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Category: Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   October 12, 2020

Waymo opens Robotaxi service without a safety driver to more users

In the US city of Phoenix, more people should be able to call self-driving taxis. This helps especially in the corona crisis to protect drivers and guests. The Google sister …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   August 27, 2020

Bosch and Ford test driverless parking

Together with the car manufacturer Ford, the supplier is testing the “Automated Valet Parking” parking system in the USA. In doing so, they rely on new camera technology. The supplier …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   August 5, 2020

Tesla boss Musk rejects criticism of the Autopilot as “idiotic”

Tesla’s driver assistance system has come under fire after several fatal accidents. Elon Musk considers the controversy surrounding the name “Autopilot” to be “idiotic”. Tesla boss Elon Musk has expressed …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   July 28, 2020

Continental & Nvidia develop supercomputers for autonomous driving AI

Continental wants to use a powerful computer to automate the development of robot car AI even more – and is even ahead of Tesla. So far, there has been a …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   July 15, 2020

Tesla no longer allowed to advertise “Autopilot” in Germany

The regional court in Munich believes that the car manufacturer’s advertising statements on autonomous driving are misleading. The competition commission has thus prevailed. The Munich Regional Court banned the California …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   June 11, 2020

Volkswagen and Ford establish partnership in autonomous driving

By taking this step, both groups want to save costs in the development of technology for autonomous driving. The cooperation also affects electric cars. Volkswagen, as announced, joined the Ford …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   May 26, 2020

Autonomous driving – how far have we come?

A self-driving motor vehicle (sometimes also an autonomous vehicle ) is a car or other motor vehicle that can drive, control and park without the influence of a human driver …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   May 14, 2020

Another Robotaxi company relies on Minivan from Chrysler

American start-up called Voyage has made a deal for using the Chrysler Pacifica model as the basis for its robotaxis. For Fiat Chrysler, the decision to prepare a minivan model …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   May 7, 2020

Volvo wants an autonomous car equipped with LiDAR from 2022

Many car manufacturers see LiDAR as a technology allowing the rapid acquisition of the data necessary for the autonomous driving of their vehicle. One company, however, is an exception, Tesla, …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   May 5, 2020

Tesla Autopilot accident rate drops by half in first quarter of 2020

The Autopilot is much talked about when it is responsible for an accident. Yet according to the latest Tesla report, the accident rate per miles traveled has never been so …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   April 27, 2020

Tesla Autopilot adds new features to recognize traffic lights and stop signs

Recently, Elon Musk through social media, said that there will be an OTA upgrade in the coming weeks for the new automatic identification of traffic lights and stop signs, and …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   March 18, 2020

Toyota and Momenta partner to build autonomous vehicle maps

On March 18, Momenta officially announced a strategic cooperation with Toyota to provide high-definition maps based on camera vision technology. With this cooperation, both parties will jointly promote the Toyota’s …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   January 31, 2020

Hacking risks grow as more self-driving cars hit the road

In 2019, researchers found that if 20 percent of automated vehicles were stopped remotely, an area like Manhattan could grind to a complete halt. Indeed as experts prepare for a …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   January 24, 2020

Tesla Autopilot is a flawed system and should be renamed, says senator Ed Markey

In a press release, Congress senator Edward John Markey has attacked Tesla Autopilot and called it a flawed system. He also blamed Tesla for using a misleading name ‘Autopilot’ for …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   December 28, 2019

Tesla could beat Waymo in the race to self-driving future

Autonomous driving technology is currently in its infancy, but evolving rapidly. More companies are testing autonomous vehicles than ever. Tesla and Waymo are two prominent names competing to capitalize on …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   November 19, 2019

Waymo Driverless Program Expanding to Trucks

There have been multiple reports that Waymo is testing self-driving trucks. As per its chief product officer Daniel Chu, the company is really excited about long haul trucking opportunity as …

Autonomous Vehicles   ~   November 17, 2019

Lyft completes over 75,000 self-driving rides, the future of driverless taxi is here

Autonomous driving future has the possibility to completely revamp the way we feel about transport. It can bring down traffic, make our roads safer and also give drivers more free …

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