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Innovation
Elon Musk Reveals a Surprising Detail About How He Uses Tesla Autopilot
Inverse - Mike Brown
Elon Musk may have given a little too much away in an interview aired Sunday. The Tesla CEO was giving Lesley Stahl a spin in his Model 3, when he …
Axiosadded this to Axios
Autonomous Cars
The catch with self-driving cars: They don't actually drive themselves
Axios - Joann Muller
Thanks to advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, humans are on the cusp of being removed from the driver seat. But as drivers are asked to …
CBC Newsadded this to British Columbia
ICBC
ICBC warns against fraud after security video allegedly shows faking of injury
cbc.ca - Matthew Low
ICBC is sharing an attempted case of fraud to encourage the public to stop potential fraudsters. The incident in question happened in the Lower …
Luis Daniel Soto Maldonadoadded this to AI: Intelligent machines and algorithms
Autonomous Cars
Should we allow self-driving cars to help people kill themselves?
Wired UK - Jamie Susskind
In October 2018 the Californian startup Aeva unveiled a new lidar system – a laser-based technology used to measure distance to a target – that can …
Digital Trendsadded this to Cars
Autos
With this robotic garage, retrieving your car is like using a vending machine
Digital Trends - Luke Dormehl
Technology has given us all kinds of handy tools for helping us find our car in a busy parking lot. But what if our cars came to find us, rather than …
Lee Stogneradded this to IEEE Transportation Electrification
Technology
Here’s how Lyft envisions self-driving cars communicating with pedestrians
TechCrunch - Megan Rose Dickey
The question of how self-driving cars will interact and communicate with humans is one that has come up before, but the answer is still up in the air. Google has been looking into this at least since and
Autonomous Cars
75% Of Americans Prefer Driving Themselves To Riding In Self-Driving Cars
mediapost.com - Chuck Martin
The majority of consumers would rather drive a car themselves than hire a driverless car from a service like Uber or Lyft, according to a new …
Autonomous Cars
Samsung is reportedly helping Tesla with self-driving car tech
futurism.com
Scouting Talent Samsung Electronics has been quietly hiring experienced self-driving car engineers, stirring credible rumors that the technology giant …
Autonomous Cars
Google's Self-Driving Car Program Now Has a Taxi Service
theawesomer.com
Waymo, Google’s self-driving car program, has launched a taxi service. Available only in Arizona as of this writing, Waymo One works just like a ride …
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Autonomous Cars
Internal email reveals Uber’s self-driving program was in rough shape
mobilesyrup.com - Brad Bennett
In an almost 900 word email sent to Uber’s head of autonomous driving, it’s been revealed that the company knew how poorly its self-driving cars were …
Drones
Autonomous Drone Package Delivery | Times Square Chronicles
t2conline.com - Writer
Autonomous Drone Package Delivery In a world where online shopping is already a common activity (in 2017, global e-retail sales grew with 24.8 …
Automotive Industry
Cardiologists help auto industry avoid skipping a beat in mobility shift
autonews.com - Sales By Market
A decade ago, automotive companies knew exactly who they had to hire to stay ahead of the competition -- the best engineers, marketers, sales people, …
The Car Connectionadded this to The Car Connection
Rivian
Lyft's awards, Porsche Macan driven, Tesla self-driving cars: What's New @ The Car Connection
thecarconnection.com - Andrew Ganz
Ride-share giant Lyft is keeping track of where its customers go. On Monday, it released a list of the most popular destinations in some of America's …
Autonomous Cars
Tell your Senators you want real safety standards for self-driving cars
consumerreports.org - action.consumerreports.org
Auto and tech industry lobbyists say self-driving cars shouldn’t have to meet baseline federal safety standards. And they’re trying to pass a bill …
McDonald's
3 restaurant tech predictions for 2019
nrn.com - www.nrn.com
Automation will abound Automation, from self-driving cars to burger-flipping robots, is no longer an idea reserved for dystopian movies set in the …
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Technology Policy
Uber manager in March: “We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”
Ars Technica - Timothy B. Lee
"They told me incidents like that happen all of the time," whistleblower wrote. On March 19, the world learned that Uber had a serious safety problem …
The Drive
Autonomous Cars
Uber Ignored Multiple Warnings Ahead of Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash, Report Says
The Drive - By Stephen Edelstein
A manager reportedly notified executives of issues in an email before the crash. Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA Stephen EdelsteinView Stephen …
Pittsburgh, PA
CBRE report on autonomous vehicles impact on real estate - Pittsburgh Business Times
bizjournals.com - www.bizjournals.com
By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times Dec 10, 2018, 1:59pm EST Those funny looking cars by Argo AI driving around the Strip District, …
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Autonomous Cars
How self-driving cars will make our cities more charming
theconversation.com - Jim Davies
Everyone’s trying to get ready for roads that will be filled with more and more self-driving cars. But just as the first cars were imagined to be …
Pierre Frederic Mombeleuradded this to Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Cars
All the places self-driving cars are being tested around the world
Quartz
Americans’ enthusiasm for cars is now rivaled by their eagerness to automate them. Europeans are plugging away on new pilot projects, but the US has raced ahead with more self-driving pilots than any country.
Katho Mutodoadded this to CARS (VOITURES)
Tech Industry
Most Parents Would Trust A Self-Driving Car More Than a Stranger, Ford Finds in Trend Report
Cheddar - By Amanda Weston
If forced to choose between putting their child in driverless car or in a vehicle driven by a stranger, the majority of parents, Ford reports, would …
Pierre Frederic Mombeleuradded this to Autonomous Vehicles
Innovation
Self Driving Car Video Reveals the Tantalizing Closeness of Autonomous Cars
Inverse - Danny Paez
The smartphone you check every five minutes could be the key to developing fully autonomous cars. This is according to researchers at the Korean …
Analytics India Magazineadded this to Analytics India Magazine
Mad Max
Tesla’s Mad Max Autopilot Is To Driving, What Jarvis Is To Iron Man
analyticsindiamag.com - Disha Misal
Tesla announced the ‘On-ramp to Off-ramp’ feature with the release of Autopilot 2.0 and the Enhanced Autopilot package back in 2016. This year, Tesla …
Texas Public Radioadded this to Texas Public Radio
Los Angeles
The Revolution Will Be Driverless: Autonomous Cars Usher In Big Changes
tpr.org - Terry Gross
Autonomous Cars
Self-Driving Cars Deal Stalls, Health-Care Bills Move
Bloomberg Government on soundcloud.com
Fiat Chrysler
BMW recruits autonomous driving boss from Audi
autonews.com - Sales By Market
FRANKFURT -- BMW said Alejandro Vukotich will be the new head of its driver assistance and autonomous driving development department. Vukotich will …
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Dow Jones
Lyft's co-founder is giving his all to catch Uber
CNN
Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer explains to CNN's Laurie Segall how he leads through tough times, what competing with Uber is like, and his vision for self-driving cars.
Jorin Cowleyadded this to Tech - Best Of The Day
Autonomous Vehicle
How an Uber Whistleblower Tried to Stop Self-Driving Car Disaster
theinformation.com - By
Five days before an Uber self-driving car prototype killed a pedestrian in Arizona last March, a manager in Uber’s autonomous vehicle unit warned the …
Business Insider
Waymo
Waymo finished first in the self-driving taxi race — but is the public ready?
Business Insider - Ayoub Aouad
Alphabet's self-driving car spinoff, Waymo, officially launched the nation's first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service in Arizona, according to The Washington Post. The launch is monumental, following
The Washington Postadded this to National
Autonomous Cars
Senate Democrats fight push to pass driverless-car bill during lame duck Congress
The Washington Post
Senate Democrats are pushing back against attempts to pass a compromise bill in the lame-duck session that could speed the introduction of driverless cars onto U.S. roadways, saying it lacks safeguards