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Volvo will be able to watch you drive and pull over if you seem distracted

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

Eyes off the road? As soon as next year, Volvo’s cars will be able to pull over automatically — thanks to cameras that watch you as you drive.

Earlier this month, the Swedish company announced its future cars will have a max speed limit of 112 mph. Now, the company says it’s introducing in-car cameras and sensors that monitor the driver for signs of distraction or intoxication — which include looking away from the road for too long, keeping your hands off the steering wheel, weaving through lanes, or reacting too slowly while driving.

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New self-driving features are about to make the road safer for terrible drivers

sudshr47 January 19, 2019

Distracted? Tired? Bad at staying in your lane? Just plain out of it? Don’t worry, your car’s got you.
While fully autonomous vehicles might not be here for awhile, new driver assistance systems are so advanced you’ll feel like you’re in a self-drivi…

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Daimler’s semi-autonomous truck puts self-driving features on the road

sudshr47 January 7, 2019

Daimler trucks are going autonomous — eventually.

For now, Level 2 (L2) partial automation will have to suffice. The vehicle company behind Mercedes-Benz cars announced Monday at CES 2019 that its new Freightliner Cascadia big-rig will include higher levels of robotic driving. The semi-autonomous trucks will start production in July in North America. It’s not fully self-driving, but it’s pushing the trucking industry deeper into an autonomous mode.

Truck CEO Martin Daum admitted he was skeptical of autonomous capabilities back in 2015, when Daimler unveiled its Freightliner Inspiration autonomous concept truck. Now he sees Level 4 autonomy (full autonomy in most situations, climates, and environments) coming to trucks within the decade. Read more…

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Uber fired Anthony Levandowski. Now he’s back with a self-driving truck startup.

sudshr47 December 18, 2018

A name that came up often during the Uber v. Waymo trade secrets trial is back in the headlines: Anthony Levandowski.
The former Google-engineer-turned-autonomous-truck-startup-founder-turned-Uber-self-driving-executive announced his latest startup, …

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5 semi-autonomous cars took a road test and barely passed

sudshr47 August 10, 2018

Don’t start planning for your self-driving commute anytime soon. Human drivers are still very necessary as a recent road test for five cars’ driver-assistance features showed.

The vehicles, 2017 BMW 5-series with “Driving Assistant Plus,” 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class with “Drive Pilot,” 2018 Tesla Model 3 and 2016 Model S with “Autopilot” (software versions 8.1 and 7.1, respectively) and 2018 Volvo S90 with “Pilot Assist,” were put through their paces as part of a Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or IIHS, road test.

The results weren’t so grand. In tests for adaptive cruise control, or ACC, in four different scenarios and lane-keeping on three hills and three curves the cars did much better on tracks than out on the road. Only the Tesla Model 3 stayed within the lane on all 18 trials for lane keeping. Read more…

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Tesla’s Autopilot keeps crashing into parked cars. Here’s why.

sudshr47 May 30, 2018

Another week, another Tesla crashing into a stationary vehicle that just came out of nowhere.

But that’s the thing. The electric car’s semi-autonomous driving assistance feature, known as Autopilot, has this very situation — parked cars seemingly coming out of nowhere — written into the manual. It’s a known limitation of the driver assistance tool.

This week it was a Tesla driver in Laguna Beach, Calif., that hit a parked police car. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt (and no one was in the police vehicle), but it was another ding for Tesla’s Autopilot reputation. It keeps crashing. Read more…

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Creepy AI scans a driver’s face and voice to monitor mood and distraction level

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

You’re being watched.

No, not on Facebook, but in your car. Or at least you could be, with a new artificial intelligence system that tracks drivers’ emotions, energy, and distraction levels.

On Wednesdasy, Affectiva, a MIT Media Lab emotional recognition software startup, launched its emotional AI software — which means that car manufacturers can include its facial- and voice-tracking tech in future cars.

The company says the system could help prevent drowsy and distracted driving accidents, but it’s also just next-level creepy. Read more…

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