Faster artificial vision, organelle therapy & ant injury treatment strategies Your new Strategy Toolkit newsletter (March 24, 2026)

Strategies for #autonomousvehicle product improvements, novel therapeutic pathways, and, well, learning wound care from ants!

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#Nvidia is expanding its #autonomousvehicle development business to include #Hyundai, #Nissan, #Isuzu, #BYD, and #Geely. The new partnerships are for Nvidia’s #DriveHyperion platform, which helps companies develop and deploy driver-assist and #autonomousdriving capabilities for Level 4 AVs.…

Travis Kalanick's return proves it really is 2016 again Plus, Rivian's software bet shows up in the R2

Travis Kalanick is back. And he's partnering with ... wait for it ... former Uber colleague Anthony Levandowski, in a robotics company ... that is acquiring an #autonomousvehicle company.

@kirstenkorosec.bsky.social nails it: We really *have* returned to 2016.

Well. Damn.

Arm is latest partner revealed for Tensor’s ‘world’s first’ agentic AI robocar
#agenticAI #AItrainingtoolchain #Arm #Autoliv #automotivecompute #AutonomousVehicle #AutoX #AV #AV30 #ElectricVehicle #EV #Futurride #Lyft #Marsh #Nvidia #NvidiaDriveThorX #personalrobocar
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Deploying an #AutonomousVehicle in a new city usually requires a costly data-collection cycle.

In our recent work, "Learning to Drive in New Cities Without Human Demonstrations," we address this issue by adapting a driving policy to new cities without collecting human demonstrations there.

🚕 BREAKING: Autonomous Taxi Adds ‘Small Talk’ Voice AI

#DriverlessTaxi #AutonomousVehicle #BusyTonightMate

Caltrans' Rachel Carpenter, ITS Irvine's Federico Vaca, SafeTREC's Julia Griswold, Vision Zero Network's Leah Shahum, and City of Santa Rosa's Daniel Hennessey in a group photo from the "Designing for Safety" breakout session at the Mobility 10X Summit.

Get the latest #SafeTRECNews! #AutonomousVehicle safety factsheet, research highlights on #DesigningForSafety, #TransportationSafety events and more! mailchi.mp/berkeley/saf...

#Tesla relies entirely on cameras, because humans can drive using only eyes. #Waymo uses a combination of LiDAR, radar and cameras to generate a representation of the environment

#JohnKrafcik #lidar #autonomous #autonomousvehicle #selfdriving #automotive #auto #cars

"It's a matter of protecting good paying American jobs. Congress cannot be silent on a technology that will literally shape the future of mobility," argues @peters.senate.gov, urging his colleagues to pass #autonomousvehicle legislation.

We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.

SafeTREC's Matthew Raifman discusses #AutonomousVehicle safety w/ @davidzipper.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #RoadSafety #SafeSystem

Areas for safety improvement from survey respondents summarized in a data visualization with blue and gold text on a white background: respondents prioritized transparency in safety data and real-world testing (31.2%), followed by calls for better education on capabilities (13.6%) and stronger regulation and oversight (12.2%).

Curious about the public perception of #AutonomousVehicle safety? Explore our latest fact sheet highlighting findings from a recent survey of drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and bicyclists in San Francisco: safetrec.berkeley.edu/public-perce... #RoadSafety

Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes

Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/t...

#AI #bigtech #tech #Nvidia #transport #cars #productivity #AutonomousVehicle #Mercedes

Nvidia announces new open-source models and expanded AV developments
#ADAS #AutonomousVehicle #autonomy #AV #AVsoftware #AVsogtwarestack #CES2026 #Futurride #MBDriveAssistPro #MercedesBenzBenzCLA #Nvidia #NvidiaAlpamayo #NvidiaAlpaSim #openAI #sustainablemobility
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Waymo’s Autonomous Vehicles Did Not Respond Well During a Blackout Engineering the software that keeps self-driving cars operational involves incorporating a number of factors, from the presence of pedestrians to weather conditions. Traffic signs are also critically important; an autonomous vehicle that ignores stop signs or speed limits is going to do a lot more harm than good. But what happens when a ubiquitous part […] The post Waymo’s Autonomous Vehicles Did Not Respond Well During a Blackout appeared first on InsideHook.

#Teleoperation is becoming a key component of #autonomousvehicle deployment. One segment, remote driving, shows strong market potential across multiple industries. This article examines teleoperation functions, service segments and real-world applications.
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Tesla Robotaxis Have Begun Testing In Austin, Minus Humans on Board It wasn’t that long ago when, if you saw a car driving down the road with no one behind the wheel, you could safely assume something was very wrong with the world. Maybe it was a Maximum Overdrive-type situations; maybe the driver had discovered the secret of invisibility. In 2025, though, if you see a […] The post Tesla Robotaxis Have Begun Testing In Austin, Minus Humans on Board appeared first on InsideHook.

Waymo vs Waymo

#waymo #google #selfdriving #selfdrivingcar #autonomous #selfdrivingcars #autonomousvehicles #ai #technology #ev #autonomouscars #transportation #sanfrancisco #artificialintelligence #autonomousdriving #alphabet #tech #cars #electriccars #autonomousvehicle #technologynews

Nvidia pushes forward with Uber, Lucid, Stellantis using new Level 4 AV architecture
#autonomousdelivery #AutonomousVehicle #AV #DriveAGXHyperion10 #Foretellix #Futurride #Level4autonomy #Lucid #Nvidia #NvidiaDriveAGXHyperion10 #NvidiaDriveAV #NvidiaDriveOS
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So a white van passed me on Rte 1 this morning. Its black painted logos faded and worn.

#MIT #ORCA MOBILE was what could still be read.

I Googled it and came across this story:

web.mit.edu/orca/www/200...

I 💙 #Boston.

#education #programming #robotics #autonomousvehicle #submarine #AUV

Ryan Powell, Head of User Experience, Waymo At Shapeshift 2025, Ryan Powell, Head of User Experience at Waymo, discussed how his team uses design to tackle pressing safety challenges.

🚗50M Injuries and 1.35M Deaths Worldwide: ID Alum Ryan Powell Discusses How @Waymo is Working to Prevent Traffic Deaths Through #AutonomousVehicle Design: id.iit.edu/story/ryan-p...

Graphical illustration of the informal problem definition for designing an AV for urban driving tasks, based on a catalog of hardware and software components with an emphasis on minimizing resources.

Authors propose a task‑driven co‑design framework that optimizes sensors, planners & compute under safety, cost, energy & weight constraints—demonstrated to show how task complexity affects autonomy stack choices
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#RobotSensingSystem #AutonomousVehicle

Took a ride in a self-driving Zoox robotaxi, Las Vegas. Experience was amazing. It felt more like a living room than a car, with seats facing each other, no steering wheel. Real-world look, FUTURE!
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#Zoox #Robotaxi #SelfDriving #AutonomousVehicle #LasVegas #TechReview

Maritime autonomous vehicles are threatening Arctic security. Here's what to do about it. In June, Denmark unveiled new fully autonomous sailboats designed for scientific data collection and surveillance of the Baltic and North seas. These boats, known as Voyagers, are the latest dual-use technologies in an increasingly long line of maritime autonomous vehicles...

Maritime autonomous vehicles are threatening Arctic security. Here's what to do about it.
->Atlantic Council | #Arctic #AutonomousVehicle #ArtificialIntelligence | More info from EcoSearch

#autonomousvehicle #regulations in #Texas: SB 2807’s statutory effective date is Sept 1, 2025. Tx #DMV Proposal Published July 25, 2025 in Texas Register (Vol. 50, No. 30)Final rules will likely be published with agency responses Nov. 2025. www.txdmv.gov/sites/defaul...

Waymo robotaxis returning to NYC with lots of restrictions : But it's just a test, as NYC still doesn't allow driverless for-hire cars

You too can be a crash test dummy.

If there's something strange in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?
#NYC #Waymo #Robotaxi #AutonomousVehicle

Vehicle URDF model is complete and visualized in RViz2. Next step: refactoring with Xacro to make the robot description modular, easier to maintain, and ready for future extensions.

#ROS2 #RobotModel #URDF #RViz2 #Robotics #RobotSimulation #AutonomousVehicle #RobotVisualization #ROSDevelopment

Safer Power Distribution: The Road to Autonomous Vehicle To make vehicles safer, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are racing to produce vehicles defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J3016 as Level 2 (partial driving automation), Level 3 (conditional driving automation), and beyond. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26262 and Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA) 450 extensively define the safety principles for power distribution that equal SAE J3016 Levels 3, 4 and 5.

Safer #PowerDistribution: The Road to #AutonomousVehicle #automotive

Ansys to offer Nvidia Omniverse access in its simulation solutions
#6Gconnectivity #aerodynamics #Ansys #autonomoussolutions #AutonomousVehicle #CAE #CFD #computationalfluiddynamics #computeraidedengineering #digitaltwins #EDA #electronicdesignautomation #Futurride
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Screenshot of Koch et al paper Exploring the perceived benefits and potential challenges of the autonomous vehicle rollout in Australia Highlights • Australian stakeholders identified both perceived benefits and potential challenges when it comes to the social and technical aspects of AVs. • Australian stakeholders identified only potential challenges when it comes to the external aspects of AVs related to government readiness and Big Tech control. • Potential benefits can be seen in both social themes and one technical theme. • AVs’ impacts in Australia might not be understood until AVs are more prevalent.

I have great #PhD news to share: my first #research paper is now published!

Exploring the perceived benefits and potential challenges of the #AutonomousVehicle rollout in #Australia

It's open-access so that anyone can download: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
#Transport