Laser attack blinds autonomous vehicles, deleting pedestrians and confusing cars
Self-driving cars, like the human drivers that preceded them, need to see what's around them to avoid obstacles and drive safely.
Oct 31, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Human vision—a challenge for AI
Achieving diversity in human vision is one of the major challenges for AI research. In the vast majority of cases, we are better than machines at understanding the world around us. But machines are catching up—slowly but ...
Oct 22, 2022
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Automotive
11 more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles
Eleven people were killed in U.S. crashes involving vehicles that were using automated driving systems during a four-month period earlier this year, according to newly released government data, part of an alarming pattern ...
Oct 18, 2022
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Engineering
LiDAR and radar sensors—space-saving headlight installation
People use their eyes and ears to pick up on traffic situations involving potential hazards. For self-driving vehicles to do the same thing, they need a whole host of sensors. As the number of sensors they contain increases, ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Robotics
Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents?
Robotic eyes on autonomous vehicles could improve pedestrian safety, according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Participants played out scenarios in virtual reality (VR) and had to decide whether to cross a road ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Automotive
Advancing human-like perception in self-driving vehicles
How can mobile robots perceive and understand the environment correctly, even if parts of the environment are occluded by other objects? This is a key question that must be solved for self-driving vehicles to safely navigate ...
Sep 13, 2022
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A low-cost, viable solution for self-driving cars to spot hacked GPS
A lot of hurdles remain before the emerging technology of self-driving personal and commercial vehicles is common, but transportation researchers at The University of Alabama developed a promising, inexpensive system to ...
Sep 7, 2022
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Business
New incentives could electrify the car market, but old roadblocks remain
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for car-hungry Americans to buy electric vehicles. For the next ten years, electric vehicle buyers will continue to get up to $7,500 in tax credits toward new ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Robotics
Enhancing the safety of autonomous vehicles in critical scenarios
Researchers at Ulm University in Germany have recently developed a new framework that could help to make self-driving cars safer in urban and highly dynamic environments. This framework, presented in a paper pre-published ...
Automotive
UK public want self-driving cars to be labelled
Nearly nine out of 10 people in the UK (86%) want self-driving vehicles to be labeled so they can be clearly distinguished from human-driven vehicles, according to a major new survey led by UCL researchers.
May 11, 2022
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