reader comments 68 Whether or not autonomous vehicles ever work out, the effort put into using small cameras and machine-learning algorithms to detect cars could pay off big for an unexpected group: cyclists. Velo AI is a firm cofounded by Clark Haynes and Micol Marchetti-Bowick, both PhDs with backgrounds in robotics, movement prediction, and Uber’s ..
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reader comments 254 with A Florida judge, Reid Scott, has ruled that there’s “reasonable evidence” to conclude that Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk knew of defects in Autopilot systems and failed to fix them. Testimony from Tesla engineers and internal documents showed that Musk was “intimately involved” in Tesla’s Autopilot program and “acutely aware” ..
Enlarge / A Waymo Via truck. Check out all that self-driving equipment on the front. reader comments 92 with Google’s cost cutters are taking another bite out of Waymo. After being hit by layoffs that cut 8 percent of staff, it now looks like the self-driving truck program—Waymo Via—is dead. Waymo’s announcement blog post tries ..
Enlarge / A cluster of sensors atop the roof of the DLIVEREE. Gregory Leporati reader comments 9 with 8 posters participating Share this story PAHRUMP, NEVADA—You could hear Porsches, Ferraris, and Lamborghinis roaring across the desert—or, more specifically, Spring Mountain Motor Resort, a scorching-hot racetrack about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. I was driving ..
Enlarge / A building at Apple Park, the company’s Cupertino, California, HQ. reader comments 48 with 34 posters participating Share this story Apple has reportedly been working on self-driving car technology since 2014, but it has faced a series of prominent employee departures over the past year. As reported Wednesday by Bloomberg, the latest is ..
Enlarge / A Cruise robotaxi test vehicle in San Francisco. reader comments 38 with 23 posters participating Share this story The autonomous vehicle developers Cruise and Waymo both got a little closer to running true driverless robotaxi services in and around San Francisco. In May, both Waymo and Cruise applied to the California Department of ..
Enlarge / Lyft will switch its map provider from Google to Here. reader comments 19 with 17 posters participating Share this story The ride-hailing company Lyft is changing up its maps, which until now have been powered by Google. Lyft will now use Here instead. Lyft says the switch will mean a better search database ..
Enlarge / But what does that car think that the spectator is thinking? reader comments 78 with 57 posters participating Share this story Imagine you’re trying to make a left turn onto a busy road. Car after car rolls past, keeping you trapped as your frustration rises. Finally, a generous driver decelerates enough to create ..
Enlarge / An artist’s rendering of Sikorsky’s proposed Raider X attack-scout helicopter. reader comments 32 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story As the Association of the US Army (AUSA) kicks off its annual Washington, DC meeting—a combination of Army conference and land-warfare trade show—Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky unit has unveiled the company’s ..
reader comments 82 with 50 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Wednesday of this week, an Israeli firm called Regulus Cyber issued a press release stating that “spoofing attacks on the Tesla GNSS (GPS) receiver could easily be carried out wirelessly and remotely.” In the firm’s demonstration attack on a Model 3, ..