Sentences with phrase «driverless car service»

After all, why own a car when you can have access to public transit or call a driverless car service?

Meanwhile, Waymo is gearing up to launch a truly driverless car service on public roads in Arizona.

The new driverless car service here also coincided with the debut of the XC90 self - driving car, a Volvo sport utility vehicle outfitted with lidar — a kind of radar based on laser beams, wireless technology and seven cameras.

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.»

And there also was pressure to live up to a goal to offer a driverless car service by the end of the year and to impress top executives.

Not to mention that according to Time, Lyft and General Motors are looking to offer driverless car services in approximately one year — though the recent fatality in a driverless car made by Tesla Motors probably leaves that one up in the air.

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When you hear [Toronto general manager of transportation services] Steve Buckley set out his vision of where we're going to be in 10 years, he says there's going to be a series of robo - cabs sharing the roads possibly with some driverless cars and transit vehicles.

It is now the iconic search engine offering email services, digital advertising, a complete analytics suite, cloud storage, cloud word processing applications, the world's most popular mobile operating system to creating driverless 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.

Taxi and Limousine Services — Will Lyft, Uber, Sidecar or even Google's Driverless car make these businesses obsolete?

«The combined impact of mobility services, driverless technologies, electric cars and government policies [promoting them] will propel a national transformation in personal mobility,» said IHS Markit executive Jim Burkhard.

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.

NuTonomy, a driverless car startup that spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three years ago, has its sights set on operating a fully autonomous taxi service in Singapore.

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...

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.

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.

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.

The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride - hail service and setting up a fleet - management center.

Driverless robot - taxis could make ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft cheaper, potentially luring more people out of the car - buying market.

In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction».

Whether or not regulators ever approve a true driverless car, research on those vehicles is rapidly accelerating advanced driver assistance systems, such as collision avoidance; infotainment, including GPS; and connectivity apps that record data about a car's performance, sync with smartphones and notify emergency services.

Data for better services to citizens, driverless cars, robots for healthcare, artificial intelligence for policy enhancement, are all things that are assumed with little thought about what will need in terms of laws, institutions, and shaping rule of law.

Last month, Arizona officials OK'd a plan by Google's self - driving car unit Waymo to operate the first driverless ride - hailing service in the U.S.. Now, the company's showing off what the passenger experience will be like when that service launches later this year.

While much of the car's engineering is progressing steadily, Faraday Future is struggling to develop self - driving and entertainment systems for its planned driverless taxi services, according to several former executives who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The goal of offering driverless ride - hailing services to the general public by the end of the year was quickly falling apart, and Uber's self - driving cars had a record of failing to operate correctly under a number of standard road conditions, according to internal company notes obtained by The New York Times.