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U.S. Army Will Test Self-Driving Trucks on Public Roads This Year
U.S. Army Will Test Self-Driving Trucks on Public Roads This Year

13 Mar 2016, 11:52 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Autonomous technology is of interest to the U.S. Army, a report shows. They will test the first self-driving army truck on public roads this year

 
GM to Jump Ahead in Self-Driving Car Development with the Acquisition of Cruise
GM to Jump Ahead in Self-Driving Car Development with the Acquisition of Cruise

12 Mar 2016, 14:45 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / General Motors has announced it will buy Cruise Automation to increase the pace of development for its future autonomous vehicles

 
After Two Wins, Google's AI Is One Game Away from Defeating Go World Champion
After Two Wins, Google's AI Is One Game Away from Defeating Go World Champion

10 Mar 2016, 12:52 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Artificial Intelligence is capable of beating the human mind in everything related to mathematics, and since pretty much everything is, we're screwed

 
Ford Wants to Turn Autonomous Cars into Mobile Movie Theatres
Ford Wants to Turn Autonomous Cars into Mobile Movie Theatres

8 Mar 2016, 22:50 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / What's the point of having self-driving cars, if you can't make the most of the time spent behind the wheel of the car while not driving?

 
Study Reveals 75 Percent of American Drivers Are Afraid of Autonomous Cars
Study Reveals 75 Percent of American Drivers Are Afraid of Autonomous Cars

8 Mar 2016, 18:03 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / We've gone from "how cool it would be to have autonomous cars" to testing them in just a few years, but people need more than that to get used to the idea

 
Autonomous Trucks Will Be Tested on Public Roads in the United Kingdom
Autonomous Trucks Will Be Tested on Public Roads in the United Kingdom

7 Mar 2016, 13:46 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Driverless convoys of trucks will be tested on UK roads in the near future. The convoy will be guided by one vehicle that has a human driver

 
A Google Autonomous Vehicle Traded Some Paint with a Bus, Seems to Be at Fault
A Google Autonomous Vehicle Traded Some Paint with a Bus, Seems to Be at Fault

29 Feb 2016, 19:50 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Depending on how you look at it, this can be either a setback or an opportunity to learn something new for Google's fleet of autonomous cars

 
Volvo Puts Autonomous Technology to Very Questionable Use
Volvo Puts Autonomous Technology to Very Questionable Use

29 Feb 2016, 12:32 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Volvo proves there's always a much more complicated - and possibly expensive - way of doing simple things, you just have to work very hard to find it

 
Autonomous Cars Might Actually Raise the Number of Vehicles on the Road
Autonomous Cars Might Actually Raise the Number of Vehicles on the Road

26 Feb 2016, 21:08 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The self-driving cars aren't yet on the streets, and people are already starting to think about their energy consumption by 2050

 
Indian Man Builds Self-Driving Tata Nano, Feel Free to Be Impressed
Indian Man Builds Self-Driving Tata Nano, Feel Free to Be Impressed

26 Feb 2016, 14:03 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Who said self-driving cars must be based on expensive vehicles? A man from India proved that you can build an autonomous car based on the Tata Nano. Impressive

 
Google Wants to Take the Steering Wheel Off Autonomous Cars, and It Has a Point
Google Wants to Take the Steering Wheel Off Autonomous Cars, and It Has a Point

25 Feb 2016, 20:36 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / If you thought getting used to autonomous cars was going to be difficult, just imagine getting into a road-going vehicle with no steering wheel

 
The Rare Situation When Having Better (Bigger) Potholes Is a Good Thing
The Rare Situation When Having Better (Bigger) Potholes Is a Good Thing

25 Feb 2016, 19:40 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Testing autonomous cars for use on real roads is going to be a very complex task, and that's why every aspect has to be taken into consideration

 
Roborace Has Cars Designed by the Man Who Drew the Tron: Legacy Light Cycles
Roborace Has Cars Designed by the Man Who Drew the Tron: Legacy Light Cycles

18 Feb 2016, 16:17 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Shortly after Formula E became the first major competition dedicated to EVs, another trending technology in the automotive industry will get its own series

 
Every Office Should Have Nissan Self-Parking Chairs
Every Office Should Have Nissan Self-Parking Chairs

15 Feb 2016, 23:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan is going to switch from making supercar killers to office furniture. The GT-R replacement will now make coffee machines and ramen

 
Artificial Intelligence Does Pose a Potential Threat, but Not the Movie-Kind
Artificial Intelligence Does Pose a Potential Threat, but Not the Movie-Kind

15 Feb 2016, 17:31 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The autonomous cars might very well be the first real robots that humankind builds, but should that mean we have to kill them with fire while we can?

 
Google’s Self Driving Delivery Truck Sounds More Plausible than Amazon Prime Air
Google’s Self Driving Delivery Truck Sounds More Plausible than Amazon Prime Air

11 Feb 2016, 17:33 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A truck driving around on its own and stopping in front of your house doesn't have the same wow-factor as getting your order via a flying drone, though

 
Google's Self-Driving Tech Can Be Considered a Driver Under US Law, NHTSA Says
Google's Self-Driving Tech Can Be Considered a Driver Under US Law, NHTSA Says

10 Feb 2016, 12:10 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / The NHTSA replied to a Google request asking that its self-driving system be considered as a driver from a legal view. The organization agrees with the company

 
The Four Laws of Autonomous Cars
The Four Laws of Autonomous Cars

10 Feb 2016, 11:03 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / With the advent of driverless cars upon us, roboticists and legislators will have to think of a way to make them fully legal

 
Google Wants to Make Its Autonomous Cars to Also Recharge Autonomously
Google Wants to Make Its Autonomous Cars to Also Recharge Autonomously

8 Feb 2016, 15:12 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Google is on a quest to make sure that a car that can drive by itself is smart enough to recharge its batteries without human intervention as well

 
How About a 3D Printer That Moves and Is Completely Autonomous?
How About a 3D Printer That Moves and Is Completely Autonomous?

4 Feb 2016, 23:01 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The 3D printer, even though still a new invention, is already receiving a major improvement that opens up a lot of possibilities