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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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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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Arm unveils new solutions for IoT and automotive applications

Ryan Daws — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:00:46 +0000

Arm has unveiled new computing solutions designed for improving autonomy in IoT and automotive settings. Arm has announced a suite of new IP including the Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, Mali-G78AE GPU, and Mali-C71AE ISP. Each will work in tandem with supporting software and tools to enhance the autonomous workload capabilities of silicon providers and OEMs. Chet... 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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Musk claims Tesla is ‘very close’ to achieving Level 5 autonomous driving

Ryan Daws — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:30:49 +0000

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a more ambitious timescale in mind for achieving Level 5 autonomous driving than many other experts. Level 5 self-driving is defined as requiring no human driver at any time, can drive in any city, and in any weather conditions. The previous level is considered “mind off” meaning that a human... Read more »

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IIHS: Self-driving cars would only prevent one-third of human crashes

Ryan Daws — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 15:53:31 +0000

Research conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has found that self-driving cars may not reduce crashes as much as hoped. One of the touted benefits of autonomous vehicles is they do not suffer from the same issues as us humans. Tiredness, inebriation, or even a medical condition while at the wheel can... Read more »

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Waymo will resume self-driving van trials in the Bay Area on June 18th

Ryan Daws — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:48:41 +0000

Waymo has said it will resume trials of self-driving vans in the Bay Area on June 18th. The company was forced to suspend its autonomous vehicle trials in mid-March following a “shelter-in-place” order issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Back in March, we decided to suspend our driving operations in response to COVID-19 to... Read more »

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Self-driving cars in the UK will soon be tested on a 200-mile public route

Ryan Daws — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:55:45 +0000

Self-driving cars will soon be seen cruising around a 200-mile public route in the UK as the country prepares for larger deployments. The Midlands Future Mobility consortium is leading the project which will see the cars driving on roads around central Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, and the University of Warwick. A variety of road types have... 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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