Saturday, 17 September 2016
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Monday, 5 September 2016
More than ever, car makers and transportation are finding ways to incorporate automated driving into their product offerings. Tech companies like Google, Uber, Lyft as well as car companies like Tesla, Toyota andHyundai can all cleary see what lies on the road ahead. Now one more company enters the fray: Drive.ai.
Drive.ai, launching today, doesn't make a car. Instead, it will sell a driverless car kit that will allow drivers to retrofit their existing vehicle with the gear needed for it to pilot itself. An in-car system will provide the brain of the driverless car, while a roof-mounted display will let drivers communicate.
The appeal for self-driving cars is obvious to some: the visually-impaired and elderly can suddenly partake it efficient transport.
And, presumably, with every car communicating with each other accidents would go way down. Drive.ai wants to improve communication not just between cars but between pedestrians and others around the car as well.
A screen sits above the car--similar to the signs above city cabs--depicting if it's safe to cross or saying "thank you" to a driver behind you. "We're testing the ability to show emoji-based signals on top of the car to communicate with other drivers," Drive.ai co-founder and president Carol Reiley tells us.
Along with smiley faces and hand gestures, Drive.ai will use deep learning the software commanding the car. "Our founding team has been working on deep learning’s applications to self driving vehicles since its early stages," says Drive.ai's other co-founder Sameep Tandon. "This is truly the enabling technology for the future of autonomous transportation, and we’re leveraging it for navigation and interaction both inside and outside vehicles."
Other companies like Uber and Google are also using deep learning artificial intelligence to solve the problem of autopilot in everyday cars.
Drive.ai has siphoned talent from other car companies to perfect their self-driving car secret sauce. Talent, for example, like Steve Girsky of General Motors--itself a player in the autonomous vehicle field alongside its partner Lyft--counts himself as a member on the board of directors for Drive.ai.
There's no word on when drivers can expect Drive.ai's self-driving kit to become available, nor how it will ensure legal compliance with the rules of the road. And with no shortage of competition--especially from Uber, who's automated, ride-hailing efforts hit the road this summer--Drive.ai will have to move fast.
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything
In the following sections, we outline the basics of 15 upcoming technologies, with predictions on what may come of them. Some are breathing down our necks; some advances are still just out of reach. And all have to be reckoned with.
- Memristor: A Groundbreaking New Circuit
- 32-Core CPUs From Intel and AMD
- Nehalem and Swift Chips Spell the End of Stand-Alone Graphics Boards
- USB 3.0 Speeds Up Performance on External Devices
- Wireless Power Transmission
- 64-Bit Computing Allows for More RAM
- Windows 7: It's Inevitable
- Google's Desktop OS
- Gesture-Based Remote Control
- Radical Simplification Hits the TV Business
- Curtains for DRM
- Use Any Phone on Any Wireless Network
- Your Fingers Do Even More Walking
- Cell Phones Are the New Paper
- Where You At? Ask Your Phone, Not Your Friend
- 25 Years of Predictions
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