Sentences with phrase «car project for»

Sanjiv Singh, a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, has worked on a flying car project for DARPA and currently leads a startup, not affiliated in any way with Ehang, that develops autonomous rotorcraft.

Chris Urmson, shown here last March at South by Southwest Interactive with Google's prototype self - driving car, announced that he would be departing the search company, where he was chief technology officer for its autonomous car project for seven years.

We took a break from car projects for fun in the sprinkler and baby pool.

Not exact matches

Tesla said Wednesday evening it's on track to produce 5,000 Model 3s per week by the end of its second quarter, a twice - delayed goal that the electric car company had originally projected for the end of 2017.

It did speak up on the Stop Online Piracy Act earlier this year, but for the most part Google has been focusing its public muscle on uncontroversial projects like augmented reality glasses and robot cars.

In addition to driverless cars, increased usage of ride - sharing and ride - hailing services are projected to generate $ 1 trillion in revenue for suppliers globally by 2040, latest industry figures indicate, according to SCMP.

With the Apple Car project has underway for two years, it would somehow take the tech colossus seven years to create and market an automobile to meet what had once appeared to be Cook's expectations.

My colleague Steve Kovach has also covered two swerves on Project Titan — that Tim Cook made some obscure statements that suggest a recent investment in a Chinese car - sharing service is going to provide support, somehow, for the Apple Car, alleged to arrive in 2021, a rumor that now looks baselecar - sharing service is going to provide support, somehow, for the Apple Car, alleged to arrive in 2021, a rumor that now looks baseleCar, alleged to arrive in 2021, a rumor that now looks baseless.

Yet, it's «exciting» for the engineers on the project to know what's left to do now that the self - driving car has proven that it can drive on public roads.

Hasty founded a concrete company and an insurance business before starting Unique in 2001 as a hobby project for his car collection.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Alex Webb, Apple «has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project.»

It's been an exciting year for self - driving car projects that people can actually see and experience in the real world: In December, Google announced it was spinning out its self - driving car project into Waymo, a company that will partner with automakers to put driverless technology into cars.

Questions have been raised about the outlook for the FF91, given LeEco's spiraling cash problems as well as its decision to pull out of a joint project with British sports carmaker Aston Martin to develop RapidE electric car.

«It's for a bike - rack project,» Griffith says, and then produces a model for a small, customizable, lightweight, and easily assembled bike rack that can be fit to any car in any configuration.

For six years Anthony Levandowski worked on Google's self - driving car project, developing sensors, creating policies, and testing technology.

Waymo, the subsidiary of Alphabet formerly known as the Google Self Driving Car Project, is poised to offer its autonomous - drive technology in millions of vehicles as it lowers costs for key components and improves the reliability of its self - driving.

Harvey has also delayed the first projected increase in year - over-year new car sales in 2017 for the month of August with 20,000 to 40,000 sales delayed in Texas.

Ever since Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the company is working on «autonomous systems» for cars, details have trickled out as well as a few public sightings of the technology Now, thanks to the co-founder of self - driving car startup Voyage, we're getting an up close look at — and some expert insight on — Apple's Project Titan.

We often hear about Google's oddball «Moonshot» projects — from using balloons to bring internet to isolated areas to developing self - driving cars — but according to at least one of the company's former execs, Google's obsession with shooting for the stars actually reaches into even the most mundane aspects of its everyday business.

Today, it is a pragmatic way for companies like Apple and Google to invest billions in «moonshot» projects such as self - driving cars.

The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.

He then took several questions in a row about plans for a self - driving car network and other long - term projects from the host of a YouTube channel focused on investing, praising the questions as not boring.

And Volvo will use the same vehicle for its own autonomous driving project, which is based on a plan that still envisages having a driver in the car.

«We are really excited to get going on this project,» O'Connell said, which will bring prices down for batteries to power its upcoming line of cars with a price tag less than $ 40,000.

Waymo — formerly the Google self - driving car project — stands for a new way forward in mobility.

As we at Tesla reach for our goal of producing a mass market electric car in approximately three years, we have an opportunity to leverage our projected demand for lithium ion batteries to reduce their cost faster than previously thought possible.

AND, I still can go out for nice dinners, go to sporting events, go on a week or two of vacation each year, go to shows, have nice clothes for work and casual events, drive a decent car, and afford home improvement projects on my house.

Our un-driver for the day was Chris Urmson, the director of Google's five - year - old self - driving - car project.

Between September 1, 2015 and March 22, 2016: Levandowski accessed 347 files on his personal devices that included proprietary information about his work on Google's self - driving car project that included «confidential presentations regarding the self - driving car and its marketing and business plans; videos of features and test drives of the self - driving car; pictures of the self - driving car and multiple components; notes pertaining to plans for the self - driving car; diagrams of vehicle components marked confidential; system files; software files; and code regarding the self - driving car.»

The Japanese automaker has been less vocal about its plans for self - driving cars than larger rivals like Toyota and General Motors, which in recent months have shown off major research and development projects and big - ticket acquisitions.

The goal of the project is to remove the need for owners to plug - in their car when they get home.

That includes its ongoing technological efforts to get rid of the most costly part of its business model (the driver) via self - driving car tech; targeting 2020 for a demo of a flying car project called Uber Elevate; and, last week, announced it was pushing into the trucking space with Uber Freight.

Already the world's largest car market, China is projected to become the top market for luxury vehicles by 2020, according to L2, a U.S. business intelligence firm that tracks the digital performance of consumer brands.

Google, which recently lost its chief technologist Chris Urmson, has yet to publicly announce a path to revenue for its self - driving car project.

Alphabet has yet to disclose what the plan for commercializing its car is, but it's clear the project is expecting to «graduate» from X soon to stand on its own.

Google's parent firm Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been working to develop autonomous vehicles on its own for years, but the company's head of its self - driving car project John Krafcik said the firm has reached a point at which more partnerships would be beneficial to the project's...

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Google's research facility Google X swooped up John Krafcik, the former president of TrueCar Inc., an auto - shopping site, as the new Google X CEO for its cars project department.

Last August, just months after its founding, Otto was bought by Uber for $ 670 million and Levandowski was tapped to run Uber's nascent self driving car project.

And while the car project under Teller has lost several critical members and faces criticism for dawdling, it is expected to «graduate,» X's parlance, soon.

GM has hedges in place to account for shifts in the prices of raw materials, and analysts project tariffs to only raise overall car prices by 1 %.

Another concern for Musk is climate change, which had driven his projects around renewable energy and electric cars.

McLaren also say that it'll be one of the fastest street tracks around, with «a projected top speed of 195mph for the front - running cars» - so not McLaren - Honda, then!

Most of the season had gone by before the project was abandoned, and to make matters worse Kimi Raikkonen was challenging for the championship in an updated version of the 2002 car.

We've been hearing the phrase «late 2017» for far too long with the new Project Cars 2 game, but we now have an actual release date for Project Cars 2 — yay!

It's set to be a brilliant second half of 2017 for racing gamers and we've now got the full car and track lists for Project Cars 2

The second instalment of Slightly Mad Studios» racing game series will be hitting consoles on the 22 September and we now know the complete track and car lists for Project Cars 2.

Called «Project 34», the idea was that having smaller front wheels would reduce the amount of lift generated at the front of the car, but in order for the smaller tyres to maintain the same contact patch with the road it'd need four of them.

During Market Days, clients can shop for donated items, aside from the diapers and wipes they receive through the organization's Earn & Learn projects and Emergency Assistance program, such as baby clothes, breast pumps, formula, car seats, and strollers.

For now, the site's neighbor to the east, Butterfield Park District whose picnic area would have been steps away from the project's car wash if approved, says their victory is just the beginning.