Self-driving Vehicles

Want to hide from AI-powered surveillance systems? Researchers at KU Leuven generated an image which you can print and hold around your hip to make yourself invisible to a popular object detection algorithm. The technique so far only works if the printout is…

According to marketing firm ABI, as many as 8 million driverless cars will be added to the road in 2025. Meanwhile, Research and Markets is predicting that in the U.S. alone, there will be some 20 million autonomous cars in operation by 2030. But how do cons…

2019 has been rocky for electric automaker Tesla: It announced it would start rolling out Model 3 sedans priced at $35,000, then made it more difficult to order them. It said it would close all of its showrooms, then said it would keep some openand raise pric…

Tesla's robo-taxis are needed more than ever. The company lost $702 million in the first three months of the year and the EV maker doesn't expect to be profitable again until the second half of the year, according to first quarter earnings results reported W…

Despite "significant challenges with the battery module line at Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, and later with our general assembly line in Fremont" Tesla managed to deliver nearly 140,000 Model 3 vehicles in 2018. That trend continued through Q1 2019 with the elect…

Throughout the course of 2018, Apple’s filings with the California DMV showed a steady increase in the number of self-driving cars it had on the road. This month, however, Apple has reported its first ever drop in autonomous cars. As first noted by macReport…

Among the many tidbits of wisdom that Elon Musk dropped at a Tesla company investor event on Monday was the revelation that Lidar, a laser-based scanning technology that images objects in 3D, was friggin stupid, and that ...anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. …

The Tesla CEO is forging his own path toward full autonomy At Tesla’s “Autonomy Day” event for investors on Monday, Elon Musk was full of trash talk for his competitors and their technology. LIDAR, the light beam sensor that practically everyone views as an e…

Stephen Crouch of Montana-based Blackmore explains how the company's lidar technology would help a robot car see what's ahead. Wochit Waymo will build self-driving vehicles in Detroit. The company, once known as Google's self-driving car project and now a…

"All cars being produced all have the hardware necessary -- computer and otherwise -- for full self-driving," Work is also already underway on a next-generation chip Either the current hardware is not sufficient, or the next generation is unnecessary.…