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Baidu Enters the Global Race for Driverless Car Domination    Bloomberg News  Wang Jing bought his first car, a Dodge Shadow, with $3,000 he scratched together working three part-time jobs in the U.S. as a postgraduate student in Florida. These days, the senior vice president in charge of Baidu Inc.’s autonomous driving efforts is far better paid. He’s also a man on a mission: To push China to the forefront of the coming driverless-car era. To read more... [Lire la suite]

Do Consumers Want Driverless Cars? Author: Carrie Hollenberg Subscribe to Insights in Brief to be notified about new Featured Content as it becomes available! Strategic Business Insights' (SBI's) recent research into Americans' attitudes about their cars offers insight into how the diffusion of driverless cars in consumer markets might play out. Most major automakers—and, of course, Google—are pushing forward with a variety of driverless-car efforts. The US National Highway Transportation... [Lire la suite]

  Japanese industry to team on self-driving cars- Nikkei Asian ReviewTOKYO -- Major Japanese automakers and autoparts suppliers will join hands in research and development of autonomous driving vehicles to narrow the gap with U.S. and European rivals. An agreement has been reached among companies that have been participating in a study panel set up by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.http://asia.nikkei.com  

The driverless, car-sharing road ahead Carmakers increasingly fret that their industry is on the brink of huge disruption THE whizzy gadgets for geeks to goggle at during CES, an annual consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas, have typically been small enough to pick up. But they have been joined in recent years by an increasing number of cars. The Detroit motor show, America’s biggest and glitziest, starts later this month, but many in the car industry now regard CES, which opened on January 5th, as a more important event. Mary... [Lire la suite]

The biggest question about driverless cars that no one seems to have an answer to Wow. A lot of you guys had some very passionate responses to last week's news that the federal government had recognized Google's software, not the human passenger, as the "driver" in its self-driving cars. There was one, big theme running through many of your comments. See if you can identify it: So does the software have to get a driver's license and insurance? —ikeaboy So if I get drunk, get into my Googlemobile and crash into... [Lire la suite]

10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 John Greenough, BI Intelligence Jul. 29, 2015, 9:00 AM 71,724 Self-driving cars are no longer a futuristic idea. Companies like Mercedes, BMW, and Tesla have already released, or are soon to release, self-driving features that give the car some ability to drive itself. Tech companies are also trying to pioneer the self-driving car. Recently, Google announced that it would be testing its prototype of a driverless car on roads this summer in... [Lire la suite]

Newsletter of NEXYAD Automotive & Transportation : High Tech, ADAS, Autonomous Vehicle & Connected car News NEXYAD, member of the MOV'EO Groupement ADAS is pleased to publish the issue #8 of their Newletter about Automotive and Transportation. Headlines : . rating of NEXYAD by the rating agency Early Metrics. position paper on onboard risk assessment for insurance companies (pay how you drive, pricing, and loss issues). obstacle detection using ObstaNex BiCam : example on rearvision for vans and trucks. road detection with... [Lire la suite]

Will self-driving cars kill off the train? Autonomous vehicles will make railways obsolete - even if new high speed routes are built, expert claims Randal O’Toole, of the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington DC, thinks commuters will choose autonomous cars over high-speed trains in 2030 Technology is predicted to feature in lots of cars in the next 15 years and mean journeys could be used for working and watching films, for example  He thinks such vehicles could be the death of the railways - even if billions of pounds... [Lire la suite]

HOW DATA SCIENCE IS DRIVING THE DRIVERLESS CAR Google may be the first name associated with driverless cars, but they’re not the only ones interested in the technology. More importantly, it seems people have wildly different opinions on exactly how the story will play out. How much data will these cars produce? What kind of legal quandaries will we face? While the details are hazy, there is no doubt these machines will not only be available in the near future, they will soak up data like a sponge, and put that information to use... [Lire la suite]

Future HMI Systems Linked to Autonomous Driving Trends DEARBORN, MI – Autonomous driving, still a ways off but at the top of nearly every OEM’s list of concerns, is the new focus for interior designers, say panelists speaking at theWardsAuto Interiors Conference being held here today. Human-machine-interface systems should be designed to enhance, not distract, the driving experience, panel members say, acknowledging mistakes have been made trying to add several technologies into the center stack and console, when future... [Lire la suite]