Nov 18, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
This battery-electric autonomous machine was tasked with helping construction workers build a solar field on a 1000-acre site. That may sound like lighter duty work than, say, a mining operation or heavy industry tasks, this machine was required to tow a 1600-pound...
Nov 11, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
One issue that has shown itself repeatedly in vehicles employing self-driving technology is an apparent literal blind spot in such systems for first responders stopped at the side of the road. Repeated incidents of police cars and fire trucks being struck by cars...
Nov 4, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Testing
Waymo will begin testing in NYC, as shared by The Verge, to improve its coverage map of cities that have the driverless taxi service. To start out, the Waymo vehicles will not be autonomous. There will be two employees in the car, driving it around to map out the...
Oct 28, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Drones
Expert human drone pilots have proven incredibly adept at piloting UAV through complex courses at high speeds which are still unmatched by autonomous systems. But researchers at the University of Zurich and Intel Labs are collaborating to change that, and...
Oct 28, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Rideshare
Transport for NSW has announced it will be taking the next steps in its autonomous vehicle trial by working with driverless technology firm Motional to investigate and develop a plan for using driverless rideshare services. Transport for NSW customer strategy and...
Oct 21, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Zoox has been testing its Level-3 (L3) autonomous vehicles in Las Vegas and the Bay Area for four years, way before Amazon acquired the self-driving company in 2020. But to be able to train its technology further, it has to hold trials in other locations...
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