Car News recent articles in category Autonomous Vehicles
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Could driverless cars mean the end of speeding tickets?
Could driverless cars mean the end of speeding tickets? Could driverless cars mean the end of speeding tickets? And if the car is not under the control of the driver/passenger will insurance companies or software developers be liable for road traffic penalties and forced to pay fines. So what happens when the driverless car breaks the law? If...
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China’s tech giants are setting their sights on futuristic car innovation
Futuristic vehicle innovation Chinese tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent have moved up a gear in the race to build, what they class as smartphones on wheels’. Over the past five years, these huge Chinese corporations have been ramping up their development towards lucrative apps for smartphones but they are now turning their attention to building intelligent and connected vehicles....
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Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla Cars will guess where you want to go in the future
Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla Motors has said that we are very close to predictive driving, where you car will figure out where you want to go before you even tell it. Imagine having a Knight Rider-style car, which automatically takes you to the destination of your choice the moment you sit in it. If we can...
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Toyota to have intelligent talking cars by 2020
The giant car maker, Toyota will begin testing autonomous cars in 2020 but they are also preparing to build an autonomous vehicle which is able to converse with their drivers in order to enhance the driving experience. Toyota’s cars will be able to track a user's preferences, emotions, habits, and even more. Instead of simply being autonomous, they will also...
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Tesla could have millions of electric autonomous cars on the road by 2023
Tesla is known for taking the lead in the self-driving autonomous motoring arena and it is looking very could have millions of cars on the road by 2023. There is no doubt about it that Tesla is expected to roll out tens of thousands of electric cars onto the roads in the next few years, giving the company a huge...
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Australian researchers say Driverless cars will make more traffic
Researchers in Australia have predicted that the rise of autonomous vehicles will make congestion worse and not better? The researchers are based at University of Sydney's Institute of Transport and Logistical Studies. The institution has been publishing its Transport Opinion Survey (TOP) since 2010. In the most recent study released, it has been found that while Australians may love the...
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Ford Motors patents a retractable table for autonomous cars
The Ford Motor Co. in Detroit have patented a retractable table for autonomous cars that resembles a kitchen or office conference room table. The giant car manufacturer lodged the patent for a retractable table earlier last month and the fascinating thing is that the new autonomous vehicle table comes with an airbag. In the autonomous future, it will not be...
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You can now earn a degree in self-driving cars
You can now earn a degree in ‘self-driving cars’ courtesy of Lyft and Udacity Lyft is a transportation network company based in San Francisco, California, which develops, markets and operates the Lyft car transportation mobile app. Udacity is a for-profit online teaching startup who originally focused on offering university-style courses and now focuses on vocational courses for professionals. These two...
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Tesla is working with chip company AMD to develop its own A.I. chip for self-driving cars
Tesla Motors is working with AMD to refine its new chip, which they hope will reduce their reliance on Nvidia. Tesla has more than 50 employees involved in the project to develop its own chip for handling autonomous driving tasks in its cars. The project goal for Tesla is the push to be vertically integrated and decrease reliance on other...
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Flying car to ignite 2020 Olympic flame in Tokyo
It is planned that at the next Olympics, a futuristic flying car will ignite the Olympic flame to mark the opening of the games. This technology just goes to show how close we are to a flying commute to work in our very own private flying car. One prototype is powered by an engine built by British engineering specialist Prodrive....