Watch and Learn: How a Self-Driving Car Rides Safely Beside a Bicycle — And Stops to Let It Pass

As the world looks to shift to cleaner, greener modes of transportation, bicycling can be one of the best, most affordable options. Unfortunately, interactions within traffic can pose a danger. In Miami alone, for example, there were 828 bicycle crashes in 2019, many of which involved cars. So as the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred an uptick in…

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Watch and Learn: An Autonomous Vehicle and a Pickup Truck Cross Paths In Pittsburgh

In order for self-driving cars to integrate smoothly with other people and vehicles on the roads, they must do more than drive intelligently and safely: they must also drive naturalistically, like an experienced local driver. In this Watch and Learn article, Constantin Savtchenko, a Senior Staff Engineer at self-driving technology company Argo AI, takes us through a video of an…

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Nostalgia-Driven: The Self-Driving ‘Incredibile’ from Disney’s ‘The Incredibles’

In this recurring series, Ground Truth explores iconic technology throughout pop culture history that left an indelible impression about the future of artificial intelligence and what self-driving could become. Not necessarily the most capable robots or flashiest driverless cars, but the ones that connected most deeply with us and remain parked in our brains forever….

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How Argo AI and the Pittsburgh Penguins Inspire Kids to Pursue STEAM

On the surface, you might not expect to find much in common between the five-time Stanley Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins professional hockey team and Argo AI, a leading self-driving technology company — other than the fact that they both call Pittsburgh home. But look closer and you’ll find that both organizations rely heavily on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and…

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