Two men are dead after a Tesla traveling in Spring, in the US, crashed into a tree. According to the police no one was driving the fully-electric Tesla when the accident happened. There was a person in the passenger seat of the front of the car and in the rear passenger seat of the car. The vehicle was traveling at high speed when it missed a turn and hit a tree.
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AI recognizes potentially critical traffic situations seven seconds in advance
A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new early warning system for vehicles that uses artificial intelligence to learn from thousands of real traffic situations. A study of the system was carried out in cooperation with the BMW Group. The results show that, if used in today’s self-driving vehicles, it can warn seven seconds in advance against potentially critical situations that the cars cannot handle alone – with over 85% accuracy.
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According to the latest Canalys research, 3.5 million passenger cars worldwide were sold with level 2* autonomy driving features in Q4 2020, growing 91% year-on-year. Level 2 autonomy driving features were in 30% of new vehicles sold in the US, 20% in Japan, 19% in Europe and 12% in China. For the full-year 2020 11.2 million cars sold with level 2 features, a growth of 78% compared to 2019.
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Terradepth today announced the successful completion of its Phase 1 trials with an autonomous submarine. The test was executed at Lake Travis in Travis County, Texas. The Phase 1 test results demonstrate that the company’s unmanned submersible could collect and process underwater data, understand features of import, and automatically retask itself with no human intervention.
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Research: What might sheep and driverless cars have in common?
Psychologists have long found that people behave differently than when they learn of peers’ actions. A new study by computer scientists found that when individuals in an experiment about autonomous vehicles were informed that their peers were more likely to sacrifice their own safety to program their vehicle to hit a wall rather than hit pedestrians who were at risk, the percentage of individuals willing to sacrifice their own safety increased by approximately two-thirds.
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In both Las Vegas and San Francisco more autonomous vehicles will be operating on public roads. Motional will be testing driverless vehicles on public roads in Las Vegas, navigating intersections, unprotected turns, and interactions with other road users, including pedestrians and cyclists. And Waymo will start a pilot with autonomous taxi’s on the usy streets of San Francisco.
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Seegrid, vendor of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling, today premiered a new autonomous lift truck, Palion Lift AMR, further expanding the capabilities of the company’s fleet of mobile robotics solutions.
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Camera-based system makes automated landing of drone possible
Researchers of the SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY demonstrate automated drone landing using 2D camera-based symbol detection, with potential applications in rescue missions.
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Cruise and GM team up with Microsoft to commercialize self-driving vehicles
Cruise and General Motors on Tuesday announced they have entered a long-term strategic relationship with Microsoft to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles. The companies will bring together their software and hardware engineering, cloud computing capabilities, manufacturing know-how and partner ecosystem.
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An autonomous truck from Kodiak Robotics managed several round trips between Dallas and Houston, a total distance of 800 miles, requiring one intervention by the human safety driver, as is seen in a video released by the California-based startup.