self-driving
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Elon Musk Claims Tesla Employee’s Fatal Crash Had Nothing to Do With Full-Self-Driving
Elon Musk is taking issue with a report from the Washington Post published Tuesday detailing what the newspaper described as potentially the first death from Tesla’s Full-Self-Driving feature in 2022. Musk claims the autonomous driving feature was never even downloaded, though the billionaire CEO didn’t provide evidence to back up his claim. “He was not…
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The Failure Of This Self-Driving Truck Company Tells You All You Need To Know About Self-Driving Vehicles
Starsky Robotics is a self-driving truck company that was the first company to run an unmanned semi on a public highway. It’s now shutting down though, and its co-founder has some unusually sensible and honest things to say about the industry, unusual only because the industry is stuffed with charlatans.
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The Biggest Moments In Tech Of 2016
Virtual reality finally arrived. Self-driving cars started wandering streets and past red lights. SpaceX aborted a rocket launch four times within a week. Samsung started strong with the Galaxy S7 and finished with the Note7 nuking itself into orbit while you slept. We had new graphics cards, and most of them were pretty damn good.…
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Here’s Google’s First Fully Functional Self-Driving Car Prototype
Google is a front runner in the autonomous auto future. Back in May, Google showed off an early prototype, a hacked-together little car with an exposed roof sensor and non-functioning headlight stickers. Today, in a short blog post, the team revealed the first fully functioning model.