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Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous vehicles without safety drivers on some California roads, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It would be putting its cars — well, minivans — on streets around Mountain View, where it already has an abundance of data. The company already has… Continue reading Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
Inside BMW’s Autonomous Driving Campus and plans
Dr. Dirk Wisselmann, senior expert for autonomous driving at BMW, tells me that the automaker’s first level 3 car will have the technical capabilities for level 4 or 5 highway driving. “We can create a software update (for the car) and inform our drivers, ‘We are are very confident on this road. We are very… Continue reading Inside BMW’s Autonomous Driving Campus and plans
Singapore orders Grab to delay closing Uber app for an additional 3 weeks
Grab’s plan to shutter Uber’s app quickly following its merger deal in Southeast Asia has hit another snag in Singapore where the ride-hailing firm has been forced to delay closing its rival’s service until May 7. This is the second time that Grab has pushed back the removal of Uber’s app in Singapore, which was initially… Continue reading Singapore orders Grab to delay closing Uber app for an additional 3 weeks
Waymo formally applies for fully driverless car tests in California
JasonDoiy via Getty Images Waymo has officially applied to the California DMV to test autonomous cars without drivers in the state. A source told the San Francisco Chronicle that the company will start trials around its Mountain View headquarters where it’s been testing its self-driving Chrysler Pacific minivans, though those had personnel behind the wheel… Continue reading Waymo formally applies for fully driverless car tests in California
VW replaces CEO Matthias Mueller amid group restructure
Volkswagen has announced that Herbert Diess will take over from Matthias Mueller as chief executive. Diess is a former BMW executive who has overseen the core Volkswagen brand since 2015. He will head up the management board that reports to the group’s board of directors and take charge of vehicle development and research as well… Continue reading VW replaces CEO Matthias Mueller amid group restructure
A LiDAR Prodigy Cranks Up Production In The Race For Robot Car Vision Sales
Austin Russell, Luminar’s CEO and co-founder, is convinced his company has the most advanced, highest resolution laser LIDAR sensor on the market and he’s quickly boosting production to supply autonomous vehicle test fleets. One year after emerging from stealth mode Luminar, a maker of laser LiDAR sensors for self-driving vehicles led by 23-year-old optics whiz… Continue reading A LiDAR Prodigy Cranks Up Production In The Race For Robot Car Vision Sales
Thiel-Backed Autonomous Car Supplier Slashing Cost, Scaling Up
Luminar Technologies Inc., the self-driving sensor startup backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, is rolling out a cheaper-to-make version of its laser technology and ramping up production to supply the key component for autonomous vehicles. The startup released a new sensor platform Thursday that reduces the cost of its most expensive part from tens of thousands… Continue reading Thiel-Backed Autonomous Car Supplier Slashing Cost, Scaling Up
Luminar’s New Lidar Could Dominate the Self-Driving Car Market
Self-driving cars are nearly ready for primetime, and so are the laser sensors that help them see the world. Lidar, which builds a 3-D map of a car’s surroundings by firing millions of laser points a second and measuring how long they take to bounce back, has been in development since 2005, when a guy… Continue reading Luminar’s New Lidar Could Dominate the Self-Driving Car Market
Luminar puts its lidar tech into production through acquisitions and smart engineering
When Luminar came out of stealth last year with its built-from-scratch lidar system, it seemed to beat established players like Velodyne at their own game — but at great expense and with no capability to build at scale. After the tech proved itself on the road, however, Luminar got to work making its device better,… Continue reading Luminar puts its lidar tech into production through acquisitions and smart engineering