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Automotive simulation platform Morai secures $20.8M Series B to expand its global footprint

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Morai, which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving...

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Audi and Aptiv invest $285 million in ‘orchestral director’ for self-driving car data

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

An automotive software firm little known outside the industry has raised $285 million in fresh funds to help realize carmakers’ ambitions...

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Annotell raises $24M for tech that tests autonomous vehicle perception systems to improve how they work

Posted on Feb 3, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

As the automotive industry inches slowly ahead on the road to self-driving vehicles, we’re seeing the emergence of startups aiming to fill...

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TuSimple automates nation’s first trucking lane in Arizona

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Union Pacific Railroad will become the first customer to move freight on TuSimple’s fully-automated trucking route between the...

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Waymo can keep some driverless data secret for another 22 days

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Waymo had small win Monday in its fight to keep certain details about its autonomous vehicle operations from public view. The...

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Cruise, loaded with another $1.35B from SoftBank, opens up driverless ride-hailing to the public

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps toward commercialization...

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Waymo sues California DMV to keep driverless crash data under wraps

Posted on Jan 28, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Waymo filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles to keep driverless car crash data from being made public. The...

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U.S. House panel to hold hearing on autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 28, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – A U.S. House panel will hold a hearing next week on self-driving vehicles, even as a push in Congress...

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Starship Technologies picks up €50M from the EU’s investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots

Posted on Jan 25, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like, boxy delivery...

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Driverless bus test announced in downtown Stavanger, Norway

Posted on Jan 21, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Would you get on a full-size driverless bus in city traffic? Public transit users in Stavanger, Norway, will soon get the chance to do...

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Mercedes-Benz acquires stake in lidar maker Luminar, will use its sensors for future autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jan 20, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Mercedes-Benz announced it will integrate Luminar’s lidar sensors into future production vehicles to enable autonomous driving...

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Pittsburgh raises concern over self-driving vehicle bill

Posted on Jan 20, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

(TNS) — A bill touted to help companies developing self-driving cars test the vehicles in Pennsylvania without an emergency driver...

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Mitsubishi partners with Cartken to break into the robotic delivery world

Posted on Jan 20, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Mitsubishi Electric, the automaker’s electronics equipment manufacturing company, is starting a pilot program to explore the value of...

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Westwell unveils world’s first intelligent battery-swap driverless commercial vehicle, Q-Truck

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Westwell held a media conference in Shanghai on January 15, announcing the mass production of the world’s first intelligent battery-swap...

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BlackBerry QNX, China’s Black Sesame Technologies to build autonomous driving platform

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Beijing (Gasgoo)- China’s chip supplier Black Sesame Technologies announced that it had joined hands with BlackBerry QNX to build an...

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Autonomous driving start-up Wayve bags $200 million from Microsoft, Virgin and Baillie Gifford

Posted on Jan 17, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

LONDON — U.K. autonomous driving start-up Wayve has been backed by a host of big name investors including Microsoft, Virgin and Baillie...

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J.B. Hunt will be Waymo’s first self-driving freight customer

Posted on Jan 14, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Waymo Via, the autonomous vehicle company’s trucking and cargo transportation unit, is expanding its existing partnership with logistics...

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Nuro’s newest autonomous delivery bot is designed for the masses

Posted on Jan 13, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Nuro showed off Wednesday one of the final pieces of its commercial autonomous delivery strategy. The startup, which has raised more than...

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Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

Posted on Jan 13, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Local Motors, the company that crowdsourced and built the Olli autonomous shuttle as well as the Rally Fighter, will be shutting down...

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Magna acquires tech, hires engineers of autonomous vehicle startup Optimus Ride

Posted on Jan 11, 2022 in Editor’s Picks

Magna has acquired the technology, IP and assets of Optimus Ride, a startup based in Boston that was trying to commercialize electric...

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