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Credit: Linneakornehed, CC BY-SA 4.0 A California-based autonomous trucking company will begin making deliveries to 34 Sam's Club locations in Dallas-Fort Worth, beginning in July. Gatik will operate autonomous 26-foot box trucks in North Texas seven days a week as part of the Georgia-Pacific and KBX…

Waymo Via, the self-driving trucking unit of Alphabet Inc, and Uber Technology Inc.'s Freight business said they signed a long-term strategic partnership that would allow future customers to deploy autonomous trucks more efficiently. The companies did not share a timeline for when their partnership could be used by paying customers, and Waymo and Uber Freight declined to disclose financial details of the agreement. Under the partnership, future Waymo customers can use Uber Freight to more efficiently plan their automated…

Uber and Waymo have put the past aside, and are now in it for the long haul. On Tuesday, the two companies, previously legal foes, announced a new partnership. Together, they’re planning to combine Waymo’s self-driving technology with Uber Freight’s shipping network to help automate long-distance trucking.Although a version of reality where highways are packed with driverless semi-trucks is a long way off, the companies are angling to “bring together the power of the Waymo Driver with the scale of Uber Freight’s…

A WeRide robotaxi with health supplies heads to Liwan district on June 4, 2021, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.Southern Metropolis Daily | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — While governments may be wary of driverless cars, people want to buy the technology, and companies want to cash in.It's a market for a limited version of self-driving tech that assists drivers with tasks like parking and switching lanes on a highway. And McKinsey predicts the market for a basic form of self-driving tech — known as…

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like Cruise and Waymo — The mainstream approach to driverless cars is slow and difficult. These startups think going all-in on AI will get there faster. Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like…

The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when hit by a Tesla Model 3, which the driver claims was in “autopilot” mode. In the US, the highway safety regulator is investigating a series of accidents where Teslas on autopilot crashed into first-responder vehicles with flashing lights during traffic stops. A Tesla model 3 collides with a stationary emergency responder vehicle in the US.NBC /…

Cruise control Either way, should we count on this new wave of firms to chase down the front-runners? Unsurprisingly, Mo ElShenawy, executive vice president of engineering at Cruise, isn’t convinced. “The state-of-the-art as it exists today is not sufficient to get us to the stage where Cruise is at,” he says. Cruise is one of the most advanced driverless car firms in the world. Since November it has been running a live robotaxi service in San Francisco. Its vehicles operate in a limited area, but anyone can now hail a…

Roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University gather data for training off road ATVs. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose gravel and mud to gather data about how the ATV interacted with a challenging, off-road environment.…

Credit: Shutterstock The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when hit by a Tesla Model 3 in "autopilot" mode. In the U.S., the highway safety regulator is investigating a series of accidents where…

Tesla Model 3. Image used for representation. (Photo: Tesla)Currently, Tesla's FSD Beta has all the features of a self-driving system, but they often fail, which is why it requires a driver behind the wheel at all-time to be attentive and ready to take controlIANS Last Updated:May 25, 2022, 12:30 ISTFOLLOW US ON: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…