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Will Autonomous Cars Break Your City’s Bank?

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Expectations for Autonomous cars is growing each year, and as technology continues to improve, we are seeing science fiction coming closer to reality. From the Jetsons and other cartoons, the public started to imagine a world where self-driving vehicles drove around cities as their occupants read the morning newspaper or watched T.V. Autonomous cars promise that our vehicles will drop … Continue reading “Will Autonomous Cars Break Your City’s Bank?”

Will Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Help The Struggling USPS?

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The Struggling USPS Needs A New Fleet Of Delivery Vehicles The U.S. Postal Service handles around 187.8 million packages each day across the United States. Delivering everything from traditional letters to large boxes of goods, the USPS is the leading delivery service in the U.S. However, even with the volume that the USPS serves each day, it has not allowed … Continue reading “Will Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Help The Struggling USPS?”

3 Unique Ways Beacon Technology Will Change Our Cities In The Near Future

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How The Internet of Things Makes Cities Smarter Cities around the world are integrating advanced technologies into their infrastructure to help make city life more comfortable and more efficient for civilians and workers alike. From inter-connected street lamps that communicate with each other to make the roads more visible throughout the day, cities are using advanced technologies in almost every … Continue reading “3 Unique Ways Beacon Technology Will Change Our Cities In The Near Future”

Ford & Domino’s Lead In Autonomous Car Deliveries

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Autonomous Car Campaign Launched By Ford Motor And Domino’s Pizza Ford Motor Company and Domino’s Pizza have teamed up to launch a test run of autonomous delivery cars in select cities. Leading the way in this new innovative technology the two Michigan based companies sent out their first test car in Domino’s hometown of Ann Arbor. After testing and positive … Continue reading “Ford & Domino’s Lead In Autonomous Car Deliveries”

Will Autonomous Vehicles Help Reduce Risks For Wildland Firefighters?

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Fighting Wildfires With Autonomous Vehicles To Save Lives Regardless of the underlying causes of wildfires, the fact is that the United States is trending to experience more acres burned this year due to wildfires than at any time in our nation’s history. Not only does this general trend upwards impact our economy and civilian life, but it also puts the … Continue reading “Will Autonomous Vehicles Help Reduce Risks For Wildland Firefighters?”

How The Administration Is Redirecting The Future Of Autonomous Cars In The U.S.

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Bumps In The Road: Biggest Obstacles Preventing Self-Driving Cars Since the beginning of motorized vehicles, our infrastructure, laws, and insurance systems have been developed around the idea that humans would be in control of cars and trucks. This is important because the responsibility of drives are set around human’s liability. Lawyers hold human drivers responsible for crashes. Laws hold drivers … Continue reading “How The Administration Is Redirecting The Future Of Autonomous Cars In The U.S.”

Will Autonomous Cars Be Powered By Gas, Battery, Or Hybrid Energy?

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Power Consumption Is An Important Consideration The future of self-driving is exciting, and as we dream about what tomorrow’s public roads will look like there are many promises beyond the horizon. From the ability to travel without having to worry about poor driving conditions or reckless drivers causing a collision on the road, autonomous technology promises a brighter and safer … Continue reading “Will Autonomous Cars Be Powered By Gas, Battery, Or Hybrid Energy?”

Artificial Intelligence And The Future Of Autonomous Vehicles

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What Is Artificial Intelligence? The roots in artificial intelligence can be found when classic philosophers attempted to map and describe how humans process information and think about manipulating symbols in their environment. As technology continued to advance, engineers and philosophers were able to apply programmable digital computers to address complex mathematical reasoning. The process of having computers understand more profound … Continue reading “Artificial Intelligence And The Future Of Autonomous Vehicles”

Could Ford Lead The Future Of Autonomous Cars?

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Many companies are in the race to deliver the first autonomous car to the public for commercial and personal use. These companies include the likes of Uber, BMW, Waymo, and even Uber, and each company has their sight on collecting the benefits of being the first company to offer autonomous car technology to the public. Each company is looking to … Continue reading “Could Ford Lead The Future Of Autonomous Cars?”

How The Construction Sector Is Being Reshaped By Autonomous Vehicles

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The Future Of Autonomous Vehicles In The Balance Over the past five years, there have been significant advancements in autonomous car technologies. Not only has this technology shown that autonomous cars can have on efficiency, many transportation authorities believe that autonomous vehicles will make our roads safer. However, autonomous cars face mounting challenges due to technical and political regulations. These … Continue reading “How The Construction Sector Is Being Reshaped By Autonomous Vehicles”

Microsoft’s Unique Approach To The Autonomous Car Industry

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Growing Interest In Autonomous Car Technology The advancements in self-driving car technologies are not only changing the face to our cities and engineering, but the autonomous car industry is also transforming how companies approach the personal car market. In the past, a standard business model consisted of manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of personal vehicles. As autonomous cars have started to … Continue reading “Microsoft’s Unique Approach To The Autonomous Car Industry”

Shaping The Future Of Autonomous Cars With Experimental Ethics

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Adjusting Existing Laws & Regulations For Autonomous Car Technologies Autonomous technology is being integrated into everything we do. From computers to workflows, and even self-driving cars, autonomous technology is quickly changing how humans interact with the world around them. While local policymakers and city planners work together to find ways to integrate autonomous car technology into our cities, there are … Continue reading “Shaping The Future Of Autonomous Cars With Experimental Ethics”

The Five Levels of Automotive Autonomy

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Are you ready to trust computers and connected cars with your life? That’s the question many consumers and manufacturers are considering now that autonomous vehicle technologies (self parking, emergency braking, lane change detection, etc.) are becoming more widespread.Five Levels of AutonomyWhen we talk about autonomous vehicles, we aren’t just referring to self-driving cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has defined five … Continue reading “The Five Levels of Automotive Autonomy”