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Volvo and Uber's latest self-driving car is built for plug-and-play autonomy

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Volvo and Uber's new XC90 is built for plug-and-play autonomy

Back in 2016, Uber and Volvo joined forces to usher in the self-driving era by fitting out the Swedish automaker’s premium XC90 SUVs with the transport company’s in-house autonomous tech. The pair have now introduced the first production vehicle built to accommodate it from the ground up, making for a plug-and-play self-driving car that could help speed things up a little.

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Self-Driving Cars: How Automakers can Overcome Cybersecurity Issues

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A lot has been going on with autonomous vehicles these days. Almost every famous car manufacturer seems to be in a rush to master the perfected version of self-driving cars. While most people believe that fully autonomous vehicles are still in their in… Continue reading Self-Driving Cars: How Automakers can Overcome Cybersecurity Issues→

DeepMap, a maker of HD maps for self-driving, raised at least $60M at a $450M valuation

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As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is creating high-definition maps to help these vehicles move around has quietly picked up a significant round of funding. DeepMap — a Palo Alto startup co-founded by James Wu and Mark Wheeler, who previously […] Continue reading DeepMap, a maker of HD maps for self-driving, raised at least $60M at a $450M valuation→

Delivery Drones Can Learn From Driving And Cycling

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Increasingly these days drones are being used for urban surveillance, delivery, and examining architectural structures. To do this autonomously often involves using “map-localize-plan” techniques wherein first, the location is determined on a map using GPS, and then based on that, control commands are produced.

A neural network that does steering and collision prediction can compliment the map-localize-plan techniques. However, the neural network needs to be trained using video taken from actual flying drones. But generating that training video involves many hours of flying drones at street level putting vehicles and pedestrians at risk. To train their DroNet, Researchers from the …read more

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