Autonomous driverless stores are here. The world’s first self-driving store will premiere at CES at 9am Jan 9, 2018. Fresh broccoli anyone?
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Pizza Hut is teaming up with Toyota to create self-driving delivery trucks
Pizza Hut has taken its first step toward potentially saying goodbye to the delivery guy.
The pizza chain announced on Monday that it is teaming up with Toyota on a driverless delivery truck that could begin testing by 2020.
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18 exponential changes we can expect in the year ahead
Where will the trajectory of the tech world, from cryptocurrencies to Silicon Valley culture, take us in 2018?
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Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the World as We Know It—Including Where We Live
The revolution is coming—and it’s driving itself.
As autonomous cars make their autobahn-paced transition from fanciful, emerging technology to mainstream reality, they’re expected to leave a forever-altered world in their rear-view mirrors. And it isn’t just highways and commutes that will be transformed—it’s also the homes and towns where we choose to live.
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Self-driving buses are being tested in China and they’re the largest of their kind yet
A small fleet of self-driving public buses has started running on the roads of China’s tech district of Shenzhen, Guangdong.
Redesigning the ( automobile) industry
Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
‘Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap’
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Airbus’ electric flying taxis are set to take to the skies next year
Airbus has successfully completed testing on its CityAirbus’ propulsion system, putting the VTOL on track for a 2018 test flight. When its fully operational, it will be able to carry up to four people and maneuver around the city at 120km/h.
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Dubai just tested its flying drone taxi for the first time
Autonomous air taxi service Volocopter just had its first test flight in Dubai.
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Ford and Domino’s to deliver pizza using self-driving cars in new test
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Pilotless planes could save airlines $35 billion, UBS says
“Reducing the intervention of human pilots on aircraft could bring material economic benefits and improve safety,” a UBS note said.
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Hackers are the real obstacles for self driving vehicles
Out-of-work truckers armed with “adversarial machine learning” could dazzle autonomous vehicles into crashing.
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Driverless cars and trucks don’t mean mass unemployment—they mean new kinds of jobs
As business leaders who work with scores of senior leaders across the private and public sectors, the topic of automation and its implications for workers is inescapable—and often anxiety-inducing. Understandably so. Technology and social changes are poised to reshape nearly every aspect of what and how work gets done, and by whom. When we speak and write on this topic, the audience response is usually intense and ranges from excitement to deep anxiety.
