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Tesla readily points out that Autopilot — despite the implications in its name — is only a driver - assistance system and is not intended to pilot cars on its own.

General Motors may have taken a significant step forward with its Super Cruise system, available in the 2018 Cadillac CT6 sedan, which can pilot a car on divided, limited - access highways.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Uber's self - driving cars hit the streets of Pittsburgh, as part of a pilot program available to up to 1,000 passengers.

Uber resumed its autonomous car pilot program on Monday following an accident in Tempe, Arizona over the weekend.

By the way, if you're driving a late - model car, you're already piloting a computer on wheels that electronically controls braking, steering and other major systems.

In 2014, GM teamed up with Google (GOOGL) to run a car - sharing pilot program on its campus in Mountain View, Calif. that let employees book and drive Chevrolet Spark EV cars.

Khosrowshahi also briefly touched on the company's driverless car pilot program as well as the ongoing investigation after one of Uber's self - driving cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. last month.

Chipmaker Nvidia on Sunday unveiled a new processor aimed at powering high - end graphics on car dashboards as well as sophisticated auto - pilot systems.

«Uber has already driver 3 million miles in autonomous mode and given 50,000 trips,» he said, on the pilots that are going on in the US with self - driving cars.

(Reuters)- Chipmaker Nvidia on Sunday unveiled a new processor aimed at powering high - end graphics on car dashboards as well as sophisticated auto - pilot systems.

Amid the court case, Waymo has announced a partnership with Lyft on self - driving car pilots on Sunday, May 14.

Uber is putting the brakes on its driverless car pilot program after one of its self - driving cars got into a high speed crash in Arizona.

It has just launched a real - world pilot of self - driving cars in Pittsburgh — though it's not on par with Google technologically — and got one of the original members of Google's self - driving project when it acquired autonomous trucking company Otto.

Songs from artists like Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, and Pearl Jam would be on literal repeat, as I walked down the street or even drove in my car.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Electric cars caught on fire in several pilot cities such like Shanghai and Hangzhou.

And among all the pilot cities, the company statistics show, no more than half the target was met in the best case, and in places like central China's Xiangyang, for instance, only seven clean cars were added on the roads since late 2010.

Business secretary Vince Cable announced today that the law is to be changed to allow self - piloting cars, like Google's, on Britain's roads by January 2015

A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.

With the Tesla 3 on the horizon and its auto - pilot becoming standard, and semi-autonomous features already an option in some cars, it's easy to see a future where computer - guided vehicles become the industry norm.

In a separate pilot at a small filling station in the northern port of Haifa, about a dozen cars have been running for months on various mixtures of gasoline diluted with methanol.

Like an electric car, a gauge on the dashboard tells the pilot how much energy is in the batteries and the plane is plugged in when it needs to recharge.

The frame rate definitely wavers on both PS4 and Xbox One when duking it out with the maximum 15 opponents, though, and AI cars are also driverless for some reason (the cars pilot themselves around the track empty but drivers will be displayed in them during replays).

Dwayne Johnson is protagonist Ray, a hotshot helicopter pilot with the L.A. fire department who demos his bona fides in the opening sequence, involving the rescue of a blonde in a low - cut top whose car is jammed into the rock wall on one side of a deep chasm.

But there are many times where my experience showed otherwise, especially when the driving line piloted exactly half of my car through a massive puddle on the side of the track, causing me to spin out to the tune of four or five full rotations.

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Super Cruise will let Cadillac CT6 drivers pilot their new cars hands - off so long as conditions are right and the system can find the middle of the car's lane, on about 160,000 miles of limited - access highway in the U.S. and Canada, mapped by GM and its high - definition mapping partner, Geo Digital.

The new Pilot Assist II, to launch on the 2017 Volvo S90, does not require following another car, and it allows autonomous steering up to 80 mph.

Additionally, the tires the LC rolls on are Michelin Pilot Super Sport ZP run flats that were specially tuned for the car.

The Lotus - tuned suspension, combined with a 45/55 percent weight distribution and sticky nineteen - inch Michelin Pilot Sport tires, makes the Aileron an easy, almost relaxing car to drive fast, although the lack of any stability or traction control tends to dampen one's temptation to explore its absolute limits on public roads.

The safety car made its debut at the Villajoyosa Rally on April 1st, and will continue to serve for the remainder of the season; World TT champion Marc Blázquez will pilot the car.

Standard on all S90 models is Volvo's latest in semi-autonomous driving technology, Pilot Assist, which gives steering assistance to keep the car within its lane of travel at speeds up to 80 mph.

And when the car's front or rear does break away, it does so in an easily controlled, almost giggle - inducing manner, even on this day when the 46 - degree ambient temperature is far from ideal for its 20 - inch Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 rubber.

Even piloting right - hand - drive cars on the wrong side of narrow roads couldn't spoil the fun.

CEO Carlos Ghosn says traffic jam pilot, which «allows the car to drive autonomously and safely in heavy, stop - and - go traffic,» will be available on several Nissan and Renault models by 2020, and the electric Leaf could make an ideal platform and package.

For his most recent Gymkhana viral video, he terrorized Los Angeles in a highly modified, 845 hp all - wheel drive Ford Mustang drift car, a follow - up to the full rally - prepped Fiestas he has been piloting on the world rally stage.

It's worth mentioning that, as on the road, each car is fitted with the same type of OE Bridgestone tyre (not the optional Michelin Pilot Cup 2s, which are only available as an option with the Öhlins suspension) and carrying the same fuel load, thereby ensuring that, suspension apart, they are as close to identical as possible.

Google's autonomous car project is patting itself on its collective back: the company announced that its self - driving cars have traveled more than 300,000 miles with minimal human intervention or piloting.

The car sits on lightweight 18 - and 19 - inch (front / rear) forged aluminium wheels, wrapped in either Michelin Pilot Super Sport or Michelin Cup 2 rubber (depending on if it's a Road or Race car).

You can drive these cars capably and reliably on today's highways, back roads, and racetracks without the worry that comes with piloting a finicky original.

Roll the car into an apex and there is some understeer — certainly in today's cold, greasy conditions — but whereas a Golf R or Audi S3 might at best stabilize the push and drive into a nice neutral stance, the RS offers so many more options: Stay on the power and the understeer quickly dissolves, the outside rear wheel driving the front tires — here the optional and superb Michelin Pilot Cup 2s — back onto line.

Maximising the car's ability on road would be a set of Pilot Super Sport tyres.

The Steering Pilot function, activated by a double - pull on a column - mounted switch, allows the car to steer itself up to that same speed in ideal conditions (i.e., well - marked lane limits for the sensors to «see») or up to 81 mph if the marking is unclear or non-existent.

In the A8, this manifests itself as a system Audi calls «traffic jam pilot», which can control the car completely up to 37mph on dual - carriageways and multi-lane motorways, as well as remote parking and garage parking functions — for which the driver can control the car from outside.

Stick a set of Pilot Sport 4S's on the car and traction is not a problem unless you have a particularly heavy right foot that's incapable of feathering the throttle!

And, it should be said, the E-class Coupe never feels any less than truly special to pilot, with one of the best cabins of any car on sale and luxurious levels of natural light filtering in through the frameless side windows.

The car also comes with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres and the quite frankly ludicrous titanium exhaust system found on the GTS.

On sale since 2007, the CX - 9 is now one of the oldest cars in its segment, and has steadily fallen behind the three - row crossover zeitgeist in the face of tough competition from cars like the Honda Pilot and Nissan Pathfinder.

The Michelin Pilot Sport 2 was initially developed for Original Equipment (O.E.) on some of the world's most prestigious sports cars and performance sedans.

The steering could be tighter and more responsive on center and the optional Michelin Pilot Sport Cup ZP tires fitted to our tester have no business being on a street - driven car.