Ontario confirmed the lack of applications after Reuters learned about it through a freedom-of-information request

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Maybe the Canadians were confused on why you need volunteers to drive driverless cars. 😉

after a thorough evaluation of the results that they could proudly claim, “we are able to estimate the lane position in 99% of the cases with less than five pixel error”

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Lane positioning and precise object location (in this case striped on the road) is one of the biggest challenges toward autonomous driving. Triple redundancy needs all the sources of information possible.

It’s becoming clear that extracting intelligence from that big data requires machine learning architectures which are better implemented with non x86 chips from companies like NVidia. It’s possible that by the end of this decade history might repeat itself in Intel’s most profitable segment.

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Intel must think and execute like a startup, otherwise the failure in mobile will repeat as a loss at the enterprise – but not without a fight. More is to gain by offense than defense, however.

“We aim to give cyclists ample buffer room when we pass, and our cars won’t squeeze by when cyclists take the centre of the lane, even if there’s technically enough space.”

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Bicycles and humans in general are the bane of self-driving cars.We riders are not so predictable and don’t always follow the laws and crossing markings.

NTT Data is enhancing its automotive software and applications research and development

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Safety in cars boils down to data, and data requires communication to become information. A whole new generation of suppliers are coming to automotive from the Telecom space, with the discipline to match.

it will likely be the end of the decade before we really know how the car wars play themselves out. In the meantime, it’s going to be one of the most epic battlegrounds for both new world and old world businesses the market has seen in quite some time

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What is missing from this excellent summary of the autonomous driving players is the critical Functional Safety element which will prevent any new player from joining the party until they have decades of proof points. No lawyer wants to take chances while technology is claiming to save lives, not lose more.

The goal of the collaboration is to develop future-proofed solutions that enable the drivers to not only take their hands off the steering wheel, but reach the so called “eyes off” (level 3) and ultimately the “mind off” (level 4) level transforming the driver’s in-car time into leisure or work time. This level of autonomy would enable the vehicle, on a technical level, to achieve the final stage of traveling “driver off” (level 5) without a human driver inside

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Clearly we expect some caveats to these claims, and 2021 is only about 12-18 months away from planning start so testing and validation is likely the biggest part of the project. No mention of a communications partner, but the project claims to be “open” and “standards”. We’ll see.

The trial was undertaken at Ericsson’s Stockholm, Sweden, headquarters on June 10, utilising 5G radio access prototype equipment using a 5G radio interface named New Radio (NR) alongside massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). Massive MIMO combines a high number of antenna elements with beamforming for higher throughput, increased coverage, improved capacity, and more efficient usage of the mobile network

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7Gbps might be enough to keep a high definition map streamed to a vehicle up to date enough to avoid a crash I might think. How many cars at a time can 5G deliver to? Tech is not the limiting factor, it will be economics and scalability that determine if autonomous cars will work on real roads.

Oh, you’ve never heard of Wind River before? So what? Neither did we.

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Another company John McElroy had not heard of, which shows have complex this business has become.