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Dec 8, 2017
Insurance Companies Are Now Offering Discounts if Your Let Your Tesla Drive Itself
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: finance, robotics/AI, transportation
While accidents have happened, one of the most appealing things about autonomous vehicles is their capacity to make our roads a safer place. Now, insurance companies are starting to offer financial incentives to promote adoption.
Britain’s largest automobile insurance company, Direct Line, has announced a 5 percent discount for customers who activate Autopilot functionality in their Tesla. It follows in the footsteps of Root, a startup that offers a similar promotion across nine states in the US.
Dec 7, 2017
Tesla just received its largest preorder of Semi trucks yet
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: transportation
Dec 2, 2017
Google’s Artificial Intelligence Built an AI That Outperforms Any Made
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jNRJkNjSljA
Google’s AutoML project, designed to make AI build other AIs, has now developed a computer vision system that vastly outperforms state-of-the-art-models. The project could improve how autonomous vehicles and next-generation AI robots “see.”
In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s capable of generating its own AIs. More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a “child” that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts.
Nov 28, 2017
FedEx is buying up to 100 new flying delivery trucks
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
FedEx is keen on Cessna’s newest small plane, the SkyCourier, which can carry freight or passengers.
Nov 28, 2017
Airbus partners with Rolls-Royce and Siemens to build an electric airplane
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Battery technology improvements are expected to soon enable electric flight and companies in the field are preparing their powertrain technology to support it. In a major move toward that goal, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens have announced a new partnership to gradually convert a plane to electric propulsion. The project they are collaborating on is the ‘E-Fan X’, a BAe 146 plane on which they are testing their electric motor technology. During ground tests, they already replaced one of the four gas turbines by a two-megawatt electric motor. Paul Eremenko, Airbus’s CTO, commented on the pr…
Nov 26, 2017
Bali volcano shuts down flights, sends residents scurrying to safety
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
This one and one in iceland! wow!
Volcanic eruptions on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have prompted officials to cancel flights and move about 24,000 residents out of the way as a thick ash cloud from Mount Agung, thousands of meters high, drifts east and southeast along the archipelago.
Residents were evacuated from 224 points around the island while Lombok International Airport on Pulau Lombok, the island due east of Bali, has closed temporarily, said Ari Ahsan, spokesman for Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.
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Nov 23, 2017
Philip Hammond pledges driverless cars by 2021 and warns people to retrain
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: government, robotics/AI, transportation
Government of England pledges to roll out Level 5 Self Driving cars by 2021. And, they estimate 1 million people being left unemployed. Gives an idea of what will happen with automation of the Transportation Industry in the US.
UK chancellor says driverless vehicles will revolutionise people’s lives but says for some it will be ‘very challenging’.
Nov 21, 2017
Walmart is ‘secretly’ testing self-driving floor scrubbers, signaling that more robots are coming
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation
Planning to try and automate the entire store.
Walmart (WMT) has been quietly testing out autonomous floor scrubbers during the overnight shifts in five store locations near the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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Nov 20, 2017
Tesla Roadster might fly — By Peter Valdes-Dapena | CNN Tech
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: Elon Musk, solar power, space, sustainability, transportation
“Musk seems to be talking about something different, a sports car that could “hop” over obstacles. The emphasis would, presumably, still be on performance and practicality with four wheels on the ground.”
Tag: Tesla