Sep 5, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning
Waymo, the self-driving technology company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, released a dataset containing sensor data collected by their autonomous vehicles during more than five hours of driving. The set contains...
Sep 5, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
Once a household name for its satellite navigation for cars, TomTom NV has taken a backseat in recent years as smartphones, loaded with apps like Google maps, surged in popularity. Now the Dutch digital mapping company is betting that your car needs...
Aug 28, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business
The automotive industry has been promoting self-driving cars as a kind of panacea that will solve numerous problems that modern society is grappling with right now, from congestion to safety to productivity (you can work while riding!). Unfortunately, a very big...
Aug 22, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo is taking some of its autonomous vehicles to Florida just in time for hurricane season to begin testing in heavy rain. The move to Florida will focus on testing how its myriad sensors hold up during the region’s rainy season, as well as to collect...
Aug 15, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
UPS has had autonomous trucking startup TuSimple hauling cargo for it between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, since May as part of a newly publicized partnership between the two companies. The delivery giant made the announcement today alongside the news that its venture...
Aug 15, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars are a shared ambition among Google, Tesla, Apple, Uber and Lyft, among other automotive, tech and ridesharing companies. For Uber and Lyft specifically, it’s a matter of cutting costs. However, fiscal expediency is not the main...
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