CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends
Even before CES 2025 kicked off a few trends began to emerge — or more accurately, some gaps appeared. All U.S. and some European automakers that have helped turn…
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New Machine Learning Breakthrough Enhances Object Recognition and Pose Estimation
Researchers have recently introduced a new approach to self-supervised learning that significantly improves a machine’s ability to both recognize objects and understand their orientation in space. This study, presented at…
Human Drivers in Self-Driving Vehicles Need Nudges: Drivers Assume Features that Don’t Exist
It turns out that how a car’s partial automation system reacts when you grab the wheel could make or break your willingness to take control in tricky situations. According…
Phoenix cop pulls over errant Waymo self-driving car that ‘freaked out’
Google-owned Waymo runs a fleet of self-driving vehicles in Phoenix that are approved to operate without a human in the cabin — they’re even used for ridesharing, and occasionally,…
The Unexpected Dangers of Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars are often heralded as the future of transportation, promising increased safety and convenience. While the technology carries significant potential, it also introduces unexpected risks that are crucial for…
Automakers Agree We Have No Plan on How to Make Autonomous Cars Safe
A new industry group has been formed to create standards for developing, testing, and the public use of fully automated vehicles. The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC), partnered with…
Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself
For all the recent improvements in artificial intelligence, the technology still cannot take the place of human beings in situations where it must frame its perceptions of the world in…
How Nvidia Is Helping Autonomous Cars Simulate Their Way To Safety
Imagine that you’re the driver of a four-door family sedan approaching a stop sign. When you reach the stop sign, you notice a bicyclist trying to cross the road. Through…
Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Drive by Mimicking Others
Machine Learning\nResearchers develop new machine learning algorithm that teaches cars to self-drive by observing other traffic\nSelf-driving cars are powered by machine learning algorithms that require vast amounts of driving data…
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly…