[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 […]
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Watch Sony’s CES 2020 press conference in nine minutes
[ad_1] Sony made a leftfield announcement at CES today — it’s made a car. With help from Bosch, NVIDIA and Qualcomm the company has created its first prototype vehicle under its Vision-S initiative — pipping the likes of Google and Apple, which have been talking about doing something similar, to the post. It is, predictably, […]
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. […]
California allows ‘light-duty’ self-driving delivery vehicles
[ad_1] Tests with backup drivers will require proof of relevant testing under controlled conditions, trained drivers with clean records and timely reports for collisions and human interventions. Completely driverless tests, meanwhile, will also require notifiying authorities, a certified link to a remote operator, a police “interaction plan” and verification that the cars meet federal safety […]
VW will roll out self-driving electric shuttles in Qatar’s capital
[ad_1] You may see these self-driving transporters on the road before 2022. Closed testing is poised to start in 2020, and trials could start in 2021. That is, of course, provided there are no setbcks. There are already self-driving shuttle services in a number of cities. They aren’t always on this scale, though, and you […]
Walmart will test driverless grocery deliveries in Houston
[ad_1] The test run will help Nuro and Walmart “develop and refine” their services, including providing the best “end-to-end” experience for shoppers. Kroger’s earlier use of the vehicles takes scheduled orders through a mobile app, with store staff loading the R1 before it makes its way to a customer’s home. It could be a long, […]
Mercedes and Bosch commence self-driving trials in San Jose
[ad_1] The busy San Carlos/Stevens Creek corridor between west San Jose and downtown should be good test for the self-driving tech used by Mercedes and Bosch. Rather than just playing with prototypes, the companies want to create a production-ready SAE Level 4/5 self-driving system that can be built into different makes and models. To do […]
MIT researchers use shadows to create a video of what happens off camera
[ad_1] In their experiment, the team filmed a pile of clutter. Off screen, someone created shadows by moving blocks and other objects. Their algorithm predicted the light transport, or the way light is expected to move in a scene, and compared that to the shadows. It then used that info to reconstruct the off-screen video. […]
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 […]