Pages Navigation Menu

News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

Mitsubishi Corporation: smart-city driverless-vehicle pilot project to enhance mobility and healthcare in Kamakura & Fujisawa areas

Posted on Nov 25, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has been in talks with Kamakura City’s municipal government about developing its urban core and surrounding...

Read More

Baidu kicks off its robotaxi business, after getting the OK to charge fees in Beijing

Posted on Nov 24, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

BEIJING — Baidu can start collecting robotaxi fares in a part of Beijing from Thursday, the Chinese tech giant told CNBC this week,...

Read More

Yandex self-driving cars rely on in-house sensor to see the road

Posted on Nov 23, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

The self-driving company founded by Russian technology giant Yandex NV said Tuesday its new generation of vehicles will rely on sensors...

Read More

Tesla releases new Full Self-Driving Beta 10.5 update with interesting new features

Posted on Nov 22, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Tesla is currently slowly rolling out what it is calling Full Self-Driving Beta (FSD Beta), which is an early version of its self-driving...

Read More

Autonomous driving system developer MAXIEYE secures B round of financing worth $47 million

Posted on Nov 19, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

On Thursday, MAXIEYE, the autonomous driving technology and service provider, announced that the company had completed a B round of...

Read More

UPS adds Waymo as second partner to test autonomous big rigs

Posted on Nov 17, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

United Parcel Service Inc. is adding Waymo, the autonomous vehicle unit owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc., as a second partner to test...

Read More

Qualcomm, diversifying from mobile phones, to supply chips for BMW self-driving cars

Posted on Nov 16, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Nov 16 (Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) on Tuesday said that German automaker BMW (BMWG.DE) will use its chips in its next...

Read More

Hyundai Mobis to assist driving in a narrow street with its new automated urban driving system

Posted on Nov 15, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

SEOUL, South Korea , Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Drivers no longer have to worry about passing a narrow street or facing a car...

Read More

North Carolina legalizes driverless delivery vehicles

Posted on Nov 12, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

(TNS) — North Carolinians may someday have pizzas or groceries delivered to their homes or businesses by driverless vehicles, under a bill...

Read More

Chinese self-driving startup QCraft enters into partnership with Nvidia, aiming to commercialize and mass produce Level 4 robobuses and robotaxis

Posted on Nov 11, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

QCraft, a Chinese startup co-founded by four former engineers of Google’s driverless car project Waymo, announced on Wednesday that the...

Read More

Applied Intuition raises $175 million for automotive software tools

Posted on Nov 11, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Applied Intuition Inc., which makes software development tools for automotive engineers, has raised $175 million as automakers pile more...

Read More

Nvidia’s next-generation self-driving toolkit is available for 2024 vehicle models

Posted on Nov 9, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Automakers, suppliers and startups aiming to roll out automated driving features, robotaxis and self-driving trucks are a little closer to...

Read More

Self-Driving software developer Aurora goes public

Posted on Nov 8, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Self-driving technology company Aurora announced it completed its business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, a special...

Read More

Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M

Posted on Nov 5, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

In the wake of a $300 million investment from General Motors in September, Momenta, an autonomous driving solution provider from China,...

Read More

U.S. autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600 million for $8.6 billion valuation

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous delivery vehicle maker Nuro raised $600 million in its latest funding round, the Silicon Valley-based startup said on Tuesday,...

Read More

Zoox CEO overhauling Amazon’s robotaxi unit ahead of Las Vegas commercial launch

Posted on Nov 1, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Zoox, the Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving company purchased by Amazon last year, is undergoing a review and reorganization of...

Read More

UAEU and Ericsson sign MoU at GITEX GLOBAL to develop and test 5G autonomous driving use cases

Posted on Oct 31, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), the oldest university in the UAE, and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have announced the signing of a...

Read More

Self-driving startup Aurora taps Pixar veterans to make a more realistic virtual world for testing

Posted on Oct 28, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Aurora, the autonomous vehicle startup scheduled to make its debut on Nasdaq next week, is turning to a team of Pixar veterans to help...

Read More

WeRide releases next-generation small, lightweight sensor suite, designed for mass production of level 4 AD vehicles

Posted on Oct 27, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

WeRide, a world leading L4 autonomous driving company, released WeRide Sensor Suite 4.0 (Suite 4.0), marking another key step towards the...

Read More

Chinese self-driving startup QCraft launches the country’s first 5G-based ride-share driverless bus, blurring the line between robobuses and robotaxis

Posted on Oct 26, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

At the 2021 World Internet of Things Expo held in the eastern city of Wuxi between October 23 and October 25, Chinese autonomous driving...

Read More

Would you like to receive regular updates on new links?

Your Email