Self Driving Cars
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Google: Here's when our cars turned over the wheel
Google is giving the industry a better understanding of how often its cars disengaged or reverted to manual driving mode.
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Self-Driving Cars Crash Less Often Than Regular Vehicles: Study
Self-driving cars are involved in fewer crashes on average than vehicles with only a human driver, a study released on Friday by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows. The study was commissioned by Alphabet Inc’s Google unit, which has reported a series of minor crashes involving its self-driving fleet. It looked only at Google’s fleet of more than 50 self-driving cars, which has logged 1.3 million miles in Texas and California in self-driving mode.
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Renault Nissan To Launch More Than 10 Cars With Autonomous Tech In Next Four Years
In a joint statement, the Renault Nissan alliance confirmed that together it will offer more than 10 cars with self-driving technology between now and the end of 2020. Importantly, Renault Nissan is committed to offering the potentially life-saving technology on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices.
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Ford Skips Over Google Deal In CES Reveals
Ford unwrapped a bundle of tech news this morning to kickoff the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, from putting Apple Carplay and Android Auto in its vehicles to a competition for building mobile drone bases in pickups. But it left out the big news: a deal with Google on self-driving cars.
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Ford and Google Deal To Go Beyond Autonomous Vehicles
While last-minute snags could yet delay a formal announcement, Ford Motor Co. and Google are planning to reveal the details of an extensive new partnership during a news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
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Google Pairs With Ford To Build Self-Driving Cars
Google and Ford will create a joint venture to build self-driving vehicles with Google’s technology, a huge step by both companies toward a new business of automated ride sharing, Yahoo Autos has learned.
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California’s Red Tape Slows Google’s Self-Driving Roll
Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the Department of Motor Vehicles. Before granting that permission, California regulators want Google to prove these cars of the future already drive as safely as people. The Department of Motor Vehicles was supposed to write precedent-setting rules of the road by last Jan. 1. Google says no on both.