«Smaller towns in Japan are greying even faster than cities, and there are just not enough workers to operate buses and taxis».
Source : Japan trials driverless cars in bid to keep rural elderly on the move
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« La voiture va devenir le troisième espace de vie, après le domicile et le travail : il faut occuper cet espace, vous pourrez vous y relaxer, vous divertir… vous pourrez faire plein de chose dans votre voiture puisque vous ne conduisez plus » – Edzard Overbeek, CEO de Here.
Source : Les nouveaux défis de la cartographie routière pour les voitures autonomes
« Why did Uber launch the self-driving in pilot in San Francisco if it knew it was in violation of the law? A likely scenario was that Uber didn’t want to disclose its disengagement rate — the number of times the vehicle forced the human driver to take control because it couldn’t safely navigate the conditions on the road — or any accidents to the DMV, and by extension the public ».
Source : Uber dismissed warnings about its illegal self-driving test for months, emails show – The Verge
« Ford announced plans today to invest $1 billion over the course of five years into a new, previously unheard of artificial intelligence startup called Argo AI. The company, which has operated in secret out of its Pittsburgh headquarters for months, was founded by Bryan Salesky, a multi-year veteran of Google’s self-driving team, and Peter Rander, who led autonomous efforts at Uber up until September 2016. Ford’s goal is to tap into Argo AI’s expertise to help establish the car company as a leader in the autonomous space ».
Source : Ford is giving Google and Uber veterans $1 billion to build a self-driving car brain – The Verge
Google’s self-driving cars will remain unplugged from the internet most of the time to prevent them from being hacked, the chief executive of Waymo, its driverless vehicle programme, has revealed.
Source : Google keeps self-driving cars offline to hinder hackers
The aim of the Drive Me research project is to focus on how to enhance people’s lives and have a positive impact on society. We take a holistic rather than a purely technical approach to our research and development processes. No one else to our knowledge is developing autonomous drive from a human-centric standpoint.
Source : Volvo Cars puts people first in the development of autonomous cars – Volvo Car USA Newsroom
We have a permitting process in place to ensure public safety as this technology is being tested. Twenty manufacturers have already obtained permits to test hundreds of cars on California roads. Uber shall do the same.
Source : Uber’s San Francisco self-driving pilot draws criticism from California DMV | TechCrunch
Nvidia announced that it was partnering with Chinese web giant Baidu to build a platform for semiautonomous cars. (Baidu has approval to test autonomous cars in California as well.) Nvidia also built test cars, and was training them in parking lots and private roads prior to receiving this new approval from the California DMV. And this summer, a self-driving race car competition called Roborace announced that it was using the Drive PX2 in its vehicles.California has been a hotbed for autonomous testing, but that status is becoming decreasingly unique.
Source : California gives Nvidia the go-ahead to test self-driving cars on public roads – The Verge
L’utilisation de votre voiture en covoiturage ou en trajet à la demande est permise avec vos proches , en revanche toute activité de ce genre à des fins commerciales ne sera autorisée que sur le réseau Tesla
Source : Tesla interdira d’utiliser ses voitures autonomes avec BlaBlaCar ou Uber – Business – Numerama
I can imagine 50,000 to 100,000 drivers, human drivers, alongside a million-car network. So I don’t think the number of human drivers will go down anytime soon.
Source : Uber CEO Travis Kalanick discusses self-driving cars in interview – Business Insider