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Iridium, Rolls-Royce Marine working together on autonomous vessels

Iridium Communications has signed a Letter of Intent with Rolls-Royce Marine (RRM), in support of their autonomous vessel development program.

Driverless taxi debuts in Tokyo in ‘world first’ trial ahead of Olympics — The Guardian

Minivan equipped with sensors makes four round-trips a day on a busy stretch of road, picking up paying passengers, writes Justin McCurry. Here is the...

Toyota investing $500M in Uber; to launch autonomous-mobility as a service fleet

Toyota is investing $500 million in Uber. The two companies are also expanding their autonomous ride-sharing collaboration.

An interview with self-driving visionary Larry Burns, co-author of ‘Autonomy’– Forbes

Greg Gardner interviews Lawrence Burns, a former vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors, who has been an advisor to Waymo (formerly...

Tesla Dumps Nvidia, Goes It Alone on AI Hardware — ExtremeTech

Tesla has developed its own silicon for running the neural networks it uses to do vision processing in its AutoPilot software, writes David Cardinal. Here...