Self-driving shuttle crashed in Las Vegas because manual controls were locked away
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has wrapped up a more than year-long investigation into a low-speed crash between a...
Read MoreFord-VW alliance expands to include autonomous and electric vehicles
In a widely anticipated move, Ford and Volkswagen announced Friday their plan to expand their seven-month-old alliance to include...
Read MoreLidar startup Luminar raises $100 million, unveils Iris sensors
Luminar is a lidar startup that in 2017 emerged from five years of stealth with $36 million in funding. The early funds came from 1517...
Read MoreDropping off passengers vexes self-driving cars, the last step is a doozie
I was using a ridesharing service last month in Detroit to get to a restaurant after having spoken at a conference on autonomous vehicles....
Read MoreVia partners with BusBot to launch autonomous bus trial in New South Wales
Ride-sharing startup Via, not to be outdone by Uber and Lyft, is investing meaningfully in autonomous vehicles. To this end, it today...
Read MoreUK stakes claim for lead role in autonomous mapping
Published by Zenzic, the UK’s umbrella organisation for self-driving technology, and national mapping agency Ordnance Survey, the Geodata...
Read More2020 Hyundai Sonata turned fully autonomous by Russia’s Yandex
Last March, Hyundai signed a memorandum of understanding with Russian technology company Yandex to jointly develop Level 4 and Level 5...
Read MoreMay Mobility reveals prototype of a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle
Autonomous transportation startup May Mobility is doing more than just talking about accessibility when it comes to self-driving...
Read MoreChina-based Idriverplus using Velodyne lidar in autonomous driving products
Idriverplus, one of the first companies in China to launch the commercialization of driverless technology and realize mass production, is...
Read MoreEuropean startups navigate long, winding road to self-driving future
OXFORD, England (Reuters) – Far from the sunny, wide streets of Phoenix, where Waymo’s self-driving taxis ply their trade, a handful...
Read MoreVolvo solves autonomous revenue riddle with package deals
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo’s first commercial autonomous truck deal shows how it is bundling services to...
Read MoreUdelv partners with H-E-B on Texas autonomous grocery delivery pilot
Autonomous delivery company Udelv has signed yet another partner to launch a new pilot of its self-driving goods delivery service:...
Read MoreInside the GM factory where Cruise’s autonomous Bolt is made
TechCrunch took a field trip to GM’s Orion Assembly plant in Michigan to get an up-close view of how this factory has evolved since the...
Read MoreThe future of autonomous vehicles runs off roads and on to farms, construction sites and mines
Fully self-driving passenger cars are not “just around the corner.” While the well-capitalized leaders — funded by corporations,...
Read MoreEarthquakes rattle proficiency of self-driving cars
California has been rocking and rolling, doing so to the tune of several recent earthquakes and aftershocks. That shaking feeling has also...
Read MoreLyft self-driving cars offer tactile maps, diagrams for blind riders
Aptiv’s self-driving cars on the Lyft ride-hailing network drove down the Las Vegas strip with blind and low-vision passengers along...
Read MoreInrix expands its digital rule book beyond self-driving cars to help cities with scooters, bikes and delivery bots
Cities use paint and signs to communicate the rules of the road in a world where urban spaces must choreograph an infinite dance between...
Read MoreUber CEO Says You’ll See Driverless Cars in Under Five Years
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks about why investors should be bullish on Uber. He appears on “The David Rubenstein Show:...
Read MoreThese are the 5 leaders in the self-driving-car race
Tech companies and auto companies are all racing to be he first to roll out self-driving cars onto the road. The stakes are high for...
Read MoreMoney and politics, not technology, stand between us and self-driving cars
Some human aspirations are easy to measure. JFK’s promise to put a man on the moon was simple: transport a human to the Moon where he will...
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