self-driving Stories May 6, 2020
The Volvo brand is all about safety. Today the company announced that it will equip its next-generation vehicles with lidar, an expensive sensor that has almost entirely been reserved for fleet-based robotaxis — not passenger cars. Tesla rejected lidar entirely. But Volvo believes lidar’s robust capabilities can be applied to millions of vehicles for hands-off highway driving.
self-driving Stories December 18, 2019
NVIDIA has unveiled what they call the “world’s most advanced processor” for use in autonomous vehicles and robots. The new NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin chip can perform 200 trillion operations per second, which is almost seven times as many as NVIDIA’s previous Xavier chip (30 trillion operations) and more than Tesla’s FSD Computer (144 trillion).
self-driving Stories July 30, 2019
Ford announced that it has acquired Quantum Signal, a mobile robotics defense contractor, to aid with its self-driving car development.
self-driving Stories July 11, 2019
Lidar startup Luminar gets $100M in funding, sub-$1,000 Iris platform set for production cars by 2022
Lidar startup Luminar announced today that it’s received $100 million in new funding, as the company also introduced Iris, an autonomous platform that it expects to bring to production vehicles by 2022 — for less than $1,000.
self-driving Stories March 19, 2019
Hyundai partners with Russia’s Yandex to develop self-driving cars
Hyundai has teamed up with Yandex, Russia’s largest technology company, to jointly develop self-driving cars.
self-driving Stories February 28, 2018
Outside of the tech community, self-driving technology is still seeing a lot of pushback from people who don’t trust computers driving a car for them.
A new video released by Alphabet’s Waymo does a great job to familiarize people with the technology. expand full story
self-driving Stories February 27, 2018
California has been one of the most forward-thinking states when it comes to self-driving vehicles by enabling test programs on public roads early on.
But those vehicles need to have someone in the driver’s seat at all times and be ready to take control.
Now, new DMV regulations this week approved the use of fully self-driving cars as soon as April. expand full story
self-driving Stories September 6, 2017
The “Self Drive Act” (H.R. 3388), which sets new federal self-driving car measures, is smoothly going through the legislative process with apparent bipartisan support.
It was unanimously approved by the U.S. House today. expand full story
self-driving Stories June 13, 2017
While reports of Apple’s work on electric and self-driving cars have been surfacing for years, CEO Tim Cook has been careful about not confirming or denying any detail.
But he now makes rare comments on Apple’s effort in developing self-driving cars, which he referred to as “a core technology” for the company. expand full story
self-driving Stories May 8, 2017
A new article in the May edition of Transportation Research took up the question of how much, if anything, consumers would pay for autonomous driving capabilities in their vehicles. The survey of 1,260 American households concluded that the average household would be willing to pay $3,500 for partial automation, or $4,900 for full automation.
There was a lot of variance in the data however, as several households said they would pay upwards of $10,000 for full automation, and others said they would not be interested in paying a premium at all for this technology. The research also concludes that because of this large variance in consumer price preferences, there will be plenty of room for vehicle models with varying levels of automation at various price points.
