Tag Archives: Autonomous

Bestmile has raised $16.5 million in venture capital as the Switzerland-based startup continues expansion of a platform that manages autonomous and human-driven vehicles. The company’s software was originally designed to help transportation companies optimize fleets of self-driving vehicles, including cars, trucks and shuttles. But it has also evolved to work …

RK Anand — along with Ashwini Choudhary, Eye-Fi founder Eugene Feinberg, former Lilium sensor systems engineer Gilles Backhus, and Valerie Chan — believes self-driving cars have a massive compute problem. While the AI models that guide the cars’ decision-making have powerful servers at their disposal for training, inferencing — the …

In an effort to bolster the development of cars capable of driving themselves around without human supervision, Lyft today released an autonomous vehicles data set that it’s calling the largest of its kind. It’s freely available in the existing nuScenes format, which was initially developed by Aptiv. “Autonomous vehicles are …

Today at Baidu’s annual Create AI developer conference in Beijing, the China-based search giant announced a slew of updates across its ever-expanding driverless car ecosystem. They come as analysts at Research and Markets forecast there will be some 20 million autonomous and semiautonomous cars in operation in the U.S. by …

Cruise is testing computer vision and sound detection AI to help autonomous cars respond to passing emergency vehicles, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. More specifically, the systems are alert for the sound and sight of sirens to understand if a police car, fire truck, or ambulance is …

Cruise, the driverless car startup acquired by GM for $581 million in 2016, today detailed in a blog post how its fleet of over 180 self-driving Chevrolet Bolts are learning to anticipate human drivers’ behaviors. It’s part of a new series the company is publishing on Medium called How Self-Driving …

(Reuters) — French automaker Renault, its Japanese partner Nissan and tech giant Alphabet’s Waymo are exploring a partnership to develop and use self-driving vehicles to transport people and goods in France and Japan, the companies said on Thursday. The proposed venture could also be expanded to other markets, the companies …

Dr Bryan Marshall, Head of IoT and AV Technology at Nominet, discusses the challenging road to our connected transportation future. NEW CONNECTIONS An occasional series of vendor perspectives on the world of connected business. The global autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow at a rate of almost 40 percent …