self driving cars Daily update ⋅ January 8, 2018
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Nvidia Is Teaming Up With Aurora, Baidu and Uber to Build Next Gen Self-Driving Cars
Nvidia (nvda, +0.77%) just gave us another clue about Aurora Innovation, a one-year-old self-driving vehicle startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed Sunday during his keynote at CES 2018, the annual tech trade show in Las ...
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Congress in the driver's seat on self-driving cars
For auto manufacturers, technology experts, and lawmakers, 2018 is shaping up to be the year that paves the way for deployment of self-driving vehicles. Last year, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill that provides the federal government with a framework for developing new rules for driverless cars, ...
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Will Self-Driving Cars Usher in a Transportation Utopia or Dystopia?
Automated cars, often referred to as “autonomous vehicles” (AVs) — whose passengers determine their routes without having to drive them — are being widely developed and tested, and probably will be used commercially in controlled settings within a few years. Lyft, Uber, and others have introduced ...
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CES rides into view with self-driving car demonstration
The white BMW 5-Series sedan turned right onto Convention Center Drive and proceeded toward Las Vegas Boulevard on Sunday morning. The ride was special because nobody was at the wheel. The self-driving car, hailed at the Gold Lot outside the Las Vegas Convention Center using the Lyft app, ...
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Aptiv self-driving cars navigating Las Vegas Strip with Pittsburgh technology
Cars pulling out from small alleys and hotel entrances. People everywhere. Some in the crosswalks. Some not. Some sober. Some not. “That's why we picked it,” Jim Zizelman, an executive at Aptiv, said as his company's self-driving BMW pulled away from Caesars Palace and turned onto Las Vegas ...
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Intel announces Core chips with Radeon graphics as Nvidia unveils SoC for self-driving cars
These new H-series chips pack a surprise: new integrated Radeon graphics modules from none other than Intel's top rival, AMD. On top of that, Nvidia finally took the wraps off its next-generation Nvidia Drive Xavier chipsets, which will provide a new suite of AI features to the wave of self-driving cars set ...
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Ambarella unveils vision processors for autonomous drones and self-driving cars
Ambarella generates about $90 million in revenues a quarter from its video compression and image processing chips. And today, the company is launching two new chips that will bring advanced vision processing to next-generation cars, drones, and security cameras. Santa Clara, California-based ...
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FLIR Releases High-Resolution Thermal Camera Development Kit for Self-Driving Cars
FLIR's new high-resolution Automotive Development Kit with a FLIR Boson™ thermal imaging sensor will allow the auto industry to advance reliability and redundancy needed in self-driving car technology.
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Driverless-Car Companies Try to Rev Their Engines on Commercial Prospects
LAS VEGAS -- A year ago Glen DeVos shuttled potential clients around the CES consumer electronics show in self-driving sport-utility vehicles to demonstrate his company's progress in handling complicated drivingconditions. This year, the chief technical officer of Aptiv APTV 0.17% PLC wants to ...
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Airstream's CEO is bringing the American icon into the future by selling millennials on adventure
The company is preparing itself to sell RVs to millennials, deal with the arrival of self-driving vehicles, and address the opportunities that electric cars ... like a recreational vehicle," he said, adding that Airstream is now focusing intently in on the intersection between transportation and residential design.
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Self-Driving Cars Are Set for Mainstream Use in 2018
The wait for the self-driving future is coming to an end. The earliest real-world applications of autonomous vehicles will arrive in 2018. Starting in Phoenix this year, a small number of commuters will be riding in driverless Chrysler Pacifica minivans as part of a trial conducted by Waymo, the self-driving ...
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Volkswagen, Uber to use Nvidia tech for self-driving cars
SAN FRANCISCO -- Volkswagen Group and Uber Technologies will use Nvidia's artificial intelligence expertise to help bring self-driving cars to the roads as the tech company tries to spread its industry-leading graphics chip technology into new areas. Volkswagen will deploy Nvidia technology to ...
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Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready
Google is getting serious about self-driving cars. So serious that it put a legally blind man in one that drove him around safely on his own. The successful trip means that the tech giant can now launch its own self-driving car company, which it's calling Waymo.
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NVIDIA's new game is the self-driving car
Robots and self-driving cars are the darlings of technology conferences, but under the hood, a powerful processor by NVIDIA is putting on the real show.
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Uber Selects NVIDIA Technology to Power Its Self-Driving FleetsUber's AI Self-Driving Cars and ...
Speaking at the opening press conference of CES 2018, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that the collaboration utilizes NVIDIA technology for Uber Advanced Technologies Group's fleets of self-driving cars and freight trucks, running AI algorithms that enable vehicles to perceive the world, ...
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Hyundai to release self-driving cars by 2021
Seoul, South Korea – Hyundai says it will begin selling its first self-driving vehicles by 2021, in partnership with US based self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation. The Korean automaker said on Thursdaythat it and Aurora will bring autonomous vehicles to market that can operate without ...
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FLIR Releases High-Resolution Thermal Camera Development Kit for Self-Driving Cars
FLIR Systems, Inc. Press release. FLIR Releases High-Resolution Thermal Camera Development Kit for Self-Driving Cars. Affordable Thermal Sensors Will Allow Auto Industry to Advance the Reliability and Redundancy Needed for Self-Driving Cars. WILSONVILLE, Ore., 2018-01-08 14:05 CET (GLOBE ...
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Q&A with self-driving car pioneer Chris Urmson
Detroit - After leaving a leadership post at Google's autonomous car unit, Chris Urmson and two other self-driving vehicle pioneers are back in the race with a new company that will rival their former employers. Aurora Innovation on Thursday announced that it had signed partnerships with Hyundai and ...
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