Tesla Patents a Faster Method for Teaching Its Self-Driving AI to Focus
Every time a Tesla's self-driving system scans the road, an AI model has to sort through a flood of information and decide…
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Waymo Patents an AI That Predicts Where Every Nearby Driver and Pedestrian Will Go Next
Waymo is borrowing the same kind of AI that generates images from text descriptions and repurposing it to forecast where every car,…
Zoox Patents a System That Maps and Weighs Every Possible Self-Driving Car Decision
Every time a self-driving car approaches a tricky intersection, it has to pick one path from thousands of possibilities in a fraction…
Tesla Patents a Way to Run Self-Driving AI Faster on Less Hardware
Tesla has filed a patent for a method that lets its self-driving AI run a critical calculation using cheaper, faster integer math…
Intel Patents a Way to Measure Wind Resistance Using Only a Vehicle's Energy Readings
Intel has filed a patent for a system that estimates the air pressure building up at the front of a moving vehicle,…
Waymo Patents a Prediction System That Shows Self-Driving Cars What Comes Next
Waymo is teaching a single neural network to absorb every sensor a self-driving car has, all at once, and then predict what…
Mobileye Patents a Camera-Only System That Picks the Perfect Parking Entry Point
Before a self-driving car can squeeze into a parking spot, it has to figure out exactly where to stand first. Mobileye's new…
Zoox Patents a Two-Track System for Steering Autonomous Cars Along a Route
Zoox's latest patent separates the shape of a self-driving car's route from the speed at which it travels that route, letting each…
Sony Patents a System That Predicts How Dangerous Each Nearby Object Is to Your Car
Most car safety systems tell you when something is close. Sony's new patent describes a system that tells you how dangerous that…
Waymo Patents a System That Grades Its Own Autonomous Driving Decisions
Waymo has filed a patent for a method that lets a self-driving car evaluate its own driving quality in real time by…
Waymo Patents an AI That Predicts What a Self-Driving Car Will See Next
Waymo is training its self-driving AI not just to react to the world around it, but to mentally simulate what that world…
Zoox Patents a System That Warns Nearby Robots Cars About Road Confusion Before They Ask
When one Zoox robotaxi gets confused by something on the road, a central system could already be warning the next car behind…
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