tag self-driving cars

In self-driving car race, winners get all the way around track

EghtesadOnline: Nine self-driving cars did not quite zoom around a 2-mile (3.2-km) course in Northern California over the weekend in a race involving students and entrepreneurs from startup companies where the real goal was just to make it around the track.
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Publish Date:03/April/2017 | 04:59

Google Pulls Out of Self-Driving Cars

EghtesadOnline: Google has reportedly shelved its long-standing plan to develop its own autonomous vehicle in favor of pursuing partnerships with existing carmakers.
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Publish Date:17/December/2016 | 10:39

Autonomous cars to drive chip sector consolidation says NXP

EghtesadOnline: NXP Semiconductor, the world's largest chip supplier to the automotive industry, expects efforts to make self-driving cars will lead to more consolidation in its sector, the company's automotive head told Reuters.
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Publish Date:06/November/2016 | 05:25

Toyota to test self-driving, talking cars by about 2020

EghtesadOnline: Toyota Motor Corp on Monday said it would begin testing self-driving electric cars around 2020, which will use artificial intelligence (AI) to engage with drivers, as the company competes with tech firms to develop new vehicles.
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Publish Date:16/October/2017 | 24:00

Alphabet Finishes Reorganization With New XXVI Company

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc. is forming a new holding company designed to finalize its evolution from Google, the web search giant, into a corporate parent with distinct arms that protects individual businesses in far-flung fields like health care and self-driving cars .
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Publish Date:02/September/2017 | 04:56

Alphabet Driverless Ambitions Looked Stalled. Then It Sued Uber

EghtesadOnline: Not so long ago Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving ambitions seemed to have lost momentum despite the company being among the earliest to put experimental autonomous cars on the road. There was no business plan, and Alphabet was in danger of losing its first-mover advantage to traditional automakers and Silicon Valley startups, including Uber Technologies Inc. It looked as though the company had started another moonshot.
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Publish Date:01/June/2017 | 11:15

Trump administration re-evaluating self-driving car guidance

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said on Sunday she was reviewing self-driving vehicle guidance issued by the Obama administration and urged companies to explain the benefits of automated vehicles to a skeptical public.
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Publish Date:27/February/2017 | 06:30
How Anthony Levandowski went from star of Google's self-driving car team to its greatest foe.

Ambitious Engineer at Center of Colossal Fight Between Google and Uber

EghtesadOnline: In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.
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Publish Date:25/February/2017 | 04:44

New Drone Technology Backed by Bill Gates

EghtesadOnline: Echodyne, a radar array startup with investors including Bill Gates, his Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and Seattle’s own Madrona Ventures, just made what the company considers a landmark announcement for the future of self-driving vehicles.
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Publish Date:19/February/2017 | 15:06

Nissan picks London for first European on-road autonomous car tests

EghtesadOnline: Japanese carmaker Nissan said it will conduct its first European real-world trials of self-driving cars in London, choosing Britain just months after it said it would build two new models in the country despite concerns over Brexit.
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Publish Date:14/January/2017 | 15:08

Automakers, suppliers team up to share costs of self-driving cars

EghtesadOnline: Automotive suppliers and automakers are expanding alliances to develop self-driving car technology that can serve multiple automakers, as the race to put such vehicles on the road separates companies that can go it alone from those that need help sharing the financial and technical burdens.
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Publish Date:08/January/2017 | 14:09

Apple shows ambition to get into self-driving car race

EghtesadOnline: Apple Inc is wading in to the debate over regulation of self-driving cars , declaring it is excited about the potential for automated transportation and calling on U.S. regulators not to restrict testing of such vehicles.
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Publish Date:03/December/2016 | 23:54

Volvo and Uber team up to develop self-driving cars

EghtesadOnline: Volvo Car Group has agreed a $300 million alliance with Uber to develop self-driving cars , the latest move by traditional vehicle manufacturers to team up with Silicon Valley firms seen as threats to their industry.
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Publish Date:18/August/2016 | 13:20