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Donald Trump is reportedly terrified of self-driving cars

sudshr47 March 18, 2019

If there’s one thing Donald Trump is good at it’s stoking the fear of the unknown.

And he’s now extended that to being scared of driverless cars, according to a story from Axios. Jonathan Swan and Joann Muller walk us through several things Trump has apparently said about self-driving cars — and none of them are good.

Among the examples:

“Can you imagine, you’re sitting in the back seat and all of a sudden this car is zig-zagging around the corner and you can’t stop the f—-ing thing?”
Self-driving cars “will never work.”
“I would never get in a self-driving car. … I don’t trust some computer to drive me around.” Read more…

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People still fear self-driving cars a year after Uber fatal crash

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

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…

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Algolux announces Ion, a development platform for autonomous vision systems

sudshr47 March 11, 2019

Algolux, founded in 2015, isn’t exactly a household name in the already-crowded world of automotive computer vision. But the Quebec-based startup has generated some interest among investors. For instance, it’s raised $13.4 million, including a $10 million Series A led by General Motors Ventures last May. Not bad, given the fact that it’s remained a […]

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Transportation Weekly: Waymo unleashes laser bear, Bird spreads its wings, Lyft tightens its belt

sudshr47 March 9, 2019

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch . This is the fifth edition of our newsletter and we love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Catch up here, here and here. As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch. Follow […]

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Waymo starts selling its LiDAR sensors to power robots, security systems, and more

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

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…

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Waymo to start selling standalone LiDAR sensors

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Waymo, the Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, will start selling its custom LiDAR sensors — the technology that was at the heart of a trade secrets lawsuit last year against Uber . The company announced Wednesday in a blog post that it will sell is light detection and […]

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Brodmann17 nabs $11M for its automotive computer vision tech that runs on any CPU

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Efficient computer vision systems are a critical component of autonomous and assisted driving vehicles, and now a startup that has developed a way to deliver computer vision technology without relying on costly and bulky hardware — by building deep learning software that can run even on low-end processors — has secured a round of funding […]

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Prosecutors find Uber not criminally liable in 2018 Arizona self-driving crash that killed a pedestrian

sudshr47 March 6, 2019

Yavapai County prosecutors said today that Uber is not criminally liable in a crash last year when one of its self-driving cars fatally struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The autonomous SUV, which had a backup driver behind the wheel, collided with Elaine Herzberg while she was walking across the street. She later died as […]

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Anthony Levandowski will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC Berkeley

sudshr47 March 4, 2019

Late last week, we announced the schedule for April 18’s TC Sessions: Robotics + AI event at U.C. Berkeley, including some heavy hitters like Marc Raibert, Melonee Wise and Ken Goldberg. At the time, we noted that still had some big names left to reveal — and we weren’t joking. Today we’re excited to announce […]

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Vision system for autonomous vehicles watches not just where pedestrians walk, but how

sudshr47 February 16, 2019

The University of Michigan, well known for its efforts in self-driving car tech, has been working on an improved algorithm for predicting the movements of pedestrians that takes into account not just what they’re doing, but how they’re doing it. This body language could be critical to predicting what a person does next.

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Waymo tops new self-driving report while Apple brings up the rear

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

Apple’s self-driving car project isn’t doing so well. Last month more than 200 employees from the team were sent to other machine learning divisions. Then in a report this week, Apple came in dead last out of 62 companies permitted to test drive auto…

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Autonomous truck startup TuSimple hits unicorn status in latest round

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

Another autonomous vehicle unicorn has joined the herd. TuSimple, a self-driving truck startup running daily routes for customers in Arizona, has raised $95 million in a Series D funding round led by Sina Corp. as the company prepares to scale up its commercial autonomous fleet to more than 50 trucks by June. The startup, which launched […]