Tag: cruise
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Is Waymo Safer than Cruise?
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data Institute, 42,939 drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and others died in 2021 across the U.S. and Puerto Rico as the result of 39,508 crashes involving 61,322 vehicles. The estimated national economic impact exceeded $340 billion. Data from previous decades revealed fewer yearly crashes, vehicles and related…
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Finland university aims to solve cruise liner passenger safety issues with ‘coughing robot’
Finland’s Healthy Travel project, based at the Åbo Akademi University, is aiming to offer the global cruise industry a lifeline as cruise lines aim to set sail safely once again – through the use of a “coughing robot”. In the multi-disciplinary initiative, Finnish academic researchers, cruise companies, shipyards, and subcontractors are coming together to develop…
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Cruise and GM partner with Microsoft to commercialize self-driving vehicles
Cruise and General Motors have entered a long-term strategic relationship with Microsoft to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles. The companies will bring together their software and hardware engineering excellence, cloud computing capabilities, manufacturing know-how and partner ecosystem to transform transportation to create a safer, cleaner, and more accessible world for everyone. Dan Ammann, Cruise…
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GM’s Cruise Automation unveils new driverless electric vehicle
Cruise Automation, the driverless car startup acquired by General Motors, has unveiled its first vehicle. The Cruise Origin, as it is called, is electric, autonomous, driverless with no steering wheel, and designed to carry several people – about six in spacious comfort. The company says the Origin is the answer to the many problems of…
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Hyundai develops ‘world’s first’ machine learning-based cruise control technology
Hyundai says it has developed “the world’s first machine learning-based Smart Cruise Control” system. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence. The automaker says the SCC-ML technology incorporates the driver’s patterns into its self-driving behavior, creating a custom experience for the driver. The technology, an industry first, incorporates artificial intelligence within the Advanced Driver…
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GM’s autonomous driving business Cruise raises another $1.15 billion
The autonomous driving business which General Motors acquired three years ago, Cruise, has raised more than $1 billion in its latest funding round, bringing total capital raised to approximately $7 billion. Cruise says the equity investment of $1.15 billion is from a group comprising institutional investors, including funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price…
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UTC begins work on hybrid electric aeroplane
United Technologies (UTC) has recently launched the advanced projects group within the company, which moves at speed to build and pilot ambitious product and service demonstrators. The group’s first product demonstrator is a hybrid-electric X-plane under the project name, Project 804. The number “804” represents the straight-line mileage between the Pratt & Whitney facility in…
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Honda, Cruise and GM team up to build new autonomous vehicle
Cruise and General Motors have joined forces with Honda to pursue the shared goal of transforming mobility through the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicle technology. Honda will work jointly with Cruise and General Motors to fund and develop a purpose-built autonomous vehicle for Cruise that can serve a wide variety of use cases and be…
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Schindler brings its ‘PORT’ Technology to the high seas
‘Carnival Horizon’, Carnival Cruise Line’s newest vessel, is the first ship to be equipped with Schindler’s PORT Technology. The cruise ship has been supplied with 33 lifts/elevators and 4 escalators, installed by Schindler‘s specialist Marine Unit. The 16 core passenger lifts are all equipped with Schindler’s PORT Technology, which enhances the current operations and enables…
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A different way to think about autonomous technology
By Megan Nichols, editor of SchooledByScience.com Autonomous cars are the wave of the future, with more models released every year. These cars typically feature either a full auto pilot or driver assistance systems designed to make the ride safer and smoother. Most of the technology we think of as autonomous or self-driving is already implemented…