The CRUSE Project seeks to demonstrate that round trip plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) carsharing can serve rural communities while benefitting low income residents and local businesses. Photo via Forth. Forth, a Portland-based mobility group, will receive funding for the Clean Rural Shared Electric Mobility (CRUSE) Project from the U.S. Department of Energy for Advanced Vehicle Technologies… Continue reading Portland Mobility Group Wins DOE Grant for Rural EV Carsharing Pilot
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Waymo Open Dataset: Sharing our self-driving data for research
Data is a critical ingredient for machine learning. Our vehicles have collected over 10 million autonomous miles in 25 cities; this rich and diverse set of real world experiences has helped our engineers and researchers develop Waymo’s self-driving technology and innovative models and algorithms. Today, we are inviting the research community to join us with… Continue reading Waymo Open Dataset: Sharing our self-driving data for research
This Startup Is Deploying Thousands of Autonomous Delivery Robots
The College Try When students and professors head to college this fall, they might glimpse an unexpected sight on campus: robots. On Tuesday, San Francisco-based startup Starship Technologies announced that it had just secured an additional $40 million in funding — and that it plans to send thousands of its delivery robots to college campuses… Continue reading This Startup Is Deploying Thousands of Autonomous Delivery Robots
Bolt Food Launches in Tallinn!
Very exciting news coming out of our hometown, today – in case you haven’t heard, we’ve now officially launched our food delivery service – Bolt Food! Read on to find out everything you need to know about it, including how to start ordering your favourite food right to your door! Well, there’s a big clue… Continue reading Bolt Food Launches in Tallinn!
Uber-rival Bolt enters European food delivery business
TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia’s Bolt, a popular ride-sharing service in Eastern Europe and Africa, on Wednesday launched food delivery service in its home town of Tallinn, the nation’s capital, and said it plans to roll out Bolt Food this year in South Africa, Latvia and Lithuania as well. FILE PHOTO: A Bolt (formerly known as… Continue reading Uber-rival Bolt enters European food delivery business
Industrial Internet Consortium approves Testbed of Negotiation Automation Platform for coordinating interests among AI systems- Promoting implementation through expansion of participants –
2019-08-21 Tokyo, August 21, 2019 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), Fraunhofer IOSB, Kabuku Inc., the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) , Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., and Toyota Tsusho Corporation announced today the approval by the Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™,*1) of a Negotiation Automation Platform Testbed in cooperation with Japan’s National Institute of Advanced… Continue reading Industrial Internet Consortium approves Testbed of Negotiation Automation Platform for coordinating interests among AI systems- Promoting implementation through expansion of participants –
DoorDash acquires autonomous driving startup Scotty Labs
DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late, with Scotty Labs as its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this comes after DoorDash acquired Caviar in a deal worth $410 million. Scotty Labs, a tele-operations company that is working on technology to enable people to remotely control self-driving cars, raised… Continue reading DoorDash acquires autonomous driving startup Scotty Labs
Lidar Emerges as A Powerful Technology for Today’s Security Solutions
August 20, 2019 As the demands on security-related technology increase and evolve, new perception systems have the potential to vastly improve public safety and security performance. Velodyne Lidar is at the forefront of delivering these technologies to improve threat detection and traffic management in airports, transportation, and energy infrastructure, as well as commercial and private… Continue reading Lidar Emerges as A Powerful Technology for Today’s Security Solutions
Waymo: Building Cars is a “Distraction” From Self-Driving Tech – Futurism
Different Priorities When it comes to building and perfecting the self-driving car, some companies have elected to build a full vehicle from the ground up, like how Tesla is inching toward autonomous tech as it develops new car models. Others, Like Uber, are using other companies’ vehicles as hosts for their self-driving technology. Waymo, the… Continue reading Waymo: Building Cars is a “Distraction” From Self-Driving Tech – Futurism
Researchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums
If you’re like me, and I’m just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you’re not driving. So what are we supposed to do in self-driving vehicles? Researchers are finally looking into this question with an experiment designed to see just what makes people… Continue reading Researchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums