One of Google’s self-driving car has recently crashed into an oncoming municipal bus in Mountain View, California. The incident actually took place on 14th of February and said to be the first accident involving its self driving ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has removed a key barrier for Google and other companies developing autonomous technologies saying that the computer that handles the car can be considered as drivers under the ...
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Google has announced that it will start testing its self-driving vehicles in the city of Kirkland, Washington. This announcement was made in the official Google Self-Driving Car Project Google Plus page. According to Google, Kirkland ...
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China backed electric and autonomous vehicle startup Faraday Future has unveiled its first concept car, ‘FFZERO1 Concept’, a self driving Batmobile style car capable of producing up to 1,000hp. The car is powered by 4 Quad ...
Eco-friendly cars and self-driving technology became the hot topics for the international automobile industry in 2015. In January at Detroit's North American International Auto Show, over 40 new vehicles were unveiled. They included a ...
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Two self driving car makers, Google and Ford are teaming up to create an independent company to build autonomous vehicles. The companies have not made an official announcement yet, as they are expected to unveil the plan at CES show in ...
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The development of self-driving car technology may have received a major blow after California outlined proposals for tough new legislation. Under the proposed regulations, any automated cars on the road in the US state would have to have ...
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 ...
Hyundai Motor has started testing its fully-autonomous Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) in the US after receiving a license from the US state of Nevada. The automaker testing two Tucson (ix35) Fuel Cell on the public roads to ...
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Delphi is planning to improve its self driving technology by incorporating vehicle-to-everything (V2E) capabilities into its Audi SQ5 self driving car. The company introduced the car at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and it is ...
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A research team from Nankai University in China has come up with a mind control car, which uses brain power to operate. The car is operated through brain signal-reading equipment that the driver has to wear to control the movement of the ...
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Following the footsteps of automakers like Honda and BMW, South Korean automaker Kia has announced that the company will introduce partially-autonomous driving technologies by 2020, followed by the introduction of fully-autonomous cars by ...
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Lasers and infrared LEDs for self-driving cars More than ten years ago, Osram Opto Semiconductors supplied infrared laser diodes for the first laser sensors in cars. As one of the first suppliers of powerful infrared LEDs (IREDs), Osram ...
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As car manufacturers continue to introduce new technologies in their vehicles, blind-spot warning systems and back-up cameras are the technologies mature drivers are most willing to adopt1, according to new research by The Hartford and the ...
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Google is seeking help from children to improve its self driving cars, as the company is teaching its self-driving prototype vehicles to better recognize children. During Halloween, the search giant had kids dressed in various ...
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