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US to plough $4bn into self-driving cars
2016-01-15 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
10-year plan will facilitate pilot programmes to test connected vehicle systems.
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US government developing policies for self-driving cars
2016-01-15 00:58:03| Automakers - Topix.net
The federal government wants to get autonomous vehicles on the road more quickly, and says it will fast-track policies and possibly even waive regulations to do it. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx - surrounded by representatives from General Motors and Ford as well as Google and Tesla - said Thursday that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will spend the next six months developing guidance for automakers on what's expected of self-driving prototype cars and what sort of tests should be used to make sure they are safe.
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Google's Self-Driving Cars Still Need Human Touch
2016-01-15 00:07:07| TechNewsWorld
Google's self-driving cars showed major safety improvements over the past year -- but there were dozens of incidents when test drivers had to intervene, the company said in a report recently filed with California regulators. There were 272 so-called immediate manual control disengagements due to a failure of the autonomous car technology, between September 2014 and November 2015, Google reported.
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Top 10 cars of the 2016 Detroit auto show
2016-01-14 19:00:33| Extremetech
The world moves to SUVs, though the Detroit auto show revels in new sedans. Plus the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, Kia Telluride. Here's our 10 best NAIAS cars.
Grover Beach wants rail cars out
2016-01-14 10:48:10| Railroads - Topix.net
They sit on the train tracks near Grand Avenue, rusting and spotted with graffiti. Those 100 Union Pacific Railroad cars have been sitting on the tracks for nearly a year.
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