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A new police report shows the fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona could have been avoided. Continue reading Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Was Watching Hulu When the Car Struck and Killed a Pedestrian
A new police report shows the fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona could have been avoided. Continue reading Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Was Watching Hulu When the Car Struck and Killed a Pedestrian
These engineering students are making an autonomous electric car. Continue reading Electric Cars Make Excellent Autonomous Vehicles—So Why Are Most AVs Gas-Powered?
After its epic smartphone failure, BlackBerry is determined to fend off competitors in automotive. Continue reading Inside BlackBerry’s Push to Dominate the Security Market for Autonomous Cars
You have doubtlessly heard the news. A robotic Uber car in Arizona struck and killed [Elaine Herzberg] as she crossed the street. Details are sketchy, but preliminary reports indicate that the accident was unavoidable as the woman crossed the street suddenly from the shadows at night.
If and when more technical details emerge, we’ll cover them. But you can bet this is going to spark a lot of conversation about autonomous vehicles. Given that Hackaday readers are at the top of the technical ladder, it is likely that your thoughts on the matter will influence your friends, coworkers, and even …read more
Car-to-car meshnets could enable self-driving cars where there’s no internet. Continue reading The 5G Network Probably Won’t Be Good Enough for Self-Driving Cars
The automotive industry is certain that it can produce IT-enabled, self-driving cars that will all but eliminate the tens of thousands of accidental deaths that happen every year. But the majority of Americans are in no rush to trust their family’s safety to automobiles that can be hacked. “We know and the public knows that we can design systems that function far better than human drivers,” said Harry Lightsey, executive director of emerging technologies policy at General Motors. “But we face a very apprehensive public.” Lightsey, who spoke during a DC CyberWeek panel session Oct. 18 on the future of automotive cybersecurity, acknowledged that part of the challenge facing the industry is the lack of a standard baseline for assessing automotive cybersecurity as it applies to vehicle safety. “There is no baseline…in cyber security [testing for autonomous vehicles]. And there’s no point in trying to pursue that” when the pace […]
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Continue reading Why automotive cybersecurity needs to go beyond IT-based security
As more companies wade into the business of building artificial intelligence systems to help you drive (or do the driving for you), a startup founded by an ex-Apple computer vision specialist is open sourcing a huge dataset that can help them on their road to autonomy.
Mapillary, a Swedish startup backed by Sequoia, Atomico and others that has built a database of 130 million images through… Read More Continue reading Mapillary open sources 25k street-level images to train automotive AI systems
What’s more important to Uber: proprietary data or rider safety? Continue reading Uber Doesn’t Want to Share Self-Driving Car Crash Data With the DMV