Renovo is licensing its technology to yet another self-driving startup—this time aiPod—in its bid to sell a platform that will enable companies to deploy commercial fleets of fully automated vehicles. Fleets of autonomous vehicles that can safely pick up and drop off people and packages will require more than an AI system that can brake, […]
View More Renovo partners with aiPod to deploy self-driving cars in London and beyondCategory: Voyage
Self-driving car startup Voyage brings on ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber exec as CTO
Voyage, the autonomous driving startup that currently operates self-driving cars in retirement communities, has brought on its first CTO, Drew Gray. Gray most recently worked at Uber as its director of engineering, leading the deep learning and perception team in San Francisco, according to his LinkedIn. This comes shortly after the company poached Uber’s head […]
View More Self-driving car startup Voyage brings on ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber exec as CTOUber’s head of policy for flying taxis and autonomous vehicles leaves for self-driving car startup Voyage
Uber’s head of policy for autonomous vehicles and urban aviation, Justin Erlich, has left the company to join self-driving car startup Voyage, TechCrunch has learned. To lead its policy efforts for autonomous vehicles, Uber recently brought on Miriam Chaum, previously of Philanthropy University. “We wish Justin all the best with his new opportunity at Voyage,” […]
View More Uber’s head of policy for flying taxis and autonomous vehicles leaves for self-driving car startup VoyageVoyage teams up with Renovo for self-driving car operating system
In the world of autonomous driving, there exists a layer between the operating system running on the car and the algorithms that make the car truly autonomous. A number of companies use ROS, an open-source middleware for robotics, for prototyping, but you can’t do driverless with it. This is where mobility startup Renovo‘s AWare OS, […]
View More Voyage teams up with Renovo for self-driving car operating systemEmbark CEO says autonomous driving is the only way we’ll get to zero fatalities
Autonomous systems are coming. In fact, they’re already here, thanks to Alphabet’s Waymo, Uber and smaller startups like Aurora, Embark Trucks and Voyage. Although there have a been a couple of fatal crashes involving autonomous software, the consensus seems to be that self-driving is still the way to go. Last year, 37,150 people died in […]
View More Embark CEO says autonomous driving is the only way we’ll get to zero fatalitiesVoyage 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 […]
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