Waymo applies for no-driver testing in California
San Francisco Chronicle
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Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, this week applied to test cars without drivers...
HERE Opens Denver Area Office
Denver Post
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Here Technologies has opened a new research and development office in Boulder that will focus on...
Uber Chief to Cooperate with Feds
USA Today
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WASHINGTON — Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi said Wednesday that the ride-hailing app is cooperating with federal investigators who are...
Waymo and Honda to build self-driving delivery vehicle
The Verge
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The Most Important Self-Driving Car Announcement Yet
The Atlantic
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Takeaways:
The Uber fatal crash was bad news for the autonomous vehicle industry. However, Waymo, which said its technology...
NTSB Not Pleased with Tesla’s release of fatal crash information
The Washington Post
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Takeaways:
The Tesla Model X that crashed into a highway barrier in California on March 23 had its semi-autonomous...
Legal and Insurance Issues Arise Out of Fatal Uber Crash
The recent fatal crash of a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., by an Uber autonomous test vehicle has raised international concerns about the safety of...
Mobileye, Waymo and Lyft say they could have spotted bicyclist in...
It's been out in the national media that executives at Mobileye, Waymo and Lyft all say they could have spotted the bicyclist who was...
Arizona was a hotbed of testing before Uber crash
Bloomberg
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The technology behind autonomous vehicles has originated from coders in Silicon Valley, engineers in Detroit and academic researchers...
A self-driving Uber car has killed a pedestrian in Arizona
Recode
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A woman, Elaine Herzberg, died after being struck by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Ariz.,...
Airbiquity Exec Talks OTA, Autonomous Vehicles
Driverless Report recently interviewed Scott Frank, Airbiquity vice president of marketing, about where he sees the connected and autonomous vehicle market going...and where his...
Taoglas Displays Antennas for Autonomous Vehicles, IoT Markets
BARCELONA—Automotive, unmanned aerial vehicle markets (UAV) and IoT location markets all need antennas that work well in high-speed conditions. At the recent Mobile World...
Geotab Looking at Autonomous Fleets
BARCELONA—Canada-based Geotab is grabbing a huge chunk of the worldwide fleet tracking market, saying they have reached 1 million subscribers--and signing a deal with...
Harman and Samsung Announce ARTIK Smart IoT Platform
BARCELONA--Harman announced at the Mobile World Congress that it will build and deliver products based on the Samsung ARTIK Smart IoT platform.
Samsung will provide...
MWC Features Drones, Autonomous Vehicles and Location Technology
BARCELONA—The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) showcased a range of applications for drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through several government-funded programs...
5G Technology Will Spur Autonomous Vehicle’s Growth
BARCELONA—Future rollouts of 5G technology will help speed future transition between connected and autonomous vehicles speakers said at a Mobile World Congress new mobility...
73 Mind-Blowing Implications of Autonomous Vehicles
73 Mind-Blowing Implications of Autonomous Vehicles
Geoff Nesnow's take on what autonomous cars and trucks will do to several industries in the future.
Canadian Government Publishes Autonomous Vehicle Paper
https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/421/TRCM/Reports/COM_RPT_TRCM_AutomatedVehicles_e.pdf
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Driverless cars are already a reality but Canada is ill-prepared for their arrival, the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications said...
2018 Will Be Great Year for Connected Vehicles
LAS VEGAS-While autonomous vehicles seem to get most of the media attention these days, the foundation technologies that connect vehicles will continue to grow...
CTS Panel Addresses Self-Driving Policy, Public Acceptance
LAS VEGAS--A panel of executives at last week’s Consumer Telematics Show here said that in order for autonomous vehicles to be successfully integrated on...