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The moment a woman was run down and killed by an experimental driverless Uber taxi was captured in a shocking video. Police in Tempe, Arizona, released the clips taken by onboard cameras. A dashboard camera shows the car driving along a road at night in the suburb of the state capital, Phoenix, on Sunday night. […]
It’s easy to ignore the daily onslaught of stories about autonomous cars, which still seem a lot like vaporware to some of us. Plus, those things are for somebody else, right, not a righteous car enthusiast like you or me. But here’s a brief video that shows the technology is not in some far-off future, […]
Starsky Robotics announced that it has raised $ 16.5 million in funding from Shasta Ventures. The startup also announced that it has successfully driven its self-driving cargo truck for seven miles without a driver. “No safety driver behind the wheel, no engineer hiding on the bunk. We are the first company to make driverless trucks […]
Dubai is testing its futuristic driverless pods – taking another step forward in its bid to become the world’s smartest city and its goal of making a quarter of daily transportation autonomous by 2030. The self-driving pods, launched in cooperation with Next Future Transportation, spun around a main street in Dubai during testing. The electric […]
Automakers testing their self-driving cars on California roads might be able to go fully autonomous as soon as April, according to the state’s DMV. Instead of putting someone behind the wheel to take over in certain circumstances, such as when the self-driving system isn’t working as well as it should, the companies will be required […]
– Convenience has become the ultimate commodity. People are either too busy or too lazy to do, buy, and get things themselves. As a result, delivery and shipping services have been undergoing a bit of a reinvention of late. Those who are in served areas can have virtually anything brought to them with a few clicks on […]
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THE most distractingly unrealistic feature of most science fiction—by some margin—is how the great soaring cities of the future never seem to struggle with traffic. Whatever dystopias lie ahead, futurists seem confident we can sort out congestion. If hope that technology will fix traffic springs eternal, history suggests something different. Transport innovation, from railways to […]
Enlarge / Cruise second-generation test vehicles, assembled at GM’s Lake Orion plant in Michigan. (credit: Cruise) In November, Waymo announced it would begin testing fully driverless vehicles with no one in the driver’s seat. Then, last week, GM petitioned the federal government for approval to mass-produce a car with no steering wheel or pedals—with plans […]
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