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Tesla Willing To License Software, Supply Components To Rivals, Musk Reiterates
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 5:50am | 426Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said the automaker was open to licensing software and supplying key components, such as powertrains and batteries to rivals in a bid to give a boost to sustainable energy. What Happened "Tesla is open to licensing software and supplying...
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Understanding Tactile Data: The Fulcrum Of Self-Driving Technology
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 2:30pm | 801In the landscape of connected vehicles and autonomous driving technology, data plays a cardinal role in machines understanding the environment they drive in and helps companies derive insights on driving behavior to reinforce the infallibility of their driving systems. These different streams of...
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Voyage Auto Raises $31 Million To Expand Self-Driving Technology
Monday, September 16, 2019 - 5:00pm | 403Voyage Auto Inc, the self-driving-car start-up, has just completed $31 million in Series B fundraising, which brings its total capital raised to $52 million. Founded in 2017 by MacCallister Higgins and Oliver Cameron, Voyage's mission to "build technology that brings self-driving cars to those...
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Apple's Self-Driving Technology Project Might Get A Boost With Drive.ai's Acquisition
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 11:00am | 698Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), in an attempt to scale up its autonomous driving division, is looking to acqui-hire self-driving startup Drive.ai, which will see dozens of engineers from the startup joining Apple. Acqui-hiring, is the process of absorbing a company, predominantly for the expertise of...
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Today's Pickup: Companies Are Splurging On Self-Driving Technology With No Commercial Deployment In Sight
Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 12:52pm | 825Good day, Building out end-to-end autonomous driving technology is extremely complex work involving hundreds of engineers and costing many billions in the process. Even Waymo, the self-driving technology arm of Google, has found the expense overwhelming enough for it to seek external third-party...
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Experts Try To Define "Safe" For A Self-Driving Vehicle
Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 12:48pm | 694A panel of experts highlighted the need for the autonomous vehicle industry to take a proactive approach to standardizing safety metrics and educate the public about the technology and its potential to save lives. "This is the biggest barrier from going where we are today to commercialization...
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With Latest Test, Daimler Is Just One Step Away From Fully Autonomous Semi-Trucks
Monday, January 7, 2019 - 3:45pm | 494Las Vegas — Today at CES Daimler Trucks executives announced the company will invest around $570 million to bring highly automated trucks (SAE level 4) to the road within a decade. Highly automated driving refers to automated travel in defined areas and between defined hubs without any...
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Drivers Still Wanted as Autonomous Truck Tech Faces Long and Winding Road, Experts Say
Thursday, December 20, 2018 - 4:08pm | 1123Technology proponents see automation as aid to driver, not replacement, in short-term as challenges persist for driverless truck. Technology gets a bad rap as a job killer, but can it actually help recruit and retain truck drivers? Peloton Technology Chief Executive Josh Switkes thinks so. Switkes...
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Updates On Autonomy: How Self-Driving Technology Dominated September
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 3:52pm | 416September was really quite something for advances in autonomous technology — both on land and under the sea. What Schools Of Fish Can Teach Florida Atlantic University is studying the movement of fish to develop advanced autonomous technology capable of navigating beneath the shore. Dr. Oscar...