[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. […]
Category: self-driving car
Musk: Holiday Tesla update adds ‘Stardew Valley,’ self-driving preview
[ad_1] It’s been a few months since Tesla’s 10.0 update brought Cuphead, Netflix and YouTube to some of its in-car systems, and it appears more options are around the corner. Elon Musk tweeted tonight that a “holiday” update will add farming RPG Stardew Valley as a playable game, and include a Full Self-Driving “sneak preview,” […]
Hyundai will offer free self-driving rides in Irvine, California
[ad_1] The project isn’t meant to research the technology so much as it is the people using it — this will “study consumer behavior” when interacting with autonomous services, Hyundai’s Christopher Chang said. In other words, the automaker will use BotRide to shape its self-driving cars and services around real-world experiences, not just theoretical scenarios. […]
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 […]
Tesla reportedly buys AI startup that helps self-driving cars see
[ad_1] The deal hasn’t been officially confirmed. We’ve asked Tesla for comment. However, it’s clear that something is afoot. DeepScale chief Forrest Iandola stated on LinkedIn that he joined Tesla’s Autopilot team “this week,” and that he was working on autonomous driving. CNBC sources said that Tesla bought DeepScale “outright.” An acquisition would make sense. […]
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 […]
Uber starts mapping Dallas roads to aid its self-driving efforts
[ad_1] The company was quick to caution that this might not be the immediate precursor to self-driving vehicles. Uber wants any data gathering to contribute “meaningfully” to autonomous driving work, the company’s Austin Geidt said. If it is confident enough to test real self-driving cars, it aims to “work closely” with both city- and state-level […]
Ridesharing giant Didi Chuxing will offer robotaxi service in Shanghai
[ad_1] There’s no timeline for when to expect robotaxi service, although it may just be a matter of technical readiness when the city government granted testing permits on August 28th. Didi was under pressure to roll this out. Baidu had already committed to debuting its own service in the city of Changsha, and Pony.ai is […]
Waymo shares some of its self-driving car data to help researchers
[ad_1] The Waymo team explained this as an opportunity to improve the industry as a whole. It hoped he data would improve not just other self-driving vehicles, but also general concepts like perception, behavior prediction and scene understanding. Those could help with computer vision tasks, particularly robotics and other areas where recognizing objects could prove […]
Waymo uses evolutionary competition to improve its self-driving cars
[ad_1] The approach regularly has the networks compete against each other, with weaker examples being replaced by stronger “progeny” that are copies of the better-performing networks with slightly tweaked parameters (just as a child isn’t a perfect clone of its parent). This automatically gets rid of the poorer-performing networks while saving Waymo from having to […]