Google today announced that it has partnered with Fiat Chrysler to get dozens more self-driving cars in the wild.
The partnership was rumored to be in the works last week, and now it’s real.
“We’re planning to more than double our fleet with the initial addition of about 100 new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans, and we hope the first few will be on the road by the end of this year,” Google said in a Google+ post.
Drive.ai is the 13th company to be granted a license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in California. This is exciting news, especially because we had no idea that Drive.ai even existed until just last week. The company has been in stealth mode for the past year, working on applying deep learning techniques to self-driving cars. We spoke with two of Drive.ai's co-founders, Sameep Tandon and Carol Reiley, about why their approach to self-driving cars is going to bring us vehicle autonomy that's more efficient, more adaptable, more reliable, and safer than ever.
A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will automate away more jobs — or drive more economic efficiency — than the driverless truck.
Shipping a full truckload from L.A. to New York costs around $4,500 today, with labor representing 75 percent of that cost. But those labor savings aren’t the only gains to be had from the adoption of driverless trucks.
La compañía de vehículos Honda ha lanzado una campaña con prototipos de vehículos que se conducen solos y con la que pretenden acercar a este nuevo modo de transporte al usuario sin asustarle. En un primer momento encargaron al estudio londinense Map hacer un prototipo de vehículo que, en un futuro no muy lejano, pudiera llevar pasajeros alrededor del mundo.
In the race to develop self-driving cars, the United States and Europe lead in technology, but China is coming up fast in the outside lane with a regulatory structure that could put it ahead in the popular adoption of autonomous cars on its highways and city streets.
A draft roadmap for having highway-ready, self-driving cars within 3-5 years and autonomous vehicles for urban driving by 2025 could be unveiled as early as this year, said Li Keqiang, an automotive engineering professor at Tsinghua University who chairs the committee drafting the plan. The panel is backed by the powerful Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Google may have the most self-driving cars on the road and Ford might be testing its driverless vehicles in the most extreme conditions, but Jia Yueting certainly has the most autonomous auto brands under his belt.
Google might be the biggest name chasing self-driving cars, but a host of automakers, auto brands and other tech heavyweights are also investing heavily in driverless R&D.
Toyota doesn’t just want its cars to drive themselves; it wants them to grab the wheel to stop you from crashing.
Toyota’s researchers are developing what they call a “guardian angel” system that will automatically take control of a vehicle, or subtly adjust a driver’s actions, in order to avert danger. In contrast to other companies working on self-driving vehicles, the Japanese carmaker sees combining machine and human driving as a key step toward full autonomy.
Usted no tiene que ser un gigante de la tecnología para enseñarle a un vehículo a manejarse a sí mismo.
Cuando se habla del desarrollo de vehículos autónomos, grandes nombres como Tesla y Google capturan toda la atención. Pero, muy discretamente, algunas startups se han estado metiendo en la competencia. Para hacerse un lugarcito en esta industria emergente, estas empresas sacan ventaja del software de fácil acceso y de la caída de precios de los equipos de manufactura, reacondicionando vehículos existentes para labores especiales.
