Sentences with phrase «autonomous car tests»

The Nvidia announcement follows the grounding of Uber's autonomous car tests after the first recorded instance of a self - driving car being involved in a pedestrian fatality.

On Monday, Uber halted autonomous car tests in Arizona, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.

The Arizona Governor temporarily suspended Uber's autonomous car testing operations.

There are fully autonomous cars testing on roads right now and even production vehicles with autonomous tech.

The Arizona Governor temporarily suspended Uber's autonomous car testing operations.

With Michigan going all - in on autonomous car testing, GM will be doing a lot more with the Bolt, including trials for self - driving tech and loans to Lyft, which the automaker bought a stake in last year.

Not exact matches

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

So while the autonomous technology is still evolving, Ford wants to test its new business model centered around logistics so that it can lay the groundwork for a new era shaped by self - driving cars at the company.

Volvo is currently deploying a test fleet of 100 largely autonomous cars among ordinary drivers in Sweden, though the AVs will be restricted to certain roads and speeds.

«In order to move autonomous driving toward reality, testing requires more cars, more drivers, and more day - to - day miles traveled than any combination of research facilities could support.»

Since then however, virtually all of the world's major automakers have ramped up self - driving car efforts and are currently testing prototype vehicles with various levels of autonomous capabilities.

Aurora is the 37th company to receive an autonomous vehicle testing permit in California, one of several states that have become hotbeds for the development and testing of self - driving cars.

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self - driving cars on public roads there.

Hertz shares were up 14 percent after the news that Apple is leasing cars from Hertz for autonomous testing.

However, while Samsung has licenses for autonomous driving on - road testing in South Korea and California, the FT reports that the company does not plan to manufacture the cars itself.

But experts have noted that, at least as far as the test is concerned, Apple's autonomous car seems to be built from off - the - shelf parts, including a lidar (light detection and ranging) unit from Velodyne Lidar, at least two radar units and several cameras.

On Monday, the Arizona governor suspended testing of autonomous cars in the state.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

Waymo, Google's self - driving car project, will start testing its autonomous vehicles in Michigan.

The companies already are testing autonomous cars in a Singapore business district and plan to bring the technology to the U.S. and Europe for tests starting next year.

Regulators have given Mercedes - Benz a license to test the new E-Class standard - production cars in autonomous mode, announced the company's parent company Daimler (ddaif) AG at CES, an annual consumer electronics industry trade show in Las Vegas.

Google is teaching its self - driving cars to share the road with cyclists, the company said in a monthly report on its autonomous vehicle testing program.

States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

Honda has been testing its autonomous cars at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in San Francisco since March 2015.

Under the rules, all test drivers must have clean driving records and get training in operating autonomous cars.

As the investigation into last week's fatal crash where an autonomous Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., the state's governor has suspended Uber's permission to test its cars there.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.

Big name automakers and a certain electric car upstart are among the companies to be issued permits for testing autonomous vehicles in the state.

According to a Reuters report, Baidu, the Google equivalent of China, also got permission to road - test its autonomous car technology.

The site in Concord, California, about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, hopes to lure other carmakers to test autonomous cars there.

Two types of testing will be reviewed for public roads: fully autonomous cars without a driver, and those with a qualified driver who could take control at any time, similar to laws in the US where driverless cars have been tested on public roads since 2011 in some states.

China has made self - driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow down those efforts to ensure public safety.

TEMPE, Ariz. / DETROIT (Reuters)- Arizona officials said on Tuesday they saw no immediate need to tighten rules on the testing of self - driving cars in the state in reaction to a fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous vehicle that has focused attention on the safety of the new technology.

That it happened to Uber seems to be a bit of bad luck blended with hubris, adds Brauer, noting that in some 2.5 million miles and years of testing the most that has happened to Google's autonomous cars are low - speed bumper dings.

Herzberg's death is the first involving an autonomous test vehicle but not the first in a car with some self - driving features.

Just two weeks after the engineers left, Uber began its second commercial test of its autonomous cars — this time in San Francisco.

Major car manufacturer SAIC Motor Corp will also be testing autonomous technology.

The Chinese tech giant is hiring 50 additional self - driving car experts and will be looking to test level 4 autonomous driving technology.

The big caveat here is that Uber just started testing its autonomous cars in Arizona and had a better track record around Arizona State University, which the company mapped out as early as 2015.

Fully autonomous cars are being tested on roads today, and the first commercially available semi-autonomous cars could be on the road in the next 1 - 2 years.

The startup, which has been testing its cars in Mountain View, Calif., seeks to take on Urmson's former employer in developing the brain for autonomous cars.

The California DMV passed regulations that allow for the public testing and deployment of autonomous cars without drivers.

Following a car accident involving one of its self - driving cars, Uber is officially pulling out its autonomous testing program in Arizona, in addition to pausing its Pittsburgh test bed.

NuTonomy, a self - driving car startup spun out of MIT and based in Cambridge, Mass., will soon begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Boston.

There are few federal rules governing the testing of autonomous cars.

In arguments before U.S. District Judge William Alsup, attorneys for both parties laid out their case related to Waymo's request for a temporary injunction against Uber that would force the ride - hailing company to stop testing its autonomous cars.

Unlike California, where Uber had been testing since spring of 2017, Arizona state officials had taken a hands - off approach to autonomous vehicles and did not require companies to disclose how their cars were performing.

The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main testing ground, with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.

While a number of states have passed laws to allow autonomous cars, most cover the testing of vehicles rather than the use by consumers.