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Feb 10, 2018

U.S. transportation agency calls March 1 ‘summit’ on autonomous cars

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Auto manufacturers, technology companies, road safety advocates and policy makers will attend a March 1 conference over potential government actions that could speed the rollout of autonomous cars, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday.

Last month, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the Trump administration plans to unveil revised self-driving car guidelines this summer as the government sets out to rewrite regulations that pose legal barriers to robot vehicles.

Next month’s “summit” is to help “identify priority federal and non-federal activities that can accelerate the safe rollout” of autonomous vehicles, the department said. It will also be open to the public.

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Feb 9, 2018

Ehang Air Taxi Takes Flight With Passengers For The First Time

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EHang’s 184 air taxi is set to begin testing with passengers in Dubai and the state of Nevada.

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Feb 9, 2018

China formulates new policies for autonomous cars in bid to catch up to US

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI, transportation

The latest sign of regulatory support comes two months after Beijing became the country’s first city to green light open road test for autonomous cars. The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency, also unveiled a three-year plan in December, making the development of smart cars a national priority.


The latest sign of national regulatory support comes two months after Beijing became the country’s first city to green light open road test for self driving cars.

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Feb 8, 2018

Elon Musk: In 3–6 months, Tesla cars will be able to drive themselves from coast to coast

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But that doesn’t mean the company isn’t working on cool new features. During the earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that within three to six months, he expects Tesla cars to be able to drive autonomously from U.S. coast to coast.

SEE ALSO: Tesla’s bringing Powerwall batteries to 50,000 homes in Australia

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Feb 8, 2018

Mars on Earth: Simulation tests in remote desert of Oman

Posted by in categories: space, transportation

Really wish we were already interplanetary travelers.


Two scientists in spacesuits, stark white against the auburn terrain of desolate plains and dunes, test a geo-radar built to map Mars by dragging the flat box across the rocky sand.

When the geo-radar stops working, the two walk back to their all-terrain vehicles and radio colleagues at their nearby base camp for guidance. They can’t turn to their mission command, far off in the Alps, because communications from there are delayed 10 minutes.

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Feb 7, 2018

First look at Ionity ‘ultra-fast’ charging network map of planned stations

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Ionity, the new ‘ultra-fast’ joint electric car charging network by BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Volkswagen, is slowly starting to take shape in Europe and now we get to see the map of their planned stations for the first time. This new network is believed by many to be the most important electric vehicle charging infrastructure effort since Tesla’s Supercharger network. They are planning 400 stations with a capacity of up to 350 kW across Europe by 2020. They started work on the first 20 stations last year and they plan to hit a total of 100 stations this year. Now we get to see what that netwo…

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Feb 7, 2018

Elon Musk’s Tesla overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to the asteroid belt

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Deeper space.

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Feb 7, 2018

A self-driving truck just drove from Los Angeles to Jacksonville

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

A start-up called Embark has completed a coast-to-coast test drive of its autonomous truck.

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Feb 4, 2018

All-electric ferry cuts emission

Posted by in categories: energy, transportation

The operators of the first all-electric ferry in Norway are starting to get some good data on the vehicle and it’s nothing short of impressive. They claim that the all-electric ferry cuts emission by 95% and costs by 80% compared to fuel-powered counterparts and the results are attracting customers. The ferry in question is called “Ampere” and it was put into operation back in May 2015 with the aim to reduce NOx and CO2 emissions, as well as noise pollution on the water. It was the result of an extensive partnership between Norled AS, a shipping company and ferry operator, Fjellstrand Shipy…

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Feb 3, 2018

New A.I. police car brings us one step closer to Robocop

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The capabilities on this thing are both impressive and worrisome.

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