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Failure of SDCs A "big picture" goal of Uber and Lyft is to get rid of humans. Imagine being able to have a computer system control 99% of the functions involved with running a business. A human requests a ride. The AI dispatches a vehicle. The AI acknowledges them upon arrival, and again when...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vw-to-invest-nearly-2-billion-in-ford-self-driving-car-venture-11551185359 VW to Invest Nearly $2 Billion in Ford Self-Driving Car Venture Move comes as auto makers seek to share the huge costs of developing self-driving cars By William Boston and Mike Colias...

Where to find self-driving cars on the road right now Aptiv Las Vegas, Boston, Pittsburgh, Singapore The name "Aptiv" might not ring a bell, but if you visit Las Vegas, you could ride in one of their autonomous vehicles after hailing a Lyft. They first began offering rides in their cars during...

We need robot driving schools for our autonomous cars https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2019/02/09/we-need-robot-driving-schools-for-our-autonomous-cars/ by STEVE JONES - 20 hours ago in CONTRIBUTORS

DAVIES TRANSPORTATION 02.07.19 Amazon Wednesday made perhaps its most significant move yet into the self-driving car space, announcing an investment in autonomous tech developer Aurora. For a company with one of the largest logistics operations on the planet, it's about time...

Whether you like it or not, self-driving cars will be hitting the road in full-force in the coming years. Thanks to new technology developed by numerous global companies autonomous vehicles will become a staple of modern culture, with nearly 10 million self-driving cars expected to hit the road...

https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/01/millardball-vehicles.html "Parking prices are what get people out of their cars and on to public transit, but autonomous vehicles have no need to park at all. They can get around paying for parking by cruising," he said. "They will have every incentive to create...

Waymo will locate its vehicle integration operations in southeast Michigan and received a grant of up to $8 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corp...

Self-Driving Cars Specialization Launch Your Career in Self-Driving Cars. Be at the forefront of the autonomous driving industry. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/self-driving-cars?utm_medium=email&utm_source=marketing&utm_campaign=OFKjICWXEemQwatOC0L3ug About this Specialization Be at...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/tech/boeing-flying-car/index.html Can you imagine. " Need to stop at Wendy's, can you wait for me".

I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives. Or should I say, your SDC taxi have. When I'm done, half of the ANT colony will still exist. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. I hope...

Michael McGrath Uber Must Have Autonomous Ride Services Aug. 17, 2018 3:00 PM•UBER Summary Uber's ridesharing business model is labor intensive and currently unprofitable. The expected business model for autonomous ride services (ARS) is technology and capital based. The ARS model is much more...

The development of autonomous driving technology shows all the signs that it is here to stay: interesting markets, a sense of hurry, competition, rapid changes to the law, participants with varied strategies and approaches, benefits… if anybody ever doubted that by 2020 autonomous vehicles...

Buried in a criminal complaint against a former Apple engineer who's being charged with stealing trade secrets is a remarkable revelation about the size of Apple's autonomous driving systems project: 5,000 employees are working on it. Obviously Apple is fully committed to SDC...

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Tech specialists NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) are among the frontrunners in self-driving car technology. Both companies are touted to benefit from this market, and both pay a dividend that should get better in the long run as self-driving cars gain traction. A few months back...

Ford, Lyft, Uber, Volvo Cars, and Waymo established the Coalition to work with lawmakers, regulators, and the public to realize the safety and societal benefits of self-driving vehicles. http://www.selfdrivingcoalition.org/ Washington -- Today, the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets...

The March to the future continues: With their array of onboard sensors, potential future self-driving cars will generate massive amounts of data. Volkswagen Group of America is teaming up with suppliers Bosch, Continental, Nvidia, and Aquantia to form the Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV)...

And the Forward Momentum Continues: Waymo, the driverless-technology company spun out of Google, has agreed to purchase as many as 62,000 minivans from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for use in a ride-hailing service set to begin commercial operations later this year. The announcement on Thursday is...

There's a good reason why companies often test self-driving cars in big cities: they'd be lost most anywhere else. They typically need well-labeled 3D maps to identify curbs, lanes and signs, which isn't much use on a backwoods road where those features might not even exist. MIT CSAIL may have a...