Autonomous car company Aurora increases hiring amid industry struggles
Autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Aurora today announced it has roughly doubled its workforce to 500 people (up from 250 as of May 2019) and...
Read MoreAmazon buying Zooxmay save $20 billion, put Tesla on its heels
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc.’s talks to buy driverless vehicle startupZoox Inc. has analysts speculating the deal could save the...
Read MoreFLIR releases first European thermal imaging dataset for automotive driver assistance development
FLIR Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of its first European thermal imaging regional dataset and the third in a series of...
Read MoreFor better or for worse, ballot harvesting for election voting would be a cinch with self-driving cars
There is a lot of controversy about ballot harvesting. First, some prefer to call it ballot collecting, since the word “harvesting” seems...
Read MoreGM’s Cruise self-driving unit beefs up board with executive who ran advanced research for Google, Facebook, DoD
Cruise, a majority-owned self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has added prominent inventor and tech executive Regina E. Dugan to its...
Read MorePedestrians and cyclists make Guangzhou ‘efficient’ for testing self-driving cars
WeRide, a Chinese robotaxistartup, recently compared its results testing self-driving cars in both Silicon Valley and Guangzhou, China....
Read MoreAutonomous and electric cars to be key part of autos sector -Macron
PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) – Autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles will form a key part of the automotive sector after the...
Read MoreAmazon said to be in talks to buy self-driving startupZoox
Amazon may be preparing to make a big move into the self-driving vehicle world as the logistics giant is said to be in “advanced” talks to...
Read MoreAmazon said to be in talks to buy self-driving startupZoox
Amazon may be preparing to make a big move into the self-driving vehicle world as the logistics giant is said to be in “advanced” talks to...
Read MoreAutonomous delivery companies stress need for clearer rules on deployment
During an online event this week hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), three panelists — Cruise’s Eric Danko, Wing’s Nick...
Read MoreCarmakers push forward on EVs as self-driving hits pandemic speed bumps
Detroit — The coronavirus pandemic is proving to be yet another obstacle for the self-driving and ride-sharing movement, delaying the...
Read MoreCOVID-19 impact: Autonomous car market likely to decline by 3% in 2020
New Delhi: The coronavirus infection has prompted lockdown measures that caused massive disruption in business execution across the...
Read MorePony.ai given green light to carry passengers in its robotaxis in China
Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai, which was founded in Fremont, California with the goal of building the safest and most reliable...
Read MoreHow will Waymo monetize autonomy?
Autonomous driving will be huge a beneficiary of the lingering effects of social distancing. Just as with e-Commerce for grocery,...
Read MoreCarmakers won’t be the ones steering the development of driverless vehicles
Futurists have been predicting the coming of autonomous driving for many decades now. But while billions of dollars have been invested in...
Read MoreDiDi said to conduct road tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (DiDi) set up in April a Beijing-registered company dubbed Beijing Woya...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars are being trained in virtual worlds while the real one is in chaos
Brandon Moak felt as if a freight train had hit him. It was mid-March, and the cofounder and CTO of the autonomous- trucking startup...
Read MoreTop safety official at Waymo self-driving unit stepping down
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Waymo self-driving unit said on Thursday that its chief safety officer, Debbie Hersman, was...
Read MoreIntel/MobilEyepromises self-driving robotaxi service in 2022, while others back off
At the EcoMotion self-driving conference held (in cyberspace) from Israel this week, Amnon Shashua, founder and CEO of MobilEye, now a...
Read MoreWatch out for those looming AI oligopolies, including for self-driving cars
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being deployed into all facets of our existence. Via the advent of Machine Learning...
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