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In spite of all the hype about autonomous vehicles, the prospect of level 5 self-driving vehicles coming soon to a city near you remains some way off. By 2030, it’s possible that we will see autonomous

When Sir Thomas More coined the term “utopia,” he lifted two words from Ancient Greek that roughly translate into “not a place.” Turns out people from the 14th century still understood satire, perhaps better than

Courtesy Mercedes-Benz To investors who have followed Nvidia’s transformation over the past five years, this makes perfect sense. It helps explain why the stock has multiplied 18 times in price over that period. in 1993 to make

Using radar commonly deployed to track speeders and fastballs, researchers have developed an automated system that will allow cars to peer around corners and spot oncoming traffic and pedestrians. The system, easily integrated into today’s vehicles,

Maybe you’re more with it than me, but it seems like every week I’m learning about another autonomous driving firm — or relearning about one. How many are out there now — 200? 300? This

The City of Westminster, the nonprofit Growing Home and French company Easy Mile have teamed up to make sure families have the food they need during the coronavirus pandemic. Growing Home works with families and

Here's how this tech firm uses AI to speed up traffic flow

Amazon will reportedly pay more than $1.2 billion to acquire Zoox, the Foster City, California self-driving technology company, the Financial Times (FT) reported. While the purchase could fuel Amazon’s delivery fleet, a source familiar with the deal

Toyota has revealed that it owns almost $300 million worth of shares in ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies. The revelation was made with the release of the Japanese automaker’s corporate governance report released on Wednesday. The report confirmed

'Deepfake' technology used to advance autonomous vehicles

Weride, a Chinese self-driving startup backed by the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, is making its autonomous vehicles available for ride-hailing on Alibaba’s map platform Amap, also known as Autonavi. Starting Tuesday, riders in Guangzhou can summon one

Following the release of the Perception Dataset and the conclusion of its 2019 object detection competition, Lyft today shared a new corpus — the Prediction Dataset — containing the logs of movements of cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles encountered by

Caterpillar, the manufacturer of large-scale equipment for sectors such as construction, mining and transportation, has agreed to acquire Marble, a startup company that makes delivery robots. According to a report on construction news website KHL.com, Caterpillar is looking

This report confirms a previous article that GM Authority published in April, which indicated the automaker had purchased an unknown technology company that would help bring the Cruise Origin to market. Cruise had previously purchased a different sensor company,

New Flyer's Xcelsior CHARGE zero-emission bus WINNIPEG -- It might not be long before people can get on a bus that doesn't have a driver. Winnipeg-based New Flyer is going to be the first company to test

Automated technology developers are shooting for the moon when they could instead be implementing ground-level initiatives in trucking that deploy existing technology, the founder of now-shuttered autonomous driving startup Starsky Robotics said. “All the technology necessary