Oct 6, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Rideshare
Uber has signed a 10-year agreement to use autonomous Ioniq 5 EVs from Hyundai’s Motional for ride-hailing and deliveries, the companies announced. The vehicles will be “strategically deployed” in cities around the US and start offering passenger...
Sep 29, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles
Riding in the car can be extremely conducive to sleep for people, sometimes even when they’re driving. Falling asleep while driving though is not recommended. However, in Volkswagen’s new autonomous, self-driving prototype, there’s no driving necessary and the vehicle...
Sep 22, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Roads
Whether it’s barrels blocking lanes or paint lines that aren’t visible, we’ve been building and managing roads for humans who can guess and anticipate intricate situations on the roads in ways machines never will. With the impending shift to self-driving vehicles...
Sep 22, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Robots, Safety
Robotic eyes on autonomous vehicles could improve pedestrian safety, according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Participants played out scenarios in virtual reality (VR) and had to decide whether to cross a road in front of a moving vehicle or not. When that...
Sep 22, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles
South Korea is targeting to commercialize a Level 4 autonomous vehicle in 2027 to release half of newly launched vehicles as Level 4 models in 2035, the transport ministry said Monday. This year, Korea aims to become the world’s third country to commercialize a...
Sep 22, 2022 | Australia, Autonomous Vehicles, Robots
Robots are being used to commercially farm more than 405,000 hectares of Australian farmland, with growers seeing them as the answer to workforce shortages. The Bundaberg region, about 400 kilometres north of Brisbane, is known as the fruit bowl capital of...
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