In this video, technology company NVIDIA, which will be at this year’s Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo in Stuttgart, presents its Drive software and how it solves the challenges of AV operation.

Here, it presents path perception ensemble for building and evaluating confidence for center-path and lane-line predictions, as well as lane changes/splits/merges, and obstacle-to-lane assignment.

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Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) will begin testing new autonomous vehicle parking technology in May in a bid to improve efficiency and passenger experience.

The autonomous solution will be provided by Steer Tech and will be tested in the hourly garage at BWI and on a nearby commuter lot, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced.

“MDOT is a national leader in using innovation to make our transportation network easier to use,” said MDOT secretary Pete K Rahn. “Delivering a system that parks your car for you is perfect for BWI Marshall – an easy-come, easy-go airport.”

In 2018, Steer evaluated its autonomous vehicle system in a closed course at BWI Marshall Airport.

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Jaguar Land Rover has unveiled it is testing connected car services that will enable drivers to earn cryptocurrency and make payments on the move.

Using Smart Wallet technology, owners earn credits by enabling their cars to automatically report useful road condition data such as traffic congestion or potholes to navigation providers or local authorities. Drivers could then redeem these for rewards such as coffee, or to automatically pay tolls, parking fees and for smart charging electric vehicles. Smart Wallet removes the need for drivers to hunt for loose change or sign up to multiple accounts to pay for a variety of everyday services.

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In the effort to enhance autonomous vehicle safety, RideCell and Dataspeed have announced a strategic partnership to share each other’s resources, data, technologies and testing.

RideCell, a platform for shared and autonomous mobility, will take advantage of Dataspeed’s established drive-by-wire solutions to begin collecting data and metrics in real-world conditions and hope to leverage these to improve vehicle safety.

Aarjav Trivedi, CEO of RideCell, said, “With our new strategic partner, RideCell will begin comprehensive data collection of Dataspeed metrics from our Auro self-driving vehicles, which were licensed in 2018 by the state of California for on-road testing.

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Swedish startup Einride is set to premiere its fully electric autonomous T-pod truck on a public road in Sweden. The cab-less T-pod, meaning there is no driver on board, will be used to deliver goods and will operate on a route between a warehouse and a terminal in Jönköping, Sweden, starting from May 15.

In November 2018, Einride and logistics firm DB Schenker initiated the first installation of an autonomous, all-electric truck at a DB Schenker facility. It was the first commercial installation of its kind in the world.

The Swedish Transport Agency has given approval for Einride to expand the application onto public roads, following a satisfactory operation in accordance with Swedish traffic regulations.

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People expect drivers to stop for them at pedestrian crossings, but what if they know autonomous vehicles will stop any time someone chooses to step in front of them?

Globally, road crashes kill 1.3 million people a year and injure nearly 50 million more. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been identified as a potential solution to this issue if they can learn to identify and avoid situations leading to crashes.

Unlike human drivers, these vehicles won’t get tired, drive drunk, look at their phone, or speed. What’s more, AVs will reduce congestion and pollution, increase access to public transport, be cheaper, improve mobility for people with disabilities, and make transport fun again.

Continue reading How humans and animals might ruin the autonomous vehicle utopia at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Waymo has announced that it has found a facility to build a dedicated factory for the mass production of Level 4 autonomous vehicles in Michigan.

After the self-driving car company announced in January that it would create the world’s first factory entirely for L4 AVs it has been searching for the ideal location and has now found it in Detroit.

The company will work with American Axle & Manufacturing to repurpose an existing facility in the heart of ‘Motor City’ and will help revive the area’s automotive industry by bringing back a workforce that has all but disappeared in recent years.

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As part of Audi’s goal of full autonomous driving in urban areas, its wholly owned subsidiary Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) has partnered with Silicon Valley company Aeva to create a next-generation sensor.

Aeva will help build a 4D lidar technology sensing system and equip AID’s new Audi e-tron test vehicles, which are being put through their paces in Munich, Germany.

“In this phase, it is important that we keep pushing our Strategic Partnership Program forward and work together with the best players in the market. Aeva represents another important step in our goal to drive fully autonomously across urban areas within the next few years.

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Cornell researchers have discovered a relatively simple, low-cost method that enables autonomous cars to detect 3D objects with high accuracy. Kilian Weinberger, associate professor of computer science and senior author of the paper Pseudo-LiDAR from Visual Depth Estimation: Bridging the Gap in 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving, discusses the group’s research.

Continue reading New way to ‘see’ objects accelerates the future of self-driving cars at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

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