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Aurora’s stock listing is a bet on autonomous cars, and on Uber

Posted on Nov 4, 2021 in Cars, Finance, Perspective

Facing technical and financial challenges, Uber Technologies Inc. was under pressure last year to bring on new leadership and investors...

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Swedish self-driving start-up Einride expands into U.S. market

Posted on Nov 3, 2021 in News, Trucks

LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Swedish electric self-driving truck start-up Einride said on Wednesday it has launched operations in the...

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Spartan Radar raises a total of $25M to help radar compete with lidar tech

Posted on Nov 3, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

Take a dollop of machine learning, a handful of radar sensors and a market that is clamoring for autonomous cars not mowing down hordes of...

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Waymo self-driving vehicles will begin mapping NYC’s streets

Posted on Nov 3, 2021 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo’s self-driving cars will make an appearance in New York City on Thursday, but don’t expect to hail a robotaxi in the Big Apple...

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Innoviz LiDAR selected for JueFX’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) solution to improve road safety and traffic alerts for autonomous vehicles in China

Posted on Nov 3, 2021 in News, Technology

TEL AVIV, Israel and BEIJING, Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Innoviz Technologies (Nasdaq: INVZ), a leading provider of...

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U.S. autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600 million for $8.6 billion valuation

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous delivery vehicle maker Nuro raised $600 million in its latest funding round, the Silicon Valley-based startup said on Tuesday,...

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Tesla recalls 11,704 vehicles after identifying Full Self-Driving Beta software error

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in News, Technology

Tesla voluntarily recalled nearly 11,704 vehicles after identifying a software error that could cause a false forward-collision warning or...

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HoloMatic signs investment agreement with GAC Capital

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

On 29 October, HoloMatic (Beijing) and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (GAC Group) signed an agreement in Guangzhou to deepen their...

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XPeng launches ‘Smart Driving Points’ beta, eerily similar to Tesla’s ‘Safety Score’

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in News, Technology

Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors has taken a play out of Tesla’s book and will implement a ‘Smart Driving Points’ scoring system to...

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U.S. autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600 million for $8.6 billion valuation

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Finance, News

Autonomous delivery vehicle maker Nuro raised $600 million in its latest funding round, the Silicon Valley-based startup said on Tuesday,...

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Autonomous vehicles get ‘x-ray’ vision

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in News, Technology

Researchers in Australia claim to have developed a technology that gives autonomous vehicles ‘x-ray vision’ to detect pedestrians and...

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Korean autonomous driving startup 42dot bags $88.5M Series A to accelerate its growth

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

42dot, a South Korea-based autonomous transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) startup, announced today it has raised $88.5 million (104 billion...

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Zoox CEO overhauling Amazon’s robotaxi unit ahead of Las Vegas commercial launch

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Zoox, the Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving company purchased by Amazon last year, is undergoing a review and reorganization of...

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Older Teslas need upgraded cameras to get full self driving

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in News, Technology

In 2016, Tesla said that all of its vehicles would be equipped with the necessary hardware to achieve fully-autonomous driving. It turns...

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Autobrains announces $101 million Series C funding led by Temasek

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Finance, News, Technology

TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Autobrains, developer of first-of-its-kind self-learning artificial intelligence...

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Zoox CEO overhauling Amazon’s robotaxi unit ahead of Las Vegas commercial launch

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Cars, News

Zoox, the Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving company purchased by Amazon last year, is undergoing a review and reorganization of...

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Teleoperation and the future of safe driving

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

More than a decade ago, the major AV companies made a promise. They claimed that autonomous vehicles would by now be completely...

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Dump truck accident pours liquid asphalt from overpass onto vehicles below, providing lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Asphalt is all around us, that’s for sure. Our highways are typically made of asphalt. Streets are made from asphalt. Parking lots....

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When will we have widespread autonomous vehicles?

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

How far away are autonomous cars? On this episode of “The 5,” recorded on Oct. 21, Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Jason Hall,...

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Shaping the future of autonomous mobility

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Technology

Technology and automotive industry players have established a cross-industry partnership to drive the development of automated driving....

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