Suppliers face more cost pressure as industry shifts to EVs, self-driving cars
Europe’s largest automotive suppliers are likely to see a stable market in 2019, but many are looking farther ahead to prepare for a...
Read MoreDoorDash and GM’s Cruise team up to pilot food delivery via self-driving cars
General Motors (GM) is partnering with DoorDash to enable on-demand food deliveries via driverless cars. The duo announced that a pilot...
Read MoreSegway unveils a more durable electric scooter and autonomous delivery bot
Wear and tear is a major issue in the realm of electric scooters, resulting in a short lifespan of individual scooters and poor unit...
Read MoreKia to showcase new autonomous driving technologies at CES 2019
Kia Motors is previewing a range of new technologies developed for the post-autonomous driving era at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019,...
Read MoreBaraja raises $32 million for autonomous vehicle lidar with prism-like optics
Lidar startup Baraja has raised $32 million in a series A round of funding led by Sequoia China and Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO...
Read MoreDon’t throw rocks at the Google self-driving cars
Violence is not the answer, or at least so says Arizona transportation executive Rob Antoniak. On the heels of a December investigative...
Read MoreSeveral companies to test autonomous bus technologies for public transit
Several companies have confirmed their involvement with a self-driving bus test project on East Japan Railway Company’s (JR East’s) Bus...
Read More11 big autonomous vehicle & AI stories — #NewsBonanza
Following up on EV battery and EV charging #NewsBonanza posts, here’s one on 11 autonomous vehicle & AI stories from the past couple...
Read MoreEngineer who spurred court battle over autonomous tech forms new self-driving truck biz
Anthony Levandowski, the autonomous tech engineer who was at the center of a prominent court battle between Google‘s self-driving venture...
Read MoreSamsung tops in self-driving car patents
Samsung Electronics filed the largest number of patents related to self-driving cars in Europe, data showed on Monday, far above...
Read More“I don’t want to be their real-world mistake”: People lash out at Waymo’s self-driving cars
Not everyone is a fan of self-driving cars. Chandler, Arizona, is one of the Phoenix suburbs where Alphabet-owned Waymo is testing...
Read MoreThe most amazing artificial intelligence milestones so far
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hot topic of the moment in technology, and the driving force behind most of the big technological...
Read More5 profound lessons in the mobility space in 2018
Looking back, like so many of us are wont to do at the end of the Gregorian calendar year, 2018 was a year like so many: ups, downs,...
Read More5 transportation technologies that will boom or bust in 2019
As we enter 2019, we wanted to take a moment to discuss some of the hottest transportation technologies and assess their prospects for the...
Read MoreKroger — not Uber, Google or Cruise — may be on the leading edge of driverless adoption
For all the multi-billion-dollar investments by automakers and Silicon Valley, regulatory hand-wringing around the globe, and geeky...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars keep tapping the brakes
In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless-car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for now, the...
Read MoreThe 10 worst self-driving stories of 2018
One hour after publishing my “10 Best/Worst of Automotive Tech 2018,” I realized it was too short. A “Worst 100”...
Read MoreTesla wants more employees to participate in Autopilot Hardware 3 testing
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is calling for more employees to participate in the testing of Autopilot Hardware 3, with offers of discounts on the...
Read MoreCES is apparently going to be everything to everyone when it comes to mobility
Having signed up to attend CES as a media representative, my inbox has turned into the fertile ground for some of the most vague, most...
Read MoreVehicles of the future: Autonomous, connected and data centric
The march towards autonomous vehicles continues to accelerate. While expert opinion differs on the specific timing and use cases that will...
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