While creating self-driving car systems, it’s natural that different companies might independently arrive at similar methods or results — but the similarities in a recent “first of its kind” Nvidia proposal to work done by Mobileye two years ago were just too much for the latter company’s CEO to take politely.
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Gates-backed Lumotive upends lidar conventions using metamaterials
Pretty much every self-driving car on the road, not to mention many a robot and drone, uses lidar to sense its surroundings. But useful as lidar is, it also involves physical compromises that limit its capabilities. Lumotive is a new company with funding from Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures that uses metamaterials to exceed those limits, perhaps setting a new standard for the industry.
View More Gates-backed Lumotive upends lidar conventions using metamaterialsEx-Tesla employees allegedly stole trade secrets in a ridiculously obvious way
Tesla is suing five former employees for stealing trade secrets in what looks like ridiculously obvious fashion.
On Wednesday evening, Tesla filed two lawsuits against former employees and the self-driving startup Zoox, as spotted by The Verge. In the first case, it accuses four ex-employees of porting over “proprietary information and trade secrets” to Zoox. And in the second, it accuses one employee of stealing Tesla’s Autopilot source code, and bringing it over to Xiaopeng Motors (XPeng).
The theft, according to Tesla, was “blatant and intentional.” From the filings, it certainly seems that way. Read more…
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View More Ex-Tesla employees allegedly stole trade secrets in a ridiculously obvious wayFord goes all in on autonomous vehicles with new factory
Ford hasn’t shied away from the prospect of robo-cars.
Back in 2017, Ford brought on autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI to develop a self-driving program with plans to provide a self-driving taxi service in several cities by 2021. It’s been tes…
New York City will have a self-driving shuttle — but there’s a catch
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is getting an autonomous boost.
On private roads, a loop shuttle service for ferry passengers will bring riders to the industrial center where 400 businesses operate. Workers can ride in MIT-based company Optimus Ride’s s…
It looks like Waymo is about to expand its self-driving taxi service
Waymo One — the self-driving taxi service from Google’s autonomous car company — officially launched in December, but it hasn’t been available to many people. That could change.
In a blog post Tuesday, the company announced a new 85,000-square-foot technical service center in Mesa, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. The taxi service — available through an app that orders Waymo-ified Chrysler Pacifica minivans — has only been available for about 400 “early riders” in the Phoenix area, but Waymo says it will open up to more people. It’s just not clear when that will happen.
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People still fear self-driving cars a year after Uber fatal crash
Elaine Herzberg was walking her bicycle across a Tempe, Arizona street when a Volvo XC90 hit her, almost a year ago on March 18, 2018. She died at the hospital.
The car that hit her was an Uber, but this one was self-driving. The driver and sol…
Uber’s self-driving car unit was burning $20 million a month
Uber thought it would have 75,000 autonomous vehicles on the roads this year and be operating driverless taxi services in 13 cities by 2022, according to court documents unsealed last week. To reach those ambitious goals, the ride-sharing company, which hopes to go public later this year, was spending $20 million a month on developing […]
View More Uber’s self-driving car unit was burning $20 million a monthReport: Google’s Waymo seeks outside investment and a sky-high valuation
Waymo would raise capital at a valuation “at least several times that of Cruise.”
View More Report: Google’s Waymo seeks outside investment and a sky-high valuationGM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the year
GM Cruise plans to hire 1,000 more engineers over the next nine months, TechCrunch has learned. It’s an aggressive move by the autonomous vehicle technology company to double its size as it pushes to deploy a robotaxi service by the end of the year. Arden Hoffman, who helped scale Dropbox, will leave the file-sharing and […]
View More GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire 1,000 engineers by the end of the yearHow John Deere’s autonomous vehicles are besting self-driving concept cars
In this special edition of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with John Stone, Senior Vice President of Intelligent Solutions for John Deere, at CES 2019.
Stone discusses how the latest models of autonomous vehicles are revolutionizing farming practices an…
Waymo starts selling its LiDAR sensors to power robots, security systems, and more
The small mound on the back of Waymo’s self-driving cars is for sale.
The Alphabet-owned autonomous car company is making its “homemade” LiDAR sensor, the Laser Bear Honeycomb, available to other companies.
In a blog post Wednesday, the c…