Driverless car News

As India stands at the cusp of an urban renaissance, where transportation evolution interacts with urban planning, driveless cars can play a big role in improving the cities. 

You must have heard about the driverless cars, but how does it actually work and how is it controlled merely using one software through artificial intelligence?

You must have heard about the driverless cars, but how does it actually work and how is it controlled merely using one software through artificial intelligence? Here is the report.

Earlier this week, Musk confirmed that Tesla will release a new user interface with its FSD v9 Beta software update. The new FSD feature enables drivers to use several advanced driver-assist features via Autopilot mode on local, non-highway streets. Tesla has warned that drivers need to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel at all times.

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In the video, which has now gone viral on social media, a Premier Padmini or Fiat car can be seen moving on a road without a driver. Interestingly, a man is sitting on the passenger seat of the car. A man who was driving behind the car shot the video and later shared it on Facebook.

Nitin Gadkari has said that the government would not allow driverless cars to ply in Indian roads as it would lead to unemployment.

Intel Corp agreed to buy Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion on Monday in a deal that could thrust the U.S. chipmaker into direct competition with rivals Nvidia Corp and Qualcomm Inc to develop driverless systems for global automakers.

Just like credit cards, smartphones or search engines, autonomous cars will carry a trove of information about their owners as they make driving more comfortable, raising new concerns about privacy.

A driverless vehicle carrying passengers will take to Britain`s public roads for the first time on Tuesday, as part of trials aimed at paving the way for autonomous cars to hit the highways by the end of the decade.

Users of ride-hailing firm Grab will be able to book driverless cars from Friday as it partners with a start-up testing the technology in Singapore, just days after rival Uber debuted its self-driving vehicles in the United States.

Among major tech companies, Alibaba is relatively late to offer a platform that can link a smart phone to a car, trailing platforms already launched by Alphabet`s Google, Apple and Baidu.

Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Monday announced a new 5.5 million-pound project to road test driverless, futuristic cars in the UK, aimed at making driving safer and avoiding traffic jams.

Tech giant Google is working on autonomous cars as part of Google X project to develop technology for mainly electronic cars.

The contract manufacturing deal, if finalised, is expected to come during the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas during the first week of January.

Tata is working on Autonomous Car Framework.