Self-driving car companies find that going it alone is difficult
Consolidation is sweeping through the self-driving cars sector like the last dance at a high school disco — everyone seems to be grabbing...
Read MoreHow safe are robotaxis? BMW, Intel, Aptiv (and 8 others) just laid out a safety blueprint
Self-driving vehicles are often trumpeted as the answer to the millions of injuries and deaths that occur each year on the world’s...
Read MoreThe Nomad Wireless Charger Adds Premium Features To Its Tesla Model 3 Charger
One of the biggest design gaps in the interior of the Tesla Model 3 is the lack of integrated wireless phone charging. The folks over at...
Read MoreDriverless Car Add-On Kits Are Dead Ends And By Degrees Sunk Drive.AI
A relatively smallish company named Drive.AI that had embarked upon trying to develop self-driving driverless car tech has closed its...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars face two important challenges, says World Economic Forum executive
Automakers and technology companies have invested billions into researching autonomous vehicles.But the industry has two big challenges it...
Read MoreSuppliers need product technology strategy
Like it or not, the automotive industry’s shift to electrification is in full swing. Tesla has deservedly gotten the lion’s...
Read MoreBaidu releases Apollo 5.0 with upgrades for ‘complex’ road scenarios
Beijing-based Baidu last week quietly released the latest version of Apollo, its open source full-stack software solution for driverless...
Read MoreHow Robots May Help Automakers Cope With EV Adoption Uncertainty
The automotive industry today finds itself in a no man’s land of risk and reward and contradicting trends. While the number of electric...
Read MoreGM faces hurdles with launch of robotaxi fleet
Halfway through 2019, General Motors is running short on time to meet its goal of launching a large-scale fleet of robotaxis by the end of...
Read MoreGet Ready For Autonomous Cars To Bring Back Bygone Tradition Of A Sunday Drive
When I was a kid, my parents only had one car for the family and my father used our motorized workhorse to drive to work each day. This...
Read MoreStartups at the speed of light: Lidar CEOs put their industry in perspective
As autonomous cars and robots loom over the landscapes of cities and jobs alike, the technologies that empower them are forming...
Read MoreThe 2019 Chevy Silverado hints at future autonomous trucks in one specific way
Someday, a truck will be more like a rolling, portable workshop than something you actually drive. In many ways, trucks are already...
Read MoreRecord Layoffs Loom In Shadow Of Industry Push For Electrification And Self-Driving
Automakers are in a bind. Global car sales are slowing faster than they are able to reinvent themselves as transportation service...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars are a chance to design a new part of our culture
Driverless cars aren’t just a new kind of car. They’re teachable machines that come with new ownership models and rules. And we don’t yet...
Read MoreCruise is testing emergency vehicle detection for autonomous cars
Cruise is testing computer vision and sound detection AI to help autonomous cars respond to passing emergency vehicles, a company...
Read MoreArgo AI and Waymo release automated driving data sets
Until recently, the data collected by companies developing automated driving systems was a closely guarded secret. Automated vehicles...
Read MoreFormer Anki engineers will steer Waymo’s self-driving trucks effort
More than a dozen engineers, who lost their jobs after consumer robotics startup Anki shut down in April, have found a new home. The 13...
Read MoreHow self-driving cars will cope with unruly riders
We’ve all had occasions to rate our rideshare drivers, typically on a scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best), but did you also know that the...
Read MoreWaymo makes autonomous vehicles available to Lyft riders
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google-parent Alphabet which is developing autonomous vehicles and related services, has officially expanded its...
Read MoreApple’s latest acquisition shows self-driving cars are in the doldrums of disappointment
Apple’s recent acquisition of autonomous vehicle startup Drive.ai throws a monkey wrench into the theory that it had backed away from an...
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