Sentences with phrase «driverless cars projects»

Google will reportedly make its driverless car project a standalone subsidiary this year.

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.

Not exact matches

Ninety - three of the smart city projects are focused on transportation, according to SCMP, and could potentially use its connected infrastructure to build the number of driverless cars and shared - driving models on the road.

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.

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.

«Very few people deeply understand» driverless car technology, said Chris Urmson, the self - driving car pioneer lured from academia who now leads Google's project.

The contact lenses were developed during the past 18 months in the clandestine Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car, Google's Web - surfing eyeglasses and Project Loon, a network of large balloons designed to beam the Internet to unwired places.

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.

One of its first projects is connecting cars via wireless networks — a pathway toward better real - time traffic and navigation, more passenger entertainment features, safety - hazard warnings, and eventually driverless cars.

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The race to develop a self - driving vehicle fleet has intensified since February when Bloomberg reported that Google was developing a rival to Uber Technologies Inc., most likely in conjunction with its driverless - car project.

Nissan has just joined the Oxford project, so the Leaf all - electric car may end up driverless too.

In October 2015, tax giant KPMG published a report projecting a 60 percent reduction in the $ 135 billion auto insurance market by 2040 owing to the advent of driverless cars and the ensuing risk landscape.

It was not the project's first crash, but it was the first caused in part by nonhuman error (most incidents involve the driverless cars getting rear - ended by human drivers not paying attention at traffic lights).

Recent projects include a Binaudios device to listen to the sounds of a city, a race against a 3D Printer at the V&A and a stained glass driverless car of the future.

From renewable energy to high speed rail, hyperloop technology and driverless cars — a coming wave of projects will require lots of legal expertise

The Voyage project taking place in Florida will likely help improve consumers» views toward driverless cars, which at the time is not very positive.

Seven years after launching its self - driving car project, Google has made significant strides in building a fully driverless car.