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Waymo First to Put Completely Autonomous Car on Public Roads
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet has become the first company to put a car on the road. Not just any car, and not just on any road. But a fully autonomous vehicle without a safety driver on a public road in Arizona. The company will soon also begin…
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Baidu Announces $1.5B Fund for Self-Driving Car Startups
Chinese search giant Baidu has announced that they are throwing in a lot of their monetary weight into funding self-driving car startups. The company also expanded by investing in AI technology recently, with autonomous vehicles as their next goal. In fact, Baidu opened up its Project Apollo self-driving car platform…
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Court Filing Reveals Google Spent $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech
Google is keeping the financial details surrounding their self-driving technology efforts close to their chest. In fact, the cost of the project is hiding within the “other bets” category of their finances. However, that information is now available thanks to a simple paperwork mistake. A transcribed deposition of Waymo’s financial…
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Waymo Launches Free Self-Driving Taxi Service Trials in Arizona
Waymo, formerly called the Google self-driving car project, has launched initial trials in Phoenix, Arizona using a fleet of 100 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. The service is currently being offered for free, servicing the Phoenix metropolitan area, including Chandler, Tempe, Mesa and Gilbert. Phoenix has been selected as compared to…
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GTA V Being Used to Train Autonomous Vehicle Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is being trained for autonomous vehicle driving using an unlikely tool: Grand Theft Auto V. While the game itself does not have an ultra-realistic physics engine for the AI to learn from, the blockbuster game allows for a multitude of vehicles to be used and its detailed driving…
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Google Sues Uber for Allegedly Stealing Self-Driving Car Secrets
In a US federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Thursday, Google’s self-driving car business Waymo is accusing Uber of using intellectual property stolen by one of their former project leaders. According to the filing, Anthony Levandowski, who runs the autonomous car division at Uber, downloaded over 14,000 files from…
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