Arlington gets $1.7M for Via Rideshare to provide free rides for UTA, integrate autonomous vehicles
The City of Arlington recently received an almost $1.7M Integrated Mobility Innovation grant from the Federal Transit Administration to...
Read MoreHelm.ai raises $13M on its unsupervised learning approach to driverless car AI
Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity to remove some of the bottlenecks in the development of autonomous...
Read MoreSoftBank nears deal to invest in Didi’s self-driving unit: The Information
(Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp is close to finalizing a deal to lead a $300 million investment in the autonomous driving unit of...
Read MoreLiDAR start-up Blickfeld closes Series A with participation of Continental and Wachstumsfonds Bayern
Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of...
Read MoreHow to lease an autonomous delivery van
Something happened on the way to robotaxis taking over the world. The timeline to transport people without a human driver, particularly...
Read MoreUSDOT announces $20.3 million grant to improve transport with innovation
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced approximately $20.3 million in grant...
Read MoreWaymo funding shows long road to AVs
There can be no doubt: The development of autonomous vehicles is going to require more — way more — time and money than people thought...
Read MoreNeolix raises $29 million to mass-produce autonomous delivery shuttles
Neolix Technologies, a self-driving logistics startup based primarily in Beijing, today confirmed that it closed a roughly RMB 200 million...
Read MoreA look at Waymo’s mega $2.25 billion funding
Since 2009, Alphabet has funded Waymo, which is focused on developing autonomous vehicles. But this week there was a big change in the...
Read MoreSiLC Technologies raises $12m in seed funding to deliver long-range, single-chip LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, machine vision, and augmented reality
MONROVIA, Calif., March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — SiLC Technologies, Inc., (SiLC), the leading developer of integrated single-chip FMCW...
Read MoreCUTRIC Partners launch the first research group on smart and autonomous vehicles
WINDSOR, ON, March 5, 2020 /CNW/ – The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is excited to announce...
Read MoreGeneral Motors to spend $20 billion through 2025 on new electric, autonomous vehicles
DETROIT – General Motors will spend more than $20 billion through 2025 on its next generation of all-electric and autonomous vehicles as...
Read MoreFive, the self-driving startup, raises $41M and pivots into B2B, away from building its own fleet
We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the complexity of getting to that...
Read MoreChina’s Geely invests $326 million to build satellites for autonomous cars
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said on Tuesday it was investing 2.27 billion yuan ($326 million) in a new...
Read MoreWaymo has a first-to-market advantage in autonomous ride services
I’ve been writing articles about autonomous vehicles on Seeking Alpha for almost two years, and I continue to believe that 2021 will...
Read MoreWaymo raises $2.25 billion to scale up autonomous vehicles operations
Waymo, Google parent company Alphabet’s autonomous vehicles division, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors. It...
Read MoreZoox scouts for funding ahead of self-driving taxi debut
Zoox is in “advanced discussions with several strategic partners and corporate investors” for its next round of funding, CEO...
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE-Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai raises $500 mln in Toyota-led funding: sources
HONG KONG/BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Autonomous driving firm Pony.ai has raised around $500 million in its latest funding round,...
Read MoreRussian driverless tech company Cognitive Pilot sets sights on IPO
MOSCOW: Russian technology start-up Cognitive Pilot, which makes components for driverless vehicles, is considering an initial public...
Read MoreDo Progressive and Geico need to think like hurricane insurers when it comes to self-driving cars?
The current state of the $200 billion automobile insurance industry consists predominantly of sales to the consumer, either directly or...
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