Autonomous Cars October 19, 2018

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Classifying autonomous cars a challenge for industry

The Register/Advertiser-Oct. 19, 2018
TORONTO — We need to change how we talk about autonomous cars. First, we made a mistake. When Tesla rolled out its Autopilot, we — and most other major …

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Why People Keep Rear-Ending Self-Driving Cars

WIREDOct. 18, 2018
The people developing self-driving cars pitch them as a tool for drastically reducing the nearly 40,000 fatalities that hit US roads every year. Getting there will …

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The Digital Transformation To Keep IKEA Relevant: Virtual Reality …

Forbes-Oct. 19, 2018
The company is also looking ahead to how fully autonomous vehicles will change how the interiors and exteriors of cars will be designed. What we now believe …

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You likely won’t be riding in self-driving cars too soon — unless you’re …

Business Insider-Oct. 19, 2018
With the increasing investment in autonomous technology, it seems like we’re close to living in a world where our cars drive us. However, it’s possible that the …

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Drivers Wildly Overestimate What ‘Semiautonomous’ Cars Can Do

WIREDOct. 18, 2018
“Seventy percent of people believe you can buy autonomous cars,” says Matthew Avery, head of research at the UK’s Thatcham Research, a Euro NCAP …

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Drivers Wildly Overestimate What ‘Semi-Autonomous‘ Cars Can Do

WIREDOct. 18, 2018
“Seventy percent of people believe you can buy autonomous cars,” says Matthew Avery, head of research at the UK’s Thatcham Research, a Euro NCAP …

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Not everyone is ready to ride as autonomous vehicles take to the road …

CNBCOct. 14, 2018
Pennsylvania regulators this week gave the nod to Aurora, an autonomous vehiclesoftware company, to begin testing its prototypes on state roads, joining a …

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Euro NCAP: Drivers overestimate the abilities of ‘autonomous‘ cars

The Internet of Business-Oct. 19, 2018
Fully autonomous vehicles are seen as something of a panacea in the transport and logistics industries. Smart cars and trucks capable of operating …

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Self-driving cars need a new kind of map

Axios-Oct. 19, 2018
Self-driving cars currently lack the common sense needed to navigate using a traditional human map. Since they can’t interpret context, they need to rely on a …

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Sweden powers up the first mixed reality testing center for …

TechRadarOct. 18, 2018
The Swedish government has unveiled the world’s most advanced testing facility for autonomous cars. The AstaZero 5G test facility, located in Gothenburg, can …

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Ohio leaders want to be at the forefront of driverless tech. Here’s what …

MyDaytonDailyNews-Oct. 19, 2018
Ohio wants to be in the thick of the race toward autonomous and connected vehicles, and state officials were in town Thursday to hear from local stakeholders …

Linux-driven embedded PCs target autonomous cars

LinuxGizmos.com-Oct. 19, 2018
Kontron announced two Ubuntu-driven computers for autonomous vehicles. The S2000 is a lab dev platform with a Xeon 8160T and the EvoTRAC S1901 offers …

How to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer on Roads with Humans

Insurance JournalOct. 17, 2018
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) says autonomous vehicles must and can be made safer. But the group says a serious flaw in current …

Shaken by hype, self-driving leaders adopt new strategy: Shutting up

Washington Post-Oct. 19, 2018
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new …

Autonomous vehicles, AI and voice-enabled inventory among …

CNBCOct. 16, 2018
Jim Cramer hears from Domino’s Pizza CEO Ritch Allison after earnings about the company’s international growth, how he sees the Papa John’s debacle and …

Uber May Be Preparing to Spin Off Its Self-Driving Car Unit

FortuneOct. 17, 2018
The ride-hailing company is mulling the possibility of spinning off the self-driving carunit into its own entity and taking investments from outside parties that …
Uber considers spinning off self-driving car unit
Highly CitedFinancial TimesOct. 16, 2018

Why should autonomous vehicles look like cars? Why not hotel rooms?

TreehuggerOct. 18, 2018
Bikes work better for me for private, personal time, but I see the point about AV’s and that’s worrying. Will our highways be cluttered with mobile offices, beer dens …

Supplier Looks To Tech To Reduce Growing Public Fear Of Self …

Forbes-Oct. 19, 2018
Klei noted the 2018 survey was taken after several high profile fatal accidents involving self-driving vehicles, which may account for the growing fear of them …

Safety and Reduced Dependence on Owning Cars Will Be the True …

FortuneOct. 17, 2018
While the advent of self-driving cars is generating a lot of excitement, leading thinkers in the transportation sector told the Fortune Global Forum on Tuesday that …

How Driverless Cars will Change your World

CLNewsOct. 19, 2018
At the beginning of last week, we wrote about driverless (or self-driving or autonomouscars: what they were, how they worked and which companies were …

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Can I be over the drink-drive limit and take a driverless car home?

Coventry Live-Oct. 19, 2018
Make no mistake about it, we are already some considerable way down the road to connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) becoming an everyday reality.

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Here’s How Tesla Autonomous Driving Could Lead to Self-Delivering …

InverseOct. 14, 2018
If you believe Elon Musk’s promise of fully-autonomous cars, that vision could be just around the corner. While a Tesla that rolls right off the production line and …

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Autonomous Vehicles: The Impacts Are Huge, But How Quickly Will …

Robotics Tomorrow (press release)Oct. 18, 2018
Among the four trends, self-driving or autonomous vehicles are the most disruptive. Just as Henry Ford’s Model T changed transportation and the American way …

#CarNews: Driverless Cars will change how we shop

Capital FM KenyaOct. 18, 2018
Driverless cars will disrupt the food and drinks industries in the next ten years, according to a new future-focused service from industry websites just-food and …

When Will Self-driving Cars Become the New Normal – and When Will …

HaaretzOct. 18, 2018
One of the hottest areas that Greenbaum is involved in is autonomous driving. Many believe that self-driving vehicles will revolutionize daily life, with implications …

Forget Light Rail: This CRE Expert Says Cities Should Push Driverless …

BisnowOct. 17, 2018
Avison Young Managing Director Rand Stephens is a believer in autonomousvehicle technology. He pushes for municipalities to embrace the innovations …

Don’t repeat deadly limo crash safety mistakes with driverless cars

USA TODAYOct. 17, 2018
While holding considerable promise to improve highway safety, driverless carstoday have more in common with the modified limousine that killed 20 people in …

Peugeot says self-driving cars like its e-Legend can be more than sci-fi …

MashableOct. 14, 2018
Peugeot introduced its own vision of future car design at the Paris Auto Show, which wraps up Sunday. The e-Legend is an electric, autonomous concept vehicle …

Volvo envisions autonomous vehicles as revolutionizing travel

eeNews Europe-Oct. 19, 2018
Sleep, meet, or have a face-to-face conversation: Volvo’s new autonomous concept car offers an intriguing group of mobile accommodations. It’s been said that …

Could self-driving cars leave high-speed rail in the rearview mirror?

Sacramento Bee-Oct. 19, 2018
“Just a couple of years after 2020,” BI predicts, there will be fully autonomousvehicles on roads capable of handling a range of driving scenarios with little or no …

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Transportation & Logistics – Autonomous Vehicles

Lexology-Oct. 19, 2018
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) Although the average consumer has yet to be exposed to AVs, AVs are already here and are set to revolutionize mobility, …

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Driverless cars will change how people shop, how drinks are …

just-drinks.com-Oct. 19, 2018
Driverless cars will disrupt the food and drinks industries in the next ten years, according to a new future-focused service from just-food and just-drinks.

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Transport chief warns autonomous cars could worsen traffic

Mobile World LiveOct. 17, 2018
INTERVIEW: Autonomous vehicle technology will deliver little more than jamming roads with driverless, electric cars unless city authorities take action to ensure …

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Israeli startup helps self-driving cars ‘feel’ the road

ISRAEL21cOct. 16, 2018
The hardest maneuver for an autonomous vehicle is getting on and off a fast-moving highway. That’s why most self-driving cars “are crawling around coffee …

Autonomous cars will shake insurance market to its core

Intelligent InsurerOct. 16, 2018
The world of insurance—and the wider world beyond that—will be changed by the advent of the driverless or autonomous car, according to Vincent Branch, …

Driving to the Future: How Autonomous Vehicles are Changing the …

Cleantech GroupOct. 17, 2018
More specifically, sensors provide the ability to detect the various objects surrounding the vehicle and act as the eyes of autonomous vehicles. For self-driving …

Bad roads and weather give UK an edge in driverless car market

Telegraph.co.ukOct. 15, 2018
Mr Robinson, who has recently left the US ride-sharing company to join Oxford-based autonomous car developer Oxbotica, said that having roundabouts and …

Volvo shifts safety strategy for self-driving future

Automotive NewsOct. 14, 2018
But the rise of autonomous and connected-vehicle technology, as well as digital simulation technology used to pioneer self-driving vehicles, have augmented …

Top 20 Companies Developing Autonomous Vehicles (AV …

PR Newswire (press release)Oct. 18, 2018
Industry professionals: cut through the media hype and exaggeration by reading an objective dispassionate Visiongain report on the autonomous vehicle market ..

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Movement rises to keep humans, not robots, in the driver’s seat

Virginian-Pilot-Oct. 19, 2018
He was at a car event in Vancouver, British Columbia, when a stranger involved in developing self-driving cars took Hagerty by the elbow, looked him in the eye, …

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Panasonic reveals vision for futuristic autonomous car cabin

Manufacturing GlobalOct. 15, 2018
Driverless cars are coming and this is what we call the future of mobility,” said Anthony Peter, Director of Corporate Communications for Panasonic Middle East …

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Key former Google engineer says safety wasn’t his primary concern …

CNBCOct. 16, 2018
According to the report, Google had multiple accidents involving self-driving carsprior to the installment of California state regulations in 2014 that require …

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Guest Blog: Can Autonomous Vehicles Alleviate Transportation …

Columbus CEOOct. 18, 2018
Change is coming to the automotive industry as we move into a new era of autonomous vehicles and computer-aided transportation. A growing number of cities …

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Cognata raises $18.5 million to grow its autonomous vehicle …

VentureBeatOct. 17, 2018
As the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry gets ready for prime time, testing the cars, trucks, taxis, and buses on public roads is a crucial part of …

Public-private efforts pushing China to top of autonomous driving …

The Mainichi-Oct. 19, 2018
The Chinese government designated the area the country’s first test district for autonomous vehiclesin 2015. Seeking what is said to be the world’s most …

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Key roads being pre-wired for the time driverless cars arrive

Courier MailOct. 17, 2018
He said the technology, which also operated on the Riverside Expressway and Pacific Motorway, would provide the platform for managing driverless cars when …

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Introduction to Autonomous Vehicle Pilots

CitiesSpeakOct. 17, 2018
As a result, cities nationwide are now hosting autonomous vehicle pilots that are being developed in a multitude of ways, with different choices and approaches …

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EDITORIAL: Driverless cars not ready for prime time

Fredericksburg.comOct. 16, 2018
DRIVERLESScar technology has been around for decades. Apparently, auto manufacturers could have put them on the road in the 1990s if they had chosen to …

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Daimler Details Autonomous Car Testing in California from 2019

autoevolution-Oct. 19, 2018
California, a state that welcomes all new technologies from the auto industry, from electric to self-driving cars, is the place chosen by German group Daimler to …