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Apple to buy Drive.ai to add on more self-driving vehicle talent to its team: Report
Tech2 News Staff •The price at which Apple is acquiring Drive.ai is not known, but speculations hint at a figure under $200 mn.
US officials reject Tesla's bid for relief from 25 percent tariff on China imports
•Tesla's request was denied because it was deemed “strategically important” to the “Made in China 2025” program.
Apple is reportedly looking for LiDAR sensor suppliers for self-driving cars
•The sensor effort means Apple wants to develop an entire chain of hardware to guide autonomous vehicles.
General Motors to slash 14,700 jobs in North America; to focus on autonomous, electric vehicles
•The factories up for possible closure are part of General Mortors' effort "to right-size our capacity for the realities of the marketplace," as consumers shift away from cars to trucks and SUVs.
UK to have driverless cars on its roads in the coming 3-4 years, says minister
•Grayling also said he was committed to ending the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040
Ex-Apple employee charged for stealing blueprint related to a self-driving car
•About 5,000 of Apple’s 135,000 employees were allowed access to information about its self-driving car project.
5G networks could increase the safety on self-driving cars significantly: Gartner
Ians •The reliability and low latency that 5G networks promise could lead to the safe execution of human-led remote control of autonomous vehicles
Alphabet Inc's driverless car division Waymo will not harvest data from its fleet of autonomous vehicles says CEO John Krafcik
Ians •According to John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo which is the driverless car division of Alphabet, the company will not harvest data from its fleet of autonomous vehicles
NVIDIA unveils a simulator that leverages cloud computing power to test autonomous vehicles
•Nvidia has said that using simulation, some 300,000 miles (483,000 km) can be driven in five hours.
Self-driving vehicles cause more stress to passengers than regular cars: Study
Ians •"Stress levels rose in all test persons as soon as the lane-keeping system was activated", Corinna Seidler, a psychologist involved in the experiments, said.