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General Motors Will Test Self-Driving Cars in New York City

New York City embraces self-driving tech. Sort of. One of the latest major cities to hop on the self-driving bandwagon is New York City. However, due to the city’s ...

October 18, 2017 at 9:12 am by

Baidu Announces $1.5B Fund for Self-Driving Car Startups

Chinese search giant Baidu has announced that they are throwing in a lot of their monetary weight into funding self-driving car startups. The company also expanded by ...

September 22, 2017 at 2:55 pm by

Court Filing Reveals Google Spent $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech

Google is keeping the financial details surrounding their self-driving technology efforts close to their chest. In fact, the cost of the project is hiding within the ...

September 17, 2017 at 4:10 pm by

Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Asian Airports and Hospitals

While everyone is busy arguing about the virtues of self-driving cars, roboticists in Asia have been working on bringing self-driving wheelchairs to the mainstream. Before ...

August 19, 2017 at 4:56 pm by

Waymo Launches Free Self-Driving Taxi Service Trials in Arizona

Waymo, formerly called the Google self-driving car project, has launched initial trials in Phoenix, Arizona using a fleet of 100 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. The service ...

April 26, 2017 at 11:30 am by

Apple Signs Up to Create Self-Driving Cars

Apple has announced that they are joining the increasingly crowded market to create self-driven car technology. Apple was awarded the license by the Californian Department of ...

April 16, 2017 at 11:24 am by

BMW’s Vision of the Future is Here

BMW is well known for innovative products in the automotive market, and they look set to continue to push the boundaries in the near future too. With an already pretty ...

March 25, 2017 at 11:37 am by

NVIDIA and Bosch Partner to Build Self-Driving Cars

Following the news that Intel has bought MobilEye, makers of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for self-driving cars, for $15 billion, competitor Bosch has announced a ...

March 18, 2017 at 8:00 am by

Uber and Mercedes Join Forces for Self-Driving Cars

Uber has already shaken up the world of driving with their ride sharing service, and it looks like they just took their next big step to shake it up even further! Uber has ...

February 1, 2017 at 4:00 pm by

See the World through the Eyes of Tesla’s Autonomous Driving System!

The autonomous driving system developed by Tesla is definitely one of the most advanced in the world, but the company is still trying to bring it as close to perfection as ...

November 21, 2016 at 10:00 pm by

Uber Self-Driving Truck Completes First Delivery – 50,000 Beers

Last Thursday (20th October), a self-driving 18-wheel truck made a delivery for the first time. The Volvo truck – which transported 50,000 cans of Budweiser over 100 miles ...

October 25, 2016 at 9:30 pm by

Mercedes Self-Driving Cars to Protect Driver over Pedestrians

One of the biggest ethical concerns arising from the development of self-driving cars is how a vehicle’s on-board artificial intelligence determines how to prioritise the ...

October 17, 2016 at 9:20 am by

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 ...

October 11, 2016 at 10:45 pm by

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 ...

September 28, 2016 at 8:15 pm by

Uber Developing Automated VTOL Flying Taxis

Private transportation outfit Uber may already be working on ditching its drivers in favour of self-driving cars, but the company is now looking even further into the future, ...

September 27, 2016 at 10:02 am by

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