Ford is set to announce plans to test online car sales in China in collaboration with tech giant Alibaba, according to a Reuters report. The report, which cites an anonymous Ford source familiar with the matter, claims the two companies will announce…
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Yandex Autonomous Cars go For a Drive In The Snow
Russian tech firm Yandex just took over Uber’s ride-sharing operations in its home country, but the company isn’t stopping there. Like its American counterpart, Yandex has its own self-driving car development program, and it appears to be making progress. Yandex released a…
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Apple Releases Self-driving Car Research
Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about its self-driving car program, but the tech giant just dropped a hint about what it’s working on. Apple researchers submitted a paper to the independent online journal arXiv on Nov. 17, and the topic relates to self-driving cars,…
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Volvo To Build Tens Of Thousands Of Self-driving Taxis For Uber
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo Cars will sell ‘tens of thousands’ of autonomous vehicles to ride-sharing company Uber. The framework agreement between Volvo and Uber is one of the largest, if not the largest assignments for such vehicles so far. Deliveries…
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Waiting For Perfect Self-driving Cars Will Cost Lives, Researchers Argue
Tens of thousands of people are killed in car crashes every year, but none of those crashes attract nearly as much attention as even the slightest fender bender involving a self-driving car. That attitude needs to change, say RAND Corporation…
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Toyota’s Autonomous Cars Get Electronic Brain From Renesas
According to Renesas, the company’s R-Car SoC will control the infotainment and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) of these vehicles while the RH850 will be responsible for general automotive control tasks. The combo will cover peripheral recognition and boy control….
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Mobile Test Lab Addresses Driving Functions And Dynamics
Bertrandt’s mobile test laboratory is designed to helps developers to verify their projects with focus on safety of automated driving functions as well as driving dynamics and braking systems. The demands on the security of a vehicle are expected to…
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Jaguar Launched The AI-powered Steering Wheel
Someone at Jaguar has probably been watching too much Knight Rider. The automaker will unveil a talking and AI-powered steering wheel called Sayer at its Tech Fest this week in London, the car company has announced. Looking like a prop from a low-budget…
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Ford Banding With Zotye Auto To Build Electric Cars In China
Ford and China’s Zotye Automobile in Anhui Province signed a memorandum to build electric cars in China. The document calls for the creation of a 50/50 joint venture to manufacture electric cars in the world’s largest emerging car market, and sell them under…
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Grab Gets Strategic Investment From Toyota
Grab is gradually becoming a real threat to Uber in ride-sharing market in Southeast Asian. The company now runs business in 87 cities across seven countries, and just newly got an investment from Toyota which will see the two companies team up on research. Toyota will…