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1 month ago | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Tom Stone
This week it has been announced that Birmingham’s NEC (National Exhibition Centre), which will host the ITS World Congress in 2027, is to host a self-driving shuttle trial – as part of the Solihull & Coventry Automated Links Evolution (SCALE) project.
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2 months ago | 
automatedbuildings.com | Sudha Jamthe |Global South |Stanford CSP |Autonomous Vehicles |Ken Sinclair
DeepSeek is a new AI model that has taken the technology world by storm. DeepSeek-R1 is an AI model built on the latest innovative technologies that was launched by DeepSeek, a new Chinese startup. DeepSeek is newsworthy for many reasons –DeepSeek costs almost 100 times less to build the model. It broke the myth that the only way to build AI is by throwing more data at the AI thereby requiring more data centers. DeepSeek costs less to run in inference so enterprise can build AI with less token cost.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles
A self-driving bus project in the UK – The Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle (SAMS) – has announced Oxa as its new autonomy provider for its initiative running during the first quarter of 2025. Oxa will play a crucial role in bringing the project to life, delivering a state-of-the-art autonomous Ford E-Transit shuttle. The project aims to illustrate how autonomous passenger shuttles can better connect people to key destinations within the city while reducing environmental impact.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Tom Stone
This video of an autonomous vehicle (AV) ride was taken by TTi editor Tom Stone at his first ITS World Congress in Detroit in 2014. What can it tell us about how the technology has developed over the last decade? To find out Stone speaks to AV expert Nick Reed. Professor Nick Reed, CEO and founder of Reed Mobility, is a leading expert in the field of autonomous vehicles, road safety and human factors.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Tom Stone
Six businesses aiming to help the UK become a world-leader in the development and deployment of Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) solutions have secured up to £100,000 in grant funding from the 2024 CAM Scale-Up UK program, delivered by Zenzic. The continued influence of AI is demonstrated among the latest innovations to receive this year’s funding.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Tom Stone
The city of Hamburg in Germany is at the forefront of a public transportation revolution with a bold vision to integrate thousands of autonomous vehicles into its public transit network over the next few years, in a new project named . Hamburg is already running a pilot with 120 autonomous electric vehicles providing on-demand rides throughout the city. But the ambitious plan is to scale up rapidly with 800 such vehicles by 2027 and 2,000 by the end of the decade.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Saul Wordsworth
Dr Stefan Heck is CEO of Nauto, an AI-enabled driver and fleet safety platform. From the Nauto HQ in Silicon Valley, California, Stefan talks with TTi editor Tom Stone about sensor technology, the economics of collision avoidance and how to deliver safety benefits of autonomous systems right now. Plus news and conversation with Tom and editor-at-large Saul Wordsworth. Interview begins 4:20You can also listen via the following podcast platforms:
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
ukinvestormagazine.co.uk | Autonomous Vehicles
The UK Investor Magazine was thrilled to welcome Harald Braun to the podcast for a deep dive into the recent developments at autonomous vehicle safety company Guident. Tekcapital portfolio company Guident is a leader in innovative autonomous vehicle safety solutions utilising human-in-the-loop technology. As always, Harald provides deep insight into the company and recent activities. We discussed a recent trip to Europe and the fruitful conversations the company had with new and existing customers.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Tom Stone
Vayu Robotics has signed an agreement with a large e-commerce player to deploy 2,500 robots to enable ultra-fast goods delivery, with similar commercial customers in the pipeline. In a move to slash the cost of e-commerce deliveries, Vayu Robotics is to deploy the world’s first on-road Delivery Robot that combines the power of modern AI foundation models with lidar-less, low-cost passive sensors.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
traffictechnologytoday.com | Autonomous Vehicles |Nick Reed |Tom Stone
The 2024 Intertraffic event in Amsterdam was hugely impressive and impressively huge. Amidst multicolor matrix signs, engineered wood highway barriers and AI-based traffic analytics companies there was also a packed four-day knowledge program. The most intriguing presentation I saw was by Professor Billy Riggs from the University of San Francisco, which was followed by him in conversation with the session chair, Tom Alkim from MapTM, an international expert on all things connected and automated.
