Amazon’s latest gadget: a self-driving toy car for coders


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  • Thursday, 29 Nov 2018

Amazon’s AWS DeepRacer cars line a table at the MGM Grand Garden Arena where the cloud computing company opened temporary race tracks after announcing the new product aimed at web developers, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 28, 2018. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin

LAS VEGAS: Self-driving cars, meet Amazon’s self-driving toys. 

Amazon.com Inc’s cloud unit on Nov 28 announced a US$399 (RM1,670) autonomous toy car, aimed at helping web developers try out some of their own self-driving technology. Customers can train and tweak machine learning models in an online simulator and then test drive them on vehicles one-eighteenth the size of a real race car. 

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