they test in the Chinese capital Peking, By the beginning of 2019, the number is to increase… Continue reading Pony.ai increases fleet
Watch a Tesla drive in Paris through the eyes of Autopilot
Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving is rather simple – albeit hard. It has some radar and ultrasonic sensor technology but the goal is to drive based on computer vision with cameras feeding into a neural net system that it is able to recognize what it sees – much like a human. We are now getting our best… Continue reading Watch a Tesla drive in Paris through the eyes of Autopilot
Knight Foundation devotes $5.25 million to studying last-mile autonomous car service
Autonomous car technology is progressing at a rapid clip. Google spinoff Waymo’s fleet has racked up more than 8 million real-world miles, and Cruise, the driverless car division of General Motors, managed in one year to reduce its cars’ disengagements from once every 35 miles to once every 1,250. But when self-driving vehicles hit the road… Continue reading Knight Foundation devotes $5.25 million to studying last-mile autonomous car service
Google Maps works with Apple CarPlay following iOS 12 update
Engadget We’ve known since WWDC in June that iOS 12 would herald the arrival of Google Maps on CarPlay. Apple released the latest version of the iPhone and iPad software Monday, and after Google updated its app to support CarPlay, you can now use that navigation option on your car’s infotainment system. Waze was also… Continue reading Google Maps works with Apple CarPlay following iOS 12 update
Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step in the development of its platform. The company is now working with Amazon, and specifically its Rekognition API, to detect and read text in Mapillary’s… Continue reading Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database
Comma.ai’s George Hotz ousts George Hotz as CEO
Comma.ai’s board, of which founder George Hotz is the only member, is making changes at the autonomous driving startup: Hotz is no longer CEO of the company. A new CEO, who Hotz declined to name, is expected to be announced Friday via the company’s Medium blog. He confirmed that the CEO is indeed a human… Continue reading Comma.ai’s George Hotz ousts George Hotz as CEO
Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet swells 27% in four months
Apple keeps adding autonomous vehicles to its test fleet in California, boosting its ranks 27 percent since May, according to records from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The company now has 70 autonomous vehicles permitted to test on public roads, Mac Reports first reported. The permits, which are issued by CA DMV, require a safety driver… Continue reading Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet swells 27% in four months
Bristol driverless car report challenges business models
The £5m VENTURER project has released its final report, detailing key research results that challenge developments by major global companies. The three-year project explored the barriers to the adoption of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the UK and how best they could be overcome. “One of the first research and development projects to explore… Continue reading Bristol driverless car report challenges business models