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...In November, guidelines were released for local governments to follow when establishing driverless car pilot projects....
...Doug Field, who left Apple Car to become Ford’s technology head, said that fully driverless autonomy — known as Level 4 — was “the hardest technical problem of our time”....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...this Midwest city....
...Instead, there are vehicles such as my new Volvo, equipped with “pilot assist” — software that keeps it cruising at safe speeds and steers it on highways....
...But it is only rolling out a pilot Covid-19 testing site in the Bay Area for now....
...So small cities across the US are running mobility pilot programmes such as this to figure out how to build infrastructure for a world where cars talk to cars, buildings talk to buses and traffic lights...
...Small hidden cameras would snap low-resolution images of people and cars as they move through the streets....
...In the upper midwest, squirrels chewing through wires and blowing transformers are apparently the leading cause of power outages....
...In 2017, he stepped down from the board of Uber after making a sexist comment during a meeting at the car-booking company....
...He is currently Ford vice-president, Autonomous Vehicles and Electrification, is appointed CEO of Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC reporting to a board of directors chaired by Marcy Klevorn, president of Ford...
...The child of Pakistan’s emerging middle-class was first drawn to the American Midwest by his father’s job selling surveying equipment....
...So things are looking up for the Midwest, not least because it is working hard to reinvent itself with autonomous car technologies....
...The Midwest is the traditional home of makers — of cars, tractors, machines and household appliances....
...With prices starting at $1.96m, and a flight deck designed to be easy to use, the jet is aimed at individuals who fly themselves rather than employing a professional pilot....
...At a presentation in Munich, a member of the board of BMW responsible for development, Klaus Fröhlich, said autonomous cars would “at most” be confined to pilot tests in restricted settings this side of...
...The shuttle is one of several pilots that Ford is running for “smart mobility” systems that could help the company to meet customers’ demands in the 21st century....
...The development of self-driving cars — including a pilot to use autonomous Chevrolet Volts at GM’s Warren Technical Center, near Detroit — was one of the initiatives laid out at its global business conference...
...(Forbes) The end of car ownership? Within a generation, a self-driving car will be summoned by app to your location, cleaned and fuelled....
...Companies such as Zipabout are typically seeking between £250,000 and £5m to run pilot projects, hire staff and open offices....
...The vehicle, called the S60L, marks a possible turning point for the motor industry, as a mainstream carmaker pilots the long-awaited introduction of Chinese vehicles in the US, the world’s second-biggest...
...Would he consider designing cars? “Anything is possible.”...
...Ingenie is the company which puts black boxes in the cars of young drivers and adjusts the price of their insurance based on how they drive....
...Google hopes to run pilots of its own self-driving cars on public roads in California in “the next couple of years”....
...This is a revolutionary new experience, no longer designed around the twin needs of the driver to effectively pilot the vehicle, and of the vehicle to be left idle until a driver is available....
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