Backer of Musical.ly, Grindr and Opera to invest $50M in self-driving startup Pony.ai
A games publisher in China is following the path of its larger peer Tencent to back a wide spectrum of startups for financial gains....
Read MoreCalifornia to allow testing of light-duty self-driving trucks
California would allow for the testing of light-duty autonomous trucks on public roads under a proposed rule announced Friday. The state’s...
Read MoreCalifornia to allow testing of light-duty self-driving trucks
California would allow for the testing of light-duty autonomous trucks on public roads under a proposed rule announced Friday. The state’s...
Read MoreAffectiva raises $26 million to bring emotional intelligence AI to car safety systems
Affectiva today announced the close of a $26 million funding round to advance its emotion and object detection AI for monitoring vehicle...
Read MoreTesla launches Model 3 leases, will keep cars for autonomous Uber-like service after term
Tesla announced today that it is launching a lease program for Model 3 and interestingly, it won’t let people buy the cars after the...
Read MoreUber’s 250 autonomous cars have driven ‘millions’ of miles and transported ‘tens of thousands’ of passengers
Hot on the heels of Lyft’s public market debut, Uber filed its S-1 today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, setting the...
Read MoreCreating autonomous vehicles that think like humans
Utopia is one of those goals often dreamed of, but rarely achieved. But in attempting to create the technology aimed at achieving...
Read MoreIowa lawmakers advance basic AV legislation in Senate
Fully autonomous vehicles still may be years — if not decades — away, but some Iowa lawmakers are hoping to take a proactive approach to...
Read MoreWhy edge computing is key to developing autonomous cars
Self-driving cars will generate huge amounts of data (potentially in the form of terabytes of data in an hour). This can hamper response...
Read MoreThe political, economic and social drivers behind autonomous and electric vehicles
Reducing accidents, making transport cleaner and economic potential are among the key drivers for a future of autonomous and electric...
Read MoreIowa lawmakers advance basic AV legislation in Senate
Fully autonomous vehicles still may be years — if not decades — away, but some Iowa lawmakers are hoping to take a proactive approach to...
Read MoreBaidu dominates Chinese autonomous driving tests
Eight tech companies in China’s capital city of Beijing have logged a total of 95,442.6 miles (153,600 kilometers) in their autonomous...
Read MoreBoeing’s cold-blooded risk calculation may tarnish trust in “self-driving” cars for years
When experts want to illustrate the potential safety of self-driving cars, they point to the remarkable safety record of modern aircraft,...
Read MoreThis futuristic autonomous bus aims to conquer snowy, icy roads — Future Blink
MUJI and Finnish autonomous driving company Sensible 4 have combined efforts to create a self-driving robot bus that can conquer all road...
Read MoreFrequency of Tesla Autopilot crashes up, human error down in Q1 2019
Tesla has updated its quarterly safety report to include fleet-wide accident data from the first quarter of 2019. The report, which is...
Read More“Autonomy” documentary provides evidence that self-driving vehicles will make our lives better
When you think of driving, do you conjure up a psychologically satisfying experience? Do you feel nostalgia for the cars of your youth,...
Read MoreManufacturers push robot trucks while claiming drivers have a future
Autonomous trucks present a giant conundrum for the trucking industry. The big truck companies have to show they are speeding development...
Read MoreLooking for hands on wheel of autonomous vehicle regulation
The auto industry is running headlong into a future where the driving experience will morph into a riding experience as autonomous...
Read MoreReuters hosts Newsmaker with Raquel Urtasun, Uber’s Chief Scientist & Head of Advanced Technology Group, Toronto
On Monday, Reuters hosted a Newsmaker event in New York with Raquel Urtasun, Uber’s Chief Scientist & Head of Advanced Technology...
Read MoreGaming will be a key differentiator in autonomous vehicles
In the last few weeks, two major automakers announced new in-car gaming initiatives: Tesla announced last week that it’s expanding...
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