Self-driving car bill reintroduced in House minus biggest backer
Legislation that would allow carmakers to sell as many as 100,000 self-driving vehicles per year in the U.S. is being reintroduced in the...
Read MoreBackup driver in fatal Arizona Uber self-driving car crash charged with negligent homicide
PHOENIX — The backup Uber driver involved in the first self-driving vehicle fatality has been charged with negligent homicide for being...
Read MoreAutonomous bus makes debut in China’s Chongqing
CHONGQING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — A medium-sized bus equipped with autonomous driving technologies made its debut Thursday in Chongqing...
Read MoreYandex self driving group gets $150 million, partners with Uber to bring autonomous vehicles to U.S.
On paper, a lot is happening with Yandex’s self-driving vehicles. Yandex NV YNDX -1.2%, a Russian multinational company that specializes...
Read MoreBaidu launches its ‘Apollo Go’ robotaxi service in China’s capital city of Beijing
Three weeks after launching its “Apollo Go” robotaxi service in the Chinese city of Cangzhou, China’s tech giant Baidu Inc. announced that...
Read MoreU.S. NHTSA’s autonomous vehicle test tracking tool is light on data
In June, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for...
Read MoreMotional releases expanded self-driving data set with over 1.4 billion annotated lidar points
Roughly a year ago, Scale and NuTonomy released a driverless data set called NuScenes that they claimed at the time surpassed corpora like...
Read MoreLidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger
Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging...
Read MoreWaymo self-driving trucks hit the road in Texas
Texas will see more of Waymo in the months and years to come. On Tuesday, Alphabet’s self-driving car division said it’s officially ready...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars could be allowed on UK motorways next year
Motorists could be allowed to let their cars drive themselves on motorways, using automated technology, as early as next year, under...
Read MoreAutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai, competing with Didi’s pilot program
Autonomous vehicle startupAutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi,...
Read MoreHyundai’s autonomous vehicle project with Aptiv will now be called Motional
Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle joint venture with Aptiv has a new name: Motional. The company, which plans to test fully driverless vehicles...
Read MoreStarting with Michigan, Sidewalk Infrastructure is looking to build roads specifically for autonomous cars
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, which spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to fund and develop the next generation of infrastructure,...
Read MoreYandex begins testing self-driving cars in Michigan
Moscow-based tech giant Yandex today announced it has expanded testing of its self-driving cars to Michigan. A fleet of Yandex’s...
Read MoreSelf-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...
Read MoreFormer Ford president joins self-driving radar startup’s board
(Bloomberg) — Joe Hinrichs, a former top executive at Ford Motor Co. who left the company earlier this year, is making a tentative return...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle startupAutoX lands driverless testing permit in California
AutoX, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Alibaba, has been granted a permit in California to begin driverless testing on public...
Read MoreTuSimple finds a partner to help it build a fleet of robot semi trucks
US truck maker Navistar is joining forces with TuSimple, a leading autonomous vehicle startup, to build a self-driving semi truck that can...
Read MoreMobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany
Mobileye, Intel’s driverless vehicle R&D division, today announced that German certification body TÜV Süd awarded it a recommendation...
Read MoreWaymo targets southwest freight corridor for autonomous truck tests
As it moves forward with autonomous truck development, Waymo plans to focus its 2020 testing efforts on the southwest shipping corridor...
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