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Google's Electric, Autonomous Test Car Looks Happy, Has No Steering Wheel

Green Car Reports

This is probably not the car you''ll be whisked around cities in, in the future. Which is either a good or bad thing, depending on how much you like cars that look like koala bears on a substance recently legalized in Colorado.

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Hyundai upgrading Bluelink connected car services technology; Connected Routing, Last Mile Navigation

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor is upgrading its Bluelink connected car services technology with a range of new features. The new Last Mile Navigation feature allows customers to continue the journey to their final destination after their car has parked. The new i30 will be the company’s first model to be equipped with the upgraded Bluelink. Weather.

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Blind Man Drives Prius, With A Little Help From Google (Video)

Green Car Reports

Steve Mahan is legally blind. He did it, though, with a little help from Google. The car he happened to be driving was one of several. Steve Mahan got into a Toyota Prius hybrid, drove to the dry cleaner's, picked up some clothes he'd left to be cleaned, and drove home. The trip was about a mile and a half.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

The technology has gotten better and many of the elements of self-driving cars are already embedded into our current automobiles. Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. The ride continues.].

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Twenty percent of the food consumed in America is eaten in cars. Approximately 1.5 —Anthony Levandowski.

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Groupe Renault and Nissan sign exclusive alliance deal with Waymo to explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan

Green Car Congress

The agreement is designed to bring together the strengths of each party and expand expertise by assessing market opportunities, working together to research commercial, legal and regulatory issues related to driverless transportation-as-a-service offerings in France and Japan.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Cars That Think

Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. Spatial apartheid is legally over. Since then, Gebru has been staffing up. Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna on. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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