Semi-autonomous vehicle brings future to Japanese mountain village
AKITA, Japan (Kyodo) — Asa Ishikami has seen much change in her 85 years of life, and now she is witnessing the future of travel...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars could be operating daily in 1-2 years—just not in big cities
(Bloomberg) — Oliver Cameron co-founded the self-driving car start-up Voyage in 2017 on the theory that retirement communities are...
Read MoreWaymo and Cruise safety drivers face a bleak choice: Pandemic or pollution?
Leo* stepped out of his house in Oakland recently to start his day as a backup driver for Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by...
Read MoreTeslas can now roll through green lights automatically
Tesla continues to tweak and update its Autopilot system, likely in preparation for a Full-Self Driving beta set to launch in about a...
Read MoreEinride raises $10 million to fast track its autonomous electric cargo pods
For the past four years, Swedish startupEinride has captured interest, investment and even a few customer contracts for its...
Read MoreAutonomous trucking startupLocomation to leverage Nvidia Drive Agx Orin for human-guided autonomous convoying
Locomation, the leading provider of safe and reliable autonomous truckingtechnology, today announced it will leverage the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX...
Read MoreDeepMapannounces DeepMap HDR for auto OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers; validates and improves crowd-sourced map data for high-performance hands-free driving
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — DeepMap, a global leader in autonomous driving technology, today announced DeepMap...
Read MoreAnn Arbor startup develops autonomous robot to safely deliver meals, groceries in pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has affected Michigan companies big and small in all kinds of ways but for startups tied to robotics and mobility, the...
Read MoreTesla Autopilot gets ‘moderate’ grade from European vehicle safety authority while Audi, BMW and Mercedes get top marks
A European vehicle safety authority gave “very good” marks to Audi, BMW and Mercedes for their driver assistance systems, and gave Tesla’s...
Read MoreTire blowouts could cause self-driving cars to go astray
Have you ever had a tire go bad on you? Sometimes, a tire can seemingly obliterate and become a tangled mess of rubber and threads....
Read MoreTesla “Full Self Driving” will include pothole avoidance, vector-space bird’s eye view … & what else?
This evening on Twitter, after receiving the 4,200th request for bird’s eye view to be included in Tesla touchscreen visualizations, Tesla...
Read MorerFpro and Smart Mobility Living Lab to develop CAV test lab digital twin
UK-based driving simulation company rFpro has announced a partnership with London’s Smart Mobility Living Lab (SMLL) with the aim of...
Read MoreFirst 5G satellite lab launched in the UK for testing CAVs
The first commercial laboratory for 5G and satellite communications in the UK has been launched as part of Project Darwin, a four-year...
Read MoreTuSimplehires former FMCSA official Jim Mullen
Jim Mullen, former acting administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has taken a position at TuSimple, a company...
Read MoreConnected and autonomous mobility to rewrite data storage rules
Data is becoming increasingly valuable to automotive players as connectivity makes its way into both vehicles and urban architecture....
Read MoreVelodyne Lidar chief eyes growth as stock sinks in public debut
(Bloomberg) — Velodyne Lidar Inc. could ride higher as the self-driving car revolution takes hold — that is if such modes of...
Read MoreDominion Energy programs accelerate electric vehicle adoption in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Dominion Energy Virginia today announced another step to drive electric vehicle...
Read MoreUber self-driving car death ruling sets a scary precedent
Recently we learned that someone will face charges, after all, in the death of Elaine Herzberg, the first person killed by a self-driving...
Read MoreOur self-driving business in Austin, one year later
We stood in Austin one year ago with optimism for the journey ahead — launching a self-driving service that can be a part of the city’s...
Read MoreApple’s automotive ambitions extend far beyond self-driving systems
For a product that Apple still hasn’t officially admitted that it was working on, the “Apple Car” is getting a lot of...
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