Nearly £2m (US$2.5m) has been secured in grant funding by Milton Keynes city council and its partners to bring advanced self-driving shuttle services to the city’s downtown. The project – named StreetCAV (connected and autonomous vehicles) – will install the necessary infrastructure and connectivity services to bring autonomous shuttles that seat multiple passengers to the UK city. Robotic and drone-based services will also be integrated to ensure a high level of safety for users.

The StreetCAV project consortium consists of Milton Keynes city council, Smart City Consultancy and several other partners. Each will provide their respective knowledge to trial the AVs before evaluating whether to roll out the technology to further UK locations.

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Mobility supplier Hitachi Astemo has chosen AMD’s adaptive computing technology to power its latest, stereo-format, forward-looking camera for adaptive cruise control and autonomous emergency braking. The solution will enhance vision capabilities, resulting in a higher level of safety for next-generation vehicles.

AMD’s Automotive XA Zynq UltraScale+ multi-processor system-on-a-chip (MPSoC) delivers stereo and monocular image processing in the camera, allowing the solution to detect objects over 120°, an angle three times wider than the company’s previous-generation cameras.

“The AMD Automotive XA Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is incredibly versatile and allows us to add multiple safety-critical features in our forward camera system,” explained Makoto Kudo, deputy head of ECU solution business unit, powertrain and safety systems business division, Hitachi Astemo.

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The transportation sector has experienced a rapid transformation with the integration of AI, resulting in significant improvements in efficiency and safety. In response to this evolving landscape, NEXCOM Mobile Computing Solutions has introduced the ATC 3540 and ATC 3750 series. These solutions exemplify NEXCOM’s cutting-edge in-vehicle and railway edge AI platforms, offering advanced driving assistance capabilities across a spectrum of transportation applications, including on-road safety, law enforcement, material handling and earthmoving vehicle applications. Based on the Nvidia Jetson Orin NX and Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin platforms, the ATC 3540 and ATC 3750 series deliver potent edge AI computing capabilities and enable real-time data transmission through 5G, wi-fi 5/6E and 10GbE connections.

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Schaeffler and VDL Groep are collaborating on the development and production of a new generation of self-driving shuttles for public transportation. A first demonstrator of the technology will be showcased at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany, September 5-10. The shuttle’s autonomous driving systems will be provided by Mobileye.

Negotiations with public transportation authorities are underway to begin pilot testing; according to the project’s current roadmap, street testing of the shuttles may begin in 2025. Having approved SAE Level 4 for use on public roads, Germany is planned to be the first country where the shuttles will operate.

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Inceptio Technology, a developer of autonomous driving technologies for heavy-duty trucks, has outlined new agreements with major logistics and insurance partners and shared key data points from over 50 million kilometers of accident-free autonomous driving. The company has also showcased the core technologies that power the Inceptio autonomous driving system’s Truck Navigate-on-Autopilot (T-NOA) capability.

During Inceptio’s annual tech day in Shanghai, China, on August 31, the company revealed new procurement and strategic collaboration agreements with logistics companies STO Express, ZTO Freight and Deppon Express. STO Express has ordered 500 Inceptio autonomous trucks – jointly developed with Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle.

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Apex.AI, a developer of safety-certified software for mobility and autonomous applications, has given details of a project carried out in collaboration with Krone and Lemken to develop commercially ready autonomous farming systems.

The trio’s combined expertise resulted in the Combined Powers concept vehicle, developed by Krone and Lemken. This autonomous drive unit features a smart system to enable plowing, cultivating, sowing, mowing and other agricultural operations. The companies now aim to bring the concept carrier vehicle from the prototype stage to series production by using Apex.AI’s software development kit (SDK), consisting of Apex.Grace and Apex.Ida.

Claimed to be commercially ready, the Combined Powers vehicle has already proved itself within agricultural operations and can save farmers time while still carrying out a high level of work.

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Recogni has revealed Pegasus, a PCIe card that enables Recogni’s Scorpio – a 1000 TOPS (Peta-Op) class inference solution for autonomous mobility – to be configured for any autonomous mobility application. When used in combination with Recogni SDK, Pegasus delivers low power consumption, low latency and low system cost to users.

“The need for autonomous capability is growing rapidly across all forms of transportation, and Recogni is committed to providing the most powerful, purpose-built solutions for autonomous mobility, regardless of use case,” said Marc Bolitho, CEO of Recogni. “Being able to easily integrate Scorpio into any autonomous mobility application with our new Pegasus PCIe card and Recogni’s SDK showcases the multiplatform flexibility, as well as the robustness and readiness of our solutions.

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The German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has approved the use of Ford’s BlueCruise technology in Germany. The ADAS enables drivers to benefit from hands-off, eyes-on automated driving on certain federal motorways – known as Blue Zones – although they must continue to pay attention to the current traffic situation.

Ford BlueCruise allows drivers to relax while an infrared camera mounted behind the steering wheel ensures that they still observe traffic and the surrounding environment.

“We are very pleased to be able to offer this innovative technology to our customers in Germany, having already been the first manufacturer in Europe with a system of this kind in the UK in April,” explained Martin Sander, managing director of Ford Model e Europe.

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Kontrol, dSpace, FEV.io, TÜV Süd, Microsoft Germany, T-Systems and Berylls are developing a new digital solution – Digital Loop – for the approval of updates for software-defined vehicles via a mobile network. The group’s latest concept will make its public debut at IAA Mobility in Munich, Germany, September 4-8, 2023.

Before a new vehicle type with automated driving functions can be brought to the EU market, the vehicle must undergo a wide variety of road testing for validation under different environmental conditions. With software becoming a major part of new vehicles, homologation is now also mandatory for certain software updates.

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A collaboration between Polestar and Mobileye will lead to Polestar 4 becoming the first production vehicle to feature the latter’s Chauffeur autonomous driving technology. Integration of the smart technology will be carried out by ECARX.

To date, Mobileye’s ADAS technology has been installed in more than 150 million cars globally, and it is anticipated that it could also be fitted to future Polestar models.

Upon launch in China in 2024, the Polestar 4 will feature Mobileye SuperVision-based ADAS. The first deliveries to the country are expected to be at the end of 2023.

In the future, Mobileye anticipates that the Chauffeur technology will be capable of carrying out eyes-off, point-to-point autonomous driving on highways, in addition to eyes-on automated driving in other scenarios.

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