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![A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cruise-robotaxi_Dallas-970x464-1-940x436.jpg)
A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in downtown Dallas in June 2024. [Photo: Cruise]
GM Scraps Its Cruise Robotaxi Service After Resuming Dallas Testing
by David Seeley | Dec 11, 2024
Cruise robotaxis first popped up on Dallas streets in October 2023 following the start of operations with public riders in Austin. But a Cruise-involved pedestrian crash in San Francisco put operations on hold for several months. Now, amid staggering losses, GM says it will stop funding the unit, likely shutting it down for good.
by David Seeley |
Oct 3, 2024
With Cruise robotaxis already being tested in Dallas, more autonomous innovation is on the way to the city in 2024 and 2025 via a partnership between Uber and Austin-based Avride. Uber and Uber Eats customers may have the option to select a robotaxi for their next ride across town or a sidewalk robot to roll their favorite restaurant order home.
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![A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cruise-robotaxi_Dallas-970x464-1-360x203.jpg)
by David Seeley |
Jul 24, 2024
After a months-long pause following a pedestrian collision in San Francisco last October, Cruise robotaxis are being tested once again in Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix—without paying customers and with a "safety driver" in the car, the New York Times reports.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 18, 2024
The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, will pilot low-altitude weather sensors on freight routes used by autonomous vehicles.
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Hypergiant All-Domain Command Center common operating picture for USAF. [Source Image: Hypergiant]
Dallas-based Trive Capital Buys Texas-Based AI Defense Platform
by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray | Aug 22, 2023
Hypergiant Industries, a pioneering AI defense platform, finds a strategic match in its acquisition by Dallas's Trive Capital. Dallas Co-Founder Ben Lamm and CEO Mike Betzer both champion the shared vision of next-gen AI technologies bolstering national defense and critical infrastructure.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 7, 2022
The pilot is funded through the NCTCOG’s Regional Transportation Council’s (RTC) Automated Vehicles Program.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 21, 2021
The "S-AM" hybrid electric minivans—short for "Sienna Autonomo-MaaS"—will be tested in a six-month pilot program in Dallas, Pittsburgh, the San Francisco Bay areal, and other locations. Aurora intends to deploy the vehicles on ride-hailing networks in late 2024.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 23, 2021
From ABIA to Zyvex, Dallas-Fort Worth companies are at the forefront of innovations in AI, 5G, quantum computing, genomics, and more.
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Arlington Gets $1.7M to Integrate Autonomous Vehicles into Via Rideshare Program
by Lance Murray | Mar 17, 2020
Arlington was the first city in the nation to convert its entire mass transit operation into what's called micro-transit. Its new service will include a wheelchair-accessible vehicle and could let UT Arlington students ride for free.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 18, 2019
DENSO's Texas Innovation and Connected Service Center—strategically located near longtime partner Toyota North America—will become part of the company’s larger global R&D network and help advance its work in mobility and autonomous vehicles.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 26, 2017
Thomas Bamonte is at the controls of NCTCG’s efforts to make the region a national leader in driverless technology and the public policies that will address it.
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by Julia Batlle |
Apr 3, 2017
A new study's findings predicts a huge shift in transportation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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