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San Francisco officials want the CPUC to slow robotaxi authorisations

Ryan Daws — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:17:04 +0000

San Francisco officials have sent letters to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) expressing their concerns over the pace of robotaxi deployments. Driverless vehicle giants Cruise and Waymo have significant expansion plans for their respective operations in San Francisco. However, their existing deployments have been causing some problems for the city. Some of the reported... Read more »

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Huawei wants to have autonomous cars on roads by 2025

Ryan Daws — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:04:44 +0000

Huawei is aiming to have its own autonomous cars on the roads by 2025 as competition to be among the early pioneers heats up. Apple, Amazon, and Google, are among the many tech giants looking to launch self-driving cars. Chinese alternatives such as Baidu and Alibaba have also been testing autonomous vehicles including long-distance trucks... Read more »

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Honda and Verizon explore how 5G and MEC can improve vehicle safety

Ryan Daws — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:25:04 +0000

Honda has partnered with US telecoms giant Verizon to explore how 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) can improve the safety of connected vehicles. The partnership was established through both companies’ participation in the University of Michigan’s Mcity testbed for connected and autonomous vehicles. Ehsan Moradi Pari, PhD, Research Group Lead at Honda’s Advanced Technology... Read more »

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ServCity: Nissan, Hitachi, and others lead the UK’s latest autonomous mobility project

Ryan Daws — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:36:42 +0000

Nissan, Hitachi, and other industry leaders have partnered up on the UK’s latest autonomous mobility project—ServCity. ServCity launched this month with the aim of helping cities determine how autonomous vehicle technologies can be harnessed and successfully deployed into complex urban environments. Over the course of 30 months, five partners – Nissan, Hitachi, the Connected Places... Read more »

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Baidu’s robotaxi service Apollo Go hits the streets of Beijing

Ryan Daws — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:05:56 +0000

Chinese tech giant Baidu’s robotaxi service, Apollo Go, has launched in Beijing following successful trials in other cities. Apollo Go previously launched in the cities of Changsha and Cangzhou back in August. The expansion to Beijing marks the first driverless car services operating in the capital. Zhenyu Li, Corporate Vice President of Baidu and General... Read more »

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Uber hit with lawsuit to reveal how its algorithm works

Ryan Daws — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:16:05 +0000

Uber has been hit with a lawsuit by two British drivers in a bid to reveal how the company’s algorithm works. The headquarters for Uber in Europe is in Amsterdam, so the drivers have taken their case to a Dutch court. Uber’s drivers want to know what data is being collected about them – and... Read more »

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NVIDIA DRIVE shifts to Ampere architecture, supports Level 5 self-driving

Ryan Daws — Fri, 15 May 2020 10:26:36 +0000

NVIDIA is shifting its autonomous car platform DRIVE over to its brand new Ampere architecture. The capabilities of DRIVE are expanding significantly. DRIVE is no longer just an entry-level ADAS (Advanced driver-assistance systems) solution and can now support complete Level 5 autonomous driving like robotaxis. DRIVE will now use NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs which promise to... Read more »

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