View original post.Investors were pouring money into travel startups in 2019. This is especially true with late-stage funding, where well-versed startups navigated their way to new capital. Venture capitalists also looked beyond the United States in 2019 for value, with the Asia Pacific region becoming a focal point for investments. This year saw several $100 million-plus investment rounds – with …

View original post.Algorithms and chips that proactively can train self-driving cars. Automotive touch screens that use vibrations to help you “feel objects.” Powerful next-generation batteries that are enabling electric boats. Those were just some ideas and innovations pitched at Plug and Play’s Mobility Session at its Winter Summit last week. Attending one of the Plug and Play seasonal summits is …

View original post.Mobility as a Service (MaaS) describes the move away from privately owned modes of transportation towards consuming mobility solutions as a service. MaaS companies aim to reduce the friction of making this transition by integrating various forms of transport offerings into a single mobility platform. The concept was first described back in 1996 and trialled in Sweden. It …

View original post. Among all AI solutions, I believe the cybersecurity of autonomous cars is the most crucial aspect. One incident alone affecting human lives could disrupt not only a victimized company but the whole industry. It stands to reason that people will immediately lose trust in such technologies. Take, for example, an incident in which a self-driving car killed a …

View original post.As nice as it’d be to have the option of catching up on some reading — or sleep — while an autonomous vehicle drives you to work, the real draw of self-driving cars is the idea that they’ll be safer drivers than whoever just cut you off in the exit lane with inches to spare. After all, if …

View original post.Waymo, Google’s former self-driving venture that is now a business under Alphabet, has been given permission by California regulators to transport passengers in its robotaxis, TechCrunch has learned. The approval is a milestone for the company as it begins to ramp up toward a commercial service. The California Public Utilities Commission granted Waymo a permit on Tuesday to …

View original post.Israel-based Viziblezone wants to make it easier for self-driving cars to spot pedestrians, even if they aren’t yet in the field of view of the car’s sensors. I haven’t heard of all that many pedestrian detection startups, but there is a first for everything and if nothing else, Viziblezone is tackling an important issue, with millions of pedestrians …

View original post.This morning, a coalition of 11 companies — Aptiv, Audi, Baidu, BMW, Continental, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Here, Infineon, Intel, and Volkswagen — published a whitepaper (“Safety First For Automated Driving”) describing a framework for the development, testing, and validation of “safe” autonomous vehicles. The members claim it’s the broadest representation across the industry to date, and they …

View original post. Today at Baidu’s annual Create AI developer conference in Beijing, the China-based search giant announced a slew of updates across its ever-expanding driverless car ecosystem. They come as analysts at Research and Markets forecast there will be some 20 million autonomous and semiautonomous cars in operation in the U.S. by 2030, up from millions today. Baidu revealed …

View original post.Autonomous vehicle technology has seen billions in investment, spectacular advancements, and tragic reminders of how far we still have to go. Not since 3D printing has a technology been so lauded, so predicted to imminently change our everyday lives, and so deeply misunderstood. Currently there are no companies that are able to offer a fully autonomous ride in …