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Source: Automotive IQ – April 3rd, 2018 In November 2017 Volvo CEO, Hakan Samuelsson, welcomed the company’s largest deal ever when it was awarded the contract to supply Uber Technologies Inc. with 24,000 vehicles for the ride-sharing giant’s robotaxi fleet. Now, a mere four months later Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv Plc, the auto-parts…
DetailsSource: FinancialPost – March 22nd, 2018 BlackBerry Ltd. will develop software for Jaguar Land Rover’s “next-generation” vehicles as part of a multi-year partnership with the British carmaker owned by India’s Tata Motors Ltd. The companies jointly announced Thursday that BlackBerry will license its QNX and Certicom technology to Jaguar Land Rover and assign a team…
DetailsSource: ArsTechnica – March 24th, 2018 Insiders have long viewed Uber as a laggard in the driverless car race, but internal documents obtained by The New York Times suggest that the company’s self-driving car program may be even further behind its rivals than had been publicly known. The key statistic: prior to last Sunday‘s fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona, Uber’s self-driving cars…
DetailsSource: ArsTechnica – March 22nd, 2018 Police in Tempe, Arizona, have released dash cam footage showing the final seconds before an Uber self-driving vehicle crashed into 49-year-old pedestrian Elaine Herzberg. She died at the hospital shortly afterward. […] Tempe police also released internal dash cam footage showing the car’s driver, Rafaela Vasquez, in the seconds…
DetailsSource: EETimes – March 20th, 2018 A self-driving Uber vehicle, driving in autonomous mode with a safety driver behind the wheel, hit and killed a pedestrian Sunday night in Tempe, Arizona. The preliminary investigation shows that Uber’s robocar, identified as 2017 Volvo XC90, was driving “at approximately 40 miles per hour,” said Tempe police during…
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