Will truck convoying be the first viable commercial application for AV technology?
Industry Background: Trucking has long been seen as a potentially interesting application for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology. ...
Read MoreSelf-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...
Read MoreWaymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...
Read MoreThe truth is that traffic lights won’t be shelved due to self-driving cars
It is a bit of a miracle that each day we drive around and encounter traffic signals that by the mere act of shining a light of differing...
Read MoreBaidu to build self-driving test facility in Chongqing as the Chinese city pushes ahead with smart city infrastructure
China’s Chongqing city government has tapped search giant Baidu to build a testing ground for autonomous vehicles, as Chinese cities race...
Read MoreDespite setbacks, coronavirus could hasten the adoption of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots
This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of...
Read MoreLiDAR start-up Blickfeld closes Series A with participation of Continental and Wachstumsfonds Bayern
Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of...
Read MoreWaymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...
Read MoreNTSB criticizes Tesla Autopilot design in Model 3 crash report
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published its final report on the fatal 2019 crash that involved a collision between a...
Read MoreVoluntary temporary suspensions of self-driving car roadway tryouts due to Coronavirus have added payoffs
Many of the major self-driving car roadway public tryouts that are taking place on our highways and byways are temporarily being suspended...
Read MoreWaymo expands autonomous driving data set and launches $110,000 challenge
In August 2019, Wamyo released the Waymo Open Dataset, which Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claimed at the time was the...
Read MoreSelf-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...
Read MoreFord releases a data set to accelerate autonomous car development
This week, Ford quietly released a corpus — the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset — containing data collected from its fleet of autonomous...
Read MoreCoronavirus shows there’s still no such thing as a totally human-free self-driving car
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make human drivers obsolete. But the coronavirus pandemic is exposing how a technology designed to be...
Read MoreAdvances in sensor cleaning pave the way for autonomous driving
Sensor systems provide pivotal environmental data to smart cars, allowing for automated and autonomous functionality. They can tell a...
Read MoreToyota partners with China’s Momenta on high definition maps for autonomous cars
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp has partnered with Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta to...
Read MoreHow to lease an autonomous delivery van
Something happened on the way to robotaxis taking over the world. The timeline to transport people without a human driver, particularly...
Read MoreUSDOT announces $20.3 million grant to improve transport with innovation
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced approximately $20.3 million in grant...
Read MoreFederal regulators move to make room in safety standards for driver-less cars
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Tuesday moved to make changes in some safety standards to help pave the way for driver-less vehicles....
Read MoreReinventing mobility and manufacturing at once: Local Motors
Some of the most consequential technological and economic advances happen where two innovation trends intersect. Local Motors, a company...
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