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Waymo, Walmart give shoppers a lift
Automotive News–Jul. 30, 2018
Participants will be able to use Waymo’s self-driving vehicles for shopping, dining and business excursions, and for short-term rental and repair …
Can Frisco’s new fleet of autonomous vehicles help people get used to …
Dallas News–Jul. 29, 2018
On Monday, bright orange autonomous vehicles from Silicon Valley-based Drive.ai will begin rolling along streets near office buildings in Hall …
Three Stocks to Help You Ride The Stock Market In A Self-Driving Car
Forbes–Jul. 29, 2018
The existence of fully autonomous cars seemed to be a far off reality since 1925, when the inventor Francis Houdina introduced a car where …
Not so fast: rethinking our approach to driverless cars
TechRadar–Jul. 28, 2018
Autonomous vehicles are big business. So it’s no surprise that some of the highest-valued technology companies in the world are looking to get …
The Top 10 Places Self-Driving Car Passengers Go
Forbes–Jul. 28, 2018
Health Salon or Spa. Autonomous vehicles might elevate this experience, making passengers feel more relaxed, cared for, and special.
Autonomous cars: Waymo and Walmart partner on a grocery pickup …
Digital Trends–Jul. 25, 2018
Autonomous–car outfit Waymo is about to start ferrying shoppers to and from a Walmart store in Arizona as part of its efforts to explore different …
Why autonomous vehicles are risky business
Computerworld Australia–Jul. 30, 2018
Autonomous vehicles used to be fictional concepts in movies. These days, thanks to the likes of Tesla and Google, there are several …
Argo AI challenges West Coast on tech expertise
Financial Times–Jul. 30, 2018
When Ford, the 105-year- old Detroit automaker, wanted a partner to develop driverless car technology to help it survive another century, it was …
Ayala electronics unit grows with autonomous cars, e-vehicles
ABS-CBN News–Jul. 30, 2018
“With the advent of autonomous cars and electric vehicles, demand has increased dramatically and will continue to do so as technologies …
How Much Safer Should Self-Driving Cars Be? Try 0%
Forbes–Jul. 10, 2018
Rhetorical arguments are bubbling up around what it means for a self-drivingvehicle to be safe enough for commercialization, and yet, …
Even self-driving cars need driver education
The Conversation US–Jul. 12, 2018
What do self-driving cars and teenage drivers have in common? Experience. Or, more accurately, a lack of experience. Teenage drivers …
Waymo’s self-driving cars log 1 million miles on public roads in a month
CNBC–Jul. 20, 2018
Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car company that was spun out of Google, is picking up speed. The company’s autonomous vehicles just …
Bosch and Daimler are teaming up for a fully autonomous car …
Digital Trends–Jul. 11, 2018
In October 1986, when Bosch and Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler began working on a large-scale autonomous car project, the …
Driverless cars: Australia is not ready for this ethical minefield
The Australian–Jul. 27, 2018
When Henry Silvester surveys the lay of the land — not to mention the law — to be traversed by the driverless car in Australia, he’s confident in …
As driverless car crashes mount, fear of riding in them rises, too
Tampabay.com–Jul. 28, 2018
Americans have been shaken by crashes of driverless cars and their semiautonomous counterparts, two recent surveys show, and consumer …
As driverless–car crashes mount, fear of riding in them rises, too
Washington Post–Jul. 26, 2018
Americans have been shaken by crashes of driverless cars and their semiautonomous counterparts, two recent surveys show, and consumer …
The dream of driverless cars is dying
Spectator.co.uk–Jul. 5, 2018
I was worried that going to the autonomous vehicle exhibition in Stuttgart would be tantamount to an atheist walking into St Peter’s while the …
Uber’s self-driving cars are back on public roads, but under human …
The Verge–Jul. 24, 2018
Uber’s self-driving cars are back on public roads in Pittsburgh this week, four months after a fatal crash prompted the company to shut down its …
Uber self-driving cars back on public roads, but in manual mode
Highly Cited–TechCrunch–Jul. 24, 2018
Highly Cited–TechCrunch–Jul. 24, 2018
Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock
The Verge–Jul. 3, 2018
If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; …
UK’s transport revolution: Flying vehicles and self-driving cars …
Express.co.uk–Jul. 30, 2018
THE NEXT step in a transport revolution that could one day see people flying around cities and sending their driverless cars home for the day is …
Driverless cars really do have health and safety benefits, if only people …
The Conversation AU–Jul. 4, 2018
Driverless cars promise many benefits, including an improvement in safety, but new research shows many people are still not aware of this.
Autonomous Cars Must Anticipate and Adapt to Spontaneous Human …
Futurism–Jul. 25, 2018
Torc Robotics’ Project Asimov is making autonomous cars safer for everyone by helping them anticipate human’s erratic behavior. Share This. Tweet This.
This Company is Working to Make Autonomous Cars Safer for …
The Drive–Jul. 13, 2018
A challenge that self-driving cars face is decoding humans at intersections. “In the case of a pedestrian, it’s not, this person is crossing the road …
New details about Apple’s autonomous driving technology revealed in …
CNBC–Jul. 10, 2018
Xiaolang Zhang, who Apple hired to work on software and hardware for self-driving cars in December 2015, is accused of downloading files …
FBI charges former Apple employee with stealing trade secrets from …
International–The Verge–Jul. 10, 2018
International–The Verge–Jul. 10, 2018
Ford creates new autonomous vehicle subdivision
CNBC–Jul. 24, 2018
CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on Ford shares moving higher as the company moves its autonomous vehicle programs and projects under a new …
Drive.ai gives us the autonomous car equivalent of beer goggles
CNET–Jul. 27, 2018
Drive.ai is an autonomous car developer that currently has a fleet of test vehicles in Texas. It recently published an article on its Medium page …
Ford Starts Up $4B Autonomous Vehicle Unit
OilPrice.com–Jul. 28, 2018
On Tuesday, the Detroit automaker launched Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC to accelerate the growth of its autonomous vehicle business and …
Uber has terminated its self-driving car operators in Pittsburgh
Quartz–Jul. 11, 2018
Uber has laid off its self-driving car operators in Pittsburgh as the company rethinks its autonomous vehicle strategy following a fatal crash in …
Ford Commits to Spend $4 Billion on Autonomous Vehicles
Interesting Engineering–Jul. 26, 2018
Ford has signaled its dedication to the development of autonomous vehicles by announcing its plans to spend $4 billion on the sector through …
Ford Autonomous Vehicles: The Spin-Off Company That Will Drop $4 …
Jalopnik–Jul. 24, 2018
Ford is planning to spend $4 billion on developing self-driving cars by 2023, the automaker said Tuesday, in an announcement that also …
How autonomous vehicles might actually make cities more dependent …
CityMetric–Jul. 22, 2018
Cities across Europe are taking steps to become increasingly car free. London mayor Sadiq Khan is aiming for 80 per cent of all trips to be …
Drive.ai’s self-driving cars use dashboard displays so passengers won …
Digital Trends–Jul. 27, 2018
Passengers may not be skittish when self-driving cars are commonplace, but in the early years, most of us will be on high alert. Self-driving …
You decide: Would you let a car determine who dies?
ABC Local–Jul. 4, 2018
At some stage in the future, a fully autonomous car may determine who lives and who dies on our roads. These machines are being tested right …
Why We Need More Startups to Join the Driverless Car Race
Fortune–Jul. 17, 2018
The death of Elaine Herzberg, the woman hit by a self-driving Uber car in Tempe, Ariz in March, was an awful tragedy. Uber and other major …
BlackBerry’s Chen pens defence of US Senate’s autonomous vehicles …
Ottawa Business Journal–Jul. 24, 2018
As the debate surrounding the safety of autonomous cars shifts into high gear, the head of BlackBerry is speaking out against driver monitoring …
Bosch and Foreca’s new service helps self-driving cars respond to …
VentureBeat–Jul. 25, 2018
Driving in inclement weather is anything but easy for humans, and it’s equally tough for autonomous cars. It is sometimes unavoidable, however …
Long Road Ahead: The Promise — and Perils — of Self-driving Cars
Knowledge@Wharton–Jul. 6, 2018
Many companies are trying to crack the code for self-driving cars, which could one day help reduce deaths from traffic accidents. But when?
George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving …
The Verge–Jul. 13, 2018
Self-driving cars are a scam,” says George Hotz, the 28-year-old CEO of Comma.ai who rose to fame under his “geohot” hacker alias when just …
Nvidia A Portfolio Anchor For The Future: Autonomous Cars, Self …
Seeking Alpha–Jul. 26, 2018
Some have cited substantial speculation on the impact that coming 5G deployments will exert on the auto industry and autonomous cars, …
Self-driving car companies muted on updated PennDOT guidelines
Tribune-Review–Jul. 30, 2018
Self-driving car companies testing in Pennsylvania may have to have a second safety engineer in the passenger seat if they want to comply …