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

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....

GM’s Cruise recalling 950 driverless cars after crash involving pedestrian

9Nov

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GM’s Cruise recalling 950 driverless cars after crash involving pedestrian

[ad_1] Cruise is recalling 950 driverless cars from the roads across the United States following a crash involving one of its robotaxis and will likely issue more recalls, General Motors' self-driving unit said.The cars are being recalled because the collision detection subsystem of the Cruise Automated Driving Systems (ADS) software may respond improperly after a crash, according to a notice filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Wednesday. Last month, a pedestrian in San Francisco was struck by a hit-and-run driver and thrown into an adjacent lane and was hit a second time by a Cruise robotaxi that was not able to stop in time and then dragged the pedestrian. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to joinThe recall addresses circumstances in which the collision d...

GM Cruise Robotaxi Collides With Firetruck, Injuring Passenger

20Aug

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GM Cruise Robotaxi Collides With Firetruck, Injuring Passenger

[ad_1] A Cruise robotaxi collided with a firetruck late Thursday in San Francisco, injuring the vehicle's passenger.The autonomous-driving company, a subsidiary of General Motors Co., reported the crash in a series of social media posts Friday. “One of our cars entered the intersection on a green light and was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene,” the company posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The accident occurred shortly after 10 p.m. in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, Cruise said. “Our car contained one passenger who was treated on scene and transported via ambulance for what we believe are non-severe injuries,” the company said.The incident raises questions about why the vehicle did not know to stop for an...

Tesla Chargers Win More Backers as Its Plug Becomes US Standard

14Jun

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Tesla Chargers Win More Backers as Its Plug Becomes US Standard

[ad_1] Tesla Inc.'s charging technology won more backers as a handful of players in the electric-vehicle power industry said they would offer compatible equipment, further solidifying the automaker's system as the US standard.ChargePoint Holdings Inc., Blink Charging Co. and Wallbox NV each said Monday they will have chargers capable of working with Tesla's North American Charging Standard, which is quickly winning in competition with the so-called Combined Charging System. Australia's Tritium DCFC Ltd. also said it would offer an NACS connector option with its chargers. The rapid succession of announcement comes just days after car giants General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. agreed to join with Elon Musk's company by adopting standardized NACS ports in future models. These latest move...

27Apr

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AI Could Spell the End of Big Business

[ad_1] Big business has been a fixture of American life since the late 19th century, and today more Americans work for big companies than for small ones. That could be about to change — in part because of the rise of artificial intelligence.Consider the most prestigious service that generates images using AI, a company called Midjourney. It has a total of 11 full-time employees. Perhaps more are on the way, but that is remarkably few workers for a company that is becoming widely known in its field. Part of the trick, of course, is that a lot of the work is done by computers and artificial intelligence. I don't think this will lead to mass unemployment, because history shows that workers have typically managed to move from automating sectors into new and growing ones. But if some of the ...

GM Cruise recall: 300 self-driving vehicles recalled to update software after bus crash

8Apr

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GM Cruise recall: 300 self-driving vehicles recalled to update software after bus crash

[ad_1] General Motors' robotaxi unit Cruise LLC is recalling the automated driving software in 300 vehicles after one of its driverless vehicles crashed into the back of a San Francisco bus.The March 23 collision was the fault of a software error in a Cruise automated vehicle (AV) that inaccurately predicted the movement of an articulated San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority bus, Cruise said on Friday. The crash caused moderate damage to the Cruise but did not result in any injuries. Cruise in a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) filing on Friday said the software was updated on March 25 to address concerns that the system "may inaccurately predict the movement of articulated vehicles such as buses and tractor trailers." "Fender benders like this rarely happen t...

14Mar

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GM explores using ChatGPT in vehicles

[ad_1] General Motors Co is exploring uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader collaboration with Microsoft Corp, a company executive told Reuters."ChatGPT is going to be in everything," GM Vice President Scott Miller said in an interview last week. The chatbot could be used to access information on how to use vehicle features normally found in an owners manual, program functions such as a garage door code or integrate schedules from a calendar, Miller said. "This shift is not just about one single capability like the evolution of voice commands, but instead means that customers can expect their future vehicles to be far more capable and fresh overall when it comes to emerging technologies," a GM spokesperson said on Friday.The news was first reported by website Semafor, which said that...

11Mar

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GM explores using ChatGPT in vehicles

[ad_1] General Motors Co is exploring uses for ChatGPT as part of its broader collaboration with Microsoft Corp, a company executive told Reuters last week."ChatGPT is going to be in everything," GM Vice President Scott Miller said in an interview. The chatbot could be used to access information on how to use vehicle features normally found in an owners manual, program functions such as a garage door code or integrate schedules from a calendar, Miller said. The news was first reported by website Semafor, which said that the American automaker was working on a virtual personal assistant that uses AI models behind ChatGPT.Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a multi-billion dollar investment in ChatGPT-owner OpenAI and said it aims to add the chatbot's technology into all its products....

Twitter, ad verification company partner to give advertisers tweet-level analysis

26Jan

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Twitter, ad verification company partner to give advertisers tweet-level analysis

[ad_1] Twitter, ad verification company partner to give advertisers tweet-level analysis Twitter Inc and Integral Ad Science, a digital ad verification company, will team up to provide advertisers tweet-level analysis on content appearing next to their ads, the companies said on Wednesday. The partnership comes at a time when the social media platform is struggling with falling revenue, as advertisers slash their spending on the platform after billionaire Elon Musk made several changes following his takeover. "Marketers are looking for confidence to continue to invest in Twitter and eventually grow their investment in Twitter... and that is what this is all about," said Craig Ziegler, senior vice president, Product Management of Integral Ad Science. IAS will also give advertise...

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...