Sentences with phrase «as driverless cars»

Preferences for live / walk / work communities will only accelerate as driverless cars are introduced.

This could change in the future, as driverless cars become more dominant.

Indeed, opportunities are opening up in whole new areas for law firms with disruptive technology such as driverless cars and the likes of Uber ushering in a wealth of challenges, even demanding fresh legal frameworks.

Similarly, most people think of autonomous vehicles simply as driverless cars when in fact they potentially represent a revolutionary new form of transportation.

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The technology could be used to develop navigation systems that meet the stringent requirements of fully autonomous vehicles, such as driverless cars and unmanned drones.

But, over the years, the tech giant has expanded into new areas such as driverless cars and «smart» glasses.

In his TED Talk, Bloom explains that work - from - home is potentially as powerful and innovative as the driverless car.

After few acclaimed projects, such as a Driverless Car, Project Loon (a network of balloons intended for beaming internet waves to far - reaching areas), Google Glass and Smart Lenses that can monitor glucose levels in the wearer's body, the company is betting upon another path - breaking project again.

An autonomous car (also known as a driverless car, self - driving car, robotic car) and unmanned ground vehicle is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its Sign up for the newsletter and get daily updates on all the best rumors, news and legends delivered straight to your inbox.

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As Silicon Valley companies push further into driverless car technology dominance, Waymo is hoping to find its niche with the minivan set.

As the car industry continues to adopt new technology, including driverless cars, GM has been working to keep up.

Since GM's driverless cars are years away from hitting the road as part of Lyft's service, the automaker plans to provide short - term car rentals (for a day, week or month) to Lyft drivers in the immediate future, as well as lease financing through its GM Financial arm, said Ammann.

Uber's driverless cars are not carpools, but Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has described UberPool as the future of his company.

Khosrowshahi also briefly touched on the company's driverless car pilot program as well as the ongoing investigation after one of Uber's self - driving cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. last month.

Thanks to nuTonomy and MIT's partnership with Singapore, a country with dense urban areas has been highly receptive to driverless car technology, the comparatively small company could become the first to operate fully self - driving cars, known as «level four,» in a city commercially.

The venture has set the 2020 Games in Tokyo as a target to develop software to operate driverless cars and an online service to ferry athletes and tourists between Olympic venues and the city's transp...

Developed in the secretive X lab that came up with a driverless car and web - surfing eyeglasses, the flimsy helium - filled inflatables beam the Internet down to earth as they sail past on the wind.

Apple is reportedly prioritizing working on the software for a driverless car, rather than building one from scratch, as is indicated by its hiring of Dan Dodge, the founder of QNX and one of the premiere experts in car software.

Project Loon was first revealed in New Zealand in June 2013 as a part of the Google X department, which comes up with innovations like the driverless car.

Other technology firms that made it to the list are Nvidia at no. 28, which produces chips for futuristic technologies such as deep learning and driverless cars, Facebook at no. 29 for investing in Messenger and for hosting news articles on its platform, Japanese messaging app maker Line at no. 37, Coinbase at no. 40 for enabling Bitcoin payments in PayPal and Expedia, IBM at no. 46 for its work with Watson, Snapchat at no. 47 for its innovative new format, and Uber at no. 50 for its ride - sharing services and driver deliveries.

Presumably, if initial efforts work, Uber will continue to buy cars and retrofit them with its own self - driving technology as the company ramps up its fleet of driverless cars.

Once you cover your traffic lights in sensors, it's easier to turn them into air - quality monitors, too; as long as you're redesigning streets around driverless cars, you can also think about what the delivery robots need.

Different services such as trains, metros, busses, bicycles and electric cars (maybe even driverless cars), should be much better integrated offering the individual the optimal move from point A to B.

Interested local research institutions will be able to apply for funding by submitting a business case paired with a local city or authority as to why driverless cars are a viable transport solution in their area.

The consumer groupâ $ ™ s challenge comes amid reports that Waymo has provided all the necessary information to the DMV as part of its efforts to secure a permit to test driverless cars on public roads.

The car, described by Faraday Future director Hong Bae as the «smartest car you'll ever drive,» does not have keys as it will be unlocked by facial recognition, and also comes with a driverless valet feature to have the vehicle park itself.

Meanwhile, as all the major ride companies and automakers race to develop self - driving car technologies, Google's driverless vehicles are already traversing the streets of Mountain View, California.

A video of Kalanick aggressively berating one of his own drivers swiftly followed, as did a lawsuit from Google driverless car sister company Waymo for trade - secret misappropriation.

It is working on driverless cars (unless a trade secrets lawsuit brought by self - driving carmaker Waymo stops it) and dabbling in VTOL, more popularly known as flying cars.

Ride - sharing services such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., and the advent of electric vehicles and driverless cars, are poised to chip away at the higher prices that real estate around subways and bus stops has earned, according to a report from MetLife Inc.'s asset - management business released Tuesday.

As Autopilot technology continues to be developed, more advanced functionality will be made available to Tesla owners over time nearing full self - driving capabilities; however, until truly driverless cars are developed and approved by regulators, the driver is responsible for and must remain in control of their car at all times.

As we're often told in the news, autonomous, or driverless, cars are on their way to a showroom near you.

Around October, Uber merged the two groups to get to a point where it could offer a truly driverless car service to customers «as quickly as possible.»

Driverless cars rely on lidar, which uses laser light pulses to detect road hazards, as well as sensors such as radar and cameras.

The development was an embarrassing twist for Uber, which had set up its San Francisco driverless - car rollout as a big event, especially as it competes with other tech rivals to bring autonomous vehicles to consumers.

Cruise has developed driverless versions of the electric Chevrolet Bolt, plus an app to use the cars as robotaxis in a ride - hailing fleet starting next year.

As Tesla continues to evolve its Autopilot suite of features and aims to complete its first coast - to - coast fully autonomous drive this year, the Silicon Valley electric carmaker is said to be working on its own AI - based chips that will power the company's future fleet of driverless cars.

The former Top Gear Stig has dismissed driverless cars as a step forward in road safety and told Good Morning Britain the best computer in a car «is the human».

The permit means its driverless vehicles will be able to travel on the same routes as cars driven by humans.

As kiosks, driverless cars, and other automation takes over: What strategies are on the table to prevent people from going nuts?

In addition to preferentially using warmer - colored LEDs, the study's authors say, the loss of starry skies to light pollution could be forestalled or reversed with stricter regulations on artificial lights as well as the advent of driverless cars, which require less street illumination.

However, driverless cars will not need to communicate wirelessly with expensive roadside technology as they need to be «independently smart» and aware of all risks around them at all times, says Newman.

Driverless cars could reduce insurance costs, says Paul Newman of the University of Oxford, by allowing the car to add to its own insurance as road conditions change.

That may seem like an odd question as the agency's reputation is burnished today by breathless reportage of the applications of its technologies, with driverless cars, robot challenges, advanced prostheses and even neuroscience applications that seem tailor - made to meet civilian preoccupations.

Cars that require little to no human input appear ever closer to reality as automakers like Audi AG, BMW AG, Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. continue developing their own versions of the technology and Google Inc. sends driverless cars around the streets of CaliforCars that require little to no human input appear ever closer to reality as automakers like Audi AG, BMW AG, Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. continue developing their own versions of the technology and Google Inc. sends driverless cars around the streets of Califorcars around the streets of California.

Essentially, people want driverless cars that are as pedestrian - friendly as possible — except for the vehicles they would be riding in.

If driverless cars are confused just as easily the consequences may be severe.

The technique — known as an adversarial example --- could be used by hackers to trick driverless cars into ignoring stop signs or prevent a CCTV camera from spotting a suspect in a crowd.

It might not seem as sexy as Tesla or Google's driverless car projects, but the trial demonstrates how most people are likely to first experience driverless cars: as a shared transit system in city centres.