Jun 23, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility, Smart Cities
The first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles was installed by Henry Ford on Dec. 1, 1913. This innovation enabled cars to be built in a fraction of the amount of time it previously took—reducing it from 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes....
Jun 15, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Robots
What happens when an autonomous vehicle gets stuck in the mud? Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University wanted to find out. They took an all-terrain vehicle off-road. With researchers on board, it traveled through challenging situations such as driving...
Jun 15, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
Automakers reported nearly 400 crashes of vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 involving Teslas, according to statistics released by U.S. safety regulators on Wednesday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cautioned...
Jun 2, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Satellites
China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group conducted its first successful satellite launch on Wednesday, sending nine into low earth orbit as it builds out a satellite network to provide more accurate navigation for autonomous vehicles. The self-designed and...
May 26, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
Pony.ai, an autonomous vehicle startup based in Silicon Valley and Guangzhou, China, is no longer able to test its vehicles in California after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the company’s license for “numerous” safety violations. The news was first...
May 19, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Safety
The NHTSA confirmed it had sent a special crash investigation team to probe the May 12 crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. The U.S. government’s road safety agency has dispatched a team to investigate the possibility that a Tesla involved in a...
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