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Autonomous vehicles rely on many types of technology to navigate

  • LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)
  • Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging)
  • GPS, Cameras, Ultrasonic Sensors, and AI

Driverless cars, or autonomous vehicles, utilize a combination of sensors, cameras, radar, lidar, and sophisticated AI algorithms and machine learning to perceive their surroundings, make decisions, and navigate without human intervention. 

Lidar uses laser pulses to create a 3D map of the environment, enabling the car to detect objects, road edges, and lane markings. While rader emits radio waves to detect objects and measure their distance and speed.

Aerodynamic sensors could speed up autonomous vehicles

If you live in one of the roughly dozen US cities where autonomous vehicles are present, you likely recognize…(Popular Science)

Navigating A Safer Path For Autonomous Vehicles

For autonomous vehicles (AVs) to travel safely, they require up-to-date, high-definition maps that accurately reflect…(Texas A&M)

Automotive Radars: Beyond What Meets the Eye

Just as humans rely on their senses and cognitive responses for driving, sensor technology is an indispensable part of autonomous driving..,(DesignNews)

Celebrating New Year’s Eve safely with Waymo: How self-driving technology could save lives (ABC 7)

How Self-Driving Cars Get Help From Humans Hundreds of Miles Away (The New York Times)

When Self-Driving Cars Don’t Actually Drive Themselves (The New York Times)

Mapping

Dashcams And Smart Cars Solve The Self-Driving Mapping Problem

In the regular debate between Tesla fans and the self-driving community…(Forbes)

How Do Vehicles with Automated-Driving Capabilities Know Where They Are?

Self-driving vehicles need to know which road they’re on, sometimes down to the lane…(Car and Driver)

Top 10 companies developing self-driving car technologies

To learn more about self-driving vehicles, particularly EVs, we take a look at the top 10…(EV Magazine)

What’s Next?

Nvidia’s autonomous-car business is rising. Here’s how it could make every car self-driving (Business Insider)

GM to use Nvidia AI chips, software to automate vehicles, factories (Reuters)

Toyota’s next-generation cars will be built with Nvidia supercomputers and operating system (Yahoo)

Robotaxis: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025 (MIT Technology)

The 5 Levels of Autonomous Driving Explained (Yahoo)

Self-Driving Cars: What to Expect Today and in the Far Future (MotorTrend)

See the World at CES 2025: Next-Gen Sensor Tech That Wowed Us (MotorTrend)

CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends (TechCrunch)

The Self-Driving Race Continues At CES 2025 (Forbes)