autonomous cars
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Apple Lays Off 200 Employees Working On Secretive Self-Driving Car Project
Over 200 employees working on Apple’s self-driving cars project, code-named Project Titan, have been laid off. The move is being positioned internally as an “anticipated restructuring”, according to the earliest reports, though it’s not immediately clear that the job losses were actually expected by the people who were laid off.
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This Story Of A German Engineer Who Made An Autonomous Mercedes Van In 1986 Is Fascinating
Ernst Dickmann’s autonomous Mercedes van in the 1980sScreenshot: Computer History Museum (YouTube) Besides a few of the minor, current examples of driverless cars cruising around cities like Phoenix, we’re still decades away, if ever, from a full-fledged takeover of autonomous vehicles on public streets. The achievements that have been made to date, however, can be…
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That Self-Driving 1965 Ford Mustang Self-Drove Into A Wall
Siemens worked out a way for autonomous car to suck even more fun out of driving by developing a self-driving system that could be fitted to classic cars, such as the 1965 Ford Mustang it ran at the Goodwood Hillclimb this week. It’s too bad for them that the system sucked.
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Volvo Plans Autonomous XC90 You Can ‘Eat, Sleep, Do Whatever’ In By 2021
Image: XC90 (Volvo) The system’s current name is Highway Pilot, according to Henrik Green, Volvo’s Senior Vice President of Research & Development. The system will allow you to, “to ‘eat, sleep, work, watch a movie, relax, do whatever,” Green said today, a bold ambition for a company that previously had only said they had planned…