It is a classic problem and a test of where our morality lies: if a runaway trolley is uncontrollably heading down a set of tracks and you have the ability to use a lever and choose between either five people or one, what would you do? Featured stories Extend this to cars: would we prefer… Continue reading MIT reveals who self-driving cars should kill: The cat, the elderly, or the baby?
Tag: Autonomous
VW and Waymo?
According to unconfirmed media reports, Volkswagen plans to join Waymo. The car company Volkswagen looking for cooperation partners – that’s official. But it works around partner on the issue of liability. SEDRIC jury. Source: VW Along with Siemens you test the networking of crossing and in terms of networking you are also with Microsoft together… Continue reading VW and Waymo?
Lorry-hailing company eyes $1b funding for driverless technology efforts
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US Department of Transportation: It needs better readings
To boost confidence in safety, the US Department of Transportation believes it would need better readings. In the US, they are planning new ones Guidelines for autonomous driving and you want Vehicles without steering wheel allow. One sets especially on the voluntary the industry. But since then fatal accident in March This year, when an… Continue reading US Department of Transportation: It needs better readings
China’s NIO invests in LiDAR startup Innovusion
Innovusion, a two-year-old startup developing LiDAR sensor technology for autonomous vehicles, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Chinese firms Nio Capital and Eight Roads Ventures along with U.S.-based F-Prime Capital. Other seed round and strategic investors joined the round, the startup said. Nio Capital is the venture arm of… Continue reading China’s NIO invests in LiDAR startup Innovusion
Faraday Future Achieves Decisive Victory On Its Emergency Relief Application And Welcomes Investors Around The World
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Faraday Future (FF) today obtained a decisive victory on its application for emergency relief against Evergrande Health Industry Group Ltd. (Evergrande) filed in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. Specifically, the arbitrator concluded that Evergrande can no longer prevent FF from seeking funding through other channels. Among other… Continue reading Faraday Future Achieves Decisive Victory On Its Emergency Relief Application And Welcomes Investors Around The World
Porsche Consulting: A New Age Dawns
Death Valley seems almost pleasant in comparison to the Atacama Desert, located in the Antofagasta Region of Chile—the driest place in the world, where rain might not fall for decades and temperatures can swing between 86 degrees Fahrenheit by day and 5° F at night. This is also a land of massive, gaping craters—and one… Continue reading Porsche Consulting: A New Age Dawns
Faurecia to buy car navigation unit Clarion from Hitachi for $710m
October 25, 2018 French car parts maker Faurecia SA is set to buy a majority stake in Japanese car navigation system maker Clarion Co from Hitachi Ltd for around 80 billion yen ($710 million), the Nikkei reported on Thursday. The report said Hitachi agreed to sell most of its stake to Faurecia, making the French… Continue reading Faurecia to buy car navigation unit Clarion from Hitachi for $710m
General Motors bets €4.3bn on the long road to safe driverless taxi
By Heather Somerville It’s one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars: Since May, General Motors (GM) and its Cruise self-driving car unit have landed €4.35bn in investment commitments from Japan’s SoftBank and Honda Motor to develop a robot taxi service that could safely navigate the city streets of San Francisco by… Continue reading General Motors bets €4.3bn on the long road to safe driverless taxi
Volkswagen expects an SUV share of 50% by 2025
The Touareg is at the top end of Volkswagen‘s SUV range, while the T-Roc is currently the brand‘s smallest SUV. In this respect, it will be succeeded by the new T-Cross, which will make its world debut this Thursday. Volkswagen anticipates especially strong SUV growth in North and South America, as well as in China… Continue reading Volkswagen expects an SUV share of 50% by 2025