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Yandex takes its self-driving test cars out for a spin in the snow
Russian software giant Yandex took its prototype self-driving taxi out for its first real-world snow test last weekend. The Prius model prototypes clocked up 300km in total during the test. Read More
Lyft now has permission to test self-driving cars on California’s roads
Lyft just took a small but essential step forward in the development of its own self-driving car project.
The California DMV granted the rapidly growing ride-hailing company permission to test autonomous vehicles on the state’s public roads. Th…
Apple reveals self-driving car work in research paper
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Apple’s work on self-driving cars has been more secretive than just about every other project in the autonomous car space — but now, two of the company’s scientists have published some of their auto-focused research for the first time.
The paper, authored by Apple engineers Yin Zhou and Oncel Tuzel and published in the independent journal arXiv, details a new computer imaging software technique called “VoxelNet” that could improve driverless car system’s ability to detect pedestrians and cyclists.
The scientists claim their new method could be even more effective than the two-tiered LiDAR and camera systems that have become the industry standard for object detection in self-driving cars. Those expensive systems depend on cameras to help determine the small or faraway objects (like pedestrians or cyclists) detected by LiDAR sensors, which use light beams to detect and map 3D obstacles in the world around the the vehicle. Read more…
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View More Apple reveals self-driving car work in research paperUber just made its biggest move yet to adopt self-driving cars
Uber just made a deal that will boost its self-driving efforts in a big way as well as signal a shift in the way the company operates.
The company announced a partnership with Volvo where it would buy “tens of thousands” of self-driving vehicle…
Your next taxi driver might be a robot
Waymo is bringing autonomous taxis to the Phoenix metropolitan area and Navya will be soon to follow. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Uber, Autonomous Cars, Self Driving Cars, and Lyft
View More Your next taxi driver might be a robotSelf-driving cars might get their own lane on Interstate 94
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Self-driving vehicles may get their very own lanes along a stretch of the bustling Interstate 94 in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin transportation officials are considering the futuristic option because the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn — whose Chinese factory produces up to half a million iPhones a day — confirmed in October that it will build a 20 million square-foot flat-screen factory in Racine County, Wisconsin. This will inevitably bring a ton of commerce-related traffic to the region, so Foxconn asked state officials to consider a self-driving vehicle lane to more efficiently move things to and from the factory. Read more…
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Sexist self-driving car ad says the biggest benefit of AI is keeping women from driving
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Chinese search giant Baidu has a self-driving car project in development that aims to put its autonomous driving platform into vehicles as early as next year. The company’s latest attempt at a viral promotion is far from anything you’d expect to see from one of the world’s most advanced autonomous projects, however — or really any major brand in 2017.
Baidu’s US Twitter account posted a short video today about how self-driving cars will make the world a better place. But the spot quickly devolves into a tone deaf play on gender stereotypes, a cringeworthy mashup of 21st century tech and 1950s sensibilities. Read more…
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View More Sexist self-driving car ad says the biggest benefit of AI is keeping women from drivingSelf-driving shuttle to offer rides down the Vegas strip
The city of Las Vegas has partnered with AAA and Keolis to offer rides in an all-electric, autonomous driving shuttle bus.
The pilot program will test operation in real world traffic conditions and is hoping to change negative perceptions of autonomo…
Navya’s fully self-driving taxi looks straight out of Robocop
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Navya, the French company behind the all-electric, self-driving ARMA shuttle buses on the streets in Las Vegas, Michigan, and Singapore, has a brand-new ride for cities looking to create fleets of driverless taxicabs.
The company just unveiled its latest electric autonomous vehicle, the Autonum Cab, at a private company event in Paris. Navya’s calling the car the “world’s first taxi robot,” a title that competitors with public pilot programs on the road like Waymo, Uber, and Cruise would probably be quick to dispute — but the new cab certainly looks more like something straight out of a sci-fi movie than any of the other self-driving cars currently on the road. Read more…
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Waymo’s autonomous cars don’t need humans in the driver’s seat anymore
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More than eight years after it began, Waymo, the company spun out of Google X’s self-driving car project, believes its technology is ready to take to public roads as a fully self-driving car — without anyone in the driver’s seat.
Waymo’s fleet of autonomous vehicles is now prepared to drive on public roads without a safety operator, according to CEO John Krafcik, who announced the development onstage at the Web Summit in Lisbon.
The company also shared some details about the expansion of its pilot program in a blog post. Neither Krafcik nor the company’s reps shared exactly what has given the company the confidence to declare their vehicles “fully” self-driving, but it appears that Waymo has achieved Level 4 autonomy, which means the car can handle every aspect of the driving experience on its own without need for human intervention. Most other companies currently conducting self-driving tests are only at Level 3, a level that still requires a human operator for some (if not most) situations. Read more…
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Tencent is reportedly testing its own autonomous driving system
Tencent is making progress on its own autonomous driving system, according to Bloomberg. The report says that Tencent, one of China’s largest tech firms and the maker of WeChat, already has a prototype and is testing the system internally. Read More