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Will Autonomous Vehicles Make Our Roads Safer ?
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Photo SourceSelf-driving cars are potentially on their way to becoming commonplace transportation in modern American households. Maybe you’ve heard about it, either through the news, a podcast, or an article on the internet. No matter what your familiarity with the concept is, one thing’s for certain: we could be sharing the roadways with self-driving vehicles in the next few years.Of course, when you think about the push of artificial intelligence (AI) into other parts of our day-to-day lives, it might not seem so crazy. With space exploration centers beginning to use AI droids in space, a self-driving vehicle seems pretty tame! But for now, they have yet to hit the roadways in a non-testing capacity.When they do, however, they are bound to change the roadways forever. Autonomous cars, (...)

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Introducing City Scale HD Maps
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A Very Big Step Forward towards City Scale HD MapsAt CES 2019, we launched a new product called City Scale HD Maps and demonstrated some core functionality of achieving city scale HD mapping operations. Looking back we have accomplished very large milestones since then.A small loop requested by a Car manufacturerAt Civil Maps, we saw a disconnect between the Proof-of-concept HD Maps requirements for R&D teams at car manufacturers and the scalable production requirements from procurement. If Self Driving Vehicles need to go to market, they need a scalable map operation. Upon deciding that we needed to create a city scale map to prove scalability; Civil Maps allocated new resources in a division called Team MapX.Team MapX stands for team map expansion and the focus of Team MapX is to (...)

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Calling Cars“Self-Driving” May Leave Consumers Asleep at the Wheel
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Calling a car, “self-driving,” may be the K-car of autonomous vehicle branding, according to a studyTech experts are trying to convince people that self-driving cars are the next big thing in transportation. But, for consumers, cars labeled “self-driving,” or “autonomous,” are about as exciting as a long, lonely, coffee-less stretch of Midwestern interstate.According to a Penn State study that appeared in Science Communications, calling a car, “self-driving,” actually made people less excited about the vehicle. Terms like “autonomous” and “driverless” didn’t do much for the consumers, either. Those terms could even add to consumer confusion about the vehicles, the researchers found. The term, “driverless vehicle,” for example, made some study participants think there was no driver in the car but not (...)

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Understanding Starsky Robotics’ Voluntary #safety Self-Assessment
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Enhancing Highway Safety for the Long-HaulEight months ago, I joined Starsky Robotics as our Director of Safety Policy. I’ve previously worked on FAA certified avionics, automotive electronics systems, and most recently focused on safely integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into the U.S. national airspace. Safety is a critical concern for each of these industries and is at the core of our approach to automation at Starsky. To that end, Starsky’s first step after raising our Series A was bringing me on board to ensure our commitment to safety is an actionable part of everything we do when putting driverless trucks on America’s highways.Our safety strategy begins with an understanding of the term “safety” itself. At Starsky, we use the International Organization for Standardization’s (...)

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#blockchain May Be the Answer to Making Self Driving Cars Safer
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Image source: BBC NewsA few days ago, Uber, the world largest taxi sharing company, got into trouble after one of its self-driving cars hit and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.According to the Guardian, footage released by the police shows that the SUV’s LIDAR and radar system failed to detect the victim even though she was visible in front of the car before the collision.The Uber accident underlines what have been on the minds of most of us; just how safe are self-driving cars compared to their human-operated counterparts?While there isn’t enough data to determine whether autonomous cars are safer than human-driven ones, the premise behind the technology seems to suggest so. The self-driving technology involves highly sensitive cameras and sensors equipped with the latest (...)

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Overcoming a Major Obstacle in the Electric Vehicle Boom
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Self-driving smart #cars might be stealing the limelight but industry experts think their impact will be insignificant compared to electric vehicles (EVs). Revolutionary advances in battery technology will allow vehicles of all shapes and sizes to travel long distances powered not by polluting fossil fuels but electricity; reducing both the threat to mankind’s health and the impact on the environment.The concept of the electric car has been around for decades but early examples were cumbersome, inefficient and expensive. Recent advances have facilitated the creation of attractive models, such as the #tesla, and have sparked hopes of an industrial renaissance. Investors, financiers, producers and the general public alike are all watching the EV industry with cautious optimism.The numbers (...)

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