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But by 2010, Google's self-driving cars had logged 1,000 miles on US highways. (forrester.com)
Google and Ford will create a joint venture to build self-driving vehicles with Google's technology, a huge step by both companies toward a new business of automated ride sharing, Yahoo Autos has learned. (yahoo.com)
Last week, Bloomberg reported that Google's parent firm Alphabet would move the self-driving car business under its own unit , with a goal of eventually launching a taxi or car-sharing services in urban areas that would compete with Uber and others. (yahoo.com)
Google's most recent Self-Driving Car Project Monthly Report indicates that its self-driving technology has made significant progress over the past six years. (findlaw.com)
Since the start of the project started in 2009, Google's self-driving cars have driven in autonomous mode (meaning software is driving the vehicles) a total of 1,011,338 miles, currently averaging 10,000 autonomous miles per week on public streets. (findlaw.com)
In the video above, Chris Urmson, Google's head of its driverless car program, explains how its cars see the world. (lifehacker.com)
Google's self-driving cars have racked up considerable mileage on public roads, and each mile yields data that can make them more capable. (motorauthority.com)
Google's self-driving cars also know to yield to cyclists, and can even identify an outstretched arm as a signal that the rider intends to change lanes. (motorauthority.com)
after Google's car struggles comes further news of Apple's ailing auto project. (theregister.com)
Last month it emerged that Google's not-at-all-sinister self-driving clown car has fallen behind less ambitious rivals. (theregister.com)
Unlike Google's car, which has a distinctive roof-mounted laser imaging system , Bertha uses only discreetly stowed radars and cameras. (ieee.org)
Google's self-driving car project has been spun off into its own company, called Waymo. (autocar.co.uk)
The creation of Waymo suggests Google's parent company Alphabet is keen to monetise its research and development into autonomous driving, as rivals gather pace in a bid to be the first to launch production-ready self-driving vehicles. (autocar.co.uk)
The talk highlighted how Google's widely publicized prototype driverless cars have logged over six million miles, incurring only three accidents -one of which, Eddy noted, was the fault of a human driver. (metropolismag.com)
The former leader of Google's self-driving car project, Chris Urmson, will stay on to lead technical development, it said. (pcworld.com)

Women Driving Auto Retail 2023 had the highest number of attendees of any of the initiative's event to date. (nada.org)
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2023 The 21st Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition is a comprehensive event covering the entire automotive industry chain with a commitment to "high quality, internationalization, and comprehensiveness. (kxan.com)
Should you buy that diesel SUV or car in 2023? (indiatimes.com)

A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, or robotic car (robo-car), is a car that is capable of traveling without human input. (wikipedia.org)
Much better than "driverless car," or "self-driving car," or the inevitable flat acronym "SDC. (forrester.com)
You might not be able to keep mental track of as many different objects and their trajectories as a driverless car, but you can still anticipate where a car's going to be. (lifehacker.com)
But what's behind the technology, how exactly is a driverless car safer, and what will it take to get to a day when you can commute to work without needing to watch the road? (micron.com)
His experience with the insurer of his old-fashioned, non-driverless car only confirmed the need. (latimes.com)
That's because "the minute a driverless car is available, Uber will snap them up," Eddy wrote in a post-presentation email. (metropolismag.com)

Google has been talking to several other automakers for some time about using its self-driving systems. (yahoo.com)
Most major automakers and several auto parts suppliers are developing their own self-driving controls as well, with a few-Nissan, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz among them-promising advanced vehicles for customer sales by 2020. (yahoo.com)
Automakers are accelerating towards a future of autonomous vehicles, learn how blockchain will add the levels of trust and security necessary for a self-driving future. (cisco.com)
When it comes to the key factors that car buyers look for - reliability, performance and comfort - traditional automakers have the advantage in all these areas over an upstart. (theregister.com)
Automakers developing self-driving cars can only win over consumers by educating them on the technology, Kelley Blue Book senior analyst Karl Brauer told FOXBusiness.com. (foxbusiness.com)
Automakers diverge in their plans to introduce self-driving cars to the masses. (foxbusiness.com)
Brauer said automakers are likely three to five years away from offering self-driving cars for fleets. (foxbusiness.com)

If autonomous vehicles are to fulfill humans' expectations of reducing crashes , it won't be enough for them to drive safely. (scientificamerican.com)
Simpson of Consumer Watchdog said it should be publicly disclosed whenever a self-driving car crashes. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Although state laws have been effective in reducing drinking and driving and deaths associated with alcohol-related crashes (6), the findings in this report indicate that, in those states that provided data, approximately one third of drivers who were arrested or convicted for DWI had previous offenses for alcohol-impaired driving. (cdc.gov)
However, because they drive fewer miles than middle-age drivers, older drivers average more crashes per mile driven. (msdmanuals.com)
Older drivers are also less likely to have crashes while driving on curved roads or at high speeds. (msdmanuals.com)

Thousands of nemobiles will be safely driving on American roads. (forrester.com)
Earlier this year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the company was looking for manufacturing partners that would use the company's self-driving system, which it believes could someday eliminate the roughly 33,000 annual deaths on U.S. roads. (yahoo.com)
Other companies, including Nissan ( NSANF ) , Audi ( AUDVF ) , Google ( GOOG ) and the ride-sharing company Uber, have been testing self-driving vehicles on public roads where it is legal to do so. (cnn.com)
If self-driving cars are to make the roads safer, the bigger question is: What should these vehicles do to reduce mishaps? (scientificamerican.com)
For all the concern over accidents involving driverless cars, including Tesla's troubles with its limited self-driving Autopilot mode , it's easy to forget one of the supposed virtues of autonomous vehicles: that they will make the roads safer. (latimes.com)
The name Waymo, according to Krafcik, comes from 'way forward in mobility', and the company's aim is to eliminate the deaths caused on roads caused by drunk, tired or distracted driving. (autocar.co.uk)
Zoox, a self-driving car company owned by Amazon, announced yesterday that it had successfully tested its futuristic-looking robotaxi with passengers on public roads in Foster City, California. (popsci.com)
The company claims that this is the first time "a purpose-built autonomous robotaxi without traditional driving controls" (you know, elements like a steering wheel and pedals) has transported real humans on open public roads. (popsci.com)
The search-engine giant recently announced that it will begin testing a new fleet of driverless cars on public roads in Silicon Valley this summer. (metropolismag.com)
Mercedes, Audi, Infiniti, Honda, and Chevrolet already have cars with autopilot capabilities for driving on major roads, and other manufacturers such as Volvo and Cadillac are in hot pursuit. (metropolismag.com)
As self-driving cars take to the roads in increasing numbers, collisions with standard vehicles are inevitable, experts say, as are lawsuits. (consumerwatchdog.org)
First, it is against the law in Missouri to drive on the roads without car insurance . (autoquotenow.com)
The California Department of Motor Vehicles awarded a permit for Apple to test its self-driving technology on public roads in the state. (sky.com)

From 2016 to 2018, the European Commission funded development for connected and automated driving through Coordination Actions CARTRE and SCOUT programs. (wikipedia.org)
Delphi may be behind Cambridge, Massachusetts-based autonomous car software developer nuTonomy, which began testing vehicles in One North in April and hopes to launch a commercial autonomous vehicle service in 2018. (kivitv.com)
Between 2005 and 2018, 44% more vehicles were sold, while there's been a 26% reduction in emissions per car. (autotrader.co.uk)

The US allocated US$650 million in 1991 for research on the National Automated Highway System, which demonstrated automated driving through a combination of highway-embedded automation with vehicle technology, and cooperative networking between the vehicles and highway infrastructure. (wikipedia.org)
Google has 53 test vehicles on the road in California and Texas, with 1.3 million miles logged in autonomous driving. (yahoo.com)
We expect that GM will become the first high-volume auto manufacturer to build fully autonomous vehicles in a mass-production assembly plant," Barra said in a speech at GM's headquarters. (cnn.com)
The event, in which no one was injured and no property was seriously damaged, attracted media and public attention in part because one of the vehicles was driving itself-and because that shuttle had been operating for only less than an hour before the crash. (scientificamerican.com)
Are we willing to relinquish control and give ourselves up to self-driving vehicles ? (findlaw.com)
Self-driving vehicles being tested by companies such as Alphabet, Uber, and Toyota rely heavily on lidar to locate themselves on the detailed maps they need to get around, and to identify things like pedestrians and other vehicles. (technologyreview.com)
They are why vehicles being tested by Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving-car unit, are topped by a giant black dome, and Toyota's and Uber's sport spinning gadgets the size of a coffee can. (technologyreview.com)
Or will car makers hold off until Level 6 vehicles can be put on the road? (industryweek.com)
NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ is a production-ready platform for autonomous vehicles. (nvidia.com)
The NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoC (system-on-a-chip) delivers 254 TOPS (trillion operations per second) and is the central computer for intelligent vehicles. (nvidia.com)
The scalable DRIVE Orin product family lets developers build, scale, and leverage one development investment across an entire fleet, from Level 2+ systems all the way to Level 5 fully autonomous vehicles. (nvidia.com)
The DRIVE Thor superchip leverages our latest CPU and GPU advances to deliver an unprecedented 2,000 TFLOPS of performance, while reducing overall system cost, targeting 2025 vehicles. (nvidia.com)
The car can also keep track of multiple cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles at intersections and yield right of way accordingly. (motorauthority.com)
The report, which was released on Wednesday, examined consumer perceptions of self-driving technology and revealed that slightly more than half (51%) of Americans prefer to have full control of their vehicles. (foxbusiness.com)
Future drivers in Generation Z are the most comfortable (73%) with Level 5 self-driving vehicles, the highest level as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers. (foxbusiness.com)
While vehicles in Level 3 can largely drive themselves using advanced sensors and GPS, drivers must always be ready to take control if the car needs help. (foxbusiness.com)
Kelley Blue Book's research indicated that consumers would prefer to jump right to Level 4, where vehicles can handle all road conditions autonomously but include an option for human driving. (foxbusiness.com)
Level 4 vehicles have all the benefits of self-driving cars, but drivers can still choose to drive if they wish. (foxbusiness.com)
Autonomous vehicles require safe, secure, and highly responsive solutions which need to be able to make split-second decisions based on a detailed understanding of the driving environment. (micron.com)
Successful self-driving vehicles exist on the road today, however the success of many of these early vehicles is the result of repeatedly driving the same route consistently over many days, where they learn every detail of the route and generate high-resolution maps that are then used as a key part of the self-navigation system. (micron.com)
This generally restricted range of operation is referred to as geo-fencing, and reflects the approach that early self-driving vehicles are embracing in deploying vehicles that are truly driverless. (micron.com)
The costs that you incur running such a service are mainly driven by the number of vehicles you have to deploy, which is driven by how comfortable you want the cars to be to use," he said. (ieee.org)
Vehicles drive the 101 Freeway in Encino in December. (latimes.com)
Now he wanted to launch a new firm specializing in insurance for vehicles with automated-driving modes (and eventually fully autonomous cars). (latimes.com)
DETROIT (AP) - Auto electronics supplier Delphi Corp. will start testing self-driving vehicles in Singapore next year with a goal of putting them into public use sometime in 2022. (kivitv.com)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff said Monday that it was picked by the Singapore Land Transport Authority to begin trials of on-demand self-driving vehicles. (kivitv.com)
While initiatives such as those above have led to great improvements in the fuel efficiency of vehicles and consequently a reduction in emissions, the demand for cars is undermining any advancements. (autotrader.co.uk)
According to the South China Morning Post , which is owned by Alibaba , the company has been conducting regular road tests of self-driving vehicles and has the capability to perform open road trials. (engadget.com)
The autonomous vehicles will soon be deployed to the streets of Beijing and Shenzhen, and are due to enter Japan's self-driving market in early 2019. (cnbc.com)
To clarify, there are notable differences between driverless cars and the more ubiquitous notion (and reality) of autonomous driving vehicles. (metropolismag.com)
The crash highlights an important issue raised by autonomous technology: Self-driving vehicles may not behave like those driven by humans, and that may complicate investigations into who's at fault. (consumerwatchdog.org)
It was also unclear if the Bolt in question was one of the "third-generation" automated vehicles described last fall by Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt as "the world's first mass-producible car designed to operate without a driver. (consumerwatchdog.org)
With fully autonomous vehicles in the pipeline, even the driver can be classified as a passenger, contributing nothing to the driving experience. (thefreemanonline.org)
Thanks to Advanced Machine Learning and AI tech, self-driving cars can be generally considered safer than their human counterparts , especially if all the vehicles on the road are networked. (thefreemanonline.org)
Level 0 will include no automation, while the highest level 5 vehicles can drive themselves with no human intervention. (thefreemanonline.org)
He later became an adjunct professor at CMU's robotics institute, from where a number of researchers have recently jumped ship to help ride-hailing service Uber Technologies develop its own self-driving vehicles. (pcworld.com)

And in 2016, the Tesla S and X now offer easy-to-use and dependable autopilot - a very credible early form of self-driving. (forrester.com)
My Lyft driver in San Jose thought his Hyundai had "autopilot," alluding I suspected, to Tesla Motors' feature of the same name which has placed that company at the forefront of driving automation development and the focal point of fatal crash investigations. (strategyanalytics.com)
Nvidia opened this Pandora's box at CES 2019 with the introduction of its DRIVE Autopilot system, described by the company as "Level 2+. (strategyanalytics.com)
The DRIVE Autopilot is intended to integrate multiple sensor suites to deliver a variety of assisted driving functions including lane keeping, driver monitoring, and adaptive cruise control while being scalable to higher levels of automated driving. (strategyanalytics.com)
In its own words, Nvidia described the DRIVE AutoPilot as integrating "for the first time high-performance NVIDIA Xavier system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and the latest NVIDIA DRIVE Software to process many deep neural networks (DNNs) for perception as well as complete surround camera sensor data from outside the vehicle and inside the cabin. (strategyanalytics.com)

In November 2017, Waymo announced testing of autonomous cars without a safety driver. (wikipedia.org)
Waymo says it has evidence that one of its top engineers, Anthony Levandowski, stole designs for custom lidar sensors before leaving to start Otto, the self-driving-truck company later acquired by Uber. (technologyreview.com)
Instead, the potential areas of business for Waymo spread beyond providing the technology under license to the new car market. (autocar.co.uk)
An early adopter of the technology is likely to be Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), which recently provided Waymo with 100 Chrysler Pacifica MPVs to its autonomous fleet, adding to its existing Pacifica test cars. (autocar.co.uk)
The equivalent of 300 years or 2 million miles of tests has been carried out on Waymo's self-driving prototypes, and in October 2015, Krafcik claimed, the world's first fully self-driven car journey was undertaken by Waymo when the company was still in its 'Google car' stages. (autocar.co.uk)
In the past few months, Ford and Volkswagen-backed Argo AI shut down , Alphabet-owned Waymo laid off a number of workers , and self-driving truck company TuSimple cut its workforce by 25 percent . (popsci.com)

The 2022 Women Driving Auto Retail event at NADA Show was met with incredible reception and was completely sold out weeks before the event took place on Saturday, March 12. (nada.org)
In 2022, the deduction amounts to €0.24 per kilometre unless you give details on your car expenses proving otherwise. (vero.fi)

In March 2019, ahead of Roborace, Robocar set the Guinness World Record as the world's fastest autonomous car. (wikipedia.org)
Last year Ford and Baidu, the Chinese search company investing in self-driving cars, jointly invested $150 million in Velodyne, the world's leading lidar supplier. (technologyreview.com)

An Uber self-driving car drives down 5th Street on March 28, 2017 in San Francisco, California. (scientificamerican.com)
She could not see the farthest lane from her, in which an Uber was driving autonomously at 38 mph in a 40 mph zone. (scientificamerican.com)

The main cause of the fatal Tesla crash was that the car's sensors couldn't tell the difference between the bright sky and a large white truck crossing in front of the car. (scientificamerican.com)
Most companies in the race to commercialize self-driving cars consider lidar essential (Tesla is a rare exception, relying solely on cameras and radar ). (technologyreview.com)
Companies such as Tesla have paved a new path in the auto industry, which is inherently a positive, but the concern over public safety and viability of these products stand in question. (triplepundit.com)
Its insurance product will monitor drivers' use of autonomous features on cars made by companies including Tesla, Nissan, Ford and Cadillac, determining discounts based on how the feature is used. (latimes.com)
And cars like Tesla Model Y and Cadillac Escalade already come equipped with semi-autonomous driving tech. (thefreemanonline.org)

Where humans see train tracks, the car sees a red fence, telling it to stop unless it can make it all the way across safely. (motorauthority.com)
Consumers seem to agree with the path taken by Ford (NYSE:F) and Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, who are focused on making cars that safely drive themselves without help from a driver. (foxbusiness.com)
But the privilege of driving is based on the ability to safely operate a motor vehicle. (msdmanuals.com)

Partly funded by the National Automated Highway System and DARPA, Navlab drove 4,584 km (2,848 mi) across the US in 1995, 4,501 km (2,797 mi) or 98% autonomously. (wikipedia.org)
San Francisco commercial photographer Oscar Nilsson sued GM, after a Dec. 7 collision with a Chevrolet Bolt that aborted a lane change while driving autonomously. (consumerwatchdog.org)

GM also recently acquired Cruise Automation, an autonomous driving technology company. (cnn.com)
The SAE International standard that defines the six levels of driving automation (J3016), a standard adopted by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, celebrates its third birthday this month. (industryweek.com)
Discover how AP Automation is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry, driving efficiency, cost savings, and security. (industryweek.com)

Ford CEO Mark Fields showing off the company's self-driving prototype last week in California. (yahoo.com)
Glen De Vos, vice president of Delphi's services business unit, said the goal is to show off the company's self-driving equipment and connect it to infrastructure. (kivitv.com)

Nemo" means nobody in Latin - a car driven by no one would be called a "nemobile. (forrester.com)
If you have driven your company car to the destinations and you have an unlimited-type company car arrangement, you get no deductions because the trips do not cause you any expenses. (vero.fi)

The first semi-autonomous car was developed in 1977, by Japan's Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. (wikipedia.org)
The current US automotive market offers a wide range of driver assistance and semi-autonomous driving technologies. (thefreemanonline.org)

Though full autonomous driving may be far away for passenger travel, Herrtwich said, a form of it may be a selling point in rental cars. (ieee.org)

In March 2021, Honda began leasing in Japan a limited edition of 100 Legend Hybrid EX sedans equipped with the newly approved Level 3 automated driving equipment which had been granted the safety certification by Japanese government to their autonomous "Traffic Jam Pilot" driving technology, and legally allow drivers to take their eyes off the road. (wikipedia.org)
When we realize that commercial aircraft largely fly themselves as a matter of technology, it is not beyond the realm of possibility to imagine automobiles doing the same thing. (findlaw.com)
But self-driving technology has ramped up so fast that the nascent industry is suffering from a kind of lidar lag. (technologyreview.com)
Making and selling lidar sensors was previously a relatively niche business, and the technology doesn't yet seem mature enough to become a standard component in millions of cars. (technologyreview.com)
Before either of us got hurt I gently disabused my driver of his dangerous delusion, pointing out that his car was likely equipped with lane keeping technology and, possibly, adaptive cruise control and/or automatic emergency braking. (strategyanalytics.com)
Driving School also embraces OpenFeint technology so users can share test results with friends and family. (gamesindustry.biz)
While Google is continually improving its autonomous cars, it's also making plans to offer the technology to consumers. (motorauthority.com)
Autonomous cars are evolving from futuristic dream to modern reality, and as the technology matures, personal and public transportation will be forever transformed. (micron.com)
Self-driving cars are a new and unproven technology. (triplepundit.com)
People inherently don't trust what they don't know, and 68 percent of respondents have "little to no knowledge about self-driving vehicle technology. (triplepundit.com)
More research needs to happen, more advancements need to be made, and more people need to be educated by the companies that are working on the technology to speed up the timeline for which self-driving cars become mainstream. (triplepundit.com)
GWM's showcased models exemplify their mastery in advancing new energy four-wheel-drive technology. (kxan.com)
The Hi4 T hybrid technology, a recent breakthrough, employs front and rear dual motors in a series-parallel hybrid setup, providing an affordable, efficient, and enjoyable four-wheel-drive experience at the cost of two-wheel drive. (kxan.com)
And as of now, the technology required for autonomous features is extremely expensive to repair, meaning premiums will initially rise as more cars featuring them roll off dealers' lots. (latimes.com)
With fully self-driving technology, you'll be able to get where you want to go at the push of a button-without the need for a person at the wheel" says Waymo's website about its technology. (autocar.co.uk)
China's Alibaba Group has been testing its own autonomous vehicle technology, the South China Morning Post reports, and is looking to hire an additional 50 self-driving vehicle experts. (engadget.com)
It's looking to develop Level 4 autonomous technology, meaning that under certain conditions, the car can operate on its own without human involvement. (engadget.com)
Leading the charge in China's push for driverless technology, Baidu has already developed and produced more than 100 self-driving buses. (cnbc.com)
It's next move would be to take its AI and self-driving technology to foreign markets, bringing it one step closer to becoming a global tech titan. (cnbc.com)
Safety is our primary focus when it comes to developing and testing our self-driving technology," GM said. (consumerwatchdog.org)

The cars will be built in GM's Orion Township assembly plant which is about an hour's drive from GM's Detroit headquarters. (cnn.com)
That factory currently builds the Chevrolet Sonic subcompact car as well as the Chevrolet Bolt electric car, which will be GM's autonomous platform. (cnn.com)
GM's subsidiary, Cruise, has since August been testing a self-driving car service in San Francisco with human backup drivers behind the wheel, as required by the state. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Nilsson's lawsuit claims he was riding on his motorcycle behind one of GM's autonomous Bolts on Oak Street when the car, with its backup driver, changed lanes to the left. (consumerwatchdog.org)
GM's testing in San Francisco highlights the firm's progress in the race to mass-produce autonomous cars. (consumerwatchdog.org)

While the tech giant has already taught a car to drive through an autocross course at speed , there are many real-world scenarios its systems must be prepared for before the car can get its driver's license. (motorauthority.com)
If you are caught driving with a suspended driver's license you will get a minimum of 48 hours in jail or community service depending on the county that you live in. (autoquotenow.com)

How to make cars safer without making drivers less careful? (strategyanalytics.com)
The issue seems relatively benign on the surface but it touches the core marketing challenges of making cars safer without making them too expensive, and defining an evolutionary path to fully autonomous driving. (strategyanalytics.com)
So far, self-driving cars have a safer driving track record than most humans. (lifehacker.com)
While self-driving cars haven't yet been deployed on a large scale, they already appear to be statistically safer than human drivers. (lifehacker.com)
Of course, it's still too early to say that driverless cars would definitely be safer in mass use. (lifehacker.com)

NVIDIA DRIVE ® embedded supercomputing platforms process data from camera, radar, and lidar sensors to perceive the surrounding environment, localize the car to a map, then plan and execute a safe path forward. (nvidia.com)
It's also designed to be compatible across generations, so partners can leverage current investments in the DRIVE Orin platform and seamlessly migrate to NVIDIA DRIVE Thor™ and beyond in the future. (nvidia.com)
We provide a deep dive into the overall development pipeline, from collecting data, to training models, to simulation testing using NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, and finally, implementing software on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. (nvidia.com)

But GM said that as its car was "re-centering itself" in the lane, Nilsson, who had been riding between two lanes in a legal-in-California practice known as lane-splitting, "moved into the center lane, glanced the side of the Cruise … wobbled, and fell over. (consumerwatchdog.org)
California law currently requires people to be in a self-driving car, so they can take control if something goes wrong. (sky.com)
Apple will be vying against 29 other companies that already have California permits to test self-driving cars. (sky.com)

One problem is apparent from a casual glance at a prototype car: lidar sensors are bulky. (technologyreview.com)
How a car with lidar sees the world. (technologyreview.com)
Better lidar is a core part of Waymo's plan to make self-driving cars a mass market and a profitable proposition. (technologyreview.com)
Still, many in the self-driving-car industry think lidar needs reinventing if it is to become practical enough. (technologyreview.com)
An image from a patent filing shows how Alphabet's self-driving cars use lidar to map the road ahead. (technologyreview.com)
This AV reference architecture accelerates development, testing, and validation by integrating DRIVE Orin™-based AI compute with a complete sensor suite that includes 12 exterior cameras, three interior cameras, nine radars, 12 ultrasonics, and one front-facing lidar, plus one lidar for ground truth data collection. (nvidia.com)

Meanwhile, GM-owned Cruise is under investigation from security regulators even as it rolls out its robotaxi service , and at the Super Bowl last weekend, a 30-second ad from The Dawn Project called on the DOT to ban Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system . (popsci.com)

the head of the self-driving car project, John Krafcik, worked for 14 years at Ford, including a stint as head of truck engineering, and several other ex-Ford employees work in the unit as well. (yahoo.com)
Google has appointed John Krafcik, a former Hyundai exec and more recently president of auto sales website Truecar, to run its self-driving car operations. (pcworld.com)
But Krafcik began his automotive career as a researcher at MIT, where he published groundbreaking research on auto production lines that lead to the coining of the term "lean manufacturing. (pcworld.com)

It may take time for there to be such a paradigm shift that people readily will relinquish control of their automobiles to software. (findlaw.com)
But safety is being redefined as auto makers and regulators shift the focus from passive safety (airbags, seatbelts, child restraints, etc.) to active safety specifically designed to avoid collisions, by allowing on-board vehicle systems to seize control of the car - under appropriate circumstances. (strategyanalytics.com)
Investments continue across the global automotive sector, and they are being funneled less into concept cars and more into consumer-viable cars, meaning the shift from niche to mainstream is beginning. (triplepundit.com)
The shift to self-driving will also require several policy changes to integrate safeguards and give a boost to companies that focus on this tech. (thefreemanonline.org)
Children who prioritize Minecoins over real currency, and young men engrossed in driving virtual cars in computer games could be early signs of a larger shift in values and preferences triggered by increasing digitalization of everyday life. (lu.se)

Implementing updated business laws can also limit technological advancements like self-driving to a certain limit, taking more time to roll out. (thefreemanonline.org)

But in nearly every case , it was human error, not the self-driving car, that caused the problem. (scientificamerican.com)
Just like human drivers, self-driving systems have to make hundreds of decisions every second, adjusting for new information coming in from the environment. (scientificamerican.com)
We certainly have witnessed many car accidents over the years, with a tremendous number of deaths and injuries resulting from human driving errors. (findlaw.com)
So, the human driving baseline is not terribly high. (findlaw.com)
We herein demonstrate the feasibility of using mobile brain and body imaging even in very extreme conditions (race car driving) to study the sensory inputs, motor outputs, and brain states which characterise complex human skills. (nature.com)
Remember the driver behind the wheel of the other car is a fallible human before you pull out in front of a speeding vehicle. (lifehacker.com)
Self-driving cars are categorized from Level 0 to Level 5, with Level 0 consisting of cars that require a human to control everything from steering, braking and power. (foxbusiness.com)
Eventually, driverless cars will take human motorists out of the equation entirely, banishing dangerous drowsy, impaired, and distracted drivers from roadways. (micron.com)
We're unsure if self-driving cars will prove to be an improvement over human drivers. (triplepundit.com)
In any case, removing human operators from driving will bring a set of new legal implications which have yet to be figured out. (thefreemanonline.org)
But, in the case of collisions between self-driving cars and human drivers, the regulatory transition will be difficult. (thefreemanonline.org)

Car Driving Simulator: SF has a content rating "Everyone" . (appbrain.com)

Extreme Car Driving Simulator: San Francisco is a mobile game to stunt racing while driving fast cars in the streets of the city of SF. (appbrain.com)

Herrtwich also rejected the idea that robotic cars would soon be so safe that they wouldn't need strong metal bodies or sturdy "crush" zones to handle a head-on impact. (ieee.org)

In addition to being tested in Michigan, these new cars will be added to test fleets already in operation in San Francisco and Scottsdale, Ariz. (cnn.com)

We do not like others to drive us, and when they do, we become the classic backseat drivers - constantly critiquing the technique of whoever is driving besides ourselves. (findlaw.com)
So many people can be seen screaming in their cars and gesturing angrily at other drivers. (findlaw.com)
Around 10:37, he explains how cars watch other drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists to predict not only where they are, but where they intend to be. (lifehacker.com)
Until self-driving cars become common, all the other drivers you encounter will be humans just like you. (lifehacker.com)
Half of U.S. drivers aren't sold on self-driving cars, according to new research from Kelley Blue Book. (foxbusiness.com)
Kelley Blue Book found that drivers who already have experience with self-driving tech are more receptive to the idea of a fully autonomous vehicle. (foxbusiness.com)
Those drivers include the pre-driving Generation Z (ages 12-15), existing ride-sharing customers and owners of modern luxury cars, many of which provide automated driving features. (foxbusiness.com)
It also enables an insurer to cut premiums for drivers the more they engage autonomous driving. (latimes.com)
Listed below are the driving and traffic laws that pertain to drivers in the State of Missouri. (autoquotenow.com)
Family communication patterns and teen drivers' attitudes toward driving safety. (cdc.gov)
In 1992 (the latest year for which data are available), more than 1.6 million persons in the United States (approximately 1% of licensed drivers) were arrested for driving while impaired (DWI) (1). (cdc.gov)
In addition to the influence of the risk factors, the percentage of drivers with previous convictions or arrests for DWI may reflect the aggressiveness with which states enforce laws against alcohol-impaired driving. (cdc.gov)
3. Truck drivers do not need to wear masks while driving in the cabin of the vehicle. (who.int)
Many older drivers who do not have medical conditions that impair thinking and judgment (for example, dementia) begin to limit their driving to improve safety. (msdmanuals.com)

Is Silicon Valley "disrupting" the car industry - or is the car "disrupting" Silicon Valley? (theregister.com)

Lawmakers are still unsure about the accountability factor of autonomous cars in case of any collisions or unforeseen incidents. (thefreemanonline.org)

Women Driving Auto Retail aims to amplify the voices of women working in the automotive retail industry and increase female employment in dealerships, by providing tools and expertise to dealers. (nada.org)
More than 320 dealership leaders, exhibitors and allied industry attended the event, which celebrated women in auto retail and offered dealers best practices and tactics to enhance female employment at their own stores. (nada.org)
and Whitney Yates Woods, Yates Buick GMC dealer principal (Goodyear, Ariz.). The dealership leaders have all made strides securing a strong future for women in the auto retail industry and shared best practices and tools to help dealerships across the country do the same. (nada.org)
the auto industry is one of the most difficult industries to permeate, and until more mainstream companies that consumers trust begin making electric cars a part of their core offerings, enthusiasm will be tempered for some time. (triplepundit.com)
The transition points to a larger existential crisis for the multibillion-dollar car insurance industry. (latimes.com)
But what role does sustainability play in the car industry? (autotrader.co.uk)
Driverless cars will bring the biggest disruption to the auto industry since its inception, as it goes from selling product to selling mobility services," Fisher said. (metropolismag.com)
The effects will be disruptive, plain and simple, as the auto industry and its attendant enterprises are irrevocably reconfigured or changed completely. (metropolismag.com)

Perception accepts visual and audio data from outside and inside the car and interpret the input to abstractly render the vehicle and its surroundings. (wikipedia.org)
Until the second DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, automated vehicle research in the United States was primarily funded by DARPA, the US Army, and the US Navy, yielding incremental advances in speeds, driving competence, controls, and sensor systems. (wikipedia.org)
It's not the first collision involving a self-driving vehicle. (scientificamerican.com)
Many components go into making a vehicle capable of driving itself, but one is proving to be more crucial and contentious than all the rest. (technologyreview.com)
NADA board member Val Bowen served as the event emcee, which featured a fireside chat with The Car Mom Kelly Stumpe and Tammy Linkfield, Ally Auto senior vice president of the Central Region, about how Stumpe is working to empower moms and families to make well-informed and confident decisions when shopping for a vehicle. (nada.org)
If you and your family make use of an employer-provided motor vehicle (a car, van etc.), this is considered a taxable benefit offered to you by your employer. (vero.fi)
DRIVE Hyperion features the full software stack for autonomous driving ( DRIVE AV ) as well as driver monitoring and visualization ( DRIVE IX ), which can be updated over-the-air, adding new features and capabilities throughout the life of the vehicle. (nvidia.com)
Our next-generation centralized car computer combines advanced driver assistance and in-vehicle infotainment on a single safe and secure system. (nvidia.com)
It's no secret that after teasing the press for two years , Apple scaled back its work, from an Apple-branded or co-branded vehicle to a more modest bunch of software for cars. (theregister.com)
When asked to choose, 30% of Americans would prefer a Level 4 self-driving vehicle that drives itself but still allows the owner to drive if they wish. (foxbusiness.com)
For an automobile to be autonomous, it needs to be continuously aware of its surroundings-first, by perceiving (identifying and classifying information) and then acting on the information through the autonomous/computer control of the vehicle. (micron.com)
For the vehicle to be truly capable of driving without user control, an extensive amount of training must be initially undertaken for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) network to understand how to see, understand what it's seeing, and make the right decisions in any imaginable traffic situation. (micron.com)
By 2020, the typical vehicle is expected to contain more than 300 million lines of code and will contain more than 1 TB (terabytes) of storage and will require memory bandwidth of more than 1 TB per second to support the compute performance necessary for autonomous driving platforms. (micron.com)
The substantial increase in single-vehicle prices and the adjustment of the sales structure are driving the brand towards a higher market segment. (kxan.com)
Border Collie Freya jumped into the front seat of a car and knocked the automatic gearbox into 'drive' - sending the vehicle down a hill. (yahoo.com)
The six-year-old dog had jumped into the front seat and knocked the automatic gearbox into 'drive' - sending the vehicle down the hill and into a neighbour's vehicle in Gronant, north Wales. (yahoo.com)
To find out if your current car meets Euro 6 standards, by entering its details into the emissions tool on the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) website or by contacting the manufacturer. (autotrader.co.uk)
The Zoox vehicle does not have a back or front like a traditional car, nor any controls for a driver. (popsci.com)
General Motors is in a race to be the first company to mass produce self-driving cars, but a recent crash with a San Francisco motorcyclist has illustrated the challenge of assigning blame when an autonomous vehicle gets in an accident. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Such data - which may include video and other driving information from the autonomous vehicle - could help investigators. (consumerwatchdog.org)

A blind man was the only passenger in the car. (autocar.co.uk)
These started in 1970 when the first European exhaust emissions standard for passenger cars was introduced. (autotrader.co.uk)
Ever since the inception of passenger cars, self-driving was always the most sought feature. (thefreemanonline.org)
In the case of fully autonomous driving, the driver can be considered as a passenger, questioning legality when not holding the steering wheel. (thefreemanonline.org)

A self-driving car's AI system requires a continuous, uninterrupted stream of data and instructions in order to make real-time decisions based on complex data sets. (micron.com)

It's rare these days to see some positive news about driverless cars. (popsci.com)
Last year, TechCrunch went so far as to declare that " self-driving cars aren't going to happen ," and with the recent spate of news, it's easy to agree with that prediction. (popsci.com)

Self-driving cars use artificial intelligence to be able to make their own decisions in different situations. (lu.se)

iPhone developer Iteration Mobile has introduced Driving School: UK Car theory test for iPhone and iPod Touch. (gamesindustry.biz)
Available from the Apple iTunes App Store, Driving School: UK Car theory test costs £1.79 and requires the iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update or later. (gamesindustry.biz)

And throughout all of that autonomous driving, Google reports that there have been 12 minor accidents - none of which was caused by the self-driving car. (findlaw.com)
Meanwhile, according to a study from Virginia Tech Transportation Institute -which was commissioned by Google-self-driving cars had 3.2 accidents per million miles, compared to 4.2 accidents per million miles for humans. (lifehacker.com)
Like others, Apple believes self-driving cars could ease congestion and save thousands of people who die annually in traffic accidents. (sky.com)

Honda was the first manufacturer to sell a Level 3 car, followed by Mercedes-Benz. (wikipedia.org)
The Mercedes-Benz experimental self-driving car, a.k.a. (ieee.org)

Not much happened until 1992 when the Euro 1 standard came along, introducing the requirement to fit catalytic converters to petrol cars to reduce carbon monoxide emissions. (autotrader.co.uk)

And Ford CEO Mark Fields predicts driverless cars will be on American highways within five years . (metropolismag.com)

The car can drive to any legal destination and make its own decisions on the way. (industryweek.com)
With our insight and forecasting expertise you'll make confident strategic decisions that drive success. (strategyanalytics.com)
Consumers would be more willing to make the transition if cars are available in their price range, if insurance rates go down and if tax breaks are available. (foxbusiness.com)
When looking to make more sustainable or ethical choices, changing or ditching cars isn't the easiest switch. (autotrader.co.uk)

The company has tested its systems with modified Lexuses and custom-built, low-speed electric cars assembled by Roush Industries, a Ford supplier. (yahoo.com)
And Ford executives have been clear for years that the company was ready to embrace a future where cars were sold as on-demand services. (yahoo.com)
The company-car benefit is either full type or limited type. (vero.fi)
The tax office may raise the value of your company car benefit if private kilometres exceed 18,000 per year. (vero.fi)
Although you might drive the company car to work every day, you are only entitled to claim expenses according to what the commuting would have cost you by the least expensive means of transportation. (vero.fi)
However, if the least expensive means of transportation is the company car, the basis for the deduction is €0.24 per kilometre (limited type) or €0.19 per kilometre (unlimited type). (vero.fi)
His employer has given him a company car. (vero.fi)
Mika claims his commuting expenses accordingly, using the basis for the deduction for driving a company car. (vero.fi)
This is treated as private driving, in other words, kilometres that we include in your fringe benefit calculation when assessing the annual taxable value of your having the company car. (vero.fi)
It also will help the company figure out what computing platform is needed for autonomous cars, and what displays and infotainment are needed in the cars, De Vos said. (kivitv.com)
While early reports suggested that Google would produce its own autonomous car, it now looks unlikely that this is the purpose of the newly formed company. (autocar.co.uk)
The company acknowledged that the car, in autonomous-driving mode in heavy traffic, had aborted a lane change. (consumerwatchdog.org)

General Motors will build autonomous Chevrolet Bolt electric cars in the Detroit area starting early next year, GM CEO Mary Barra announced Thursday. (cnn.com)
Continental has done some self-driving car work of its own, while IBM's forays into the automotive field include a concept lithium-air battery that could dramatically increase the ranges of electric cars. (motorauthority.com)
Unease was expressed extensively in a recent survey by JD Power , showing a "Mobility Confidence Index" at 36 (100-point scale) for self-driving cars, and 55 for electric cars. (triplepundit.com)
Electric cars pose a slightly different challenge for consumers, but still suffer from the same broader trends. (triplepundit.com)
Investments in electric cars have jumped drastically , up to $90 billion, as exemplified by Ford's investment in Rivian earlier this year. (triplepundit.com)
That growth is encouraging, but it's also worth noting that electric cars made up less than one percent of the 90 million cars sold annually. (triplepundit.com)
Electric cars have struggled as an affordable option for the masses, and are just beginning to become mainstream options , with a charging network just starting to expand to an acceptable degree. (triplepundit.com)

No word has been given on when the business will be officially open to customers, but Waymo's site states: "We plan to bring fully self-driving cars to the world soon. (autocar.co.uk)

Results of search for 'su:{Automobile driving. (who.int)

Driver only has to set the destination and start the car, the car handles all other tasks. (industryweek.com)
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