self driving vehicles
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IT’S A GAME CHANGER.
Ready or not, the future of the trucking industry may have just seismically shifted!
In what’s possibly the greatest single milestone achieved by a self-driving truck thus far, California’s autonomous driving technology company Plus.ai just completed the very first demonstration of Level 4 truck automation on a highway.
For reference, the levels of vehicle automation range from 0-6, with 0 being no automation at all (most vehicles on the road today), 2 being ADAS (vehicle steers & accelerates with a human monitor who’s able to take control anytime), and 5 being full on...
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According to the recent report "Will autonomous vehicles put the brakes on the collision parts business?," from from the KPMG U.S Manufacturing Institute Automotive Center, self-driving vehicles will greatly reduce OEM collision repair in the not so distant furniture. The report claims that OEM collision repair revenue, which was 5.6 billion in 2015, could drop to 2.7 billion by 2030 and go as low as 1.4 billion by 2040.
"OEMs have already begun to deal with the design and engineering challenges related to autonomous vehicles," said Gary Silberg KPMG's U.S. Automotive leader in a press...
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News Featured Stories News Releases- August 17, 2016 54
While Ford has been testing autonomous vehicles for quite a while, the company just dropped some huge news that will change the transportation world, and the world in general. At yesterday’s press conference in Palo Alto, California, the automotive giant announced that a fully autonomous vehicle for ride-hailing/ride sharing will be mass produced by 2021. (That’s only 5 years away!)
“The next decade will be defined by automation of the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as having as significant an impact on society as Ford’s moving assembly line did 100 years ago,” said Ford President and...
