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Tesla Ditches NVIDIA, Launches Own Autonomous Driving Chip
Next-Gen Chip is Company’s First Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in his usual carnival barker form during the company’s Autonomy Day on Monday. “At first it seems improbable — how could it be that Tesla, who has never designed a chip before — would design the best chip in the…
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Trump Takes Hands Off Approach to Self-Driving Car Regulation
It is well-known that as a businessman, President Trump is not a big fan of regulations. Which is why it is not that surprising that his administration is taking a “hands off” approach when it comes to regulating autonomous vehicles. Trump and Obama Shares Deregulatory Approach The white house released…
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First Driverless Electric Car Tested in the UK
A driverless electric car has been tested on public roads in the UK for the first time. The LUTZ Pathfinder, developed by Catapault Transport Systems, has been trialled in the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes – which is simple to navigate with its modern grid-like road and district structure –…
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Nvidia Announce New Xavier System on Chip
Nvidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, announced a new system on chip (SoC) named Xavier today at GTC 2016. Xavier manages to pack in a whopping 7 billion transistors which comprise a custom octa-core ARM64 CPU and a next generation 512 core Volta GPU. This also makes Xavier the first device to employ…
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Google Self-Driving Car Gets Into a Crash in Mountain View
Until earlier this year, Google had managed to boast that none of their test fleet of self-driving cars had been involved in an accident. Unfortunately, on Friday another Google self-driving car was involved in an accident in Mountain View, California. The car in question was a Lexus 450h modified…
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Tesla Autopilot Update to Rely More on Radar
Earlier this month, Elon Musk, Tesla’s founder, teased an upcoming update to the autonomous driving assist system, Autopilot. Musk noted that the 8.0 update to the software would provide more advanced processing of radar signals, but now the visionary entrepreneur has detailed just what this will mean for Autopilot. All…
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Self-Driving Ubers Spotted in San Francisco
Despite a large number of companies currently rushing to develop their autonomous car capabilities, very few of these firms are yet to bring their vehicles to the streets. Despite the strict regulations on self-driving vehicles in California, Uber may have managed to beat many firms to the punch with what…
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Google Plans Self-Driving Taxis for 2016
Google will launch its self-driving car initiative as a separate business, offering rides for hire in direct competition with firms such as Uber, under parent company Alphabet Inc next year, according to Bloomberg Business. An anonymous source briefed on Google’s self-driving car strategy claims that, initially, the vehicles will not…
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Robot Cars Will Fill the Roads Within 5 Years Says Google Co-Founder
Driving is so passé. At least, it will be within five years, according to Sergey Brin. Google co-founder Brin claim that autonomously controlled vehicles will become a fixture on our roads in less than a decade follows the rigorous testing the company has forced the Google Car to undergo, with…
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