Accurate environment simulations bring cars faster to the road Partners | February 14, 2023 By Christoph HammerschmidtThrough a partnership with US company B-Design3D, the development tool manufacturer dSpace wants to help customers from the automotive sector to speed up their development processes.\nThis allows high-level visualisations and the latest sensors to be integrated into the processes for developing and validating functions for autonomous driving.\nThis 3D environment is available with the latest Aurelion release and can be used immediately.\nThe 3D environment created by B-Design3D is designed to faithfully reproduce a typical inner city area in large metropolitan areas.\n“The use of high-quality 3D environments is essential for the development of ADAS and AD applications.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi drives on public roads in California for the first time","slug":"amazons-zoox-robotaxi-drives-on-public-roads-in-california-for-the-first-time","publishDate":"2023-02-14 08:43:49-05:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:58.665017","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"(CNN) — Amazon’s Zoox driverless transportation company has started testing its robotaxi on open public roads — with employees on board, for now.\nThe company said Monday that it conducted an initial run of its shuttle service for workers at its headquarters in Foster City, California on February 11, a key step in its efforts to make autonomous vehicles widely available.\nFull-time employees will now be able to travel in the self-driving taxi on the route between Zoox’s two main office buildings.\nZoox, which was founded in 2014 and purchased by Amazon in 2020, is unique in its approach to designing electric self-driving vehicles.\nBut Zoox has ditched the steering wheel and brake pedal, claiming those features are unnecessary when there’s no human driver.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Global and Regional In-Vehicle Payments Markets, 2021-2022 & 2023-2031 - Opportunities in the Future Potential of 5G and AI and Growing Demand for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles","slug":"global-and-regional-in-vehicle-payments-markets-2021-2022-2023-2031-opportunities-in-the-future-potential-of-5g-and-ai-and-growing-demand-for-connected-and-autonomous-vehicles","publishDate":"2023-02-14 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:58.263041","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"The global in-vehicle payments market is projected to reach $25,918.6 million by 2031 from $4,900.0 million in 2021, growing at a CAGR of 18.15% during the forecast period 2022-2031.\nRegionNorth America currently holds the largest share of the global in-vehicle payments market.\nThe U.S. government's policies for research and development activities regarding in-vehicle payments also hasten the region's adoption of in-vehicle payments.\nAlso, the study provides the readers with a detailed understanding of the global in-vehicle payments market based on application and product.\nGrowth/Marketing Strategy: To improve the capabilities of their product offerings, players in the global in-vehicle payments market are developing unique products.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Amazon deploys fleet of self-driving robotaxis on California streets","slug":"amazon-deploys-fleet-of-self-driving-robotaxis-on-california-streets","publishDate":"2023-02-14 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:57.202622","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Amazon is testing a fleet of robotaxis on public roads in California, using employees as passengers, as the tech behemoth moves closer to a commercial service for the general public.\nThe online retailer has been aggressively expanding into self-driving technology and bought the self-driving startup Zoox for $1.3bn in 2020.\nA test conducted on 11 February saw the robotaxis successfully drive between two Zoox buildings a mile apart at its headquarters in Foster City, California.\nAn autonomous Zoox car during a test drive through Lombard Street in San Francisco, California, in October.\nDespite Silicon Valley’s promise to revolutionize the way we drive, autonomous vehicles have been slower to roll out than expected, and the technology has proven tough to master.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Making self-driving cars future-ready! Shared autonomous vehicles can fix traffic congestion problem","slug":"making-self-driving-cars-future-ready-shared-autonomous-vehicles-can-fix-traffic-congestion-problem","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:56.624319","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Someday in the future, if you believe the hype, we'll all get around in self-driving cars.\nOverall, the prediction is that autonomous vehicles will reduce traffic congestion .\nDue to their convenience, self-driving cars may actually increase the number of trips taken.\nSelf-driving cars may exacerbate urban sprawl with commuters content to relax in their vehicles for a long commute.But shared self-driving cars may combat these problems and deliver the much-longed for free-flowing traffic.\nShared self-driving cars may even complement or replace conventional fixed-schedule and fixed-route transit systems, such as buses.Shared self-driving cars coupled with transit could be one solution to cities' traffic congestion problems.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Amazon's self-driving car shuttles people on public roads for first time","slug":"amazon-s-self-driving-car-shuttles-people-on-public-roads-for-first-time","publishDate":"2023-02-14 23:09:00+05:30","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:55.605542","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by .com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.\nThe company said the robotaxi trip marks the first time that a vehicle designed without human controls has carried passengers on a public road.\nTo date, Zoox’s public-road testing has been limited to a fleet of retrofitted gas-powered cars that carry sensors powering the self-driving technology.\nOn Feb. 3, Cruise said it had received permission from California’s department of motor vehicles to test its own Origin shuttle on the state’s public roads.\nThe Zoox robotaxi doesn’t have traditional controls or pedals and can carry four passengers split across two inward facing rows of seats.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Researchers Say Fourth Traffic Light Needed for Autonomous Vehicles","slug":"researchers-say-fourth-traffic-light-needed-for-autonomous-vehicles","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:54.703337","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Researchers are proposing that a fourth, white light for autonomous vehicles (AVs) should be added to the traditional red, amber and green at traffic lights.\nThe recommendation has come from transportation engineers at North Carolina State University, who say the measure could improve traffic flow.\nThe suggestion is that when this is happening, the white light would be activated.\n“First, AVs improve traffic flow, regardless of the presence of the white phase.\nThird, the higher the percentage of traffic at a white phase intersection that is made up of AVs, the faster the traffic moves through the intersection.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Amazon's self-driving car successfully carries passengers on public roads, launch 'in sight'","slug":"amazon-s-self-driving-car-successfully-carries-passengers-on-public-roads-launch-in-sight","publishDate":"2023-02-14 22:34:32+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-02-15 14:30:51.965770","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Amazon’s autonomous car division, Zoox, recently completed a milestone of a fully autonomous public road drive, with passengers, on its ‘Robotaxi’.\nAmazon self-driving car: everything you need to knowThe Robotaxi is an electric car which was unveiled in December 2020.\nThe feat also underlined the work on autonomous vehicle safety, since the Uber fatality from March 2018.\nTo be sure, this is not the very first attempt around the world by an autonomous vehicle maker to conduct a trial on public road.\nIn October 2019, Google-backed Waymo conducted a public road trial of its self-driving cars, with a limited set of riders who had signed up for its autonomous vehicle trial service.
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