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Apple to buy Drive.ai to add on more self-driving vehicle talent to its team: Report
Tech2 News Staff • 6 years agoThe 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
• 6 years agoTesla'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
• 6 years agoThe 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
• 6 years agoThe 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
• 6 years agoGrayling 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
• 7 years agoAbout 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 • 7 years agoThe 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 • 7 years agoAccording 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
• 7 years agoNvidia 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 • 7 years ago"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.