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6 Cars That Are Pioneering Self-Driving Technology
The thought of self-driving cars seems like a futuristic fever dream you imagined during your early childhood. Though we may still be eons away from flying cars brought to life on The Jetsons, Blade Runner, and Harry Potter, the reality of autonomous vehicles is nearer than ever before. While the vast majority of car manufacturers working on driverless tech development have yet to release a foolproof, functional model, there are a number of cars on the market that feature self-driving technology.

Even if you’re not quite prepared to dish out the dough for a brand new near-driverless vehicle, you can take a trip down to your local car dealership to see what the hype is about. Whether you’re checking out new Audi vehicles for sale in the greater Phoenix area or the latest Tesla innovations on showcase at a San Francisco dealership, you can witness the future of automated driving as close as your nearest car dealer.
Let’s take a look at 6 cars pioneering the way toward an automated driving future.
1. 2020 Volvo XC90
The Price: Starting at $48,350
The Tech: Volvo has been one of the car industry’s most reliable leaders in safety technology, so it should come as no surprise that they’re paving their own path to a driverless future. Like many other pioneering car manufacturers, Volvo’s Pilot Assistant II employs the Mobileye EyeQ 3 platform and uses a front-facing camera and radar (Delphi’s Radar and Camera Sensor Fusion System).
The Features:
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Lane centering
- Navigate-on-autopilot
- Attentiveness monitoring
2. 2019 Audi A8
The Price: Starting at $83,800
The Tech: Audi is the first car manufacturer to integrate a Lidar unit inside of a consumer-available vehicle. The A8 also employs a zFAS controller designed to integrate sensor inputs into a single computing unit. Furnished with Mobileye’s EyeQ® technology, Audi’s effort toward pioneering automated driving has been nothing short of impressive. The 2019 Audi A8 comes with integrated Active Assist with Stop & Go and Traffic Jam Assist.
The Features:
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Lane centering
- Attentiveness monitoring
- Remote-controlled parking
- Parking assistance
3. 2019 Tesla Model 3
The Price: Starting at $75,000
The Tech: Tesla uses eight built-in cameras around the vehicle for an omniscient 360-degree view. With the help of a front-facing radar and multiple long-range ultrasonic sensors, Tesla’s Autopilot mode utilizes machine learning, known as Hardware 3, to better enhance the already-intelligent technology.

The Features:
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Lane centering
- Navigate-on-Autopilot
- Attentiveness monitoring
- Automatic lane changing
- Parking assistance
4. 2019 Toyota Prius
The Price: Starting at $23,770
The Tech: All Toyotas with driverless features use Toyota’s Safety Sense (TSS) system. TSS uses a feature called “Lane Tracing Assist” to allow the vehicle to center itself in a lane, but is not as nearly as mechanically robust as similar technologies produced by Tesla, Cadillac or BMW.
The Features:
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Lane centering
- Attentiveness monitoring
- Parking assistance
5. 2019 Honda Fit
The Price: Starting at $16,190
The Tech: The 2019 Honda Fit comes equipped with Honda’s Sensing Suite. The Sensing Suite comes with Adaptive Cruise Control and a Lane Keeping Assist System. LKAS allows the vehicle to center itself in the lane but isn’t particularly high-level compared to similar automated technologies.
The Features:
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Lane centering
- Attentiveness monitoring
- Parking assistance
6. 2019 Nissan Leaf

The Price: Starting at $29,990
The Tech: Nissan has come an impressively long way in their journey toward bringing practical safety and self-driving technology to the consumer market. Nissan’s ProPilot uses the Mobileye EyeQ platform, employing a forward camera and radar inputs that allow the vehicle to grasp its surroundings.
The Features:
- Adaptive Cruise Control (Must press accelerator if stopped for more than three seconds.)
- Lane centering
- Attentiveness monitoring
- Parking assistance
Behold—we’re living on the cusp of a transportation revolution, where driverless cars not only become a reality, but a mobility option available to the everyday consumer. No, this revolution won’t happen overnight, but the leaps and bounds of progress being made each and every year only proves how close we are to an existence previously only feasible in our dreams.What’s your opinion on the future of driverless vehicles? Let us know in the comments below!
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LINK Is Holding The Uptrend Support And Could Rally Again: Analysis
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LINK is holding the uptrend support at the $23.79 level and rallied towards $24K similar to bitcoin and Ethereum’s price movements. The price is now trading near a major support zone at $20.00 with many chances of rallying higher so let’s read more in today’s Chainlink news.
Chainlink’s token price traded as high as $23.79 before being able to start a downside correction against the US dollar and the price even traded above the $20.00 level and the 100 simple moving average. There’s a connecting bearish trend line forming with the resistance near the $21.70 on the 4-hour charts of the pair with the price being able to extend losses to $18.20 before starting a new increase in the near-term.

After the clear break above $20.00, LINK continued its rally and surged above the $22.00 level while settling well above the 100 simple moving average. The coin traded to $23.79 before going on a new correction and there was a break below $22 and $21.20 support levels so breaking below the contracting triangle here with the support at $21.50 is highly likely as per the 4-hour chart of the pair. The bulls lost control and the price increase below the $20.50 level but the drop was limited and the price only got to $19.90. LINK is trading above the $20.00 support and it is staying above the 100 simple moving average.

The resistance for LINK is close to the $20.80 level and it is close to the 23.6% fib retracement level at the decline from $23.79 high to the $19.90 low. What’s more to it, there’s a connecting bearish trend line that is forming with the resistance close to the $21.70 on the charts with a trend line closing to the 50% fib retracement level at the decline from the $23.79 high to the $19.90 low. Breaking above this trend line could open the doors for a push above $25.00. LINK is holding the uptrend support but if the price fails to continue higher, it could correct lower. The first major support is close to the $20.00 level and the next major support is set at the $18.20 level where the bulls could take a stand.
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The 4-hour MACD indicator for the pair is gaining momentum in the bearish zone while the 4-hour RSI for LINK/USD pair is close to the 50 level. The major support levels include $20.00 and $19.10 while the major resistance levels include $20.80 and $21.70.
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Crypto Market Lost $50B With Bitcoin’s Price Failing The $38K Level
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The entire crypto market lost $50 billion as Bitcoin’s price failed the $38,000 level and continued declining. Most of the larger-cap altcoins followed which resulted in a cumulative drop in total market capitalization so let’s read more in today’s cryptocurrency news.
Bitcoin initially surged to $38,000 but the asset failed to remain at this level and even dipped below the $35,000. Most bigger-cap altcoins found some traction after the gains of yesterday but continued to reduce bitcoin’s dominance to 65%. The main cryptocurrency was stuck between $36K and $37K but in the past 24hours, BTC initiated a surge which resulted in a daily high of $38,000. While the bulls were quite welcoming of this development, the bears took control and didn’t allow for another increase to happen. They drove Bitcoin’s price south. In the next few hours, BTC Slumped to an intraday low of below $35K but the cryptocurrency bounced off and reclaimed this level while still being down 2.6% since yesterday.

The technical indicators are suggesting that BTC dropped below the first support level of $37,000 and $36,000 so if it goes on losing value, the next support lines will be set at $34K and $33,135. Most other alternative coins painted some strong gains in the past few days and raised speculation of an impending altcoin season but the situation changed in one day as the market lost $50 billion. Binance coin and Polkadot lost the most value from the top 10 which is about 7% and the coin fell to $42 after the recent burn while DOT dropped to $16 percent. ETH is the only exception as it increased on a daily basis and it’s worth noting that the second-biggest cryptocurrency reached a new all-time high recently as well.

Hedera Hashgraph is the biggest gainer after the UK NHS announced that it will use its blockchain to monitor the COVID-19 vaccines. HBAR is up by 60% in one day and 120% in one week. Enjin Coin is another huge gainer with a 42% surge to $0.40 as the Japanese regulatory body approved the coin to be listed on Coincheck. This was the coin’s first listing. NXM increased by 30%, Ren by 20% and VeChain by 10%.
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The crypto market cap lost $50B but remained above $1 trillion despite the losses of the larger-cap altcoins. The surging lower and the mid-cap altcoins reduced BTC’s dominance on the market which dropped to 64.9% as of the time of writing.
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Ethereum Broke All-Time High Level Above $1430 With A 30% Surge
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Ethereum broke all-time high level as of today, surpassing above $1430 thanks to the latest 30% surge so let’s read more in today’s Ethereum news today.
Ethereum finally managed to breach its all-time high level above $1432 and the coin saw an impressive 30% surge while being in a price discovery mode. The long wait is over as Ethereum broke an all-time high level and is now officially in a price discovery territory. This usually happens as the cryptocurrency posts weekly gains of 30%. At this point, it doesn’t seem to be a surprise that ETH broke its ATH but its price was surging consistently in the past few months especially as 2021 started.

Looking at the charts, ETH’s growth was quite impressive. At the beginning of January, the cryptocurrency opened up the price at $740 which means it almost doubled up in value and chartered a strong increase of 93%. The milestone didn’t come without a strong selloff as well as ten days ago, it went on to decline from the high of $1325 to a low of $937 which is a decrease worth 30%. Those that managed to hold tight to the coins, were rewarded as the cryptocurrency increased to a current all-time high value.
There are a lot of reasons why ETH is increasing and the momentum seems to continue in 2021. The most important reason of all could be the growth of the decentralized finance space. DeFi is booming and the total value locked in protocols is about $25 billion marking an increase of 4500% since April last year. There was also forming of a vibrant ecosystem with plenty of protocols with their own native cryptocurrencies. The huge chunk of which runs on the ETH network and drove the demand for ETH through the roof. This was also pointing out to some of the blockchain’s problems as the transaction fees were so high, many claimed that DeFi is only worthwhile for bigger investors.
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The next reason is the ETH 2.0 launch. With this, the network will migrate to a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm and Phase 0 went live in December. This marked a huge milestone and we could wait just a few more years until the launch of the improved network plays a huge role in the ETH price.
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