Tag: Autonomous

Autonomous Mobility Grows Its Sea Legs — Our Investment in Sea Machines

Autonomous Mobility Grows Its Sea Legs — Our Investment in Sea Machines Jim AdlerBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 17 Over the past year and a half, Toyota AI Ventures has invested in early-stage startups targeting autonomous mobility on the roads and in the air. With 90 percent of the world’s global cargo transported by ship, why stop there? Today, we’re announcing our… Continue reading Autonomous Mobility Grows Its Sea Legs — Our Investment in Sea Machines

Apple hires designer Andrew Kim away from Tesla

Andrew Kim, the designer who first rose to prominence with a fan-made reimagining of Microsoft’s design language, has left his role as a senior designer at Tesla to join Apple. His LinkedIn profile says that he joined the company in December of this year, while his Instagram confirms that his first day working at Apple… Continue reading Apple hires designer Andrew Kim away from Tesla

New Volkswagen ID: electric hatchback prototypes hit the road

With an illuminated badge making it easily identifiable as a VW, the new car departs quite radically from existing models. Key elements include a largely unadorned front end, ultra-short front overhang, a steeply rising bonnet line, a heavily raked windscreen, large wheel houses housing 20in wheels, prominent sill elements, cantilever-style rear doors, an extended roofline,… Continue reading New Volkswagen ID: electric hatchback prototypes hit the road

Car manufacturer: VW boss Diess must setback in the cooperation with Ford

Herbert Diess VW and Ford want to push the costs of developing new mobility concepts and electromobility with their planned cooperation. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf, FrankfurtThe negotiations between the car manufacturers Volkswagen and ford over a deeper cooperation have faltered. Although there is a fundamental agreement on cooperation in the production of transporters, as the Handelsblatt… Continue reading Car manufacturer: VW boss Diess must setback in the cooperation with Ford

Forbes Features AEye’s iDAR 1000 Meter Detection Range and 100 HZ Scan Rate Achievement

Forbes details why conventional, solid-state LiDAR systems won’t be enough to cultivate the future of autonomous vehicles. Instead, what will catapult autonomous vehicles into the mainstream market is faster, smarter, detection systems, like AEye’s iDAR, which fuses agile LiDAR with a high-resolution, low-light camera to replicate the advanced processes of the human visual cortex.

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Forbes Features AEye’s iDAR 1000 Meter Detection Range and 100 HZ Scan Rate Achievement — AEye’s iDAR Shatters Both Range and Scan Rate Performance Records for Automotive Grade LiDARThe Future of Autonomous Vehicles: Part I – Think Like a Robot, Perceive Like a HumanAEye Announces the AE100 Robotic Perception System for Autonomous VehiclesBlair LaCorte Named President of AEyeElon Musk Is Right: LiDAR Is a Crutch (Sort of.)The Future of Autonomous Vehicles: Part II – Blind Technology without Compassion Is RuthlessGartner Names AEye Cool Vendor in AI for Computer VisionAEye Granted Foundational Patents For Core Solid-State MEMs-Based Agile LiDAR And Embedded AI TechnologyAEye Introduces Next Generation of Artificial Perception: New Dynamic Vixels™AEye’s iDAR Leverages Biomimicry to Enable First Solid State Lidar with 100Hz Scan Rate

Arizona residents attack self-driving cars – The Telegraph

Arizona residents have attacked self-driving cars with rocks and slashed their tyres. Police reports obtained by local media suggest that the Chrysler Pacifica cars run by Google sister company Waymo have become a target for some disgruntled locals, with 21 incidents recorded in the past two years. One car had its tyres slashed while parked… Continue reading Arizona residents attack self-driving cars – The Telegraph

A Waymo Rider Talked Publicly About the Service — Even Though He Wasn’t Supposed To

Contract, Schmontract Michael Richardson is one lucky guy. In mid-September, self-driving car company Waymo accepted the technologist and entrepreneur into its early rider program in Phoenix, Arizona. Like all riders, Richardson signed a nondisclosure agreement (NDA), a legal contract forbidding him from talking about his experience as a Waymo rider. Now he’s getting away with… Continue reading A Waymo Rider Talked Publicly About the Service — Even Though He Wasn’t Supposed To

Volkswagen with new IQ.DRIVE umbrella brand campaign

ID. VIZZION in the IQ.DRIVE TV commercial. IQ.DRIVE bundles communication with all existing and future level 1 to 5 smart driver assistance systems Europe-wide marketing campaign starts in Germany on December 20 with TV commercial as core element IQ.DRIVE special models planned for January 2019 for European dealer network Jürgen Stackmann, Board Member for Sales:… Continue reading Volkswagen with new IQ.DRIVE umbrella brand campaign

Seat will develop a small electric car for the Volkswagen group

Published 12/13/2018 11:23:12 PM MADRID, 13 Dec. (EUROPA PRESS) – Seat has been commissioned by the Volkswagen Group to develop a platform for a small electric car that can be used for all brands of the German automobile consortium. The management of the German corporation announced this project of the Spanish firm at the meeting… Continue reading Seat will develop a small electric car for the Volkswagen group