Sentences with phrase «autonomous vehicle fleet»

The Tempe, Arizona crash involving a self - driving Volvo XC90 SUV from Uber that resulted in a death of a 49 - year - old woman earlier this month is raising questions about the overall design of the company's latest autonomous vehicle fleet, specifically in regards to the number of safety sensors it has.

Ford will triple the size of its autonomous vehicle fleet to 30 cars from 10, and step up testing at its proving grounds as well as on public roads in California.

On Aug. 30, Ernst & Young (EY) launched its newest project dubbed «Tesseract» for autonomous vehicle fleet management.

Following the fatal accident involving an Uber self - driving car striking a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, chip maker Nvidia has confirmed that tests of its autonomous vehicle fleet have been suspended temporarily.

Uber has reportedly suspended testing of its autonomous vehicle fleet and is cooperating with authorities.

This makes the company's fully autonomous vehicle fleet the largest of all automakers.

Not exact matches

Uber is now running a fleet of autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh.

The news comes on the heels of rumors that Google and Ford will be announcing a partnership to create a fleet of autonomous vehicles.

Aurora confirmed to Fortune that it has been testing its autonomous vehicles on private courses and is now ramping up its test fleet operations on public roads in California, including in Palo Alto, Calif..

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.

By year - end the company expects to have the largest fleet of autonomous test vehicles of any automaker.

Principle No. 10 reads: «We support that autonomous vehicles in dense urban areas should be operated only in shared fleets.»

Waymo is adding 100 of these self - driving minivans to its fleet, as part of a collaboration announced in May with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles — the first time the tech company has worked directly with an automaker to create its autonomous vehicles.

Each is preparing to roll out fleet - based autonomous ride - hailing services in the coming years — but each is taking a completely different approach to the actual vehicle part of the equation.

Whenever one of its autonomous vehicles encounters a difficult driving situation, like bicyclists driving down the wrong side of the road or a child running into the street to retrieve a ball, Google can use the episode to train its entire fleet of self driving cars.

According to the CEO, the autonomous I - PACE fleet is set to start testing sometime later this year, with Waymo deploying as many as 20,000 of the vehicles within two years of production.

Uber and Kalanick's next - step plans are shocking to contemplate: conquering the world's biggest and toughest - to - crack markets in India and China; transforming Uber from «everyone's private driver» into a carpooling service; and then further reinventing itself — and how the world's cities operate — by introducing a fleet of autonomous vehicles.

Finally, Tesla wants its vehicles to be fully autonomous, and to have shared fleets that drive around to transport people.

Ford's new autonomous driving plans include a fleet of self - driving and delivering autonomous vehicles.

Uber has pushed onward its goal of having a fleet of autonomous vehicles by purchasing autonomous truck startup Otto and inking a deal with Volvo to start building self - driving cars.

These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles based on a completely new architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.

For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long - range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically.

The second stage of Musk's «master plan» involves integrating solar energy generation and storage, expanding Tesla's remit with commercial vehicles and public transportation, continuing to improve the firm's autonomous vehicle capabilities, and allowing Tesla owners to make money off their autonomous cars by adding them to a self - driving fleet — a kind of autonomous Uber.

Tesla itself will also field a fleet of autonomous vehicles.

These partnerships were created in order to test autonomous vehicles because Lyft intends to incorporate them into their vehicle fleet and use them as part of their ride - hailing business.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is investing heavily in the future of connected and autonomous vehicle technology and has now announced its plans for real - world fleet tests in the UK.

Ford said it is adding 20 fully autonomous Fusion Hybrid test cars to the company's autonomous fleet, making about 30 vehicles now wheeling around in California, Arizona and Michigan.

Last year, Google introduced a fleet of autonomous vehicles.

JLR's InMotion ventures will get an opportunity for developing and testing its mobility services, including autonomous vehicles and the company plans to provide drivers with a fleet of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.

Just last year, Google introduced a fleet of autonomous vehicles, one of which drove itself from Carson, Nevada, to the SEMA Show and parked itself in the Vehicle Technology Center!

These improvements plus an expansion of their test fleet to 90 vehicles should help Ford reach its goal of having a Level 4 autonomous vehicle - designed to perform safety - critical driving functions and monitor conditions during the trip - by 2021.

-- UK Autodrive commences trials of autonomous vehicles in Coventry, UK — Tata Hexa readied by UK - based TMETC — Autonomous Hexa equipped with in - vehicle signage, intersection collision warning, emergency vehicle warning and more — Ford Mondeo and Range Rover Sport are also part of autonomous fleet

To get there, the automaker is tripling the size of its autonomous development fleet, and rolling out a new version of its test vehicles, which are based on the Ford Fusion Hybrid sedan.

Earlier this month, Ford announced it is taking the next step — tripling its fully autonomous development fleet to 30 vehicles being tested on roads and test tracks in California, Arizona and Michigan.

With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that Ford has been busy upgrading its autonomous fleet and has finally announced what we can expect with its next - gen Fusion Hybrid autonomous development vehicle shows up at CES and the Detroit Auto Show.

This year, the auto maker plans to triple its autonomous vehicle test fleet — bringing the number to about 30 self - driving Fusion Hybrid sedans for testing on roads in California, Arizona and Michigan.

Uber has ordered a fleet of 1,00,000 Mercedes S - Class cars to fulfil its interest in autonomous driving vehicles.

Ford announced expanded apps and offerings for their sync system, and a tripling of their autonomous vehicle test fleet to make it the industry's largest.

Waymo is planning on having a broader spectrum of vehicles in its autonomous fleet from small cars to semi trucks.

By 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval of autonomous vehicles (AVs), 95 % of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on - demand autonomous electric vehicles owned by fleets, not individuals, in a new business model we call «transport - as - a-service» (TaaS).

Of course there's a lot of leg work still be to done around other areas of regulation and on testing the tech before we can consider sending even an autonomous mobility scooter out on UK roads, let alone interconnected fleets of AVs vehicles capable of sharing vast amounts of data with each another and with the highway infrastructure.

A partner in a venture capital firm with investments in autonomous vehicle development says he expects «grocery store margins» for companies who take on their own fleets.

But John Zimmer, president of the ride - hail service Lyft, argued in a recent essay that «the transition to an autonomous future will not occur primarily through individually owned cars» but through a networked fleet of shared vehicles.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk envisions a future where Tesla owners will be able to add their car to a «Tesla shared fleet» — likely an on - demand ride - hailing service that will allow the vehicle to give autonomous rides to the general public while the owner is at work or on vacation.

The move to introduce self - driving cars will see Uber grow its own fleet to a certain extent and also develop autonomous vehicle kits for other cars.

Intel's fleet of autonomous test vehicles will grow to upwards of 100 cars this year.

And with hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road today, Tesla touted its method of «shadow - testing» its autonomous capabilities, by which the company collects anonymized data from its fleet of customer - owned vehicles during normal driving operations.

Waymo offered a first look at its fleet of hybrid Chrysler Pacifica minivans today, showing off vehicles that pack an array of sensors and software that enable autonomous operation.

Waymo, the self - driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached a deal with one of Detroit's Big Three automakers to dramatically expand its fleet of autonomous vehicles.