GM’s Cruise employees test autonomous ride-sharing app

Cruise Automation, the self-driving startup acquired by General Motors last year, is already operating an autonomous ride-sharing service in San Francisco for employees.

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The service, called Cruise Anywhere, works like the Uber or Lyft app. Users request a ride and the nearest available car starts to drive to the location.

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Due to California driving laws, an engineer is still required to be in the driving seat, but most of the journeys have been completed autonomously. In an interview with TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt said he is excited at the “rate at which [the platform] evolving.”

Around 10 percent of employees are actively using the app, with some adopting it as their primary transport mode. One employee, according to Cruise, took 60 rides in the past three weeks.

The app is not an experiment for Cruise, but the groundwork for a fully fledged ride-sharing service. “We see a future where we’re open to partnering with one network or partner, many partners or even no partners if that’s the best way to release this technology and achieve the societal benefits of driverless cars sooner,” said Vogt to TechCrunch.

Cruise uses the GM Bolt EV as its self-driving car of choice and expects to add another 100 vehicles to the fleet in the next few months. That should open up the app to more employees, though it may be over a year before the company is ready to open it up to everyday users.

At the same time, GM has already shown it can mass manufacture self-driving vehicles and is rumored to be preparing thousands of vehicles for deployment across the country next year.

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UK government drops their commandments for self-driving vehicles

The UK government has published key principles for connected and autonomous vehicles, aimed as a guide for automakers, suppliers, and developers looking to deploy self-driving cars in the future.

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The eight principles are:

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• Organizational security is owned, governed and promoted at board level.
• Security risks are assessed and managed appropriately and proportionately, including those specific to the supply chain.
• Organizations need product aftercare and incident response to ensure systems are secure over their lifetime.
• All organizations, including sub-contractors, suppliers and potential 3rd parties, work together to enhance the security of the system.
• Systems are designed using a defense-in-depth approach.
• The security of all software is managed throughout its lifetime.
• The storage and transmission of data is secure and can be controlled.
• The system is designed to be resilient to attacks and respond appropriately when its defenses or sensors fail.

Most of the principles (and sub-principles) are focused on car security. All software developed for a connected car needs to be actively maintained, upgraded, and automakers should ensure that even legacy software remains protected if some cars still use it.

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Make data tough to crack

Data sent to and from an autonomous vehicle should be encrypted and, to reduce the likelihood of a cyber-attack, the government urges automakers to reduce a number of possibilities for attackers to penetrate the car’s software. Waymo CEO John Krafcik said it is already taking most of its technical services offline, using the cloud only for necessary traffic updates.

“Connected vehicles are the future of our transportation infrastructure and are highly vulnerable to attack,” said Sir David Omand, former Director of GCHQ and strategic advisor to Paladin Capital Group. “We have already seen demonstrations of remote hacking of vehicles. We must ensure that as the UK adopts these transformative technologies that we are protected from potentially catastrophic threats to the safety of our society.”

The government wants to see more collaboration between partners and more rigorous analysis by all parts of the automotive industry. It also wants automakers to create several fail safes for the hardware (sensors, Lidar, radar) and software, in case a physical or cyber attack takes one of the systems offline.

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“We applaud the UK government for taking preemptive action, and by zeroing in on preventing cyberattacks as critical for the adoption of self-driving cars on a mass scale,” said David Barzilai, chairman and co-founder of Karamba Security.

“But in one area, we don’t feel these guidelines go far enough toward effectively preventing car hacking. Cars are not servers or mobile phones that can sustain the risk of hidden security bugs. The time it takes to remediate such bugs in production, while hackers exploit them and create damage, can compromise consumers’ safety.”

The UK has been one of the first to set out autonomous laws, but driverless tests on highways are still two years from happening. That puts the country behind some of the U.S. more progressive states, China, and Germany.

Foxconn to open self-driving facility in Michigan

Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer responsible for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, has announced another multibillion dollar U.S. investment, this time in a Michigan self-driving facility.

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The Taiwanese-based manufacturer will use the Michigan facility to develop self-driving technologies. The state has been very progressive in its legalization of self-driving cars without a backup driver, alongside its tax incentives and subsidies to manufacturers.

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See Also: University of Michigan launches its own driverless shuttle service

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“Automotive development in the U.S. is still more advanced than China,” said Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn, to South China Morning Post. “Besides self-driving technology, I’m also interested in artificial intelligence and deep learning technology.”

Foxconn did not confirm the size of the investment or if the facility will ever manufacture autonomous cars or parts for automakers.

It is the second U.S. plant announcement by Foxconn this year, the first being a $10 billion LCD display panel facility in Wisconsin. The Washington Post said Foxconn will receive $3 billion in state tax breaks for the facility; a cost of around $230,700 per state worker.

Michigan one of a handful of driverless hubs

Michigan is one of a few self-driving hubs inside the U.S., looking to win over automakers and tech companies before federal regulations standardize autonomous tests. It legalized self-driving tests without a driver earlier this year, and invested heavily in a test town for automakers.

The results have been mixed, while the state has most of the big automakers – General Motors, Ford, and Toyota – testing autonomous cars, technology oriented firms – Waymo, Uber, and Tesla – have remained on the West coast, in Arizona and California.

First U.S.-Canada border self-driving test to take place soon

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The first autonomous border crossing is set to take place in the next few months. Auto manufacturer Continental and vehicle supplier Magna plan to send two self-driving vehicles from southeastern Michigan to Sarnia, Ontario, according to Engadget.

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Parts of the route will be handled by human drivers, but the team hope most of it to be autonomous. The switch from U.S. to Canadian road signs, speed limits, and driving peculiarities will be a difficult transition for a self-driving vehicle, which normally drives in the same city for months.

See Also: Waymo’s driverless cars spend day with emergency vehicles

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Continental said it will use a mixture of Lidar, radar, and cameras for the self-driving system, similar to what most automakers and tech firms use in regular tests. It did not mention which brand of car it would use for the test, although it is part of the BMW self-driving consortium.

The Michigan-Ontario border crossing is one frequented by freight trucks, which are the most likely to see automation in the near term, according to a report by market research firm Forrester.

Continental has made a few significant moves in the past six months, to make it a primary player in the development of self-driving vehicles. It started testing a shuttle route in Frankfurt and announced a major investment in autonomous software and parts.

Lyft launches autonomous division to build own self-driving tech

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After working with partners for over a year, ride-sharing app Lyft has announced it will create its own autonomous division, which will focus on all the self-driving parts apart from car manufacturing.

The company will double the size of its workforce to build the hardware, software, and services.

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See Also: General Motors plans to test thousands of driverless cars in 2018

Once at the stage of deployment, Lyft will start to integrate self-driving cars into its taxi fleet. It did not say if it would move to a fully automated system once it achieved Level 5 autonomy.

“It is not just going to happen tomorrow,” said Taggart Matthiesen, senior director of product, to the Financial Times. “It is not going to be some mechanized fleet blanketing San Francisco. It will take time. What you will see is in small pockets, in isolation, these vehicles will start providing service.”

Some impressive partnerships

For the past two years, Lyft has made impressive partnerships that put it in stark contrast to Uber, which started its own autonomous division by poaching talent from Carnegie Mellon University.

It started collaborating with General Motors — which supposedly tried to acquire the app — followed by nuTonomy and Alphabet subsidiary Waymo. The company has said it will have an ‘open’ platform, although it did not provide further details.

Uber’s recent issues, including the Waymo lawsuit and collapse of its reputation, have allowed Lyft to maintain a strong second position in the U.S. market. While it is only valued at a sixth of Uber, the introduction of a large autonomous division and continued growth in the U.S. market will keep it going for a few more years, avoiding a lot of the public pressure Uber faces.
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India to block any self-driving vehicles that enter the country

India doesn’t want anything to do with self-driving vehicles. The highway and transport minister, Nitin Gadkari, told reporters that he wouldn’t let driverless cars take away jobs.
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“We won’t allow driverless cars in India. I am very clear on this. We won’t allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that ends up taking people’s jobs,” said Gadkari.

See Also: Honeywell bets big on India’s smart city growth

The country already needs thousands more professional drivers on its roads, and the government is planning to open facilities to train thousands of new drivers.

The confirmation will change little in the country, which Google and Uber have already wrote off as a prospective place for self-driving cars, due to its poor roads and chaotic traffic in cities. Some private tests have been carried out by developers, but there have been no public road tests.

The Indian government, while encouraging more investment and development from outsiders, has been against interference with its transport industry. The Modi government announced a $59 billion infrastructure plan for airports, railways, and roads, the majority of which will be built and delivered by the government.

Ola and Uber, the two major ride-sharing services in the country, are in a precarious spot, with the government debating whether to bring them under the Motor Vehicles Act. After the 2014 rape case, involving an Uber driver, calls were made to ban the taxi apps, but the government has reportedly decided to regulate the services.

India has far the most aggressive stance against self-driving vehicles out of all the major economies, with the U.S., China, the U.K., Germany, France, and Australia all accepting the development of autonomous vehicles and some actively funding startups and established players.

Despite the move away from self-driving cars, India has committed to making its entire new fleet of cars electric-powered.

 
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