Self Driving Vehicles
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Uber kills self-driving trucks programme to focus on autonomous cars instead
Ians •Uber wants to refocus on the self-driving car programme, halted due to the fatal Arizona car crash.
Ford launches self-driving pilot delivery program in collaboration with Domino's in Miami
•Ford plans to provide a self-driving vehicle service to multiple partners, who in turn would offer it to their customers under their own brand names.
Two-thirds of Americans are wary of self-driving cars: Report
•Automotive and technology industry executives are pushing the US to pass legislation that would loosen restrictions on testing and deploy self-driving cars.
General Motors seeking approval for autonomous car in US; its first vehicle is set to enter the market in 2019
•General Motors prototype self-driving vehicles have been developed in San Francisco by Cruise Automation, the startup that GM acquired in March 2016.
Renesas Electronics to provide semiconductors for Toyota's upcoming self-driving cars in 2020
•Renesas said it will provide a chip to Toyota - the R-Car system-on-chip - that will serve as an “electronic brain” on the self-driving cars.
General Motors to buy LIDAR technology maker Strobe Inc to push ahead in autonomous car market
•LIDAR is one of the major sensor technologies used in autonomous vehicles.
Samsung receives permit to test self-driving vehicles in California, but has no plans to enter car-making business
•Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it has received a permit to test self-driving vehicles in California, four months after Apple received a permit.
Uber engineer Levandowski to stay away from self-driving vehicle project till issue with Waymo is resolved
Fp Archives •The head of Uber Technologies Inc's self-driving vehicles unit, Anthony Levandowski, will step aside from some of his duties
Amazon is not building its own autonomous vehicles; but it has right ideas to make them work in its favour
Sheldon •After building drones that would help with last mile deliveries, autonomous driving would indeed seem like the right use of autonomous technology in the commercial space.
Norway plans to open the country for self-driving car testing in 2017
Fp Archives •The Norwegian government aims to pass a law in the spring of next year to allow testing of self-driving vehicles on Norwegian roads, it said on Thursday.