Sentences with phrase «self driving car program»

Uber's self driving car program in Arizona has suffered a fatal setback after one of its autonomous vehicles hit and killed a female pedestrian.

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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 Technologies must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet's (googl) Waymo self - driving car unit, a federal judge ruled, while stopping short of shutting down the ride - services company's autonomous car program.

Programming self - driving cars isn't just about teaching them to avoid obstacles and navigate intersections.

Uber, which is believed to be losing billions of dollars per year, is also facing a rocky path to profitability, particularly given recent stumbles in its self - driving car program.

On one hand, the slow lane for self - driving cars isn't totally unexpected, as the Trump administration continues to chart its course in major transportation policy debates and decides which federal programs to keep or replace.

At a hearing in San Francisco federal court, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said he was skeptical Waymo could ultimately prove that Uber's self - driving car program used Waymo trade secrets.

Of course, Uber is also outfitting its own fleet of self - driving cars and is conducting pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona for that purpose.

Meanwhile, AMD was rumored to be working with Tesla a custom chip to run the AI programs in future self - driving electric cars.

Uber started testing in Arizona in December 2016 after it was forced to shut down its self - driving car program in San Francisco for failing to obtain the proper permit.

Still, the lawsuit has hobbled Uber's self - driving car program, with Uber attorney Bill Carmody telling the court last week that the case «is the biggest in the history of Uber.»

The case hinges on whether ride - hailing firm Uber used trade secrets from Alphabet's self - driving car unit to advance its autonomous vehicle program.

Uber last month launched a pilot program in Tempe, allowing passengers to hail a ride in a self - driving car through the Uber app.

Nevertheless, Khosrowshahi remains optimistic about the future of the program, asserting that «ultimately, self - driving cars will be safer than humans,» but that right now, they're more like «student drivers.»

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.

Chris Urmson, director of the Google self - driving car program, asked the FCC on January 26 to renew an experimental authority license that allows it to test radio transmitters in the 76 GHz range — likely used by the radar system on its cars.

A number of companies, including Audi, Bosch, Daimler's Mercedes - Benz unit, Delphi Automotive (DLPH), Google, and Nissan have permits through a California DMV program for testing self - driving cars.

Google is teaching its self - driving cars to share the road with cyclists, the company said in a monthly report on its autonomous vehicle testing program.

A number of companies, including Audi, Bosch, Daimler's Mercedes - Benz unit, Delphi Automotive, Google, and Nissan have permits through a California Department of Motor Vehicle program to test self - driving cars.

Self - driving cars had been spotted in San Francisco in September by keen observers who quickly took to social media to speculate that the program would be expanded.

The skills - focused platform recently launched a scholarship in partnership with Lyft for an «Intro to Self - Driving Cars» program, in an attempt to make it easier for workers to enter the field.

Poll after poll has shown that while Americans like the idea of self - driving cars, they are less willing to cede control of the steering wheel to a computer program.

An Uber self - driving vehicle flipped to its side after hitting a car in Arizona, prompting the car tech company to suspend its self - driving testing program.

Earlier this year, Waymo accused Uber of using stolen tech to kick - start its autonomous car program after Uber acquired Otto, another self - driving car company, that was founded by a former Google employee.

Anthony Levandowski, the head of Uber's self - driving - car program, said the company feels that its cars are at the same level of autonomy as Tesla's, and therefore don't require a permit, either.

Those who have left Uber in recent times have included the VP of maps and business platform Brian McClendon, president Jeff Jones, AI lead Gary Marcus, communications SVP Rachel Whetstone, VP of global vehicle programs Sherif Marakby, VP of product Ed Baker, SVP of engineering Amit Singhal and self - driving car head Anthony Levandowski.

Now its self - driving car program is on hold.

In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self - driving program, speaks about their driverless car in San Francisco.

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.

The company, along with Uber, even put in a bid to pilot a self - driving car - hail program with the Singapore government.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired the engineer accused of stealing self - driving car trade secrets from its competitor Waymo, bowing to pressure from a federal judge to cut ties with the former star of the ride - hailing company's autonomous vehicle program.

The firing is the latest dramatic twist in a high - stakes court battle between Uber and Google's Waymo that is expected to shape the future of both companies» self - driving car programs and the industry at large.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has escaped a court order that could have effectively halted its self - driving car program, leaving the ride - hailing giant — for now — free to continue working on the technology expected to be vital to its future.

He joined Google in 2007, where he led the program to develop its self - driving car, and then founded Google X, the ultra-secretive research lab behind Google Glass and other research projects so far - out that Google calls them «moon shots.»

On Tuesday, news that Nvidia would temporarily suspend its self - driving car program trumped all of the good things CEO Jensen Huang announced during a keynote presentation at the company's GTC Conference.

The program was set in place to determine the viability and feasibility of a potential self - driving fleet of cars integrating into Uber's main ride - hailing service.

Following a car accident involving one of its self - driving cars, Uber is officially pulling out its autonomous testing program in Arizona, in addition to pausing its Pittsburgh test bed.

«It got to the point where people were doing ridiculous things in the car,» says Chris Urmson, the leader of Google's self - driving car program.

Uber's partially self - driving car will begin accepting passengers Wednesday in Pittsburgh, accelerating the ride - hailing app's autonomous vehicle program amid hiccups for other tech giants» automobile ambition

Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self - driving program, speaks about their driverless car in San Francisco in December.

Although Uber's self - driving program is only a few years old, Kalanick's typically no - holds - barred approach quickly led to the establishment in 2015 of an autonomous car team consisting largely of robotics experts raided from Pittsburgh's prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.

In January, Tesla filed a lawsuit against Sterling Anderson, a former director of the company's Autopilot program, saying that he broke his employment contract by trying to recruit Tesla employees to join a new self - driving car company.

They could even program self - driving cars to operate less like a chaotic assortment of humans and more like... an orderly group of honeybees.

The study sheds further light on what can happen if cities build on the growing interest in car - share programs and other alternatives to car ownership, indicating that self - driving technology could be a game - changer.

No single test can determine the safety of self - driving cars, says Steven Shladover, a research engineer and manager of the Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Programming a polite mobile bot is different from designing a self - driving car, says Michael Everett, a mechanical engineer at MIT.

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Waymo (formerly the Google self - driving car project) will add an additional 500 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans (earlier post) to expand its self - driving program.

From driverless taxi pilot programs to cars equipped with self - driving hardware already on the market, autonomous technology has progressed at a remarkable pace in 2016.

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