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Trump Administration‘s New Self-Driving-Car Guidance Is Deliberately Toothless
– They’re just guidelines and they’re toothless, but the contents of the Trump administration’s updated policy paper on autonomous vehicles are important for getting everyone on the same page so innovation can blossom. The rise of self-driving cars means more mobility options for those with disabilities, less commuter congestion, and fewer freeway fatalities, so the […]
Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski amid Lawsuit over Self-Driving-Car Trade Secrets
– It’s hard to believe, but it was only 10 months ago that Anthony Levandowski ascended to arguably the most enviable position of any engineer pioneering autonomous technology. Uber acquired his months-old self-driving-truck startup in August 2016 for $ 680 million. After enriching him, the company put him in charge of all its autonomous-development efforts, […]
The ‘Tesla of buses’ just jumped into the self-driving-car race
Proterra Proterra is making serious moves to bring heavy-duty buses into the future. The electric bus manufacturer is launching an autonomous driving program with the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County — the body responsible for mass transit in the cities of Sparks and Reno, Nevada. Proterra said the pilot is aimed at developing the algorithms required to launch self-driving […]
Uber isn’t even using the custom self-driving-car tech at the heart of a Google lawsuit (GOOG, GOOGL)
Business Insider/Corey Protin Uber is at the head of the pack in the race to build self-driving cars, with a small fleet of its robo-cars already on the road in a few cities. But it turns out that a critical piece of technology for its self-driving cars has never actually left the lab. The bucket-shaped “Lidar” radar sensor […]
Startup in Stealth Mode Begins Self-Driving-Car Tests in California
– Another company has joined the ranks of those testing autonomous vehicles on California public roads. AutoX, a San Jose company working on artificial-intelligence applications for self-driving cars, received a permit to test last month, according to records kept by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. That brings the total to 21 companies that have […]
