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Uber Resumes Driverless Car Programme After Crash in Arizona

28Mar By reutersNo Comments

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Uber Resumes Driverless Car Programme After Crash in Arizona

Driverless vehicles operated by Uber Technologies Inc were back on the road in San Francisco on Monday after one of its self-driving cars crashed in Arizona, the ride-hailing company said. Uber's autonomous vehicles in Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, remained grounded but were expected to be operating again soon, according to a spokeswoman for the company, who refused to be identified. "We are resuming our development operations in San Francisco this morning," she said in an email. Uber's San Francisco program is currently in development mode. It has two cars registered with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, but is not transporting passengers. The spokeswoman said because of this, the company felt confident in putting the cars back on the road while it investig...

1Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Real Story Behind Tesla Autopilot Crash in Model S From Tesla

We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S, Tesla wrote on its official blog. Company has also recognized and described how the autopilot mode accident occurs. The company said that this is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles. It is important to emphasize that the NHTSA action is simply a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the system worked according to expectations. Following standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred. ...

Chinese Tech Giant Baidu Planning of Mass-Producion of Driverless Cars

28Jun By AdityaNo Comments

CHINA

Chinese Tech Giant Baidu Planning of Mass-Producion of Driverless Cars

Chinese tech giant Baidu today said it plans to begin mass-production of driverless cars in five years as part of its efforts to get ahead of its US rivals Google and Tesla Motors in the autonomous vehicle technology. President Zhang Yaqin said Baidu will carry out road tests of driverless cars in 10 Chinese cities, with the aim to commercialise the technology in three years and realise mass production in five years. The move is a significant step for the Beijing-based tech company trying to get ahead of Google in building autonomous cars, and is marshalling the resources to advance the effort. During the ongoing Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2016, or Summer Davos, in Tianjin, Zang told state-run Xinhua news agency that the core technology of Baidus driverless cars, was the "B...

Amazon, Microsoft Look for Data Role in Self-Driving Cars With Here: Report

2Apr By reutersNo Comments

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Amazon, Microsoft Look for Data Role in Self-Driving Cars With Here: Report

Amazon.com and Microsoft are in talks to supply cloud computing to digital mapping business Here.com, owned by a group of German carmakers developing self-driving cars, sources familiar with the matter said. Amazon is also considering becoming a shareholder in Here, two sources said. Last year, carmakers BMW, Audi and Mercedes struck a EUR 2.5 billion ($2.85 billion or roughly Rs. 18,928 crores) deal to buy Nokia's Here maps business. Intelligent mapping systems supply information to control self-driving cars, which are equipped with street-scanning sensors to measure traffic and road conditions. This location data can in turn be shared with other map users. "Amazon would take a stake as part of a broader deal to lock them in as a provider of cloud computing services," one sour...