Researchers at BYU and other universities have created a computer algorithm that allows computers to achieve higher levels of cooperation than human beings. It also enables them to tell opponents, “In your face!” from time to time.
Navigant Research has issued its annual report on self driving cars. It says GM is in the lead and Tesla is in last. Does that surprise you?
Growing the profile of both brands, it has been announced the China-based auto manufacturer Chery Automobile Co will be utilizing tech provided by Nvidia Corp in its self-driving cars. These self-driving cars are being developed in cooperation with the China-based tech giant Baidu and ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
It seems no matter how we feel or what we want, autonomous vehicles (AV) are coming sooner than later. And the obvious first market is taxis.
Recently Business Insider published a fairly thoughtful, historically informed, but ultimately inaccurate opinion piece saying that GM just hadn’t bothered crushing Tesla yet, but was about to. In other words, it looked backward well, but forward poorly.
A new report from the firm IHS Markit predicts that more than 33 million autonomous vehicles will be sold every year (worldwide) by 2040 — representing a huge surge in market interest in a relatively short period of time, as only around 51,000 units a year are predicted to be sold in 2021, according to the report.
There will be new, revised self-driving car guidelines revealed this summer by the Trump Administration, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has announced.
No doubt about it, proof-of-concept cars are cool, but rarely practical. Despite their unobtainium status, they are nonetheless very much needed. Here’s why.
Our first thorough review of the Tesla Model 3, testing the car through the redwoods of Northern California.
GM has released pictures of the inside of a fully autonomous, driverless taxi design that the company is currently trying to get approved by US regulators. The inside of the GM/Cruise self-driving car is about what you’d expect from such a vehicle — there’s no steering wheel and no pedals of any kind.
