By Yu-hsin Chen, Senior Software Engineer* Waymo’s self-driving vehicles employ neural networks to perform many driving tasks, from detecting objects and predicting how others will behave, to planning a car’s next moves. Training an individual neural net has traditionally required weeks of fine-tuning and experimentation, as well as enormous amounts of computational power. Now, Waymo,… Read More »
Waymo and DeepMind say they’re collaborating to develop better-performing AI models for driverless cars that require less training time.Read More Read the original article
Robert Bosch GmbH and Daimler AG say they have reached a milestone on the way to automated driving: the two companies have obtained approval from the relevant authorities in Baden-Württemberg for their automated parking system in the Mercedes-Benz Museum parking garage in Stuttgart. Read the original article
Specially designed to meet the high demands of autonomous driving, Eberspaecher’s electronic switch systems offer strong reliability as well as robust, series-proven design. Series production of the Redundant Safety Switch will start in fall. The semiconductor-based switch will be used in autonomous level 4 vehicles. Semi-automated driving (up to automation level 3 according to the… Read More »
Second Global Logistics Company Joins PTIO to Address Impacts of AV Technology on Workers Washington, DC — The Partnership for Transportation Innovation and Opportunity (PTIO) today announced that a new partner – the United Parcel Service (UPS) – has joined the coalition and its mission to advance autonomous vehicle (AV) technology in ways that improve the quality… Read More »
NAVYA, a leading company in autonomous driving systems, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ESMO Corporation and SK Telecom in the context of a partnership aiming at developing autonomous driving features using the 5G technologies already deployed in South Korea. Park Jin-Hyo, the Executive Vice-President of SK Telecom, Jeong-Hun Kim, Chief… Read More »
Ouster, a leading provider of high-resolution LiDAR sensors used for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and mapping, announced that Postmates, the only company that enables customers to get anything on-demand, has selected the Ouster OS1 LiDAR sensor for use in its Serve autonomous delivery rover deploying first in Los Angeles. The Ouster OS1 LiDAR delivers an industry-leading… Read More »
Shared electric bike and scooter services are constantly at war with each other — whether it’s battling for an operating permit in a highly-coveted market, raising a massive round of funding or making a key hire. Today, the war continues with Lyft’s recent hiring of Eugene Kwak, Bird’s now-former head of vehicle product. Kwak’s first… Read More »
Postmates’ cooler-inspired autonomous delivery robot, which will roll out commercially in Los Angeles later this year, will rely on lidar sensors from Ouster, a burgeoning two-year-old startup that recently raised $60 million in equity and debt funding. Postmates unveiled the first generation of its self-described “autonomous rover” — known as Serve — late last year.… Read More »
Erik Frohmann, Commercial Director, Geotech GEOTECH, the developer, and manufacturer of Lidaretto, is located in Bratislava, Slovakia. Founded in 1994, the company has deep experience with different data capturing and measuring technologies and has been a local representative of Leica Geosystems for over 20 years. Erik Frohmann, Commercial Director, Geotech, believes that the intense competition… Read More »