Driverless cars top his emerging tech wish list: "We'll look at issues involving driverless cars, driverless vehicles," he promised.
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As alluded, Uber's driverless cars aren't really driverless at all.
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Most contemporary coverage of driverless vehicles is only about driverless cars.
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It is not about the driverless vehicle, it is about the driverless society.
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I believe we will skip driverless cars and go straight into driverless drones.
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Instead, picture your appetite as a driverless car, but the driverless driver is your stomach.
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Uh. So, if you think about driverless, the bike and the scooter sharing is a driverless service.
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Indeed, some experts believe that a driverless car that allows a human driver to take control isn't truly driverless.
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I'm not talking about driverless cars in a small area with fences — no, I'm talking about a completely driverless car.
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What public policies make either the compact, driverless urban bus future or the sprawling, driverless suburban car future more dominant?
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It's time we start to think higher, spread our wings, and get on board with driverless passenger drones, skipping driverless cars.
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This is important, because the artificial intelligence behind driverless trucks is proving more difficult to develop than similar software for driverless cars.
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In short, the work to develop driverless trucks that can be reliably used by companies is far less along than driverless cars.
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The company already has driverless driverless cars in play over in Phoenix, as it showed in a few promotional videos last month.
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Last month, Alphabet's driverless vehicle unit Waymo became the first company to secure approval to test driverless cars on public roads in California.
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Driverless cars may one day reduce traffic, but the addition of more cars—driverless or not—doesn't seem to be an immediate panacea.
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Only Waymo holds a driverless testing permit from the DMV, although it does not have driverless vehicles on public roads in California yet.
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Ford has promised to build a fully driverless car by 2021, while Domino's hopes to someday replace all of its drivers with driverless cars.
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"As well as driverless cars, there will be driverless buses," he said, pointing to work already underway on the upcoming automated Sydney metro system.
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Driverless cars: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is also considering new guidelines for the manufacturers of automated vehicles, better known as driverless cars.
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Let's assume for now that Musk isn't saying that Tesla will enable its cars to become fully driverless, like Waymo's driverless minivans, which rely on LIDAR.
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The Tesla Driverless Mode Problem: You are using the driverless mode on the freeway, when you notice a wounded person on the road ahead of you.
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Driverless cars are now being tested on roadways in Europe and the US (the latter has some regulations for driverless cars, but not about ethical choices).
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GM has said that it hopes to someday offer a driverless taxi service, but driverless deliveries are another avenue for it to profit from automated cars.
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But, judging by the pace of the research, it seems driverless pods will hit the UK's pavements before driverless cars are a common sight on its roads.
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Driverless testing permit holders must also report any collisions involving a driverless test vehicle to the DMV within 10 days and submit an annual report of disengagements.
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"People's perception toward driverless delivery had a complete 180-degree shift [during the coronavirus outbreak]," Yu Enyuan, founder of Beijing-based driverless-delivery business Neolix, told Bloomberg.
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The UK might be behind the US when it comes to driverless car research, but it's moving forward (at a sedate and pedestrian-friendly speed) with driverless pods.
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We've already seen Uber-deployed driverless cars in Pittsburgh, and driverless trucks will be deployed in the next five to six years — we've already seen them across Europe.
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Credit where it's due: Waymo is the only company to have applied for a truly driverless testing permit in California and is also testing driverless rides in Arizona.
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Maybe they'll decide to de-couple the rideshare from the driverless car, where people could still own driverless cars, but not use them to subcontract for rideshare services.
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Riding in a driverless car will be more convenient than owning one, and driverless cars may eventually allow us to rethink how we design cities and parking lots.
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However, instead of viewing driverless cars as an antidote to this public health crisis, some lawmakers and regulators seem to view driverless cars as a potentially greater danger.
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And Liam from Locust Grove, Ga., left us with these thought-provoking questions about a driverless future: If the future is driverless cars then can kids drive them?
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A Deere spokesman said the farm equipment giant does not have a driverless tractor on the market, although the company has done some work on driverless technology in orchards.
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The announcement last month that the federal government was broadly supportive of driverless cars warmed what had been something of a cold war among the states on driverless experimentation.
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Though Uber has spent the better part of its driverless PR efforts on promoting its semi-autonomous Volvos, it appears its driverless trucking efforts are a bit further along.
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Uber began using semi-driverless cars to pick up passengers in Pittsburgh this summer, while auto companies like Ford have announced plans to build fully driverless vehicles by 2021.
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And for those companies that might want to someday get a permit from the CPUC for the driverless pilot, they must first obtain a driverless permit from the DMV.
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HOUSE PASSES DRIVERLESS CAR BILL: The House passed a bipartisan driverless car bill on Wednesday, advancing what could become the first set of federal laws for the emerging industry.
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Dozens of vigilantes have thrown rocks at driverless cars in Arizona, for example, and incident reports from San Francisco suggest that human drivers are intentionally crashing into driverless cars.
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Over the past year, auto companies have vowed aggressive timelines to build fully driverless cars, while ride-hailing firms like Uber are already testing semi-driverless technology in some cities.
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HOUSE PANEL ADVANCES DRIVERLESS CAR BILL: A driverless car bill is quickly moving through the House, as Congress races to pass the first federal legislation to address the emerging technology.
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Clearly, driverless cars are a growing reality, and car services want to go that route because it's cheaper for them, but it doesn't mean all consumers will enjoy a driverless ride.
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Their estimates assume that the driverless car will generate .
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" The statement did not include the words "driverless car.
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What if – instead of driverless cars – we extended ourselves vertically up to 500M, with driverless passenger drones, parking overhead and always ready to pick us up, taking us to our desired destination.
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Sebastian Thrun, the man behind NeuroChess, helped develop Google Street View and worked on driverless cars at the secretive Google X lab after developing an award-winning driverless car design at Stanford.
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But the issue has been heating up on Capitol Hill since the administration unveiled new driverless car guidelines and ride-hailing firms like Uber began testing semi-driverless cars on the streets.
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DOT, however, told The Hill that it does still intend to release Obama-era guidance on driverless cars in September, indicating that the administration is still paying some attention to driverless cars.
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The driverless permit allows Waymo to test its driverless vehicles during the day and night on city streets, rural roads and highways with posted speed limits of up to 65 miles per hour.
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Driverless cars will help eliminate crashes and insurance need Although the prospect of using driverless cars may be scary to some, we humans aren't doing such a bang-up job behind the wheel.
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Go deeper: Waymo obtains California permit for fully driverless testing
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How are you going to kill all that driverless time?
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Khosrowshahi struck a more sober tone about a driverless future.
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A driverless future, meanwhile, seems further off than initially anticipated.
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Driverless trucks have also garnered attention from major auto makers.
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And it's not just America speeding into the driverless future.
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It won't even share driverless car ride data with Pittsburgh.
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Suddenly, it seems, everybody is jumping on the driverless bandwagon.
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Rosekind contends driverless vehicles could all but eliminate highway deaths.
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LONDON — London's first fully driverless cars have just been revealed.
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Take the buzz around "driverless" cars and aircraft, for instance.
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Nuro isn't the only driverless company to partner with Domino's.
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Isn't that a massive problem for things like driverless cars?
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"We have a roadmap to be completely driverless," Price says.
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Detailed mapping is seen as the basis for driverless cars.
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Driverless cars, left to their own devices, will be fundamentally
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The era of driverless cars is coming down the road.
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Maybe you'll see chargeable driverless car "waiting areas" pop up.
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The benefits of autonomous vehicles isn't limited to driverless cars.
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Innovations such as driverless cars may threaten millions of jobs.
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Is it to change the public perception of driverless cars?
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And it certainly won't apply when the cars become driverless.
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Go deeper: Read the full paper responding to driverless dilemmas.
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For driverless car tests, Pennsylvania also held a legal advantage.
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Uber is back on the road with its driverless cars.
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What are the perverse side effects of deploying driverless cars?
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Will driverless cars hit the road en masse in 2016?
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How will driverless cars be able to navigate this complexity?
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But the end goal has always been a driverless product.
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Driverless cars may well replace truck, bus, and taxi drivers.
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It accelerated the progress of driverless cars and other robotics.
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US Xpress trucks, some fitted with driverless technology, in Georgia.
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The company also supplies technology to companies developing driverless cars.
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Read "We rode in a driverless Uber and didn't die"
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Driverless cars are regulated by a patchwork of state laws.
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Driverless cars are barreling down on us from all directions.
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Driverless carts carry parts through narrow aisles to work stations.
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Cruise unveils Origin, an electric driverless vehicle designed for sharing
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The Chrysler Pacifica platform has proven trustworthy for driverless deployment.
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Google has been working on driverless cars for seven years.
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And the company stopped talking publicly about its driverless trips.
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Soon after, it began inviting its Early Rider members into these fully driverless vehicles for test trips in preparation for the launch of a fully driverless commercial taxi service in Arizona later this year.
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Even in the US, federal law currently does not allow for driverless cars on public roadways (though the laws are evolving, and some states have started allowing more driverless car tests on public roads).
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But only a tiny percentage of cars will be truly driverless, though I still wonder if they will share the road with drivers or have to ride in an HOV-style driverless car lane.
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Hillary Desmond from Massachusetts saw some important benefits of driverless cars for people with disabilities, but ultimately wouldn't want to give up getting a driver's license: Personally, I would not drive a driverless car.
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All they'll need is a laptop and code to send driverless cars careering off a bridge, colliding with a driverless truck or coming to an unexpected stop in the middle of fast-moving traffic.
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Resisting the technology around driverless cars isn't going to guarantee some instant transit utopia—but more importantly, the rise of driverless cars doesn't mean we have to give up our dreams of better public transportation.
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Driverless cars may finally be ready for the spotlightGoogle already announced some big news leading up to Google I/O in its high-profile partnership with Chrysler and forming a coalition advocating for driverless cars.
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This week it announced it would produce its next-generation driverless cars at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan — where lawmakers just introduced a series of bills permitting driverless-vehicle tests on public roads.
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Honda Sensing is about more than taking steps toward driverless cars.
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Driverless car tech isn't just for consumers or the trucking industry.
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Will we sweep through cities in Uber-branded metropolitan driverless cars?
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It's working with Lyft to build a network of driverless vehicles.
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These cars aren't really driverless, and they're not for public use.
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Apple is also committed to developing autonomous vehicles, or driverless cars.
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The rise of driverless cars and trucks is just a start.
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Various predictions envision a driverless society within 10 to 30 years.
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SVERDLOV: The future in any case is going to be driverless.
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That should affect where driverless cars pull over to make deliveries.
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Self-driving doesn't mean driverless for Uber, though — not yet, anyway.
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A cheaper proposal is for a special highway for driverless cars.
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But that does not mean that driverless cars count for nothing.
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It may be driverless, but it is certainly not self-driving.
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Uber also acquired Ottomotto, a driverless truck startup, earlier this month.
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But it's very different than self-driving capability and driverless vehicles.
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The fact that Waymo One isn't truly driverless doesn't bother him.
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University campuses are also a popular location for driverless shuttle service.
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Like humans, the computers which power driverless cars improve with experience.
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But new ideas, including driverless taxis, are coming around the corner.
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Topics this week included Lyft's growing financials and its driverless cars.
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There also may be risks involving driverless-car hacks and cybersecurity.
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Read more about driverless vehicles in our special report, Reinventing wheels
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Carmakers are in a frantic race to own the driverless road.
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Of course, driverless vehicles are hardly a panacea for traffic headaches.
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The driverless car is an engineer's natural reaction to the environment.
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Driverless cars are proving harder to develop than most people expected.
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It is a driver-assistance system and not a driverless system.
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Context: Several big-name retailers are already experimenting with driverless delivery.
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It is a driver assistance system and not a driverless system.
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Chipmaker Nvidia, also involved in developing driverless technology, rose 2.2 percent.
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For example, Nevada defines AI in a law governing driverless cars.
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So I hate to diverge from his vision of driverless cars.
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Several companies expect to debut fully automated (driverless) vehicles by 2020.
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In short: Picture the Uber app, but for driverless, flying vehicles.
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This could help, for instance, in the development of driverless vehicles.
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Governments are still grappling with regulations for drones and driverless cars.
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Google's driverless cars are already doing much better, and constantly improving.
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Trucks are latest vehicle to get the driverless treatment in Singapore.
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Google has some adorable ways of weather-proofing its driverless cars.
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The only realistic way we can get to zero is driverless.
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Instead, they are matched with a driverless car if it's nearby.
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There are a number of arguments in favor of driverless cars.
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Bosch and Daimler started developing fully automated driverless parking in 2015.
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If the car is driverless, do people care how cars look?
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The technology could also be important for technologies like driverless cars.
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Mr. Kalanick also laid out a plan for Uber's driverless cars.
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The federal government's embrace of driverless technology has accelerated since 2013.
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Google is testing driverless cars in its hometown, Mountain View, Calif.
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In China, Baidu and LeEco are both working on driverless technology.
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Some are calling for driverless cars to require driver monitoring systems.
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Driverless tech startup Nauto has hired execs from Microsoft and Alphabet.
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Uber has been working on driverless tech since at least 2015.
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What about the additional insurance needs for, say, driverless delivery startups?
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Among those skeptical of driverless cars was California resident Phoebe Barron.
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If the car is driverless, why should the seats face forward?
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How can driverless cars learn to interpret hand and auditory signals?
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The fund has investments in the driverless car company GM Cruise.
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Vehicle safety was a crisis long before driverless cars came along.
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Other states would need to decide how to treat driverless cars.
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The crash — Arizona's first with a driverless vehicle — was soon resolved.
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Waymo said its driverless cars hit the public roads last month.
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The introduction of driverless vehicles would be milestone for the company.
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Industries seeing interest include artificial intelligence, driverless technology and health care.
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After all, there are real driverless cars on public roads today.
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Baidu has been placing bets on future technologies, including driverless cars.
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BlackBerry has launched a cybersecurity software aimed at protecting driverless cars.
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AI has the potential to power driverless cars and smart cities.
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And then you realize that you're ready to go truly driverless.
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A big bet on driverless cars has yet to pay off.
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A driverless car is a marvel of modern engineering and science.
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Creating and launching driverless vehicles has been easier said than done.
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Renault designers have been exploring several different types of driverless vehicles.
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Many are exploring their own versions of a driverless taxi service.
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Developments like connected homes and driverless cars are upending old models.
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But now, lawmakers are taking cautious steps toward the driverless future.
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Uber's route to the driverless future just got a little clearer.
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Those guidelines would also agree with Google's interpretation of driverless vehicles.
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Google had just completed its first ride in a driverless car.
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We've devoted plenty of time and money to the driverless delusion.
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Google has long held the spotlight in developing driverless technology; however, with the emergence of Otto and Elon Musk's announcement of a Tesla Semi, "driverless trucks" are coming to the forefront of the autonomous vehicle conversation.
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Waymo admits its still mixing in driverless and test-driven vehicles as it builds out its taxi program, but this is in contrast with recent messaging from Waymo and other outlets about a truly driverless experience.
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"They say that we don't need transit because once driverless cars are here, everyone will just be in a driverless car," Sweat told me as we stood in one of downtown Phoenix's beautiful sculpture-strewn plazas.
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The company has plans to launch thousands of driverless taxis in Singapore, a move that could serve as a perfect test case for other major cities around the world looking to introduce driverless cars to their streets.
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WAYMO LAUNCHES EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR DRIVERLESS CARS: Google's self-driving car company has launched a new educational campaign on driverless vehicles, part of an effort to win over consumers who may be skeptical about the emerging technology.
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This is what it's like to ride in a Waymo driverless van.
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Waymo already uses 600 of the minivans to test its driverless software.
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The arrangement says Uber's driverless cars will utilize Nvidia self-driving tech.
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Uber's driverless tech pilot program has come to an end in Arizona.
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How do you define self-driving, or autonomous, or driverless, or automated?
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Driverless cars don't have to stop, so this will further increase utilization.
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The tech-loving pizza company joked about driverless delivery robots in 2015.
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The two firms have already been collaborating on driverless vehicles since 2014.
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Among many driverless car experts, however, talk of trolleys is très gauche.
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That means Google could win ownership over Uber's fleet of driverless vehicles.
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Daimler and Bosch aren't the only companies working on driverless parking features.
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Anne Arbor won't be the first city to feature Navya's driverless shuttles.
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Shared cars and driverless taxi and delivery services could become the norm.
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Uber said it will start testing driverless taxis in Pittsburgh next month.
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Driverless delivery startup Nuro just got a rocket-fueled boost from SoftBank.
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Hackett says automated goods delivery has as much promise as driverless taxis.
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The industry hopes that driverless lorries will one day transform the business.
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It sent a powerful message: driverless cars are real, and they're coming.
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THE race to bring driverless cars to market is fierce and crowded.
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Driverless cars might not be much faster than those controlled by humans.
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Already today, there are countries trying out driverless trucks to deliver goods.
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This could change in the future, as driverless cars become more dominant.
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Along the quay an experimental driverless bus conveys passengers to and fro.
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One of their principal roles: tracks for the nascent driverless car industry.
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Fisker also plans to release its Orbit driverless shuttle later this year.
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The same will likely be true in the driverless future of tomorrow.
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But Alphabet wasn't interested in driverless trucks, Ron said during his testimony.
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Now it's the first company approved to test driverless cars beyond Pittsburgh.
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Last year, they tested out a four-wheeled, driverless pizza delivery vehicle.
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The company is conducting driverless delivery pilots with Domino's Pizza and Postmates.
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The chipmaker will buy the Israeli driverless technology company for $15.3 billion.
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The result a decade later was Uber, Google Maps and driverless cars.
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Automation can disturb us and, sure, driverless cars are a little frightening.
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The ride was unremarkable, as most driverless vehicle trips these days are.
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Of course, these trucks won't be entirely driverless for quite some time.
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Would you buy a driverless car that is programmed to kill you?
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Uber, for example, recently acquired Otto, a startup working on driverless trucks.
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But building a fully driverless car goes far beyond the software component.
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This comes as the automotive industry's interest in driverless cars is increasing.
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Driverless cars are still generally thought to be a few years away.
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Negative perceptions, let's be honest, remain a major obstacle for driverless tech.
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Volvo Car Group will test its driverless cars in London next year.
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Now both driverless vehicles and ridesharing can be added to the list.
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This driverless, ride-share car doesn't exist yet — even in concept form.
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It also shows how driverless technology will change the interior of cars.
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Waymo is conducting these "completely driverless" rides in a controlled geofenced environment.
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Driverless cars may greatly improve safety and mobility in the long-term.
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But it's unclear whether driverless cars will be purchased like traditional vehicles.
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And it's not about the fact that driverless cars are essentially uninsurable.
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The firm ended driverless operations in the state following the tragic incident.
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And last week, Uber began trials of its driverless vehicles in Pittsburgh.
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The agency plans to issue voluntary guidelines on driverless cars this summer.
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Lyon in central France has also been testing a driverless bus service.
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In some cities, C.B.T.C. has led to the introduction of driverless trains.
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Mass adoption of driverless cars may not come anytime soon, Tandon said.
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And there are legal questions, should the driverless cars lead to accidents.
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Uber will buy Volvos and then install its own driverless control system.
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Across the Capitol, the House already passed its own driverless car legislation.
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He previously served as a principal engineer for Google's driverless car project.
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The fear that driverless trucks will take away jobs is also unfounded.
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When it comes to a driverless future, multiple factors are now converging.
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Opening a new front in driverless vehicles could have a fascinating impact.
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The hardware to make driverless cars a reality is largely in place.
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What are the major challenges cities will face to accommodate driverless cars?
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Driverless-car technology is not an absurd road for BlackBerry to follow.
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Beijing has been vocal about its desires for electric and driverless cars.
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To the Editor: The worries about driverless cars are ill founded. Why?
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Waymo is already operating a test fleet of driverless taxis in Arizona.
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Uber's driverless cars are back on the road — with two drivers apiece.
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Maybe, in order to go to 100 percent, we need driverless cars.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The self-driving car is edging closer to becoming driverless.
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Women are less enthusiastic than men about the prospect of driverless cars.
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The party is like a driverless car, visibly headed for a crash.
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Which is part of the reason I'm so excited about driverless technology.
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The blue spot is where Waymo is permitted to test driverless cars.
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And startups like Uber-owned Otto are already testing driverless big rigs.
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In other words, a driverless car needs cameras and radar and lasers.
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And it's not clear if, or when, our driverless future will arrive.
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But Kalanick said he also wanted to discuss partnering on driverless cars.
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This gets me thinking about what we lose when we go driverless.
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It's already replacing warehouse workers, steering driverless cars and helping diagnose illnesses.
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How are you going to get driverless cars on the road faster?
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Google's parent company, Alphabet, spun off its driverless car project last month.
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The Trump administration is reportedly revising Obama-era guidelines for driverless vehicles.
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The sooner driverless cars are adopted, the more lives will be saved.
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Waymo has said Uber stole information about driverless-car technology from it.
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It's another major step toward allowing more driverless vehicles on U.S. roads.
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The vision of the "smart city" of the future involves driverless cars.
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It doesn't feel safe to imagine riding in a shared driverless vehicle.
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Before tackling driverless technology, this startup wants to make human drivers safer.
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Waymo's Director of Product Saswat Panigrahi declined to share how many driverless miles Waymo had accumulated in Chandler, or what specific benchmarks proved that its driver was "safe enough" to handle the risk of a fully driverless ride.
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Google is said to be considering including its driverless cars in a ride-sharing model, the WSJ notes, and recent business unit changes suggest it is thinking more seriously about how best to bring its driverless vehicles to market.
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That includes what a fully driverless car should do when it hears a siren coming toward it — yes, Waymo driverless cars can hear — as well as how police officers, or first responders can access the cars in emergency situations.
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Last June, the first fatal accident in a driverless car drew considerable media attention, and the victim was a passenger; imagine the level of public interest in the first driverless car accident that harms someone not in the car.
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Construction projects are building in flexibility to accommodate technological advances, like driverless cars.
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He predicted infrastructure investments from roads and bridges to driverless cars, Rice reported.
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And they're part of the movement toward driverless cars and other autonomous machines.
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Driverless buses operated by LA Metro pilot down their own, traffic-free lanes.
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Perfect driverless tech, with its promise of cutting crashes, can't come soon enough.
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Opinions on driverless cars and robot caregivers were closer to an even split.
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Except there will be no unmanned driverless cars legally on the roads today.
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Still, Li believes the United States will likely commercialize driverless robot cars first.
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While driverless vehicles may seem like a distant fantasy, they're not far off.
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Precise positioning concerns, however, could be solved with autonomous or driverless parking systems.
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In addition to saving lives, driverless cars may also help save our planet.
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The regulatory environment will determine when Tesla can release the fully driverless system.
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Uber is also developing air taxis and driverless car technology, among other things.
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What about a driverless car transporting dynamite on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge?
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Driverless technology is new enough that no one can claim a decisive lead.
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Going driverless could cut hailing costs by as much as 80%, say optimists.
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Clearly, some will opt to hail driverless vehicles instead of having a car.
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The driverless truck is coming, and it's going to automate millions of jobs
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To date, no other company has been authorized to conduct fully driverless testing.
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Like Uber, Didi has said it is interested in developing driverless car technology.
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Those items will be delivered to them by one of AutoX's driverless cars.
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And yet—driverless technology can help address pretty much all of these issues.
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Why it matters: There are many brilliant teams working on driverless car technology.
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Smaller startups, like Nuro, have already deployed fully driverless delivery vehicles in Arizona.
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Members of the public won't be invited into these driverless cars just yet.
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The company is the first to receive a driverless permit in the state.
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Besides Honda, the French maker of driverless shuttles, Easy Mile, also tests there.
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A driverless deus ex machina might seem to spare governments some difficult decisions.
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But so far, no one is making any real money off driverless technology.
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One is its devotion to going fully driverless, a far more difficult feat.
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Go deeper: A sky full of driverless flying cars in just a decade
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Driverless tech and alternative fuels were the big story of last year's show.
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"What are we going to do when we get driverless cars?" she asked.
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The steering wheel will move into the center when it's in driverless mode.
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Ford also has said it would begin manufacturing fully driverless cars by 2021.
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The demonstration in Europe shows that driverless trucking is right around the corner.
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He will announce proposals to eliminate regulations that keep driverless cars off motorways.
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Even by conservative estimates, driverless cars could be on the market by 2021.
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A driverless car being tested by Uber killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
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Police and federal safety agencies launched investigations, and Uber suspended all driverless testing.
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One estimate suggests that driverless cars may produce 4,000 gigabytes each every day.
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Now electronics-maker Samsung wants to get in on the driverless car game.
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Intel made news on Monday for its ambitious investment in driverless-car technology.
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That's why it's okay to launch driverless cars that sometimes get in crashes.
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In Potsdam, Germany, the wily engineers at Siemens are testing a driverless tram.
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The follow truck is truly driverless, and that's where the innovation comes in.
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That's right: truly driverless vehicles will soon be welcome in the Golden State.
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"Driverless ... that's decades away," said Chris Spear, CEO of the American Trucking Association.
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DRIVERLESS DELIVERY STARTUP NURO ALSO SEEKING EXEMPTION FROM U.S. VEHICLE RULES -- USDOT STATEMENT
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Ford plans to have its first fully driverless vehicle in production by 2021.
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VW also says sensors on driverless cars still have problems in bad weather.
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Two years ago, he talked about the benefits of a driverless Uber future.
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Ford is certainly not alone in its efforts to deliver a driverless vehicle.
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An Uber driverless car heads out for a test drive in San Francisco.
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The government should apply the same strict testing to cybersecurity in driverless cars.
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If a driverless car is hacked and hits a pedestrian, who is responsible?
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The future is driverless, and Google and Uber are already deep into it.
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He's pushing the driverless systems that could enable Cruise's commercial rollout in 2019.
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Driverless construction equipment—just like a fully automated trucking industry—is the future.
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The technology that enables driverless cars has developed faster than anyone had anticipated.
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Firms can also aggregate data to help create the algorithms for driverless vehicles.
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Thousands of customers paid $5.95 to have groceries delivered by the driverless vehicles.
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Zume delivers to Palo Alto — perhaps in driverless cars in a few years.
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My driverless Uber stopped far behind cars in front of us at intersections.
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Besides Arizona, Waymo has also filed a permit for driverless testing in California.
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And last week, Ford announced its driverless car plan with a similar timetable.
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Even some auto suppliers are focusing on ride-hailing services and driverless cars.
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And because it's worth repeating: Autopilot is driver assistance technology, not driverless technology.
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In June, Starsky began operating truly driverless semi-trucks on the Florida turnpike.
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"At the moment, we can't use driverless technology on the bus," he said.
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Given the potential safety implications, we need standardized, comprehensive tests of driverless technology.
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How long do you think it will take before driverless vehicles become commonplace?
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In the future, the driverless boats could eventually taxi people and deliver goods.
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"The headline tomorrow would read, 'Senate mandates drivers in driverless cars,'" Thune said.
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Driverless-car issues affecting Nvidia and Tesla (which got a downgrade from Moody's).
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Semi-driverless cars have been picking up Uber passengers in Pittsburgh for months.
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The Chinese government is playing a major role in the overall driverless market.
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An implanted chip allowed her to order a driverless Uber car on demand.
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The convenience of driverless cars would be far superior to that of airlines.
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Drones, driverless cars and not-really-hoverboards are (or soon will be) commonplace.
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Automation's Long Reach Artificial intelligence will do more than just create driverless cars.
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The ride-hailing company will stop developing driverless trucks, and focus on cars.
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At the University of Michigan, a driverless vehicle shuttles students around the campus.
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So most driverless cars are also equipped with a variety of other sensors.
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I'm still hopeful that driverless cars are a big part of the solution.
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When confronted with heavy traffic or unexpected situations, driverless cars just sit there.
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Toyota, like G.M., is setting a more deliberate pace in its driverless program.
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SAN FRANCISCO — California regulators have given the green light to truly driverless cars.
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Driverless cars will soon be available for ride-sharing in the United States.
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For those who venture out, driverless cars will be operated by Big Tech.
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So far I didn't hear any carmaker make a driverless car their objective.
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Waymo says that it has stepped up efforts to clean its driverless vehicles.
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After the order is placed, a driverless vehicle will deliver the groceries curbside.
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Waymo sued Uber this year, claiming stolen trade secrets in driverless-car technology.
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By August 2015, Mr. Ducey was taking his first steps into driverless vehicles.
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Earlier this month, the company made its driverless car unit an independent company.
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Everyone can read novels while they get whisked around in driverless Lyft vehicles.
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And when multiple driverless cars are close together, their signals can become garbled.
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Now the Alphabet-owned company is getting ready for completely driverless rides. 5.
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Go deeper: London declines to renew Uber's operating license Uber's driverless technology strategy
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Companies like Uber are already jumping into the long-haul driverless trucking space.
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This week, Reuters reported that Tesla was developing an electric, driverless semi-truck.
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The acquisition underlines how lucrative driverless cars appear for a multiplicity of companies.
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TechCrunch was one of the first to have a driverless ride last year.
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And when multiple driverless cars are close together, their signals can become garbled.
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The woman appears to be the first pedestrian killed by a driverless car.
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Cars can now be designed for a new generation of driverless vehicle transportation.
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Lately, its driverless cars have been spotted on the streets of San Francisco.
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Oh, and "fully driverless" isn't the only way the company describes these trips.
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Walmart is testing new driverless vehicles to deliver groceries to shoppers&apos homes.
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The company began in November to put fully driverless vehicles into the fleet.
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Walmart is partnering with robotics company Nuro to deliver groceries in driverless vehicles.
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This could, of course, happen: maybe driverless flying cars will arrive en masse.
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Toyota recently signed an agreement to test its driverless cars on the site.
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After-dinner coffee and tea is where the driverless car breaks down. Regular?
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The technology for semi-driverless cars still isn't good enough or cheap enough.
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Driverless vehicles are the next step in the race to shape urban mobility.
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The software algorithms required for driverless cars will never be complete and will involve constant maintenance; therefore, you will need to move to an open data and open source community in order to achieve the goal of the driverless society.
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Given that there will be some baseline rollout of driverless cars, there are fundamentally two ways we can save more lives: either try to make driverless cars safer before they hit the road, or get them on the road more quickly.
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The race to driverless cars: SoftBank (SFTBF) and Toyota (TM) are forming a joint venture that will use driverless-car technology to offer new services, such as mobile convenience stores and delivery vehicles in which food is prepared en route.
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MOSCOW, March 12 (Reuters) - Russian technology giant Yandex wants to launch a worldwide fleet of 'robotaxis' using its driverless car software and thinks this is possible within a few years, the company's head of driverless cars Dmitry Polishchuk told Reuters.
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The firm also obtained a licence to test driverless transport in Israel last year.
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Part of this involves embracing automation, from artificial intelligence to driverless cars and drones.
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Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Tesla is developing an electric, driverless semi-truck.
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The two companies did not say if the partnership involves work on driverless cars.
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On the flipside, it'd make an ideal location to operate a driverless train system.
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Driverless vehicle development is a key part of Beijing's "Made in China 2025" plan.
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How soon completely driverless vehicles will arrive is another topic of debate this year.
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President Obama's team suggested driverless cars would dispense with 3 million jobs pretty soon.
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Fleets of driverless taxis are projected to deliver billions in annual profits by 2030.
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Its design comes from vintage cars as an ironic twist on its driverless capabilities.
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The big promise of driverless cars is that they'll save lives by preventing crashes.
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Novelties like these make last year's driverless cars and personal shopper bots look quaint.
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A driverless society will transform our culture, infrastructure, legislature, security, asset ownership and economy.
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This is the right approach, but nowhere near the vision for a driverless society.
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Obama's guidelines included a 15-point federal checklist of safety expectations for driverless cars.
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Many of Google X projects including the driverless car also started as skunkworks projects.
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"We are certainly on a path to more and more driverless transportation," he added.
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It's "the only way to get the cost down," he said of driverless transportation.
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Other companies, like Daimler and TuSimple, are also working toward a fully driverless truck.
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Lyft has partnered with General Motors to build a whole bunch of driverless cars.
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Still, some market analysts can see consumer confidence along with the driverless-vehicle hype.
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It's set itself an ambitious goal to mass produce driverless cars in five years.
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It also powers driverless cars and is helping doctors with cancer care and research.
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And Bloomberg reports Musk asked employees to volunteer to test drive fully driverless cars.
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California is not the first state to test true driverless vehicles on public roads.
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And then come the questions ethicists and programmers are already facing with driverless cars.
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Driverless delivery services brought fresh produce to the front doors of Silicon Valley techies.
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It's the spinning contraption that you see on the top of Google's driverless cars.
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The Arma won't be the only driverless bus getting tested out on campus roads.
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It could thus create an environment optimised for drone deliveries, say, or driverless cars.
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We saw something similar when a driverless car killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
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The future may be driverless, but steadier hands appear to be on the wheel.
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Replacing these with driverless trucks does not address this situation in a positive way.
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While nobody expects regulators to approve driverless semis anytime soon, the potential is enormous.
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Most experts expect the first driverless cars to become available by the early 2020s.
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WHEN will you be able to buy a driverless car that will work anywhere?
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Google has been investing in areas from AI to driverless cars and life sciences.
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Waymo trial related to driverless car trade secrets that was settled earlier this year.
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On-road testing of completely driverless cars is the last step, not the first.
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Its cities will run more efficiently, as driverless cars and smart infrastructure cut congestion.
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It has joined with German rival BMW (BMWYY) on driverless and ride sharing technology.
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Driverless cars are set to improve, disrupt, and challenge the way we travel—someday.
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Waymo is moving ahead with its plans to launch a driverless service, Krafcik said.
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Driverless trucks will one day hurt railroads and auto insurers, Warren Buffett said Saturday.
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Waymo said riders would be able to catch a driverless ride by year's end.
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Techno-optimist prognosticators will tell you that driverless trucks are just around the corner.
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Convincing regulators to allow fully driverless cars onto the streets is the next hurdle.
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LISTEN, I LOVE TECHNOLOGY AND DRIVERLESS CARS ARE GOING TO BE GREAT FOR TRANSPORTATION.
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The arrival of driverless cars could be delayed by a bicycle shaped road-block.
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As cars become driverless, streaming in-car entertainment is expected to become increasingly popular.
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As of now, the DMV has not issued any permits for complete driverless testing.
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There are also the complications of driverless vehicles sharing the road with human drivers.
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The trouble is, a fully driverless car needs to operate safely in all environments.
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Organizers say they want 40 driverless pods operating in Milton Keynes by next year.
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Ultimately, driverless cars will be much safer and more efficient than human-driven ones.
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Burnette and Eshel see an opportunity for driverless trucks to help close that gap.
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Instead, it's focused on getting the hardware and software ready for a driverless car.
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Existing rules also require a backup human driver to be in all driverless vehicles.
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The other, smaller survey by AlixPartners, asked 1,517 people in June about driverless vehicles.
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The acquisition thrusts Intel into the forefront of the market to develop driverless systems.
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So what does the future driverless city look like, and when will it arrive?
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The NTC also recently released guidelines on driverless car tests across the entire country.
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He added that current regulations do not allow driverless operation of heavier trucks, however.
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But he affirmed the agency's oversight of the software technology used in driverless cars.
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Funny to see all the comments about the horrors of a driverless car future.
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GM and Lyft plan to have driverless vehicles operating in tests within a year.
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The company promptly suspended its driverless car testing program as it investigated the death.
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The previous day, driverless delivery startup Nuro said it raised $940 million from SoftBank.
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Uber's new partnerships are the latest sign that the push to driverless is accelerating.
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News from elsewhere on the internet A ride inside an actually driverless Waymo SUV.
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Waymo receives California's very first permit to test completely driverless cars in the state.
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Take driverless cars, which I believe will have a huge, unknowable impact on society.
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And the recent string of accidents involving driverless cars has only exacerbated these concerns.
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Driverless buses and trucks are already on public roads for testing in some cases.
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Most of the new elements of the regulations are around driverless testing and deployment.
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In our inevitable driverless future, the more apt comparison is to the mobile device.
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And, after some reluctance, automakers have now embraced this idea of a driverless future.
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By the 2020 election, however, Sonnad believes that driverless cars will have become ubiquitous.
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"Driverless cars" is the obligatory buzz phrase these days for any discussion of transportation.
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Go listen to the leaders at Lyft, Uber or General Motors talk about driverless.
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Breakingviews Samsung is riding a stallion instead of a unicorn into the driverless revolution.
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And now we're catching up obviously to Uber, [and] the idea of driverless cars.
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Mr. Ducey also traveled to Silicon Valley to visit driverless car companies and investors.
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Under Mr. Ducey, driverless car experiments in Arizona have multiplied over the last year.
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Already, the incorporation of driverless cars into human-driven traffic has run into problems.
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Executives believe that driverless cars could eliminate one of their biggest expenses — human drivers.
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Domino's will test custom driverless carriers for pizza deliveries in Houston later this year.
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Sports of The Times The Golden State Warriors are the N.B.A.'s driverless car.
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General Motors is just waiting for the government's permission to unleash a driverless Bolt.
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The latest report from Morgan Stanley acts like wet blanket to the driverless market.
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Among the major investment banks, Morgan is the most optimistic one to driverless autos.
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Shashua said driverless cars will revolutionize the transportation industry to save lives and money.
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"We won't allow driverless cars in India," he said according to the Hindustan Times.
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Weeks later, I'm in one of the company's driverless minivans going the wrong way.
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This isn't the first time Waymo has unveiled fully driverless cars to much fanfare.
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For the time being, though, the driverless-car startups have pushed ahead on autopilot.
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"We need to get our arms around driverless cars and connected cars," he said.
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Driverless cars are more expensive then a regular car so could people afford them?
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Previous studies on driverless tractors have used large machines to get the job done.
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This way, Nauto is bringing in revenue while it's working on its driverless software.
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WARREN, Michigan — The Army is getting ready to drive into war — in driverless trucks.
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"Advocates of driverless cars often forget that people live next to roads and use them regularly, so safety must be prioritized especially when normal unpredictable and legal human behavior comes into contact with driverless machines," said Jason Torrance, policy director at Sustrans.
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Yandex began working on driverless technology in 2016 and tested its first cars in 2017.
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German carmaker is the latest automobile company to hop onto the driverless bandwagon, Bloomberg reported.
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The Army does not have a public timetable for the widespread implementation of driverless vehicles.
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Meanwhile, Waymo—aka Google's driverless car effort—sits in sixth place, with Tesla in twelfth.
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As soon as this year, self-driving cars in the UK could be truly driverless.
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As we approach our driverless future, these services have the potential to become indistinguishable commodities.
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Last month, at a machinery fair in Iowa, one firm unveiled a concept driverless tractor.
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Waymo CEO John Krafcik prepares to step inside a driverless car during a Google event.
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In fact other automakers flat-out refuse to beta test driverless tech on the public.
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Right now, there aren't any federal laws pertaining to the testing of driverless car tech.
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Waymo first demonstrated its fully driverless cars on public roads in Arizona back in 2017.
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The company's driverless vehicles hit the road in Pittsburgh for a test program in September.
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A driverless taxi service is planned for Tokyo in time for the Olympics in 2020.
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The contracts raise questions about whether driverless cars are the best use of public funds.
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It may seem novel, but driverless trucks could solve some major issues on the roads.
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We have not even begun to figure out what to do with the driverless cars.
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And Tesla has not yet announced any regulatory approvals to operate a driverless transportation network.
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On the surface, it's yet another announcement about two companies partnering on driverless cars (snooze).
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The driverless vehicle's wheels are faster than the pedestrians' feet, and a collision is inevitable.
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And it's in that truly driverless moonshot where the questions of safety and liability abound.
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Self-driving cars may be on their way, but a driverless truck has already arrived.
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Driverless cars will dramatically change the way some industries think about marketing and serving content.
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That would mean driverless by the end of 2018, if all goes according to plan!
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If it were, Waymo and GM Cruise would be operating driverless taxi services by now.
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The companies plan to make a driverless prototype based on a Hyundai or Kia car.
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And semi-autonomous systems are going to help pave the way for fully driverless cars.
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By the first quarter of 2017, this driverless shuttle bus will begin service in Singapore.
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And Enterprise is also trying to position itself as an early adopter of driverless vehicles.
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"People had visions of things the driverless elevators chopping them in half," said De Vos.
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Unlike driverless trucks, industrial drones could offer jobs to Teamsters in a fourth industrial revolution.
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Tesla's timetable for driverless cars is far more ambitious than the rest of the industry.
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And Lewis isn't convinced that they're anywhere close to predictions of fully automated, driverless trucks.
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"Driverless cars are like a scientific experiment where we don't know the answer," Marcus says.
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Driverless City Concept © Bjarke Ingels | Audi Urban Future Initiative SAEVs won't just change transportation.
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Lin has also done extensive work on issues related to the ethics of driverless cars.
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The platform generates virtual worlds to enable large-scale training and testing of driverless cars.
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Humans driving a car and driverless cars execute individual decisions thousands of times every second.
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Despite Garcetti's technophilia, not much has happened in Los Angeles on the driverless car front.
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For supporters of driverless vehicles, however, there are some emerging bright spots around the country.
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But what it does show is that Uber's really trying to perfect the driverless experience.
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The Department of Transportation released the first-ever federal guidelines for driverless cars in September.
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Other autonomous vehicles, like Google's driverless car, have large LiDAR sensors mounted on the roof.
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On one hand, NHTSA should be applauded for embracing the revolutionary potential of driverless cars.
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A day earlier, General Motors revealed it had asked regulators to approve its driverless car.
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Fully driverless cars will ferry workers round GM's technical centre in Detroit in late 2016.
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Would you walk outside of your home to collect a pizza from a driverless car?
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California-based Zoox received approval in December to provide driverless ride services for public passengers.
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The Obama administration just proposed spending $4 billion to advance the engineering of driverless cars.
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Winners: These driverless trucks will reportedly make roads safer, lower emissions, and help save costs.
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Other driverless cars are normal vehicles with light-and-radar sensors attached to the roof.
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The first part is the driverless vehicle itself, called the Continental Urban Mobility Experience (CUbE).
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With stricter testing, we can assure a safer ride before driverless cars reach the masses.
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Driverless cars are one of the ultimate signifiers of the future — the real Jetsons stuff.
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But that does little to console those who find the idea of driverless cars creepy.
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NuTonomy and Grab won't be the only providers of driverless, on-demand trips in Singapore.
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In a driverless world, corporations will seamlessly and optimally share transport resources with other companies.
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The technology is set to spread to driverless cars and service robots in the future.
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Australia has been pushing forward legislation to facilitate driverless cars over the past two years.
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Another issue that could be solved by driverless cars is a shortage of parking spots.
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Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless ride-hail pilot in Phoenix sometime in 2018.
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For instance, with driverless cars, there is less demand for parking — freeing up more land.
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Therefore, Google's driverless cars had been designed without letting humans take control of the wheel.
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Google, for example, has logged roughly two million miles of testing with its driverless cars.
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Driverless and semiautonomous cars have already hit the open roads, forcing regulators to keep up.
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Federal regulators announced their first safety checklist ever for semiautonomous and driverless cars this week.
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Cameron, who shies away from discussing timelines, describes the company as inching toward driverless service.
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No driver required GM and DoorDash are teaming up to deliver food with driverless cars.
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"I expect that driverless taxis will start going to market about 2019," Huang told investors.
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Driverless cars could help reduce that toll substantially, but those vehicles are still years away.
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Internet firm Baidu obtained its own permit to test driverless cars in California in 2016.
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Importantly, driverless car companies have immense incentives to allow only safe vehicles on the roads.
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The Senate Commerce Committee meets tomorrow to discuss autonomous vehicles, also known as driverless cars.
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The pilot program begins in July, amid increased scrutiny over the safety of driverless cars.
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Driverless cars have been slow to get off the ground, but they're operating in Phoenix.
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A driverless car, after all, is still a car, carrying at best a few people.
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Copenhagen already has a driverless light metro; Pittsburgh has a fleet of self-driving cars.
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These industries are already building out the driverless platform, and cars are morphing into robots.
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The car appeared to be driverless, but there was someone behind the wheel: A dog.
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Ford also announced investments in three other companies involved in major technologies for driverless vehicles.
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Breakingviews Uber is steering its driverless vehicle technology toward a crash between robots and jobs.
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Entrepreneurial children can make real-life cashUber to buy 24,000 Volvo cars for driverless fleet
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The aim is to focus on electric-battery operated and driverless vehicle designs (NBC News).
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Uber and Toyota are partnering to develop driverless cars, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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NHTSA also plans to work with states to develop uniform state regulations on driverless cars.
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In fact, Uber's driverless categories of abundance are currently cruising around the streets of Pittsburgh.
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It is also set to spread to driverless cars and service robots in the future.
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"If you want to start using driverless cars, accurate map information is fundamental," said Jaksa.
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Chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) has partnered with Uber, Volkswagen, and China's Baidu (BIDU) in driverless cars.
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The Cruise Origin, a completely driverless vehicle was already unveiled in San Francisco last month.
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Another issue that could be solved by driverless cars is a shortage of parking spots.
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Every single crash involving a driverless car will be reported in the most fevered terms.
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It was the first known pedestrian fatality from a driverless vehicle on a public road.
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Because of lidar's limitations, other detection technologies — cameras, radar, GPS — are loaded onto driverless cars.
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In 2018, the DMV issued rules to allow for autonomous vehicle driverless testing on roads.
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Waymo will purchase up to 20,000 electric cars from Jaguar for its driverless ride service.
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Google's autonomous vehicle unit, Waymo, started a driverless ride-hailing service in Arizona on Wednesday.
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They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems.
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Greylock and SoftBank are leading a $159 million round into a driverless-car tech startup.
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Unlike other driverless demos I've encountered, there was no human keeping watch at the wheel.
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The company's driverless-car unit, Waymo, has registered a Shanghai subsidiary — yet hurdles are plentiful.
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I'm guessing that many of you feel anxious or skeptical about driverless cars — I did.
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You can also read a recent Times editorial arguing for stricter regulation of driverless cars.
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Tether, for instance, started the Darpa Grand Challenge, which spurred the development of driverless cars.
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The race to develop driverless cars has turned Google and Uber from allies to adversaries.
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Driverless cars are the only possible antidote to the plague of motor-vehicle-related deaths.
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Pete and Lance discuss what this means for the future of driverless cars and regulation.
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California has handed Waymo the first permit to test fully driverless cars in the state.
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Go deeper: Transportation Safety Board backs assessments for self-driving cars Uber's driverless technology strategy
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Another AV developer, Voyage, is testing driverless shuttles in The Villages, a huge retirement community.
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The first driverless Domino's delivery was expected to take place on Monday evening, weather permitting.
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What Russell calls "perception as a service" isn't meant for those developing fully driverless vehicles.
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Read more: Zipcar Founder Says The Future Of Self-Owned Driverless Cars 'Is A Nightmare'
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It promises to be able to underpin other new technologies like driverless cars for example.
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Many industry experts have already voiced concerns about driverless cars being key targets for hackers.
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The risk of distracted driving may be one of the strongest arguments for driverless cars.
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And our series on driverless cars rolls on with a look at their potential safety.
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It's not a big deal, but I've ridden in a fully driverless Waymo once before.
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" My guess is a focus group told them that sounded less scary than "fully driverless.
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This is widely considered to be the first fully driverless car test on public roads.
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Lyft is working with two driverless vehicle developers: Alphabet-owned Waymo and Irish company Aptiv.
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It is unclear if driverless cars would boost car sales or reduce individual car ownership.
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First, with driverless or "autonomous" vehicles and connected cars, we have the Jetsons becoming reality.
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Probably. Google's Waymo driverless car will be part of a wave of new autonomous vehicles.
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AK: The new system for the driverless cars you released as well really really recently.
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"Then, after 2020 you'll have the driverless cars, the cars without the driver," he said.
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But beyond consumer applications, the tech could support connected infrastructure in cities, including driverless cars.
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As we move into the era of driverless cars, can pilotless planes be far behind?
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"One day they'll have a driverless garbage truck, you know what I mean?" he says.
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In fact, the fantasy of driverless cars has been failing for longer than you think.
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The assumption used to be that when driverless cars started to get into accidents, much of the legal wrangling would revolve around driverless car owners -- or other responsible parties such designers, programmers, and manufacturers -- having to prove that their vehicles met the "reasonable driver" standard.
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More than a dozen journalists experienced driverless rides in 2017 on a closed course at Waymo's testing facility in Castle; and Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, took a driverless ride in the company's Firefly prototype on Austin's city streets way back in 2015.
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Daimler and Bosch have now received approval from German regulators to run their automated driverless parking function without a human safety driver behind the wheel — making this the world's first fully automated driverless SAE Level 4 parking function to be officially approved for everyday use.
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However, I think that the true benefit of automated cars will only be complete when all cars have been transitioned to driverless... While human drivers are still on the road, they may make poor decisions that will cause accidents that the driverless cars cannot avoid.
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In a world where Google is innovating in driverless cars faster than most car manufacturers; in a world where Ford Motor Company sees its own driverless car as more of a mobile movie theater, the traditional siloed boundaries of industry sectors start to blur.
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Google wants me to have a driverless car, but I'd settle for a painless tax return.
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Stop & Shop is to roll out "driverless grocery vehicles" in the Greater Boston area this spring.
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Within a few hours, the company announced that it was suspending its testing of driverless vehicles.
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CB Insight, a venture capital database, in May identified 44 companies that are developing driverless vehicles.
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Because driverless cars are brand new, governments haven't put rules in place to determine their legality.
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Then there's Einride, the Swedish company, pushing for truly driverless electric trucks with a creative design.
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In a radically driverless future, he could perhaps do away with many of his parking spaces.
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Just four stops on the driverless metro from the centre of Lille, however, lies another world.
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But the company maintained that it would eventually deploy more driverless cars — when it was ready.
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As we ramp up our driverless offerings, we're doing so responsibly with every step we take.
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Driverless cars will need a remote operator who can monitor their operation and communicate with passengers.
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What do you think about driverless vehicles intended to make roads safer by eliminating human error?
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This follows the release of Tesla's Smart Summon automated parking lot driverless parking lot hailing feature.
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California approved driverless testing without backup drivers, but only if the vehicles can be operated remotely.
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Waymo is the only company with a permit to test fully driverless vehicles on public roads.
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Fiat Chrysler is joining forces with Silicon Valley-based technology upstart Aurora to build driverless cars.
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Just last week, it was reported that Apple was looking to buy driverless shuttle service Drive.ai.
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That's showing up in leadership moving toward more fuel-efficient trucks and driverless technology, he said.
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And it plans to launch a fully driverless commercial taxi service in Arizona later this year.
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Today, the state's Office of Administrative Law approved the regulations that would permit fully driverless testing.
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For companies building driverless cars, the benefits are abundantly clear: Smarter vehicles, safer roads, fewer deaths.
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Even in a 100% driverless scenario Uber's autonomous cars will still have to interact with humans.
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Of course, other ride hailing companies are already headed down this driverless road, most notably Uber.
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As we move toward a driverless car society, the social impacts are likely to be profound.
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The way I look at this is all those different technologies — AI, robotics, driverless trucks, etc.
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No technology will automate away more jobs — or drive more economic efficiency — than the driverless truck.
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Waymo plans to launch its fully driverless commercial ride-hailing service in Phoenix later this year.
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This is particularly useful for Mercedes-Benz, which needs driverless cars that can handle tricky situations.
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Waymo says it is the only company to have fully driverless vehicles on the road today.
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Earlier this month, for example, Intel picked up Itseez, which makes algorithms for driverless car navigation.
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The company has partnered with both Fiat-Chrysler and Jaguar-Land Rover to build driverless cars.
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Crash-prevention technology will play a huge role in lowering premiums during the driverless-revolution stage.
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It's been insistent in the past that driverless cars can help save lives, but concerns linger.
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The companies said they're creating a joint venture companies to focus exclusively on driverless mobility services.
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Those companies have all said that they would take responsibility for any crashes involving driverless cars.
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Which made for the slightly disconcerting vision of a visibly driverless digger carving up the landscape.
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Ford is promising it will have a fully operating driverless car on the road by 2021.
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Driverless cars coast around every street in the country without a human driver behind the wheel.
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When looking at the picture of car ownership in the driverless era, several scenarios become apparent.
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So when we're talking about completely driverless cars, that's a Level 20183 or a Level 22018.
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California's Public Utilities Commission finalized rules for a totally driverless taxi service pilot, over industry objections.
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The prospect of a future economy saturated with driverless cars and trucks probably isn't helping either.
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No other company has succeeded in operating a fleet of fully driverless cars on public roads.
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Just this month, Waymo launched a driverless service in the Phoenix area, if a limited one.
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It launched grocery delivery service Kroger Ship and struck a partnership with driverless car company Nuro.
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Bosch and Daimler have been cooperating on the development of fully automated driverless parking since 2015.
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Watch the video above to hear lawmakers talk about their legislation and experiences in driverless cars.
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The driverless car push is another sign of its ambition to find new avenues for growth.
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In order to conduct driverless testing, companies must have previously tested the vehicles in controlled conditions.
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The advent of driverless cars, however, could tilt the balance further in the direction of manufacturers.
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Some writers conflated the mention of autonomy with "driverless," and many saw this as a breakthrough.
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Driverless cars that work are cool, but using another company's work without their permission maybe isn't.
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Over the last couple years, Uber has built a giant driverless car research hub in Pittsburgh.
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It's this progress that has allowed drones to dodge obstacles and driverless cars to park themselves.
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If successful, this approach could turn millions of existing vehicles into driverless ones quickly and easily.
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Britain is aiming to have driverless cars on its roads by the end of the decade.
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Driverless cars, for example, are going to happen—when you just don't touch the steering anymore.
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Starting soon, Waymo will be making its driverless van rides available to the public in Arizona.
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It also features a Volvo executive risking his life by playing chicken with the driverless vehicle.
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An overlooked fact is that driverless cars aren't meant to be right now because they're electric.
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Driverless semi trucks — meaning 70,000 pounds of truck and cargo coming at you — are in use.
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In March Intel bought Mobileye for $15bn—it specialises in chips and software for driverless cars.
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LIDAR is part of the equipment of driverless cars, but the Matrix version is more powerful.
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But, in Ford's case, the cars are driven by humans and only look like driverless vehicles.
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And the automaker announced investments in three other companies involved in major technologies for driverless vehicles.
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Innovations such as driverless vehicles and drones could displace swaths of jobs in transport and delivery.
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Still, with driverless grocery delivery in its infancy, the Kroger partnership faces a number of uncertainties.
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A failure to do so will deny us the benefits that driverless cars have to offer.
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This is key to underpin technologies like driverless cars which cannot afford any lag in data.
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The driverless delivery vehicles will work with Kroger's ClickList same-day ordering system and Nuro's app.
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There are currently no federal safety standards specifically governing driverless vehicle technology, including software and sensors.
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Elon Musk says a "massive effort" is required to get Tesla driverless cars to "99.9999%" safety.
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Deploying a driverless car is a clearer target than stopping climate change, but not by much.
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More than 20 driverless vehicles in Arizona have reportedly been vandalized in the last two years.
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To be sure, driverless cars may be safer, potentially saving millions of people's lives every year.
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Driverless cars would be summoned directly and transport passengers door-to-door, drastically improving passenger flexibility.
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Yet, 1 person dies in a Tesla on autopilot and people decry driverless cars as unsafe.
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In the patent, Google shows designs for driverless cars with adhesive layers covering the front ends.
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Unlike driverless cars, robots will be operating under different environments, perhaps in collaboration with other robots.
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This month Uber was in my hometown of San Francisco, testing out its new driverless vehicles.
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The administration rolled out flexible, voluntary guidelines for driverless car makers and state regulators last month.
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Nvidia is also working with Uber, Baidu, and a start-up called Aurora on driverless cars.
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WASHINGTON — The federal government has bet on driverless vehicles as a way to reduce road fatalities.
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He's overseen the company as it's developed a slew of new products, including as driverless cars.
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A start-up is testing a driverless taxi service in a retirement community in San Jose.
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Instead of taking these steps, however, we are fighting about the potential dangers of driverless cars.
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The three deaths in driverless-car crashes over the past three years were tragic and alarming.
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Uber also said that it could have handled some past actions around driverless car tech differently.
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The sentiments highlight another major hurdle necessary to making driverless cars a reality — negative consumer opinion.
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From precision farming in agriculture to driverless technology in automobiles, old industries require new software talent.
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Driverless cars use artificial intelligence, often based on so-called neural networks, to interpret camera images.
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A Chinese driverless van delivery startup is witnessing a boom in demand amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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And though the cars are driverless, they are not entirely without humans, at least for now.
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"The biggest challenge is coming up with the software for the driverless Tesla," Mr. Emanuel said.
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Some tech companies, on the other hand, are pushing relentlessly toward higher levels of driverless capability.
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Little has changed, except that the trucks zipping along the freeways appear to be driverless lumps.
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It was produced with Uber's Advanced Technologies Center, the company's driverless tech division based in Pittsburgh.
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It's the latest in a series of driverless development partnerships announced by tech companies and carmakers.
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Given Uber's plans for a driverless future, conflict between Uber and its drivers may be unavoidable.
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The fatal crash renewed a debate about driverless technology safety, casting a chill over the industry.
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" And when cars go driverless, he added bitterly, "cabbies and Uber drivers will both be history.
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More recently, it began offering rides to people in its fully driverless vehicles without safety drivers.
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It's the approach used by all the leading developers in driverless tech, from Aptiv to Waymo.
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For a company investing no small amount of its significant capital on driverless cars, that's incongruous.
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The guidelines encourage driverless-car manufacturers to submit safety self-assessments, but they are purely voluntary.
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The company spun out of Udacity, an online school created by driverless car pioneer Sebastian Thrun.
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Voyage is a spinoff from Udacity, an online learning service that offers courses in driverless technology.
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Only members of Waymo's early rider program are allowed to ride in the company's driverless vehicles.
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Waymo was spun out of Google X in September and is now Google's driverless car division.
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Lawmakers have hailed driverless cars for their power to save lives, reduce traffic and enhance mobility.
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Waymo filed a motion seeking a temporary injunction this month to stop Uber's driverless car development.
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From what he has observed, older seniors could have a difficult time adjusting to driverless technology.
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Some automakers, like General Motors and Ford Motor, have committed to creating their own driverless cars.
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A $2.25 billion investment into GM's (GM) driverless car subsidiary, GM Cruise Holdings, followed this year.
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They believe driverless cars and trucks should be governed by the same set of federal standards.
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For those who insist on venturing out, there will be driverless cars operated by Big Tech.
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Verge Video: This is the driverless future Mercedes Benz thinks we'll have in the year 2030
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What awaits Uber and other driverless pioneers is a daunting public policy campaign to align existing, outmoded law and regulation with the faster-than-expected reality of robotic rides: Pittsburgh, like 41 other states and the federal government, lacks any regulation governing the operation of driverless vehicles.
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Screenshot from the 1956 General Motors driverless car film "Key to the Future"In yet another sign that driverless cars are just over the horizon, General Motors announced today that the company is buying Cruise Automation—a Silicon Valley start-up that's developing autonomous vehicle technology.
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If widely adopted, driverless cars could reduce these deaths by over 90 percent, according to a study by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Recognizing driverless cars' life-saving potential, the Department of Transportation and many states have taken a soft law approach by providing non-binding guidelines.
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It also says it will be beefing up the existing Code of Practice for testing driverless cars to provide a framework to support the evolution of the tech, saying it's on track to meet its goal of fully driverless cars being tested on public roads by 2021.
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Uber suspends driverless car tests after autonomous SUV flips over Uber suspends driverless car tests after autonomous SUV flips over Uber said Saturday it is suspending its tests of self-driving cars after one of its vehicles was involved in a three-way crash in Tempe, Arizona.
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Once driverless technology is perfected, estimates show that between four and 10 million jobs will be destroyed.
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Voyage is a spin-off from Udacity, an online learning service that offers courses in driverless technology.
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Waymo plans to roll out one of the first driverless taxi business later this year in Phoenix.
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Its driverless ride-hailing service will be in a limited area initially and then expand over time.
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The law could make it easier to regulate decision-making by autonomous systems, robots, or driverless cars.
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The Alphabet subsidiary says it will launch its first commercial, driverless service later this year, in Arizona.
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Driverless cars, as scary as they sound, will make fatal car crashes as uncommon as airline disasters.
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The company had intended to offer driverless cars within 18 months, but with testing suspended, that's unlikely.
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And shared driverless cars—operated by a futuristic Lyft Line service, probably—ease on down the road.
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Most experts agree lidar sensors are a key ingredient in the recipe for making driverless cars possible.
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Under Krafcik, the company has rolled out the first fleet of truly driverless cars, in Phoenix, Ariz.
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"If we want to guess, (driverless cars) will first be widely used in the U.S.," he said.
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"The development of driverless cars in China needs the support of precision digital maps," Li told reporters.
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Of curing cancer, building flying and driverless cars, going to Mars, fighting climate change, you name it.
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Parking garages would still be needed in a driverless world, predicts Sean Behr, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
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CEO Elon Musk has also pushed a driverless future to Tesla investors, touting the company's hardware development.
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Nuro is one of the few companies to be operating fully driverless vehicles on public roads today.
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The question ... driverless trucks, are we still going to have any truck driver in there for regulations?
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The full-on driverless car could be an order of magnitude safer than the human-driven variety.
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We may never love driverless cars the way we love the recklessness of being behind the wheel.
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"We are all in, 100 percent, on Level Four and Level Five fully driverless solutions," he said.
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Within two years, he says, people will be napping as driverless vehicles pilot them to their destinations.
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The motivations are not just practical: Driverless car companies can bring more jobs, grants and positive attention.
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Predictions about a wave of driverless cars in cities around the world have mostly failed to materialize.
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Last year, Intel launched the Institute for Automated Mobility in the driverless testing hotbed of Phoenix, Arizona.
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I have no doubt that driverless cars, human beings not driving a car are in our future.
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Google's driverless cars alone have self-driven more than 1.5 million miles during tests around the country.
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That would then ensure that owners of driverless cars would be insured for any accidents, he said.
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Fully driverless cars aren't expected to be commercially ready, let alone profitable, for years, if not decades.
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The automotive sector has been of major interest to Google as it develops its driverless car technology.
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News of the auto industry today is often about driverless cars, electric vehicles and ride-sharing programs.
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This problem has become all the more urgent as test deployments of truly driverless cars move forward.
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And he's now extended that to being scared of driverless cars, according to a story from Axios.
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They'll be looking into driverless rides for passengers and deliveries in those two countries and eventually beyond.
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Mr Ford wants Corktown to become the centre for the development of Ford's driverless and electric cars.
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We can all be forgiven for assuming that completely unencumbered driverless cars were right around the corner.
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These pilots can be broken down into two categories: driverless shuttle services and self-driving delivery projects.
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Economies of scale will likewise thin the ranks of driverless contenders and create pressure for government involvement.
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There will be a safety driver behind the wheel, so the trips will not be completely driverless.
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The Japanese company recently announced it was testing higher-tech versions of its driverless vehicles in California.
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He has poured money into everything from driverless-vehicle technologies and e-commerce platforms to agricultural technology.
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A driverless car was involved in a traffic accident on a California city street earlier this year.
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In fact, research has suggested that 90 percent of traffic accidents could be prevented by driverless cars.
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Google is well ahead on the technical challenges of driverless vehicles, according to most in the industry.
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Companies can apply for three types of permits: testing with a safety driver, driverless testing, and deployment.
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And second-tier cities across the country have made themselves labs for the nascent driverless car industry.
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Grocery giant Kroger and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro launched their driverless delivery service Thursday in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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But they also introduce new design elements that show how driverless cars allow for new interior layouts.
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But those labor savings aren't the only gains to be had from the adoption of driverless trucks.
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We may also need dedicated lanes as slow-moving driverless trucks could be a hazard for drivers.
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They advocated for the creation of a second team that would work in parallel on driverless trucks.
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Apple has never publicly acknowledged the driverless initiative, which reportedly includes hundreds of software and automotive experts.
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FCA is exploring a driverless car partnership with Uber, anonymous sources close to the matter told Bloomberg.
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I think it's going to be great for us as citizens, Copenhagen's going to go all driverless.
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For years, driverless cars were in the research and development areas of companies like Google and Tesla.
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Unlike cars, driverless trucks have undergone only limited testing -- under ideal conditions, and for relatively few miles.
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But if the test illustrated anything, it's that these driverless systems have a lot more to learn.
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Riders will hail an Uber the usual way, but they'll be assigned a driverless car at random.
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Big players—Google, Tesla, Uber itself— have been working on driverless car fleets for quite some time.
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But the company now has other things to worry about—namely, the safety of its driverless fleet.
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Nissan, in conjunction with DeNA, a Japanese software firm, recently began trials of driverless taxis in Japan.
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"We are all in 100 percent on level four and level five, fully driverless solutions," he continued.
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Cruise Automation, its self-driving affiliate, won't deploy driverless taxis until it is sure they are safe.
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However, there'll still be limitations to driverless taxi services, and one of the biggest could be weather.
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As such, Uber believed it would already have 75,000 driverless cars on the road by this year.
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Tesla's Elon Musk recently announced plans to start deploying driverless taxis across the United States next year.
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Affordable driverless cars that can handle both city driving and motorways safely are a long way off.
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We might have driverless cars or drones delivering packages, but robots are not taking domestic work jobs.
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Road trippin' Pretty much everybody in suburban DC freaked out when a "driverless" van hit the streets.
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The fully driverless car rides will first be publicly available in Phoenix, and later in more cities.
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Two years ago, Garcetti's office hoped to partner with Tesla to launch a groundbreaking driverless car program.
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Google is currently testing its driverless cars in Mountain View, California, Austin, Texas and now Kirkland, Washington.
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Just a few days later, Volvo and Uber made public their partnership to develop a driverless car.
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What's more, we've underlined the technology that each company aims to utilize to drive its driverless cars.
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It turns out, it is much easier to build driverless tech for flying vehicles than regular cars.
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It's limited to an experiment in Phoenix, but this move marks the beginnings of Waymo's driverless future.
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Similarly, 81 percent of female respondents expressed concerns with driverless vehicles compared to 67 percent of men.
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It also recently spun off its driverless car business into a separate entity within the Alphabet umbrella.
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Lawmakers supporting the legislation think driverless cars could ultimately make U.S. roads a safer place to drive.
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A key element of driverless technology is the car's ability to communicate with other systems around it.
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"Developers will start using the promise of AV and driverless cars to realize net savings," says Elliott.
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The ABCI could help Japanese companies develop and improve driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnostics, explains Sekiguchi.
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The latest software update is aimed at laying the groundwork for carmakers to adopt driverless car technology.
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Laying the groundwork and providing the operating system for driverless cars feeds in to BlackBerry's wider strategy.
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He warned that tumbleweed, police officers giving traffic directions and wild animals could all confuse driverless cars.
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Uber has been focusing much of its driverless car work in Pittsburgh for well over a year.
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He insisted the driverless Teslas would lead to fewer accidents and roadside deaths than human-driven cars.
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Just because Volvo wants to champion driverless cars doesn't mean it wants to kill manual driving either.
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In a lot of ways, getting society ready for personal autonomous aviation is simpler than driverless cars.
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You're going to see trucks that are driverless, and ships and trains that have self-driving features.
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In the driverless personal car scenario, long-distance commuter cars could drain city centers into new sprawl.
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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua has been working on driverless technology for longer than anyone on this list.
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According to Kalanick, they spoke about flying cars as well as driverless cars and potential partnership opportunities.
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In the international race to mass-market driverless cars, China's 5G network may provide a critical edge.
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GM is making the difficult decisions today to prepare for a future of electric and driverless vehicles.
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Driverless taxis are set to totally transform the landscape of mass transit systems, according to a study.
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There is not yet a clear legal framework governing the presence of driverless cars on U.S. roads.
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Co-founder Travis Kalanick called the shift to driverless "existential" in terms of Uber's success and value.
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Farley, a marketing guru, will lead Ford's future direction, including mobility as a service and driverless vehicles.
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Officials from Pennsylvania's transportation agency said they interpreted that silence on driverless technology as a green light.
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Nuro's R1 driverless delivery van, which has no seats, will begin testing this autumn, the companies said.
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More recently, Cruise was working on a system that could make a car "fully driverless," Vogt said.
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The race towards developing driverless cars has become fiercely competitive, with multiple players aiming to be involved.
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The guidelines are influential, but many of these driverless and semiautonomous cars have already reached the mainstream.
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The competition for technical talent is intensifying as tech and automotive companies race to build driverless vehicles.
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The agency does not yet have regulations for driverless cars or cars that have driver assistance systems.
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And with more focus on driverless cars coming around the same time, Tesla is set to benefit.
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No one wants to be responsible for approving the driverless car that ends up causing some harm.
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At The Hatch, employees in the "Beyond the Restaurant" group have been studying drones and driverless cars.
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Imagine the day when Uber operates with driverless cars; it will come, a big economy-changing moment.
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Del Fante said the group was studying delivery with drones and driverless vehicles to win more clients.
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To use one example, engineers at several companies are hard at work trying to perfect driverless cars.
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The proposed regulations enable manufacturers to certify that their driverless test vehicles can operate without conventional controls.
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"This is going to be the world," said Uber CEO Travis Kalanick last year about driverless cars.
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Baidu hooks up with Ford to test driverless vehicles in China by the end of the year.
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People weren't reacting to a driverless car, they were reacting to what they thought was a prankster.
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Also, General Motors really, really wants to get into the driverless car game in a big way.
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That's why the company reportedly bought a driverless car tech start-up for more than $1 billion.
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Driverless AI automates feature engineering, the process by which key variables are selected to build a model.
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Lockheed Martin and the Drone Racing League are working together to make driverless drones much, much smarter.
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Imagine the possible displacement of these jobs once we are able to deploy driverless cars at scale.
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And 2017 will be the year local governments rise up to grapple with the coming driverless world.
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In October, Waymo was granted the first permit in California to begin driverless testing on public roads.
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The company's latest move follows a series of ventures into artificial intelligence, virtual reality and driverless cars.
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Driverless car boosters counter that officials wedded to "19th-century technology" will block innovation and waste billions.
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The city is running several autonomous pilots, too, but officials aren't sold on the imminent driverless future.
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Now is an important time too, because driverless cars are on the cusp of become more popular.
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We need to figure out how to avoid future tragedies, given the increasing use of driverless cars.
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To me, there are two main lessons: First, driverless-car companies should redouble their efforts on safety.
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But then they will also talk about and demonstrate this system as if it's a driverless car.
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Amid all of the anxiety about driverless cars, technology is actually a big part of the solution.
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There's Google, which thinks cars should be fully driverless, and the automakers, which support an incremental implementation.
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Several people in the industry say that Google's business interest is in operating fully driverless taxi fleets.
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Researchers have shown that driverless cars can be fooled into seeing things that are not really there.
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In today's 360 video, a driverless car service runs tests with older residents in San Jose, Calif.
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In this 360 video, head out with a driverless car service that runs tests with older Californians.
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Until then, all driverless car trials had a human driver in the front seat, just in case.
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Days later, Uber loaded a fleet of driverless sport utility vehicles onto semi trucks headed for Tempe.
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Groups representing the blind are enthusiastic supporters of driverless cars, which could give their members more independence.
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"There is huge potential here," said Anantha Kancherla, who oversees software for the Lyft driverless car project.
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German rivals Daimler (DDAIF) and BMW (BMWYY) have joined forces to develop ride sharing and driverless technology.
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Events during the three-day competition include drone racing, robotic swimming, table tennis and driverless car racing.
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The car that transports you there is driverless, as are all the other vehicles on the road.
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CEO Travis Kalanick has said that the switch over to driverless cars would be a lengthy process.
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Traditionally, the serial abuse of Siri or violence toward driverless cars hasn't stirred up Harambe-like alarm.
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They also factored out its money-losing "moonshot investments," like its effort to develop a driverless car.
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Driverless cars are made up of a number of components from cameras to sensors and other software.
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The initial section of the driverless network was inaugurated in 103 and 21 stations are now open.
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Only by completely eliminating human involvement can we be assured that driverless cars are safe, they argue.
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"It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when," Marco said of the driverless era.
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The accuracy of mapping data is becoming more important as driverless cars start taking to the road.
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All of these steps are bringing Waymo closer to fuller commercial service that will include driverless vehicles.
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"Driverless vehicles is a new thing, so she really will have a lot of control," he said.
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Here are best-performing analysts' three favorite driverless car stocks – and yes, none of them are Tesla.
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The driverless car industry is racing ahead and Intel wants to control the technology under the hood.
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They included 3D-printed cars, driverless vehicles and the first artificial-intelligence machine on a company's board.
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Recently, the company started offering a small group of early riders in Phoenix a driverless Waymo experience.
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Ammann wrote that Cruise offers the best alternative: All-electric, driverless, and available whenever customers require mobility.
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After is when Travis goes and decides that Uber needs to make the investment in driverless cars.
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Through that relationship, Daimler will simply plug its own driverless cars into Uber's network when it's ready.
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The timeframe for commercializing driverless cars is now said to be 2020–2021, but even that is unclear.
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Nvidia climbs to fresh record after unveil of first driverless car chips, and increasingly bullish sentiment ** Industrials flat.
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"As I see it, societal acceptance will eventually determine how quickly we reach our driverless future," Winter says.
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Those autonomous delivery drones never took off, but driverless cars look like they could be coming relatively soon.
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And then there are the usual concerns about drones in busy airspaces and the safety of driverless vehicles.
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Singapore is building a massive new port that will expand its use of automated cranes and driverless vehicles.
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This morning, GM announced it is acquiring Cruise Automation, a San Francisco startup focused on developing driverless cars.
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"ACPD is aware that driverless vehicles are being tested in the Commonwealth," Arlington County Police even told ARLNow.
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Driverless vehicles are the logical conclusion of megatrends—the century-old march of automation, perfected by artificial intelligence.
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DHL has posited driverless vehicles could be endlessly useful in warehousing operations, last-mile deliveries, and logistics operations.
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Gen X wasn't far behind, with 68 percent saying that they wouldn't feel safe in a driverless vehicle.
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The promise is that 5G will support technology from driverless cars to the millions of internet-connected devices.
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We're halfway to the big date ... and let's just say driverless cars have a long way to go.
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However, in this area I am torn with my own rationalization of the future of a driverless world.
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Jaguar Land Rover could become the first car manufacturer in the world to create off-road driverless technology.
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Autonomous trucks aren't as sexy as driverless cars, but they could have a bigger impact on our lives.
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This is GM's truly driverless debut, a car that will have to handle the world on its own.
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McKinsey estimates that worldwide time saved everyday by driverless cars could total as much as one billion hours.
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Speaking of Uber, it is not just the recruitment of Ms Chao that has driverless-car advocates giddy.
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Italy's Fiat Chrysler is in talks to strike a partnership around driverless cars with Uber, according to Bloomberg.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently told investors he is ready to take Tesla into a new, driverless era.
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The authors also observe that driverless cars, a much vaunted technology of the future, would not require streetlights.
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Every other automaker — from BMW to Cadillac — flat-out refuses to beta test driverless tech on the public.
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The union has launched a statewide campaign against driverless vehicles, calling them dangerous and a threat to jobs.
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When every car has driverless functions, you would not even think to buy a new car without those.
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So imagine what hackers could do with driverless, connected cars that speak to each other and share information.
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Even with the added cost of AV technology, a driverless car costs only about 20 cents a mile.
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This isn't a driverless service; there will be a human safety driver behind the wheel at all times.
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We need more driverless car accidents The smartphone has become the digital Swiss Army Knife of modern life.
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On Monday, NBC 4's transportation reporter Adam Tuss spied the driverless van again at a stop sign.
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At present, there is no national legislation for driverless vehicles, though some U.S. states have their own rules.
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It also spun its driverless car project out into a standalone business under the new name of Waymo.
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In November 2017, the company shocked the world when it first demonstrated its fully driverless vehicles in Chandler.
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Arizona, which is the only state that allows Waymo to operate fully driverless vehicles, requires no such disclosures.
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And people overwhelmingly support (75 percent) the US Department of Transportation developing new standards related to driverless vehicles.
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The technology of driverless cars may make us safer and more productive, but not necessarily less traffic-bound.
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The content and technology to move to driverless cars cost about $2,700 per vehicle, according to Goldman Sachs.
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Cheng and President Jean Liu hope that adopting driverless technology will help overcome such hurdles in the future.
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According to The Moscow Times, Yandex's on-demand taxi service first unveiled its driverless prototype in summer 2017.
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Furthermore, driverless cars would need some minding by human safety monitors, whose salaries must be covered by fares.
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And when that happens, it will make history as the first fully driverless taxi service in the world.
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Last year, U.S. grocery giant Kroger launched an automated delivery trial in partnership with driverless delivery firm Nuro.
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Think driverless cars "driven" by algorithms mowing down black people because they don't recognize black people as human.
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Meanwhile, every major automaker and tech firm is pushing to bar states from imposing new driverless car rules.
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Deloitte believes there are four future stages of mobility: incremental change, car sharing, driverless revolution and accessible autonomy.
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Meeting notes show Uber's former driverless car program director claiming Levandowski could save Uber $20 million per month.
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Augmented Radar Imaging wants to address the kind of issues that have caused high-profile driverless vehicle accidents.
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Driverless vehicles could eliminate millions of jobs in the future, from cabbies to truckers to food delivery workers.
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Driverless hybrid vehicles running 0003/2000 delivering pizza and passengers means more tons of pollution/GHGs in cities!
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While the company, which is already operating a fully driverless service in a small part of Phoenix, Ariz.
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Deep learning may one day permit driverless cars, but it will also untangle the mysteries of brain development.
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Auro initially developed and operated driverless shuttles for private geo-fenced locations such as corporate and university campuses.
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The move is expected to involve a fleet of "driverless municipal shuttles," the city said earlier this month.
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So companies are looking to find new ways to convince consumers that driverless cars are a good idea.
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I've asked Tesla whether O'Connell is speaking about a driverless car program, or The Boring Company's tunnel project.
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Other trials set to take place within GATEway's driverless car project include autonomous valet parking and automated deliveries.
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If driverless cars are its only road to profitability, it needs to be a leader – not playing catchup.
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Volvo Cars said it expects to make a third of its annual sales from driverless cars by 2025.
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There's no doubt driverless cars will make our lives easier, save drivers time and provide significant user convenience.
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Carmakers envision driverless cars becoming just as essential as an iPhone, but many consumers currently balk at that.
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Cook has talked about several new technologies since becoming CEO, including driverless cars, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
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The permit contained names of six Apple employees that are designated as "driver/operators" of the driverless cars.
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Auto-parts-maker Bosch demonstrated its latest partially automated driverless car system in Farmington Hills, Michigan last week.
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Notably, this is the same date that Ford aims to have driverless ride-share cars on the road.
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The company recently announced plans to expand its Pittsburgh facility to include a test track for driverless cars.
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He sees two small but significant changes affecting urban real estate development in the age of driverless cars.
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