3 Lidar researchers chase the same dream — affordable self-driving systems
Elon Musk doesn’t care for Lidar — the light-based echo location technology that is similar in concept to radar — even though Volvo says...
Read MoreTowards a driver-less world? Autonomy and its impact on the fleet business
As the world works its way through the current pandemic, one thing seems clear: rather than generating new trends, the current COVID...
Read MoreRobo-cars are coming, but probably not like you’d expect
Autonomous vehicle technology companies like Mobileye are aiming to launch “robo-taxis” in the coming years, while similar companies are...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars are set to revolutionize urban mobility
MUNICH, July 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could make the urban environment greener and more...
Read MoreUni to join £1m self-driving vehicles project
Loughborough University is to take part in a new £1m project with Highways England to assess how suitable the country’s motorways are for...
Read MoreIsraeli autonomous vehicle startupVayaVision acquired by Canada’s LeddarTech
Canadian company LeddarTech Inc. announced Tuesday it has acquired Israeli automotive company VayaVision Sensing Ltd. The financial terms...
Read MoreIntel’s Mobileye, WILLER partner on self-driving vehicles in Japan, Southeast Asia
(RTTNews) – Mobileye, an Intel Company, and WILLER, a transportation operator in Japan, Taiwan and the Southeast Asian region, have...
Read MoreBasemark raises $7.9 million for autonomous car graphics software
Basemark, a maker of graphics software for autonomous vehicles, has raised $7.9 million in funding. ETF Partners was the sole investor in...
Read MoreSelf-driving tech is becoming a game of partnerships
BUILDING A SELF-DRIVING car was never going to be easy. But Karl Iagnemma says he didn’t expect it to be this hard. “Vehicles are these...
Read MoreToyota green-lighted by Beijing to have road tests for autonomous cars
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Japanese automaker Toyota has been permitted to conduct roads tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing, according to a...
Read MoreCMU team evaluates range and battery tradeoffs between vehicle automation and electrification
A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has used a vehicle dynamics model to evaluate the trade-off between automation...
Read MoreHidden secrets that the Burger King ‘Autopilot Whopper’ teaches us about Tesla and self-driving cars
What do AI, self-driving cars, Tesla, Autopilot, and hamburgers such as the infamous Burger King Whopper all have in common? Well, a...
Read MoreThe federal government says Bird got at least a $5 million bailout loan, but the company denies it
Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company, received a loan worth between $5 million and $10 million from the federal government’s Paycheck...
Read Morewhat3words: the future of driverless navigation?
One year ago, we spoke to Giles Rhys Jones, what3words’ Chief Marketing Officer, to better understand how navigation and navigation tech,...
Read MoreHow May Mobility’s autonomous shuttle ambitions backfired
By all appearances, May Mobility was a scrappy success story. The autonomous transportation startup made its debut at Y Combinator’s demo...
Read MoreChinese ride-hailing giant Didi’s self-driving push
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, which is backed by companies including Apple Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp., began a self-driving...
Read MoreIs Recognithe next hot autonomous vehicle startup?
In CleanTechnica‘s exclusive, in-depth interview with Peter Mertens, former board member of Audi, Volkswagen Group, Volvo, & Jaguar...
Read MoreCan Argo.AI make Ford & Volkswagen self-driving leaders?
The self-driving car race seems like it’s been going on forever, but also at times seems like it has no ending — since it’s so hard to get...
Read MoreBeyond Moore: Heterogeneous computing for autonomous vehicles
For more than a decade, the rise of AI and big data has been fueling a major shift in semiconductor technology. As the traditional...
Read MoreVelodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path
Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said...
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