BT gets on Wavelength to bring 5G, cloud to mobile businesses | Computer Weekly
One of the basic dynamics of business today, and in the future, is fast, secure data processing closer to where companies need it most, made possible through cloud edge services running on 5G and 4G networks.Aiming to exploit these possibilities, BT has announced a partnership with AWS to open up a new generation of internet of things (IoT) benefits for customers and their communities.
Has the Self-Driving Car Bubble Burst? Some Analysts Say So, As Apple Exits the Autonomous Vehicle Race
Tech giants like Apple are abandoning self-driving car projects, signaling a struggle in the autonomous vehicle industry.
Major players in the autonomous vehicle sector, such as GM, Google's Waymo, Tesla, Uber, Ford, and Volkswagen, have faced setbacks, leading to doubts about the viability of the technology. [ more ]
Flying taxis could take off in two years under Government drones plan
The UK plans to launch a piloted flying taxi within two years and introduce regular drone deliveries by 2027. Future plans include autonomous flying taxis by 2030 and utilizing drones for emergency services and commercial deliveries. [ more ]
UK's first driverless bus service starts taking passengers
The UK's first autonomous bus service has begun taking paying passengers across the Forth Road Bridge.The vehicles have two members of staff a safety driver who can take control of the vehicle and a captain to sell tickets and provide customer service.The Stagecoach service, from Ferrytoll Park and Ride in Fife to Edinburgh Park Transport Interchange, will operate on a trial basis until 2025 as part of the CAVForth project.
UK's first driverless bus service launched over Forth Road Bridge
A driverless bus has taken passengers across the Forth Road Bridge, marking the launch of the UK's first autonomous bus service.Scotland's transport minister Kevin Stewart was one of the first to strap in for the short journey as the Stagecoach vehicles were tested on the service between Ferry Toll near Inverkeithing, Fife, and Edinburgh Park.
The UK's first self-driving electric bus service has been unveiled as part of a project to explore the art of the possible.First Group said it will analyse how passengers, drivers, other road users and pedestrians respond to autonomous buses at a business and technology park in Oxfordshire.The project involves two all-electric fully-autonomous vehicles on public roads.
Passengers travel on full-size self-driving bus in UK first
Passengers have travelled on a full-size self-driving bus for the first time in the UK.Operator Stagecoach said 22 volunteers were taken on a journey by its autonomous single-decker over the Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh on Thursday as part of testing.The bus has sensors enabling it to run on pre-selected roads without a driver having to take control.
Another autonomous vehicle startup shutters, Zoox expands driverless testing and investor fervor for AI escalates | TechCrunch
Investors, urban planners, and media focus on future transportation with discussions on autonomous vehicles, traffic alleviation, and emissions reduction.
Uber aims for greener, more affordable services, and competition with Amazon after achieving profitability, as per CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. [ more ]
Waymo Gets State Approval for Los Angeles and SF Peninsula Expansion and Freeway Driving
Waymo granted permission to expand into San Mateo County and down the Peninsula for fared driverless passenger service operations.
Waymo's approval allows them to drive on freeways at speeds of up to 65 mph in specified areas of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Peninsula. [ more ]
Talking Headways Podcast: Autonomous Vehicles in NYC? Oy Vey!
This week, we're joined by Sarah Kaufman of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation for a chat at the RailVolution conference in Miami.Kaufman and I talked about autonomous vehicle policy, acceptable safety levels, what will happen to the iconic New York City taxi and the lessons from Superstorm Sandy for transportation infrastructure.
Tesla's Automated Driving Documents Have Been Requested by The U.S. Justice Department
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.
What autonomous race cars can teach us about designing better cars for our cities
Autonomous racing is not only about high-speed competition, but also pushing the boundaries of what autonomous vehicles can achieve and improving their safety.
Autonomous racing serves as a platform to prove the reliability of autonomous vehicle technology as driverless cars begin to hit the streets. [ more ]
San Francisco Sues to Get Nuisance Self-Driving Cars Off Its Streets
The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against a state commission for allowing autonomous vehicle services to operate without safety drivers.
The city claims that the decision to allow driverless taxi services has put residents in danger and has caused safety incidents, including interference with first responders. [ more ]
Parallel Domain unveils Reactor, a generative AI-based synthetic data generation engine
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.
Self-Driving Car Plowed Into Active Fire Scene, Forcing Firefighters to Smash Its Window
Inappropriate Visit 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.
Self-Driving Waymo Drives Self Into Construction Site, Doesn't Know What To Do
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.
Helping Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions by Ditching the Trolley Problem
North Carolina State University researchers are collecting realistic data on moral challenges in low-stakes traffic situations to train autonomous vehicles.
The researchers created multiple versions of driving scenarios with different combinations of character, actions, and outcomes to gather robust data on moral behavior in driving. [ more ]
The Norwegian container ship Yara Birkeland eventually will become a crewless vessel that navigates via radar and cameras, feeding sensor data to artificial intelligence that will detect and identify obstacles in the water.Its captain will remotely monitor the ship at a land-based facility more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) off, ready to intervene if necessary.
Computers That Power Self-Driving Cars Could Drive Global Carbon Emissions
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.
Is Alphabet the Best FAANG Stock to Bet on This Decade? | The Motley Fool
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.
Amazon's weird toaster-shaped robotaxi hits the road in a "first" for the company
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."
Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco
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.
Self-Driving Cars Face Uncertain Path to U.S. Deployment
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.
GM pauses ads on Twitter after Elon Musk's acquisition
General Motors has temporarily halted advertising on Twitter after Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social network on Friday ( via CNBC).The automaker says it's pausing paid advertising on Twitter to evaluate "the direction of the platform" under Musk's leadership, but will continue to use the network to interact with customers.
German firm starts remote-driving car service in Las Vegas DW 01/17/2024
German remote-driving startup Vay has launched its first commercial service in Las Vegas, renting out electric cars controlled by remote human drivers.
The company sees a "massive use case" for remote driving functions, envisioning a future where every vehicle is equipped with teledriving capabilities. [ more ]
China-owned autonomous vehicle firms are collecting data during US tests - and lawmakers are concerned
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent letters to 10 Chinese companies conducting autonomous vehicle testing in the U.S.
The lawmakers expressed concerns about data collection, management, and use as well as potential financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
This is a continuation of a bipartisan effort to address the competitive and national security implications of China-owned companies testing autonomous vehicle technologies in the U.S. [ more ]
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.
Oxbotica teams up with Google Cloud to add scale to autonomous vehicle platform | Computer Weekly
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.
Almost Three Quarters of Americans Distrust Artificial Intelligence
Concerned Citizens 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.
Ford's new AI company wants to create hands-free, eyes-off driver assist systems | Engadget
y_carfan via Getty Images Hate sitting in rush hour traffic?Ford knows you do - and the company is doubling down on developing automated driving technology to help make traffic a little more tolerable.Today, Ford announced the creation of Latitude AI, a wholly owned subsidiary that aims to make driving less stressful, specifically in "bumper-to-bumper traffic or on long stretches of highway."
NVIDIA unveils supercomputing and edge products at SC22
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.
Machine-learning systems are problematic. That's why tech bosses call them AI' | John Naughton
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.
The best retro sci-fi on Netflix reveals a worrying scientific debate
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?
Self driving Nissan-backed car being tested in Greenwich
Self-driving cars are being tested in Greenwich (Image: PA) A Nissan-backed autonomous car project has come to a close with a series of tests to look at how self-driving vehicles can cope with busy inner city traffic.ServCity, a project backed by Nissan and supported by the Government, has seen an electric Leaf cover 1,600 autonomous miles over a three-year period.
Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles with no fatalities
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.
Ford files patent for system that could remotely repossess a car
A rather dystopian if somewhat expected use for connected cars started doing the rounds this week with the discovery of a patent, published last month, titled " Systems and methods to repossess a vehicle."Filed by Ford, the patent describes a system whereby a bank or leasing company could remotely disable specific features-the air conditioning or the radio-or perhaps the car itself in cases where the person leasing the vehicle hasn't kept up with payments.
Ford is creating a new division to lead its partial autonomy and hands-free driving tech
/ 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 new Ford patent imagines a future in which self-driving cars repossess themselves
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.
Mercedes leapfrogs past Tesla on automated highway driving
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 leapfrogs past Tesla on automated highway driving
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.
TCL unveils AR glasses that overlay the world with digital info
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.
CES 2023 brings focus to clean rooms and attention metrics at the C Space
Electric quadcopters and earbuds that read your mind?Only at CES.That's right, CES 2023 was back in full swing in Las Vegas and online, as companies showcase their upcoming consumer technologies - from flying cars to haptic suits.After two years of dips in attendance, the Consumer Technology Association expects some 100,000 attendees, 1,000 new exhibitors and more than 3,000 companies to show this year.
More driverless cars are hitting the roadways in Austin
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.
Argo AI, a self-driving tech company, is shutting down operations
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.
Self-driving' vans could make Ocado deliveries in the capital
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.
This chip transmits an internet's worth of data every second
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.
Even as autonomous-vehicle technology gets better, the thought of being in a driverless car is as scary as a few years ago.The news around faulty experiments makes that worse.
Analysis | Taylor Swift Will Always Be Bigger Than AI
Artificial intelligence will soon have a formidable presence in the arts.DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion have demonstrated their ability to generate complex and interesting visual images.
Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype
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.
Tesla Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation for Claiming Its Cars Can Drive Themselves
Death Drive 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.
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Synthetic data is the safe, low-cost alternative to real data that we need
More methods for producing synthetic data are gaining ground.Synthetic data can give smaller players the opportunity to turn the tables.Synthetic data can give smaller players the opportunity to turn the tables.Lately, more methods for producing synthetic data have been gaining ground.Third, it can protect privacy and copyright, as the data is, well, synthetic.Also, what if there's simply not enough data available to train an AI on all eventualities?Gartner has famously estimated that 60% of training data will be synthetic data by 2024.
California accuses Tesla of false advertising over Autopilot
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) last month filed two complaints against Tesla alleging that the car marker violated state law by misrepresenting that its vehicles can drive autonomously.