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Silicon Valley is winning the race to build the first driverless cars Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car. The late 1800s saw a flurry of innovation by hundreds of companies battling to deliver on the promise of fast, efficient and reasonably-priced mechanical transportation. Ford later came to dominate the industry thanks to the development of the moving assembly line. Today the sector is poised for another breakthrough with the advent of cars that drive themselves. But unlike the original wave of automobile innovation, the race... [Lire la suite]

The Race Is On After Feds Pave Way for Driverless Trucks A sensor on the bumper of self-driving truck in Shanghai. The U.S. Department of Transportation will adapt its regulatory definitions of commercial truck drivers to include automated operators. THE MOST OPTIMISTIC analysts project that trucks with empty cabs and a computer at the wheel will travel on U.S. highways in as little as two years with no escort or safety driver in sight now that the Trump administration has signaled its willingness to let tractor-trailers to... [Lire la suite]

Dubai Sustainable City driverless vehicles project enters next stage Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that it has embarked on the fourth phase of its driverless vehicles project at Dubai’s Sustainable City. The announcement comes as part of RTA’s efforts to boost Dubai’s strategy of having as much as 25% of public transport operating autonomously by 2030. “The trial run of the autonomous vehicle has started in the Sustainable City following three stages of successful test runs,” said Ahmed Bahrozyan, CEO of... [Lire la suite]

Why Driverless Delivery of Goods Is Likely to Arrive Before Passengers In the wait for self-driving technology, cell-phone toting tech bros may have to cede their spot in line to pizzas, Craigslist couches and the mounting ephemera of e-commerce. The future—at least in the near-term—will not only be driverless, but sans passenger as well. The early conversations around driverless cars have focused on robot taxis because taking the human driver out of a cab seemed like the quickest path to profitability. But an increasing number... [Lire la suite]

5 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Impacting the Automotive Industry Finding applications of artificial intelligence in the automotive industry requires only a scant reading of news headlines. From IBM Watson’s partnership with the General Motors OnStar platform to Toyota’s $1 billion investment in AI-based self-driving technology, the marriage of AI with automotive technology has surely been consummated. It seems that every stakeholder in the automotive industry is looking for a way to capitalize on recent advances in AI technology. ... [Lire la suite]

5 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Impacting the Automotive Industry Finding applications of artificial intelligence in the automotive industry requires only a scant reading of news headlines. From IBM Watson’s partnership with the General Motors OnStar platform to Toyota’s $1 billion investment in AI-based self-driving technology, the marriage of AI with automotive technology has surely been consummated. It seems that every stakeholder in the automotive industry is looking for a way to capitalize on recent advances in AI technology. ... [Lire la suite]

AROUND THE WORLD IN SELF-DRIVING CARS: ASIA So far in this series, we gave an overview of driverless-car pilot projects across the globe and broke down the testing locations in North America and Europe. This time, we will take a closer look at where these trials are taking place in Asia. This map zooms into Singapore, Shanghai and Tokyo, and charts the deployment sites for self-driving vehicles. Shanghai takes a holistic approach Last summer, Shanghai created a 100-square-kilometer closed course for testing of autonomous... [Lire la suite]

Autonomous vehicles – Watson IoT helps pave an industry revolution Even the largest and most forward-looking auto manufacturers today were built around the economics of the 20th century, not the 21st. They followed the codes of Detroit and Tokyo more than those of Silicon Valley. But everyone knew disruption was coming—it was just a matter of when. So when companies like Google, Uber and Tesla grew from startups to tech giants—each one tied very much into the future of transportation—the auto-industrial model moved into the... [Lire la suite]

Five trends transforming the Automotive Industry The mobility of the future is “eascy” – electrified, autonomous, shared, connected and “yearly” updated. In this study, we describe the factors influencing the sector leading up to 2030 in the key US, Europe, and China markets. It also describes how the automotive industry should restructure itself in terms of volume, scale, and complexity. Through mathematical modeling of key performance indicators and demographic trends, the paper discusses: Mobility behaviour of users... [Lire la suite]

Business models will drive the future of autonomous vehicles   “The technology is essentially here… We have machines that can make a bunch of quick decisions that could drastically reduce traffic fatalities, drastically improve the efficiency of our transportation grid, and help solve things like carbon emissions that are causing the warming of the planet.” Interestingly, this statement didn’t come from a futurist like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos; this was President Obama discussing autonomous vehicles in an... [Lire la suite]