This year, autonomous trucks will take to the road with no one on board
Companies like Tesla, Uber, Cruise, and Waymo promise a future where cars are essentially mobile robots that can take us anywhere with a...
Read MoreTesla’s China rival Xpeng to use lidar sensors from DJI affiliate Livox
The battle is heating up between Tesla and its Chinese challenger Xpeng as the latter makes clearer its stance on the future of autonomous...
Read MoreRolling out driverless cars is ‘extraordinary grind’, says Waymo boss
Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car. The Google sister company raised $3.2bn,...
Read MoreForget about a self-driving ‘iCar’
Do you have an iPhone? Ever tried to unlock it using Face ID while wearing any kind of face covering? It doesn’t work, because the...
Read More‘Peak hype’: why the driverless car revolution has stalled
By 2021, according to various Silicon Valley luminaries, bandwagoning politicians and leading cab firms in recent years, self-driving cars...
Read MoreHow truck automation may change roadside inspections
Here’s an exercise in future think: You know what can happen now at a roadside inspection of one of your trucks. But what might happen in...
Read MoreOn self-driving cars that might misclassify a snowman as a pedestrian
Have you ever eaten a papple? Probably not, and the odds are that you might not have even heard of one before either. It is a type of pear...
Read MoreToyota files for car wash judgement patent for autonomous vehicles
On Christmas Eve, the United States Patent and Trademark Office released a patent application from Toyota for something called a “car wash...
Read MoreHow Apple’s self-driving car plans might transform the company itself
What would an Apple self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious plans to roll out...
Read MoreThese five patents offer hints about what an Apple car could look like
Apple (AAPL) hasn’t commented publicly on its plans for the project, nicknamed Titan, so it’s not clear exactly what will come...
Read MoreElon Musk promises 3 free months of Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ software for vehicles delivered in the final 3 days of 2020
Newly minted Tesla owners who receive their vehicles this week, before 2020 is over, will get a surprise holiday bonus: three free months...
Read MoreGreat Wall Motor to realize Level 3 autonomous driving with full-car redundancy in 2021
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On December 30, Great Wall Motor (GWM) announced it will achieve the Level 3 autonomous driving function with...
Read MoreLargest ever cyber hack provides vital lessons for self-driving cars
They say it is the largest ever cyber hack. Unless you are living under a rock or inside an Internet-disconnected cave, you’ve undoubtedly...
Read MoreZoox is only barely a car, and that’s its most promising feature
‘Tis the season for start-ups to make promises about how their self-driving cars will be imminently deployed — and for us to reflect upon...
Read MoreStradVision appoints new Head of Sales in Japan
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — StradVision, a leading innovator in AI-based camera perception software for...
Read MoreCOMMENT: How to get ahead of the curve with autonomous technology
The UK government recently put out a ‘call for evidence’ regarding autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, specifically Automated Lane Keeping...
Read MoreApple car not coming before 2025-2027 at earliest, says analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
San Francisco: Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed that the launch of Apple Car is unlikely to happen until 2025-2027....
Read MoreRobocars 2020 in review: Winter to spring
2020 began with fear of the “Robocar Winter” — a slide into the “trough of disillusionment” for the self-driving car industry that began...
Read MoreVacation home boon expected due to self-driving cars
Your vacation home awaits you. According to the latest real estate reporting, the pandemic has spurred interest in so-called second homes,...
Read MoreNuro can now operate and charge for autonomous delivery services in California
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is allowed to launch commercial driverless services on public roads in California — the first company to...
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