A month after one of Google’s self driving cars brushed with a municipal bus, Google has secured a patent for bus detection and avoid such accidents in future. The patent is titled "Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle." In ...
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Toyota announced that it has hired Jaybridge Robotics engineering team in order to strengthen its autonomous vehicle development effort. The 16 member Jaybridge engineering team will join Toyota Research Institute's (TRI) facility in ...
After Google, Ford is planning to test its self driving Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans on the streets of California next year. The company has enrolled itself in the California Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program that grants permission to ...
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California has released its first ever regulatory proposal for self-driving cars, which requires a licensed driver to be present in the car to take control of it in case of technical failure or emergency. It will also require ...
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Ford will begin testing self-driving cars on public roads in California next year. Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans will take to the streets after the company secured a permit to begin testing the vehicles on public roads in ...
Nissan has started testing its Leaf-based autonomous car prototype capable of driving on both highway and urban roads of Japan. The Japanese automaker wants to test "Piloted Drive" mode, which is a part of its Intelligent Driving System ...
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A merger among automotive players may be the need of the hour but there is no further development about Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s (FCA) intention of joining hands with US automobile major General Motors (GM), said FCA CEO Sergio ...
German automobile major Audi braces for the exit of one of its prominent staff members heading engine development amid mounting competition from other automakers and its drive for electric cars. Stefan Knirsch, who was at the helm of ...
Chinese Internet services firm Baidu is planning to enter the driverless car segment later this year with its own version, marrying computer technology with artificial intelligence. The self-driving car, with which the web behemoth ...
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Curtin researchers have helped create technology that will make an autonomous car affordable to the average-income person within a decade. The ‘eyes and ears’ technology comprises a dozen different sensors installed in an ...
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Like an impatient teenager, self-driving car technology will be ready to hit the road well before authorities are ready to license it, predict a pair of studies released last week. That may not be such a bad thing, write researchers at ...
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Ford has revealed its first autonomous car, a prototype Ford Mondeo hybrid, as part of an ongoing research and development program built around the car maker’s vision for future mass transportation. The automated Ford Mondeo (called ...
A new study has shown convincing motorists to support autonomous vehicles may be a major challenge, despite many of the world’s leading car makers promising to launch driverless technology by the end of the decade. A survey of 1000 ...
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Google is designing and developing its own autonomous car, according to reports in the US. The reports stem from an initial story by a former Wall Street Journal writerAmir Efrati who claims inside knowledge of Google’s plan for its ...
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Autonomous cars will start testing on public roads in the UK by the end of 2013 as part of a government plan to reduce traffic congestion in Britain. Planned as part of a £28 billion ($46.4 billion) investment by the Department for ...