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Ford, GM and Toyota collaborate for self-driving safety rules

Three major carmakers are banding together to establish safety and testing principles for driverless cars as Congress remains unable to act

Detroit News

Reducing the Variability of Automotive Radar System Performance - 5G Technology World

The automotive industry is in a race to bring more advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as active cruise control, emergency braking, and lane keeping to its vehicles. The increasing sophistication of these systems has, in turn, driven increasing demand for on-vehicle radar systems, to provide the information they need to make sense of their environment.…

5G Technology World

Gates-backed Lumotive upends lidar conventions using metamaterials – TechCrunch

Pretty much every self-driving car on the road, not to mention many a robot and drone, uses lidar to sense its surroundings. But useful as lidar is, it also involves physical compromises that limit its capabilities. Lumotive is a new company with funding from Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures th…

TechCrunch

Americans still don't trust self-driving cars, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional...

U.S.

The War to Remotely Control Self-Driving Cars Heats Up

Designated Driver is just the latest competitor to enter the market for the teleoperation tech that will make robo-cars work.

Wired

Hacked Self-Driving Cars Would Cause Chaos, Study Suggests

That ridiculous 'Fate of the Furious' scene isn't that far-fetched.

Inverse

New Nighttime Camera System Will Allow Autonomous Trucks to Increase Productivity

TuSimple's system will appeal to businesses that want to operate around the clock, and for longer stints than human-driven trucks.

The Drive

GACHA, The First Self Driving Shuttle Bus, Gets Rough Weather LiDAR - TechTheLead - Technology for tomorrow

RoboSense, a company famous for its LiDAR technology and honoree of a CES 2019 Innovation Award, just announced a major breakthrough for self driving shuttle busses. The company provided all-weather LiDAR for GACHA, the first autonomous shuttle bus designed to handle impossible weather and temperature conditions. GACHA is made by Sensible4, a Finnish-based company, so…

TechTheLead - Technology for tomorrow

MIT Claims New Tech Could Help Self-Driving Cars 'See' Through Fog and Dust

That's exactly the kind of sensor technology autonomous cars need in order to go mainstream.

The Drive

Autonomous vehicles: An imperfect path to saving millions of lives

Autonomous vehicles will eventually save millions of lives, underscoring the importance of accelerating research, development, engineering, and testing.

Science Robotics

Mobileye CEO clowns on Nvidia for allegedly copying self-driving car safety scheme – TechCrunch

While creating self-driving car systems, it's natural that different companies might independently arrive at similar methods or results — but the similarities in a recent "first of its kind" Nvidia proposal to work done by Mobileye two years ago were just too much for the latter company's CEO to ta…

TechCrunch

What the Boeing 737 Max Can Teach Us About Self-Driving Cars (And The Dangers Of Machine Learning)

The problem lies in how AI-driven machines learn -- and share.

Forbes

Doppler effect lights up future of self-driving cars – Physics World

A frequency-modulated lidar system can detect the velocity of pedestrians and vehicles as well as their location

Physics World

Nvidia Creates A 'Safety Force Field' To Boost Trust In Self-Driving Vehicles

Nvidia wants to build consumer trust in automated driving technology with the Safety Force Field and opens up its Drive Constellation simulation platform

Forbes

Virtual pedestrians pave way to safer roads for driverless cars

A "virtual human" suddenly steps out at a blind bend, but the engineer...

U.S.

Hacking Autonomous Vehicles: Is This Why We Don't Have Self-Driving Cars Yet?

When hacking occurs in a data center, the worst that can happen is a loss of data. When a

Techopedia.com

A chaotic market for one sensor stalls self-driving cars

Automakers and technology companies racing to develop self-driving vehicles are running into a problem: cars that can think are no good without affordable and reliable technology that allows cars to see.

Automotive News

AV Safety Ventures Beyond ISO 26262

EE Times

NXP teams with Green Hills Software on its platform for safe autonomous driving | Automotive World

Partnership adds certified OS for safety-critical, production-focused autonomous driving

www.automotiveworld.com

Paving the Way to Verify and Validate the Design of First-Generation Automated Driving Vehicles

Automotive OEMs are racing to grab a share of the fast-evolving autonomous vehicle (AV) market, estimated to represent a $7 trillion economic opportunity by 2050. But as this race becomes crowded with more entrants and even more feature-rich technology, the industry is also trading ambitious marketing claims and releasing schedules for caution to ensure the…

Electrical Engineering News and Products

Cortica Autonomous A.I. Enables Unsupervised Cars to Adapt and Learn | Digital Trends

Cortica embedded its "Autonomous A.I." solution on the Renesas system-on-chip (SoC) for self-driving cars. Autonomous A.I. uses "unsupervised learning" to enable vehicles to make predictions based on visual data. Cortica says unsupervised learning is faster and more accurate than deep learning-based systems.

Digital Trends

With new 128-laser sensor, Ouster ups the ante on LiDAR - SiliconANGLE

SiliconANGLE

The Dark Sides of Modern Cars: Hacking and Data Collection

How features such as infotainment and driver-assist can give others a leg up on car owners.

threatpost.com

Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandoned years ago

Tesla just shifted the goalposts for "full self-driving" technology.

Ars Technica

Where automotive cybersecurity is headed in 2019

There are more connected cars than ever — manufacturers are making more of them than ever, more people are driving them than ever, and that means hackers and bad actors have a bigger target than ever. As connected “devices” — albeit the biggest and most complicated of connected devices — vehicles are as vulnerable as…

The Next Web

Six Requirements for Growing and Scaling Autonomous Mobility - Enterprise Irregulars

As we enter a period of autonomous vehicle pilot deployments it is instructive to understand how far we’ve come in making these vehicles an achievable reality, and what we still need to accomplish before autonomous fleets can address the mobility goals, we’ve set for consumer transportation and logistics. Technological innovation and adoption typically follow particular…

Enterprise Irregulars

Uber and GM Cruise are making their respective AV ‘visualization’ tools open source

‘See’ the world of a self-driving car with these free web portals

The Verge

How Self-Driving Cars Can Help Make Cities Better

It's all about the data.

Fortune

Sensor, Processor Innovations Move Autonomous Vehicles Forward

Self-driving cars are changing lives by delivering unprecedented personal mobility. In fact, they represent a paradigm shift in the definition of a vehicle. To ensureEnsuring autonomous vehicles (AVs) deliver a safe, efficient, and enjoyable mode of travel requires complicated new technologies in the cloud and at the edge. In addition, along with data connectivity and…

Electrical Engineering News and Products

Linux Foundation launches ELISA, an open source project for building safety-critical systems

The Linux Foundation's ELISA is an open source project intended to help companies build safety-critical Linux-based systems.

VentureBeat

TuSimple's Robotruck Cameras See Twice as Far as Any Lidar

The self-driving startup's computer-vision-wielding truck drives like a champion—until a system freeze cuts a test-drive short.

Wired

Far Infrared Tech Brings Safe, Fully-Autonomous Driving To The Masses

Current state of most OEMs’ sensing technologies makes further advancement of AVs very challenging.

FierceElectronics

New cyber security standard for self-driving cars - UKTN (UK Tech News)

A new cyber security standard for developing technology incorporated into self-driving cars has been released by the British standards Institute.

UKTN (UK Tech News)

Teaching AI Self-Driving Cars to Drive Using Simulations

Back in September, one of the world’s most brilliant, ballsy, and just downright crazy billionaires, Elon Musk, said that our current reality is most likely a simulation created by a much more advanced civilization. Of course, that was the same talk show on which we later learned that Musk had ripped on a fat blunt, so…

Nanalyze

Study Pours Cold Water on AI Driving Algorithms

A recent report emerging from the center of U.S. auto manufacturing rains on the AI parade with research results claiming autonomous vehicle algorithms

Datanami

We Need to Not Freak Out About the Robot Revolution

A former Obama advisor says we’ll work alongside the machines—but we also need to be smarter about apprenticeships and job retraining.

Wired

Uber gets approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving testing

Uber Technologies Inc received approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving...

U.S.

Elon Musk wants testers for Tesla’s long-awaited ‘full self-driving’ A.I. chip

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants "a few hundred" more people to test out the company's new Autopilot Hardware 3, the long-awaited neural net technology that the company has said will give cars "Full Self-Driving Capability" for $8,000 plus the price of the car.It's been hard to pin down details about Hardw...

Big Think

What's Apple's Plan for Autonomous Driving?

What the heck is Apple doing with autonomous driving? It may be more than driving.

TheStreet

Wielding rocks and knives, Arizonans attack self-driving cars

At least 21 attacks have been leveled at Waymo vans in Chandler, Arizona. Some analysts say they expect more such behavior as the nation moves into a broader discussion about the potential for driverless cars to unleash colossal changes in...

The Seattle Times

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines

Harvard Magazine

Toyota’s self-driving cars can now fit more junk in their trunks

The automaker will reveal its latest test vehicle at CES in Las Vegas

The Verge

The Maddening Struggle to Make Robo-Cars Safe—and Prove It

The startup is just one of many self-driving developers looking for the best way to address the complex issue of safety.

Wired

Ottopia’s remote assistance platform for autonomous cars combines humans with AI

Ottopia is a teleoperation platform for autonomous vehicles, allowing humans to help AVs make decisions in complex situations.

VentureBeat

The good, the bad, and the ugly of self-driving cars in 2018

From Uber’s fatal crash to Waymo’s driverless taxies to verrrrrrry slow buses—AVs still have a long way to go.

Curbed

Baidu taps Unity's game engine to test its self-driving cars

Baidu will leverage Unity's game engine to accelerate its autonomous vehicle development.

Engadget

The Amazing Ways Toyota Is Using Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Robots

Toyota is preparing for the 4th industrial revolution with investments in AI, big data and robots. They are enhancing AI technology to power autonomous vehicles, create better connection between humans and machines, provide solutions that enhance the life and work of humans and more.

Forbes

Unbundling The Autonomous Vehicle

Autonomous vehicles rely on several advanced technologies to self-navigate. We unbundle the AV to see how these technologies work together and which companies are driving them forward.

CB Insights Research

60 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2019

60 predictions for cybersecurity in 2019 reveal the state-of-mind of key industry participants from artificial intelligence (AI) helping both attackers and defenders to data privacy, the cloud, IoT, and the emerging global cyber war conducted by terrorists, criminals, and nation-states.

Forbes

Bosch to debut autonomous electric shuttle at CES - electrive.com

Bosch is now following the lead of Continental and ZF by producing its own self-driving electric shuttle. A preview of the concept EV for four passengers has just been released ahead of the official debut at the CES in Vegas. Bosch is not yet revealing all technical details, but the self-driving electric vehicle that the…