A minimum of 1,250,000 people die annually and another fifty million sustain injuries due to road accidents according to the World Health Organization. 95 percent of these accidents are attributed to human error. Technology adoption, therefore, is no longer an option…
How do self-driving cars avoid colliding with pedestrians? Autonomous-driving startup Torc Robotics explains in this video. It’s about not only making sure the car sees pedestrians, but figuring out what to do when it does. Read Also Distracted Driving –…
Austin Russell, founder and CEO of lidar startup Luminar Technologies, is much taller in person than in pictures. We met at a hotel lobby in Midtown Manhattan, where he and co-founder Jason Eichenholz were recuperating after a whirlwind New York…
Navigating roads less traveled in self-driving cars is a difficult task. One reason is that there aren’t many places where self-driving cars can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their fleets in major cities where they’ve spent countless hours…
Matt Jaffee / Via Twitter: @mattjaffee A self-driving vehicle by Waymo, which is owned by the same company that owns Google, collided with another vehicle in Chandler, Arizona, on Friday. Minor injuries were reported. Chandler Police said the Waymo car…
NVIDIA has now announced that it is extending a long-term partnership with GE Healthcare to bring artificial intelligence (AI) technology to over 500,000 imaging devices that are used at health facilities around the globe. According to GE, over 50 petabytes…
Who needs a Tesla when you can build your own automated copilot using free hardware designs and software available online? Brevan Jorgenson’s grandma kept her cool when he took her for a nighttime spin in the Honda Civic he’s modified…
Self driving cars. The term brings several things to the minds of people involved with developing them, making rules to ensure safety, those who wish to purchase them, and to everyone else who will be sharing the roads with them…
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