#autonomous-vehicles

#autonomous-vehicles

As reported by the Associated Press, the Justice Department recently made a request for information from Tesla regarding its use of artificial intelligence in its self-driving cars.The request comes as the department investigates the potential dangers of AI and its impact on society with a focus on the automaker's "Full Self-Driving" features according to a regulatory filing.

Synthetic data platform Parallel Domain today announced the launch of Reactor, a state-of-the-art synthetic data generation engine that integrates advanced generative AI technologies with proprietary 3D simulation capabilities.The platform aims to provide machine learning (ML) developers with control and scalability, enabling them to generate fully annotated data that enhances AI performance and fosters the creation of safer and more resilient AI systems for real-world applications.

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A driverless GM Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month, and didn't come to a halt until firefighters smashed its front window, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.It's yet another hair-raising incident that highlights the dangers of letting autonomous vehicles roam free in a crowded urban environment.

The latest San Francisco driverless car mishap involves an autonomous Waymo vehicle driving upon a construction site, stopping in front of a trench in the ground, then having no idea what to do as construction workers have a good laugh at the robot car's confused state.There are two varieties of self-driving robot cars with no human driver currently rolling around San Francisco: the GM subsidiary Cruise vehicles with large reddish-orange stripe on the back and robot equipment up top that resembles a big, chunky ski rack; and the Alphabet-owned Waymo vehicles, which are all white, and whose robot equipment up top looks more like R2-D2's head.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found the computational needs of self-driving cars could drive a significant increase in global carbon emissions.The researchers developed a statistical model to analyze the potential energy consumption and related carbon emissions that would accompany widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles.

The "FAANG" companies were some of the hottest stocks of the last decade.The acronym stands for Facebook (which has since changed its name to Meta Platforms), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, (which changed its name to Alphabet ).Besides Meta Platforms, all the FAANG stocks have handily beaten the market for the past 10 years, delivering phenomenal returns for their long-term shareholders.

In retrospect, it seems like it had to happen sometime.The shining, glorious, high-flying tech sector has come hurtling down to Earth.Not that it's been so horriblewe're talking more of an emergency landing than oxygen masks and brace positions.But ambitions have been checked as rising interest rates brought an end to years of easy cash, a point driven home in recent earnings calls and unprecedented mass layoffs from companies that used to do everything short of sending gold-plated helicopters to snatch up graduating computer science degree-holders from the nation's top universities.

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, said that its toaster-shaped driverless vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals was approved to drive on public roads with passengers in California.The company celebrated the milestone as the "first time in history a purpose-built robotaxi - without any manual controls - drove autonomously with passengers."

When transit systems experience delays, the reason usually isn't very interesting: congested streets, medical emergencies, mechanical problems.But the cause of a recent holdup on San Francisco's MUNI system at least had the virtue of being novel.On Sept. 30 at around 11 p.m., an N Line streetcar ground to a halt at the intersection of Carl Street and Cole Street because an autonomous vehicle from Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, had halted on the streetcar tracks and wouldn't budge.

The Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle, a Honda and General Motors self-driving car partnership, seen during its unveiling in 2020.Credit: Stephen Lam/Reuters The difficult path to deploying autonomous vehicles (AVs) was highlighted by an announcement  that Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG would close their self-driving startup Argo AI, citing the fact that the technology is still a long way off.

After a decade of massive investments and runaway hype, Silicon Valley's big push into electric and autonomous vehicle technology has produced as many struggling startups and outright failures as it has new mobility tech icons.But as far as public perception is concerned, there's a surprising divide between the two technologies: when AV developers like Argo AI go under the technology itself is derided as a dead end in splashy magazine stories, whereas the prominent struggles of EV startups have done little to dim the perception that the electrification of the car is an inevitability.

Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxbotica has enlisted Google Cloud to accelerate the global take-up of its self-driving vehicle technology platform.Oxbotica said it plans to use the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, including its compute, storage and networking offerings, to host the platform, which is geared towards supporting industrial use cases for autonomous vehicles.

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Shocker: people aren't quite sure that they trust artificial intelligence to operate in their best interests, per a new poll.In a press release, the think tank MITRE released the results of a new poll, conducted in tandem with the marketing research firm Harris, that asked people their opinions about AI.

NVIDIA announced several edge computing partnerships and products on Nov. 11 ahead of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (aka SC22) on Nov. 13-18.The High Performance Computing at the Edge Solution Stack includes the MetroX-3 Infiniband extender; scalable, high-performance data streaming; and the BlueField-3 data processing unit for data migration acceleration and offload.

One of the most useful texts for anyone covering the tech industry is George Orwell's celebrated essay, Politics and the English Language.Orwell's focus in the essay was on political use of the language to, as he put it, make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Picture the corniest sci-fi '80s TV you can imagine: filled with cheesy one-liners, fast cars, a tough action hero, and retro technology that probably felt cool at the time but now seems incredibly dated.Now, what if I told you that same show may have predicted a 21st-century technology that could revolutionize the world?

Alphabet's Waymo subsidiary says its driverless cars have driven more than one million miles on public roads with no human at the wheel.Waymo marked its achievement with a blog post and an accompanying paper [PDF] analyzing the safety performance of its cars when operated without a driver.Remarkably, no one was hurt in the making of this milestone and there were only two collisions serious enough to meet the National Highway Safety Transportation Administration's reporting criteria, which include the need to file a police report and/or towing one and more vehicles away.

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Latitude AI will focus on automated driving technology, including a Level 3 unsupervised system.Ford rehired over 500 employees of the shuttered Argo AI to staff the new subsidiary.Ford announced the creation of a new wholly owned subsidiary called Latitude AI to lead its efforts to develop a hands-free, eye-off, unsupervised driving system.

A diagram included in a new Ford patent that imagines a variety of futuristic ways to repossess a car.U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Imagine it's the near future, and you've bought a new car with a self-driving mode.But hard times hit and you fall behind on loan payments then, one day you find your car has driven itself away to the repossession lot.

A brain-imitating neural network that employs photons instead of electrons could rapidly analyze vast amounts of data by running many computations simultaneously using thousands of wavelengths of light, a new study finds.Artificial neural networks are increasingly finding use in applications such as analyzing medical scans and supporting autonomous vehicles.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena | CNN Business Mercedes-Benz will take a step towards offering a self driving car in the United States, or at least in some states, when it begins selling cars featuring its new Drive Pilot system later this year.Mercedes' Drive Pilot system is designed to work on highways in dense traffic at speeds of less than 40 miles per hour.

Mercedes-Benz will take a step towards offering a self driving car in the United States, or at least in some states, when it begins selling cars featuring its new Drive Pilot system later this year.Mercedes' Drive Pilot system is designed to work on highways in dense traffic at speeds of less than 40 miles per hour.

Chinese electronics brand TCL has launched a pair of augmented-reality glasses at CES 2023 called RayNeo X2, with features including language translation and GPS navigation.Unveiled last week, the RayNeo X2 smart glasses use AR to overlay a wearer's field of vision with different types of digital information.

AUSTIN, Texas Driverless cars are on the roadways of Downtown Austin and Central Austin.It's part of service similar to Uber called Cruise LLC.They are based out of San Francisco and recently launched here in Austin and Phoenix.The vehicles are Chevy Bolt electric vehicles."Fully driverless vehicle, so this means a car comes to pick you up and has no driver.

AUSTIN, Texas  Argo AI, a company that had been testing autonomous vehicles in Austin, is shutting down.According to a report by KVUE's news partners at the Austin American-Stateman, the company is being absorbed by two of its biggest supporters, Ford and Volkswagen.The company said many employees would be able to continue their work for either car company, while others would be terminated.

L ondoners could have their weekly groceries delivered by self-driving vehicles under plans being trialled in the capital.Asda and Ocado have partnered with technology firm Wayve to explore the potential to use driverless or autonomous vehicles to improve road safety.Kaity Fischer, Director of Partnerships and Business Development at Wayve, said they could become commonplace within the next decade.

These are colored fiber optic data cables.(Bloomberg Creative Photos)A power-hungry internet that requires less electricity.High-powered computers that rival NASA's.Broadband speeds that could boggle the mind.That's a new potential reality, according to Scandinavian researchers.In a study released last week, scientists from universities in Sweden and Denmark said they transmitted nearly double an internet's worth of data through a fiber optic cable in one second using a laser-powered chip - a world record.

The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into Tesla and its boasts about its self-driving car technology.This probe could lead to federal criminal charges against Elon Musk's automaker, according to Reuters.The investigation kicked off, we're told, after a series of prangs in which Teslas in Autopilot mode collided with other cars or emergency vehicles.

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Tesla is reportedly under criminal investigation by the Justice Department over misleading marketing of its driver assistance system called Autopilot, Reuters reports.According to Reuter's sources, the department launched an undisclosed probe last year, investigating more than a dozen crashes involving Tesla's notorious driver assistance feature, some fatal.