Autonomous vehicles

13Feb

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Mobileye CEO Shashua expects more autonomous vehicles on the road in 2 years as tech moves ahead

[ad_1] Six years ago, automakers and tech companies thought they were on the cusp of putting thousands of self-driving robotaxis on the street to carry passengers without a human driver.Then an Uber autonomous test vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, multiple problems arose with Tesla's partially automated systems, and General Motors' Cruise robotaxis ran into trouble in San Francisco. Yet the technology is moving ahead, says Amnon Shashua, co-founder and CEO of Mobileye, an Israeli public company majority owned by Intel that has pioneered partially automated driver-assist systems and fully autonomous technology. Already, Mobileye systems are at work in vehicles that take on some driving functions such as steering and braking, but a human still has to be ready to take over....

Robotaxis Are Making Enemies as They Go Around San Francisco

25Aug

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Robotaxis Are Making Enemies as They Go Around San Francisco

[ad_1] Just before Patti Smith took the stage in San Francisco this month, the emcee thanked sponsors, including robotaxi company Waymo.The audience booed, reflecting the hostility that's growing in the city for one of tech's most-watched industries. There was the recent incident when a fleet of driverless vehicles froze and blocked traffic during a Friday night concert at North Beach. Days later, an autonomous car got stuck in wet cement at a construction site, and then a robotaxi crashed into a firetruck responding to an emergency call. Weeks earlier, pet lovers were mortified when a vehicle struck and killed a small dog. The mishaps are adding to traffic and safety concerns over driverless vehicles, which zip around the city's streets surrounded by sensors and cameras, collecting dat...

4Jul

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Tesla Sales Surge, But at What Cost?

[ad_1] Price cuts work — but only up to a point. Which is about all one can glean from Tesla Inc.'s latest quarterly sales numbers, announced Sunday. The struggle between growth and margins, which defined the first half of 2023, has yet to be resolved.Having delivered about 466,000 vehicles, Tesla beat the consensus estimate by 4%. Deliveries so far this year are up 58% compared with the same period in 2022 and, at the current run rate, look on track to meet Tesla's guidance of about 1.8 million this year (though more would be needed to hit the two million upside case Chief Executive Elon Musk has mentioned). For Tesla's never-small fan club, this should be enough to support the stock on a thinly traded pre-July 4 Monday. What we won't know until July 19, however, is whether the goodies...

China’s DriveGPT Is Here. Time to Play Catch-Up

26Apr

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China’s DriveGPT Is Here. Time to Play Catch-Up

[ad_1] China's artificial intelligence-powered autonomous-vehicle market is showing serious promise. So, of course, Elon Musk wants a piece of it, especially since he's struggled to get self-driving technology off the ground in the US. That may not pan out as well as the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer's Beijing-backed electric-vehicle bet.Local media say Tesla could be getting ready to test its full self-driving technology in China. Given the firm's FSD track record in the US, that's a scary and unsafe prospect. In May 2021, Tesla announced it was eliminating critical radars on new cars. It then started disabling them in vehicles already on the road, resulting in an uptick in crashes, the Washington Post reported. In February, it paused the rollout of FSD. Suffice to say, the global...

Tesla wins bellwether trial over Autopilot car crash

24Apr

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Tesla wins bellwether trial over Autopilot car crash

[ad_1] A California state court jury on Friday handed Tesla Inc a sweeping win, finding the electric vehicle maker's Autopilot feature did not fail in what appeared to be the first trial related to a crash involving the partially automated driving software.Tesla has been testing and rolling out its Autopilot and more advanced "Full Self-Driving (FSD)" system, which Chief Executive Elon Musk has touted as crucial to his company's future but which has drawn regulatory and legal scrutiny. Los Angeles resident Justine Hsu sued in 2020, saying her Tesla Model S swerved into a curb while on Autopilot, and an airbag was deployed "so violently it fractured Plaintiff's jaw, knocked out teeth, and caused nerve damage to her face.” She alleged defects in the design of Autopilot and the airbag, and...

At CES tech mega-show, driverless cars show promise, limitations

5Jan

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At CES tech mega-show, driverless cars show promise, limitations

[ad_1] Autonomous vehicles have long been pitched as the new dawn of transportation and the world's biggest tech companies have poured billions of dollars into being ready. Crowds of techies will descend on Las Vegas this week for the annual CES technology mega-show, but one innovation may again fall short of long-held hopes: driverless cars. Autonomous vehicles have long been pitched as the new dawn of transportation and the world's biggest tech companies have poured billions of dollars into being ready. Despite steady advances, however, robo-travel has yet to take over the open roads, with even Elon Musk's best-selling Teslas requiring "a fully attentive driver", despite the billionaire's assurances his cars will soon be autonomous. Waymo, a subsidiary of Google-parent Alphab...