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We’re blowing it with self-driving car safety reporting, Cruise says Next month, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will release the latest batch of reports from companies testing self-driving vehicles in the state. But the reports offer, at best, a flawed glimpse into the slow and often opaque process of testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, says Kyle Vogt, co-founder and CTO of GM-based Cruise. In a Medium post, Vogt posits that maybe it’s time for a new metric for reporting safety of self-driving cars. By... [Lire la suite]

The Bold Robocar Roaming Las Vegas Without a Human Backup Yandex, the "Google of Russia," showed up at CES with a bold demonstration of what a Moscow-trained robot car can do. I BUCKLE MY seat belt, and then double-check it after I climb into the back of a white, black, and orange Toyota Prius V wagon. I’m tense, but the two engineers, one in back with me, the other riding shotgun, seem reassuringly relaxed. We roll forward, turning right out of the parking lot at the Hard Rock Hotel, and head into the streets of... [Lire la suite]

Mercedes-Benz is taking self-driving cars from the stuff of science fiction to a bold new reality Autonomous driving requires detailed map and road knowledge. Mercedes-Benz’s Autonomous Driving Team is at the heart of the skunk works, imagining and then creating an integrated and intelligent ecosystem as the foundation for completely autonomous driving. Four teams in the U.S., in conjunction with Daimler colleagues in Germany, lead the way. Our handiwork can be seen in the S500 Intelligent Drive research vehicle as it experiences... [Lire la suite]

automotive Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) INTRODUCTION Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) include telematics and all types of communications in vehicles, between vehicles (e.g. car-to-car), and between vehicles and fixed locations (e.g. car-to-infrastructure). The following important topics related to automotive ITS are being addressed: Cooperative-ITS (C-ITS) and its evolution to support full autonomous driving  including wireless short range communications (ITS-G5) dedicated to automotive ITS and Road Transport and... [Lire la suite]

Usage based share of insurance (UBI) penetration by number of policies in Italy, the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe as of 2018   This statistic displays the market penetration of the telematics, otherwise known as usage based insurance (UBI) in Italy, the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe as of 2018. Overall the market penetration of usage based insurance in Europe was two percent as of 2018. Read more: https://www.statista.com/statistics/888342/telematic-insurance-penetration-in-europe-by-country/

Tesla and rivals like Waymo and GM are locked in a battle over the future of self-driving cars The widening gap between Tesla and the rest of the self-driving-vehicle industry has created two distinct visions for the future of the technology. In recent years, many of the companies developing self-driving cars have backed off from the aggressive timelines they had previously set to introduce fully driverless vehicles for personal or commercial use. And they are increasingly using investments and... [Lire la suite]

It’s 2020. Where are our self-driving cars? In the age of AI advances, self-driving cars turned out to be harder than people expected.   When it comes to self-driving cars, the future was supposed to be now. In 2020, you’ll be a “permanent backseat driver,” the Guardian predicted in 2015. “10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020,” blared a Business Insider headline from 2016. Those declarations were accompanied by announcements from General Motors, Google’s Waymo, Toyota,... [Lire la suite]

Elon Musk plays down self-driving chip controversy, says more features coming in March Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk says the auto-maker will release more Full Self-Driving (FSD) features in March, at the same time playing down a switch of the car maker’s autonomous computer hardware. There has been controversy this week over the delivery of “Made-in-China” (MIC) Model 3s, kitted out not with the top-of-the-line Hardware 3.0 chip (HW3.0) that is needed for FSD but with the earlier Hardware 2.5 version (HW2.5). According to... [Lire la suite]

Usage Based Insurance Market Size, Share, Sales, Growth and Forecast 2019 to 2026 The global ​usage based insurance market size is expected to reach around US$ 200 Bn by 2026, expanding at a CAGR of more than 30% during the forecast period 2019 to 2026. The report analyzes and forecasts the usage based insurance market at global and regional levels. The market has been forecast based on volume (Tons) and value (US$ Mn) from 2019 to 2026. The study includes drivers and restraints of the global market. It covers the impact... [Lire la suite]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CARS POWERS AN AI REVOLUTION IN THE AUTO INDUSTRY Artificial intelligence (AI) and self-driving cars are often complimentary topics in technology. Simply put, you cannot really discuss one without the other. Though AI is being implemented at rapid speed in a variety of sectors, the way in which it’s being used in the automotive industry is a hot-button issue right now. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CAR MANUFACTURING Car manufacturers all over the globe are using artificial intelligence in... [Lire la suite]