Amazon can benefit from its Zoox acquisition better than anyone else
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced it’s agreed to acquire Zoox, a company building autonomous vehicles from the ground up with a...
Read MoreXpeng Motors begins deliveries of its electric P7 ‘Smart Sedan’, creates new competition for Tesla in China
Chinese electric vehicle startupXpeng Motors has started country-wide deliveries of its new flagship P7 electric sedan China. The P7,...
Read MoreWhy Elon Musk taunted Bezos for being a copycat in Amazon’s buyout of Zoox, an Autopilot-like self-driving car stalwart
It is time to blare the trumpets and roll out the red carpet for some good old-fashioned maxims that explain the recent announcement of...
Read MoreShanghai launches self-driving ride service
SHANGHAI, June 27 (Xinhua) — Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (DiDi) on Saturday launched the trial run of self-driving ride service...
Read MoreReport: Amazon to pay $1 billion+ for self-driving tech firm Zoox
Amazon is expected to announce a deal as early as today to purchase self-driving vehicle technology provider Zoox for upwards of $1...
Read MoreLyft releases new self-driving vehicle data set and launches $30,000 challenge
Following the release of the Perception Dataset and the conclusion of its 2019 object detection competition, Lyft today shared a new...
Read MoreVolvo will use Waymo’s self-driving technology to power a fleet of electric robotaxis
Waymo is the “exclusive global L4 partner” for Volvo Car Group, the two companies announced Thursday. That means that Volvo will integrate...
Read MoreSelf-driving car startup Argo AI expands in Pittsburgh
(TNS) — Argo AI is expanding its presence in the Strip District. The self-driving car startup is taking more space in the Riverfront West...
Read MoreAutonomous taxi firms can’t afford to forget about disabled passengers
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), like self-driving taxis, continue to garner media attention as industry and political stakeholders claim that...
Read MoreMighty dust storm drifting toward southeastern U.S., even self-driving cars to be flummoxed
Meteorologists are closely following some mega-sized dust plumes that are slowly drifting from the Sahara Desert and for which those murky...
Read MoreChina’s Didi aims for 1 million robotaxis on its platform by 2030
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing aims to operate more than 1 million self-driving cars through its...
Read MoreNVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz join forces in an autonomous car power play
The race for autonomous driving is on and today NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz are announcing an agreement to advance the entire fleet of the...
Read MoreTesla Autopilot discounted by $1000 ahead of ‘full self-driving’ price jump
Part of Tesla’s business model is charging consumers for software upgrades in their cars. To be clear, the hardware to make these...
Read MoreWeRide, Alibaba’s AutoNavi expand roll-out of robotaxis in Guangzhou’s ride-hailing services market
Chinese smart mobility start-up WeRide is making its fleet of autonomous robotaxis available to more ride-hailing users in Guangzhou,...
Read MoreBAIC Group, DiDi expand cooperation to high-level autonomous car R&D
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- BAIC Group and Didi Chuxing (DiDi)’s autonomous driving subsidiary signed on June 19 a framework agreement to...
Read MoreLyft is tapping its drivers to collect data for improving its self-driving vehicles and build HD maps
The robust software powering today’s self-driving vehicles is not static, its continuously evolving and being refined using AI and...
Read MoreAI ethics ‘tuning knobs’ a questionable mesh, including for self-driving cars
AI systems are being churned out at quite a rapid pace, meanwhile, there are considerable qualms about whether such AI will exhibit...
Read MoreHave some dad fun: Tell him that self-driving cars on Earth might discover intelligent life on other planets and see what he says
Dad’s know everything. Well, almost. Ask him if there is intelligent life beyond our planet. Nobody yet knows, though there are plenty of...
Read MoreBMW and Mercedes call it quits on their self-driving car partnership
After less than a year, BMW and Mercedes are ending what was supposed to be an ongoing partnership to develop automated driving...
Read MoreAnxious passengers feel self-driving cars not safe amid coronavirus
DETROIT: The latest challenge for the autonomous vehicle industry: How to assure passengers that the car they are getting in is virus...
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