Self-driving cars

Tesla's Musk heads to Hollywood to unveil his robotaxi and face a long list of questions

October 08, 2024 5:34 pm

Hopes are high ahead of Tesla's event called "We, Robot" to unveil much-delayed plans for a robotaxi.

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Elon Musk visits China: Why rolling out Full Self-Driving cars matters for Tesla

May 01, 2024 5:40 am

Musk landed in China on a surprise visit on Sunday, barely a week after he deferred his much-anticipated India trip. Amid Tesla's sliding sales in China, it is hoping FSD will give it an edge over domestic competitors. However, roadblocks persist.

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Obstacle sensors, radars and eventually, self-driving cars: The road to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

May 09, 2023 10:43 am

The ADAS suite will also include features such as automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, blind spot collision warning, lane-keeping assist and adaptive cruise control, which can enhance the safety and convenience of driving.

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Self-driving cars 'learn' to predict pedestrian movement

February 13, 2019 7:16 pm

The results have shown that this new system improves upon a driverless vehicle's capacity to recognise what is most likely to happen next.

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Waymo said to launch world's first driverless car service in December

November 13, 2018 2:41 pm

The first wave of customers will likely draw from Waymo’s Early Rider Program, a test group of 400 volunteer families who have been riding Waymos for more than a year.

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Uber wants to resume self-driving car tests on public roads

November 04, 2018 5:43 pm

Pittsburgh is home to Uber's autonomous vehicle development center, making it a logical choice for the resumption of robotic car tests.

Ethics in a self-driving car: whom should it opt to save in an accident?

November 01, 2018 9:30 am

Moral Machine Experiment presents tough choices to 2.3 million people worldwide. Amid variations among countries, most put human lives first.

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Uber 'on track' for IPO in 2019, no plans to sell tech unit: CEO

September 06, 2018 2:35 pm

Uber is "quite optimistic" it can resume testing of self-driving cars later this year after a fatal crash involving an autonomous Uber car in Tempe, Arizona in March, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said.

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Uber heads in new direction with Toyota on self-driving cars

August 28, 2018 12:12 pm

By the time the self-driving car deal happens, Uber hopes to have completed an initial public offering of stock that will enrich a list of early investors that now includes Toyota.

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Google's Waymo to add 62,000 minivans to its self-driving car service

June 01, 2018 1:11 pm

Waymo plans to pick up people in cars that won't have a human in the driver's seat, making it the first ride-hailing service with a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles.