Self-driving firm Pony.ai gets funding from China carmaker FAW
(Bloomberg) — Self-driving technology startup Pony.ai struck a funding agreement with carmaker FAW Group, calling it the first...
Read MoreWaymo moved its self-driving cars in San Francisco to a ‘secured location’ in case of election chaos
Waymo is pulling its autonomous vehicles out of San Francisco in anticipation of Election Day unrest, The Verge has learned. The Google...
Read MoreCutting through the self-driving hype: A realistic view of an exciting opportunity
Earlier this year, AI analyst Emerj pointed out that despite the bullish public pronouncements of the auto industry CEOs, it is “still a...
Read MoreAlibaba-backed autonomous car firm AutoX to test in four more cities
SHENZHEN/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese autonomous vehicle startup AutoX, backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said it is preparing...
Read MoreThe near-miss quandary is unavoidably messy for self-driving cars
Reckless and fleckless drivers. I’m sure you experience their antics and angst-producing driving activities all the time....
Read MoreWaymo and other self-driving car companies readying real-world driverless transportation
The driverless taxi era has finally arrived, in parts of Arizona, at least. Two weeks after Alphabet-owned Waymo started its driverless...
Read MoreRoborace crash showcases how difficult autonomous driving is
One of the major points to defend motorsports is how it supposedly helps develop new tech for cars. If you think about Roborace, that’s...
Read MoreWaymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes and 29...
Read MoreTesla has increased the price of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ option to $10,000
Tesla has made good on founder and CEO Elon Musk’s promise to boost the price of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software upgrade option,...
Read MoreDaylight Savings Time could miraculously be saved by self-driving cars
Spring forward, fall back. Simple enough. That’s what is supposed to happen due to our acceptance of abiding by Daylight Savings Time...
Read MoreLexus and TED reimagine the autonomous vehicle of the future
PLANO, Texas, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As the world builds toward autonomous driving, Lexus continues to keep the focus on what...
Read MoreChina’s Ministry of Transport supports legal trials for autonomous car application
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- China will encourage local authorities of cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Hebei to launch pilot projects focusing on...
Read MoreMercedes targets evolution rather than revolution in self-driving car push
(Reuters) — As Tesla touts the cutting-edge nature of its new Full Self Driving software, rival Mercedes-Benz says it has developed a...
Read MoreThe long road to automated cars
Sergey Brin knows a little about ground-breaking technology. But when the Google co-founder said in 2012 that we could ‘count on one hand’...
Read MoreVia and Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture to offer shared robotaxi rides next year
Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture, and on-demand shuttle startup Via plan to launch a shared robotaxi service for the public in a...
Read MoreJ.D. Power survey finds drastic changes to commuting habits had minimal effect on sentiment in US about BEVs & self-driving
Many vehicle owners in North America are driving fewer miles in the era of COVID-19, but their opinions of future mobility technology...
Read MoreFord doubles down on testing autonomous cars in Miami-Dade
After landing in Miami-Dade in 2018 with a fleet of self-driving cars, Ford announced Oct. 26 that it plans to broaden its presence in the...
Read MoreMotional and Lyft resume self-driving service in Las Vegas
Motional (a mobility JV between Hyundai and Aptiv) and Lyft have announced the resumption of their self-driving mobility service in Las...
Read MoreXPengto release Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP) in Q1 2021
XPeng plans Level 5 autonomous driving technology by 2025. XPeng Motors held its Tech Day this past Saturday and laid out the...
Read MoreAutonomous delivery vehicles deployed in Chinese cities amid the Covid-19 pandemic
BEIJING – For the past three months, robots have been making parcel deliveries in Changshu. The autonomous delivery vehicles...
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