
Big green data on a big green tractor—how IoT will feed the world
Thanks to John Deere, this stoop-dwelling, turnstile-hopping New York City kid got to ride in her first tractor! Fortunately for everyone, I didn’t have to drive it. That’s because, with …

NEC installs private 5G and camera-AI at new V2X test centre in Japan
NEC Corporation has opened a mobility test centre in Japan to develop autonomous driving technologies and intelligent transportation systems. The setup uses a private 5G network running high-speed video analytics …

China tests self-driving vehicles in a mountain highway in Shandong
China is currently testing self-driving and connected vehicles in a mountain highway in eastern Shandong province, South China Morning Post reported. The local Qilu Transportation Development Group earmarked a 26-kilometer-long …

Three use cases only workable with URLLC-flavoured 5G
Further to last week’s sub-polemic on the wrongheaded marketing of 5G services, it is worth considering, again, just how transformational the next generation of mobile technology could be – and …

Audi’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving unit partners with Luminar
AID expects to launch fully autonomous vehicles in 2021 U.S. company Luminar announced its collaboration with Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) to provide the LiDAR technology and accelerate plans towards AID’s …

C-V2X can solve a lot of the problems facing autonomous driving
C-V2X would let vehicles communicate with, well, everything Companies investing in autonomous driving have logged thousands of hours and millions of miles on the road to test out sensor arrays, …

What sensors are needed for safe autonomous driving?
The two basic rules for autonomous driving are: Rule number 1: Do no harm. Rule number 2: Don’t get hurt. Forget about insurance companies’ claim that autonomous driving is safer …

Daimler, Bosch to intro driverless ride-hailing in California in 2019, select Nvidia for AI
Bosch and Daimler will test a fleet of autonomous vehicles in California, with a view to launching a driverless shuttle service on certain routes in the second half of 2019. …

Car maker Volvo takes stake in California autonomous driving start-up
Swedish car-maker Volvo has taken a stake in US start-up Luminar, based in California and Florida, to develop sensor technology for autonomous vehicles. Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of Chinese automotive …

Sales of autonomous vehicles will reach five million in the US by 2026, study says
Annual sales of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the US will reach five million by 2026, according to a new study by Juniper Research. Juniper also expects a total of …