Self-driving Vehicles

Roundup If you wanna know what's been happening in AI this week beyond what we've already covered, here's a quick roundup... Waymo Open Dataset: Self-driving-car dreamer Waymo is planning to release a data set collected from sensors on its autonomous vehicle…

12 with 11 posters participating Does the name "Autopilot" cause people to overestimate the abilities of Tesla's driver-assistance technology? It's a question that comes up in the Ars comments almost every time we write about Autopilot. Critics warn that so…

Yet another company partners with Googles self-driving car division, AKA Alphabets self-driving car division, AKA Waymo; everyone seems to hate Trumps new EPA rules; and supersonic jets. All that and more in the Morning Shift for June 20, 2019. 1st Gear: I G…

Waymo has locked in an exclusive partnership with Renault and Nissan to research how commercial autonomous vehicles might work for passengers and packages in France and Japan. This exclusive partnership has a deadline the public announcement says it will las…

Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open source some of the information it has captured while developing and testing self-driving cars. The aim, t…

Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedestrians are doing and what they’re about to do. Humanising Autonomy specializes this, and hopes to become a ubiqu…

China-based Zhejiang Geely Holdings is tapping Zenuity, the joint venture between Volvo and Swedish technology company Veoneer, as its preferred driver assistance and autonomous vehicle software supplier for its range of car brands. The decision means Zenuit…

At the moment, our spacecraft rely on a two-way relay system that needs to bounce signals to and from Earth-based atomic clocks to figure out where it is and where it's going. It uses the time that it takes to send a signal and to receive a response to calcul…

Nvidia Corp. is making a play for the multibillion-dollar, autonomous-truck market, joining forces with Volvo Group to go up against the likes of Tesla Inc., Alphabet Inc. and others that are developing the commercial vehicles of the future. Nvidia NVDA, +…

Volvo and Nvidia announced a new partnership today aimed at developing the next-generation decision-making engine for Volvo Group’s fully autonomous commercial trucks and industrial service vehicles. The partnership will use Nvidia’s Drive artificial intellig…