An operation as simple as crossing a toll barrier or a road works zone, represents a major challenge for autonomous cars to provide continuous travel in eyes-off/hands-off mode.

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Building a self-driving car seems to be the easy part, making it work hundred years old road systems is the hard part.

Although Nvidia has branched out into machine learning and autonomous vehicles, gaming GPUs are still its most important source of revenue. In the company’s most recent fiscal quarter, gaming was 53% of its $1.937 billion in revenue.

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Automotive, especially new markets like self-driving cars, requires tremendous staying power. Will existing revenues in other markets keep Nvidia afloat during the  development?

Its new CEO will inherit many problems, but a business plan based on the elusive dream of driverless cars is the largest.

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Who said becoming the first trillion dollar business would be easy? All run by robots? Interesting.

Waymo has resorted to floating conspiracy theories not rooted in fact, doing everything they can to put the focus on sensation rather than substance.

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Most sensational in this case is that Levandowski does not appear to be challenging his own crime, and should be a case in point for any other industry insiders with powerful information.

Their expectation of adding more cost…having that vehicle as an automated vehicle, will be a little bit difficult to sell.

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Toyota speaks as a volume carmaker sensibly, not fantastically. They learned from very simple issues how complex safety selling is.

RazorMotion (based on chipsets from Renesas) and AthosMotion (based on chipsets from Infineon and Intel) prototype ECUs come with the ready-to-run MotionWise software platform

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The only way to benchmark different silicon designs is to build a platform and run the software as a serial production design.

Volkswagen is based on the IEEE 802.11p (pWLAN) standard, which the automotive industry has standardised

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Standard like DSRC have taken a long time to get established, and 5G will take a long time to tear them down.

the way the kangaroo moves is causing trouble, when the animal is in the air it actually looks like it’s further away, then it lands and it looks closer

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Of course “this will not delay self-driving cars”, as long as we don’t discover any other objects that move unpredictably I suppose.

GM has paid about $2.5 billion in penalties and settlements related to the defect.

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You cannot name one automotive engineer that wants to testify in cases like this. Safety decisions in cars in serious business.

More will follow. Also, AGL isn’t just set to control the infotainment system. Its objective is to spread to all car systems — including those Blackberry also hopes to expand QNX into

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It started in 2008 when BMW started GENIVI Alliance. Now the fruitage will finally appear at Toyota, and much of the industry will follow. Open Source is now an essential part of the automotive portfolio.