Honda putting $2.75 billion into G.M.’s self-driving venture
In the race to develop self-driving cars, General Motors has picked up another hefty ally. Honda, the Japanese automaker, has agreed to...
Read MoreChina has put the automotive renaissance into hyper drive
A tri-fold automotive renaissance, led by technology, has been playing out over the past few years. Electric vehicles finally have been...
Read MoreWaymo’s self-driving car crashed because its human driver fell asleep at the wheel
In June, one of Waymo’s self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans crashed on the freeway outside of the company’s office in Mountain View,...
Read MoreTuSimple building safest self-driving truck with 1,000 meter perception range
TuSimple, a global autonomous truck technology leader, publicly demonstrated its Level 4 fully autonomous driving solution – the first of...
Read MoreWhile we wait for automation, NXP announces new automotive radar systems
Automakers have been installing radar sensors in vehicles for more than two decades to enable adaptive cruise control and blindspot...
Read MoreEngineer spends $6,000 invalidating Waymo’s lidar patents
An engineer with no connection to the self-driving industry has spent $6,000 of his own money to stop Alphabet’s self-driving car...
Read MoreUK to have driverless cars on its roads in the coming 3-4 years, says minister
Britain will see truly driverless cars on its roads in three to four years but there will still be a role for diesel cars for many years,...
Read MoreSafe, efficient self-driving cars could block walkable, livable communities
Almost exactly a decade ago, I was cycling in a bike lane when a car hit me from behind. Luckily, I suffered only a couple bruised ribs...
Read MoreStatus Transportation prepares for a world with autonomous commercial transportation
Status Transportation Corp., a leading ground freight and cargo services company for Owner Operators, is already planning for the...
Read MoreA self-driving truck startup keeps it simple, stupid
IF ANYTHING HAS changed between today and the halcyon days of 2016, it’s that those building and marketing self-driving tech are now less...
Read MoreRenault introduces electric CUV city car & previews new mobility products in Paris
On the first day of this year’s Paris Motor Show, Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn unveiled the K-ZE, a battery electric cute ute designed in...
Read MoreHow the Trump administration plans to regulate autonomous vehicles and drones
What does the U.S. Secretary of Transportation think about self-driving cars? Elaine Chao, speaking at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women...
Read MoreFord shares proposed standard for autonomous cars to signal intentions
Autonomous-car engineers are working hard to make sure that their self-driving vehicles avoid other road users. The next step is to ease...
Read MoreSpecial report: 5G and the autonomous vehicle
5G offers connectivity speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G, presenting the automotive industry with exciting possibilities for vehicle...
Read MoreHave autonomous vehicles hit a roadblock?
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey recently announced a new multimillion-dollar public-private research partnership in the pursuit of fully...
Read MoreChildren in autonomous vehicles
Safe Kids Worldwide, October 1, 2018 The Blue Ribbon Panel on Children in Autonomous Vehicles is calling on developers of autonomous...
Read MoreEx-Apple engineers unveil a next-generation sensor for self-driving cars
Aeva, a Mountain View, California-based startup founded only just last year, has built what its two-cofounders claim is a next-generation...
Read MoreAutomated buses: Fantasy or reality?
American Public Transportation Association, October 2018 Transit Experiencing Multiple Disruptions Technology (AVs, EVs, apps) Business...
Read MoreAeva raises $45 million for autonomous car sensors that can measure velocity
Myriad sensors go into making autonomous cars tick. Drive.ai‘s fleet of Nissan NV200 vans pack lidar (laser-based sensors that measure the...
Read MoreAutonomous shuttle startup May Mobility expands to a third U.S. city
May Mobility launched its first low-speed autonomous shuttle service in Detroit this summer. By March, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based...
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