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Waymo plans to launch its autonomous ride-hailing service this year. Waymo and Chrysler announced that thousands of Pacifica autonomous vans would be used for the autonomous service. Waymo is talking up its accelerated pace of testing ahead of the official launch of the service. Waymo says that each day its vehicles are in testing driving on closed courses, public roads, … Continue reading

In order to make it so that self-driving cars can become legal and available to the masses, a lot of testing needs to be done, and usually testing involves taking the self-driving cars on the road and testing them out in real-life conditions. That’s what pretty much all companies have been doing, but a self-driving group in the UK wants to take it to the extreme with a 200-mile test.

Dubbed the HumanDrive initiative, it seems that this project might take a while before it takes off. There are plans to simulate a range of conditions first before it embarks on its journey which is scheduled to take place in December 2019, but so far it seems to have been well-received.

According to the Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark, “Low-carbon and self-driving vehicles are the future and they are going to drive forward a global revolution in mobility. Trailblazing projects like the HumanDrive project will play a vital role helping us deliver on that ambition.”

The project is a collaboration between several carmakers such as Groupe Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, in addition to other educational institutions and organizations, like Cranfield University and Highways England. Mark Westwood, chief technology officer of the Transport Systems Catapult who is also involved in the project adds, “UK roads throw up some particular challenges. They are different from American roads, with roundabouts and demanding country lanes. These are really testing environments.”

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Video game movies have never been great, and the Super Mario Bros. from back in 1993 is proof of that. However despite that, movie studios have continued to produce video game movies, and we’ve heard rumors that Nintendo might be interested in giving the Mario movie another go.

Looks like the rumors were somewhat right on the money because in an announcement by Nintendo, the company has confirmed that a movie starring Mario is in the works in a collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment (the company also worked on animated movies such as Despicable Me, Minions, and Ice Age). The movie will also be co-produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri, and given the former’s involvement in the Mario franchise, we are expecting great things.

Nintendo and Illumination are partnering on a movie starring Mario, co-produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri! pic.twitter.com/wVRPLIzcGJ

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 1, 2018

Unfortunately details about the movie are scarce at this point in time, such as whether it will be fully animated, live-action, or if it could be a mixture of both like the upcoming Detective Pikachu movie. There is also no word on when the movie will be released, but we suppose we shouldn’t expect to see it in 2018. In any case it will be interesting to see if Nintendo will succeed where others haven’t, and we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for more information when available.

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