autonomous cars
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Volkswagen’s EV Charging Robot Is A Genius Idea
Volkswagen is upping its electric vehicle game in a big way — and not with a car. It says it’s bringing into production a prototype of a charging robot that it debuted back in 2019, and it liked the original design so much that the company is sticking with it.
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Shared-Use Autonomous Vehicles Really Only Benefit Companies, Not Riders
I was thinking about Monday’s story where the autonomous robotaxi/small bus company Zoox was spotted shooting some sort of promo video with their new bi-directional autonomous transport cube-vehicle when it occurred to me that this company could be accomplishing all of their goals for likely a lot less money than the $US1.2 ($2) billion Amazon…
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We Might Finally Be Getting Global Self-Driving Standards
There’s been something of multiple discovery-esque situation in the self-driving car world: Tons of different manufacturers are all competing to refine autonomous technology, often in wildly different ways. That means we have a lot of variable ways of understanding and implementing the self-driving challenge. The problem is, regulators have lagged behind.
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Roborace Car Immediately Drives Into Wall
Let’s check in on Roborace, the robot-driver race car series in development, shall we?