[ad_1] Sony said it created the prototype to showcase its technology to auto manufacturers. However, it seems the company is interested in actually doing something more with the car. The Vision-S has dual 200kW engines, one in the front and the other in the rear. It can go from 0-62 MPH in 4.8 seconds and […]
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Lyft’s autonomous vehicle partner Magna is done with self-driving tech
[ad_1] Magna isn’t fully severing ties with Lyft, in which it invested $200 million in 2018, but the self-driving partnership seems to have been impacting its bottom line. They’ll keep working together on other autonomy-related software and hardware. Lyft has also collaborated with Waymo on autonomous cars. Ultimately, Magna doesn’t think there’s big enough potential […]
A dispatch from inside Sony’s prototype electric car
[ad_1] The car isn’t meant for use on public roads, but we know it can be driven. It’s been tested, and briefly cruised onto the stage during Sony’s CES press conference earlier this week. According to Sony’s Tatsuya Koeda, the next stage in the development of Vision-S is to figure out how the autonomous driving […]
Bosch is finally making LiDAR sensors for autonomous cars
[ad_1] LiDAR is the final piece of the sensor puzzle for Bosch’s self-driving ambitions. The company said it designed the sensors for all autonomous driving use cases. Laser-based LiDAR systems piece together a high-res, real-time 3D map of the surrounding area, which car systems can use to better understand everything happening nearby and react accordingly. […]
Stanford upgrades its driverless DeLorean for better drifting
[ad_1] Back in 2015, the team from Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab electrified and automated an old DeLorean, dubbing it MARTY (Multiple Actuator Research Test bed for Yaw control). Back then, it did donuts but not much more. Fast forward four years and this thing friggin hauls. MARTY is now capable of drifting its way through […]
MIT researchers teach autonomous cars how to deal with selfish drivers
[ad_1] New research from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) examines the problem of how a self-driving car can predict the behavior of other drivers on the road. This prediction requires a degree of social awareness which is difficult for machines, so the researchers took tools from social psychology to help the system […]
Toyota will offer rides in self-driving cars at the Tokyo Olympics
[ad_1] The “complex environment of pedestrians, vehicle traffic, diverse road infrastructure and tall glass buildings” in that area of the metropolis will pose a “challenging setting in which to demonstrate the capabilities” of the autonomous tech, Toyota said. The automaker will open up applications from members of the public who’d like to hitch a ride […]
Ford is bringing its self-driving cars to Austin, Texas
[ad_1] The automaker and partner Argo AI will start mapping downtown and east Austin in the coming months with manually driven vehicles. Ford will gradually increase the size of the coverage area and its fleet of self-driving cars, with a view towards launching an expansive autonomous taxi and delivery service in 2021. Sherif Marakby, CEO […]
Intel’s ultra-efficient AI chips can power prosthetics and self-driving cars
[ad_1] The Loihi chips are installed on a “Nahuku” board that contains from 8 to 32 Loihi chips. The Pohoiki Beach system contains multiple Nahuku boards that can be interfaced with Intel’s Arria 10 FPGA developer’s kit, as shown above. Pohoiki Beach will be very good at neural-like tasks including sparse coding, path planning and […]
Luminar’s cheap LiDAR could be a big boost for autonomous vehicles
[ad_1] Luminar’s Iris LiDAR systems will cost less than $1,000 per unit for production vehicles or $500 for a limited version, according to TechCrunch. This is a massive saving from other LiDAR systems on the market today, which run up to $75,000 for a top of the line unit from developer Velodyne. However, Alphabet subsidiary […]