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New test can help driverless cars make ‘moral’ decisions
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New test can help driverless cars make ‘moral’ decisions

Credit: Samuele Errico Piccarini. Researchers have validated a technique for studying how people make “moral” decisions when driving, with the goal of using...

Waymo looks to test its self-driving cars in New York
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Waymo looks to test its self-driving cars in New York

Human drivers will remain at the wheel in Waymo self-driving cars once the path is cleared for a test phase of operations in...

Self-driving cars may only lower ride-hailing prices under specific conditions
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Self-driving cars may only lower ride-hailing prices under specific conditions

Credit: Abhishek Navlakha from Pexels In 2018, when Zhen Lian, then a Ph.D. student at Cornell, started working on a research project about...

Simulator optimizes vehicle resources to enable real-time accident prevention in autonomous cars
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Simulator optimizes vehicle resources to enable real-time accident prevention in autonomous cars

Traffic-Cognitive Integrated Network-Computing Load Distribution Simulator. Credit: Traffic-Cognitive Integrated Network-Computing Load Distribution Simulator Through industry–academia collaboration, a joint research team developed an Integrated...

Trump moves to block California electric cars program
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Trump moves to block California electric cars program

US President Donald Trump signed resolutions blocking California’s mandate to phase out gas-powered cars. US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed resolutions blocking...

‘Racially motivated’ rioters torch homes and cars in Northern Ireland | Newsfeed
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‘Racially motivated’ rioters torch homes and cars in Northern Ireland | Newsfeed

NewsFeed Riots broke out in Northern Ireland’s Ballymena after two teenage boys appeared in court accused of attempted rape. Police say the violence,...

Neural networks speed up search for solid-state battery materials for safer electric cars with extended range
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Neural networks speed up search for solid-state battery materials for safer electric cars with extended range

Machine learning speeds up a key stage in the search for materials for protective electrolyte coatings for solid-state batteries, a promising energy storage...

Emotional responses crucial to attitudes about self-driving cars, study suggests
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Emotional responses crucial to attitudes about self-driving cars, study suggests

Credit: Riccardo from Pexels When it comes to public attitudes toward using self-driving cars, understanding how the vehicles work is important—but so are...

Volvo’s cars will be the first to get Google Gemini’s ‘conversational’ AI – and I think the in-car tech has massive potential
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Volvo’s cars will be the first to get Google Gemini’s ‘conversational’ AI – and I think the in-car tech has massive potential

Volvo will be one of the reference hardware platforms for Google’s dev work Volvo cars will be the first to receive Google Gemini...