Quite a number of companies — 53, to be exact — have received permits to test self-driving cars with a safety driver in California. One of the more notable companies that has received such a permit is China-based Didi Chuxing, which officially opened its U.S.-based research lab last March. Also on the list of permit […]
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Drive.ai is launching an autonomous ride-hailing network in Texas
Drive.ai, the self-driving car startup with roots in Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, has partnered with Frisco, Texas and the Hall Group to deploy the first autonomous ride-hailing platform in the state of Texas. Initially, the platform will be available to more than 10,000 members of Hall Group’s commercial and residential communities. Through the service, people will […]
View More Drive.ai is launching an autonomous ride-hailing network in TexasParallel Domain wants to train self-driving cars in virtual worlds
Kevin McNamara, a former Apple and Pixar employee, is bringing his virtual world creation expertise to the domain of self-driving cars. And he has $2.5 million from Costanoa Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and others to do so. At Apple, McNamara says he worked on an autonomous systems project, where he explored automatic content generation of simulated […]
View More Parallel Domain wants to train self-driving cars in virtual worldsVoyage open-sources autonomous driving safety practices
Voyage, the self-driving car spinout from Udacity, is open-sourcing its approach to autonomous driving safety. This comes at a time when autonomous driving programs are under intense scrutiny following two fatal crashes — one involving Tesla’s Autopilot and the other one involving one of Uber’s self-driving cars in Tempe, Arizona. Meanwhile, Voyage has already successfully deployed […]
View More Voyage open-sources autonomous driving safety practicesNTSB is ‘unhappy’ about Tesla publicly disclosing details of fatal crash
Tesla provided some more details on Friday about the fatal crash involving one of its Model X vehicles, but the National Transportation Safety Board isn’t particularly happy about that, The Washington Post first reported. “In each of our investigations involving a Tesla vehicle, Tesla has been extremely cooperative on assisting with the vehicle data,” NTSB spokesperson […]
View More NTSB is ‘unhappy’ about Tesla publicly disclosing details of fatal crashElon Musk: In 3-6 months, Tesla cars will be able to drive themselves from coast to coast
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Tesla’s Q4 2017 earnings report, released on Wednesday, wasn’t exactly stellar — the company reported a $675 million in losses on a $3.3 billion revenue.
But that doesn’t mean the company isn’t working on cool new features. During the earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that within three to six months, he expects Tesla cars to be able to drive autonomously from U.S. coast to coast.
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