Self Driving Cars

The collaboration with Geely could give Jidu a big boost when it comes to the notoriously tricky business of making cars at high volume and with high reliability, says Tu Le, managing director of Sino Auto Insights, an analyst firm focused on China’s automotive sector. He adds that China’s auto industry is electrifying at a faster pace than either Europe or the US because of government policies, a less entrenched gasoline-powered industry, and because such a large population allows new technologies to catch on more…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that his electric vehicle company Tesla will have self-driving cars without the need for human drivers, behind the wheel for supervision, around this time next year.According to the auto-tech website Electrek, it is not the first time that Musk made this announcement.He made the announcement in Brazil, where he was for a partnership with the local government to launch a program to connect Amazonian regions with SpaceX's Starlink satellite-based internet.As per the report, Musk has been…

"Microsoft is providing supercomputing muscle," Wayve Chief Executive Alex Kendall told Reuters. "What we're looking to do goes beyond the bounds of what's possible for commercial cloud offerings today."LONDON - British startup Wayve said on Wednesday it will use supercomputer infrastructure designed for the firm by its investor Microsoft to process vast amounts of data as it develops machine learning-based models for self-driving cars. Wayve's technology relies on machine learning using camera sensors fitted on the…

Assisted driving systems installed in Tesla Inc, Hyundai Motor Co and Subaru Corp vehicles failed to avoid head-on collisions in testing done by AAA, though Tesla’s Autopilot system did slow the vehicle to a walking speed before striking an oncoming, foam model of a car.The AAA, a U.S. consumer and travel services organization, said the tests illustrate how current assisted driving and automated braking systems fall short of true autonomous driving, and require drivers to stay in control of vehicles.A fast-growing number…

The technology could also improve access to transport for people with mobility issues and lead to more reliable public transport services, helping to level-up access to transport in historically disconnected and rural areas. By Aditi Khanna London: Watching content on in-built screens will be allowed when the UK's first self-driving cars hit the roads in the near future, according to updates to the country's Highway Code on Wednesday. The UK government said the changes to the code, the result of a public consultation,…

To train a model that can bring a self-driving experience, it takes 10,000 GPUs for two weeks. That involves enormous cost, and mind boggling distributed engineering,” Sahay said.The car is becoming fully automated, and transforming into an experience zone. In becoming so, a lot of investment is going into four areas, and AI is the key technology orchestrating all of those areas, Anurag Sahay, MD & global lead for AI & data sciences at digital product engineering services company Nagarro, said at our webinar last…

Watching content on in-built screens will be allowed when the UK’s first self-driving cars hit the roads in the near future, according to updates to the country’s Highway Code on Wednesday. The UK government said the changes to the code, the result of a public consultation, will help ensure the first wave of technology will be used safely. While travelling in self-driving mode, motorists must be ready to resume control in a timely way if they are prompted to, such as when they approach motorway exits, and the use of…