DENSO invests nearly $100 million in startups to advance mobility
DENSO, the world’s second largest mobility supplier, has invested nearly $100 million over a four-year period in startup companies around...
Read MoreAudi to spend nearly $16 billion on self-driving car tech, electrification through 2023
Audi, the German luxury automaker under VW Group, said Tuesday it will invest €14 billion ($15.95 billion) over the next five years on...
Read MoreDenso acquires stake in Infineon
According to Infineon, the two companies have been working together for a long time and now want to strengthen their cooperation....
Read MoreWest Midlands driverless cars project wins £19m boost
More roads in the West Midlands will be used to test driverless cars as part of a £19m grant. The money has come from the...
Read MoreAEye raises $40M to build autonomous car sensor that sees better than humans
AEye is a computer vision start-up that believes everyone else is doing solid-state LiDar wrong. Current LiDar systems are mechanical,...
Read MoreVolkswagen to spend €44 bln by 2023 to develop electric, self-driving vehicles
The Volkswagen Group said that it will spend almost 44 billion euros on e-mobility, autonomous driving, new mobility services and...
Read MoreAdaSky raises $20 million to build far-infrared sensor for autonomous cars
In October 2017, two-year-old Israeli startup AdaSky emerged from stealth with what it claimed was the first far-infrared (FIR) thermal...
Read MoreApex.AI raises $15.5 million for autonomous-vehicle software
Apex.AI is emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never fail. Founded...
Read MoreRidecell expands funding round for autonomous ride-hailing platform to $60 million
Car-sharing, ride-sharing, and ride-hailing companies have something in common: They rely on fairly sophisticated backends to keep fleets...
Read MoreHyundai invests in startup to bring deep learning technology to autonomous cars
Aiming to bring deep learning (DL) technology to autonomous cars, Hyundai Center for Robotic-Augmented Design in Living Experience...
Read MoreDeepMap, a maker of HD maps for self-driving, raised at least $60M at a $450M valuation
As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is...
Read MoreChinese self-driving car startup raises $1 billion in funding
Momenta, a Chinese-based automotive startup, is the latest in a series of car manufacturers to raise significant amounts of funding in an...
Read MoreZF takes 35 percent stake in autonomous driving specialist ASAP
Car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen said on Friday it acquired a 35 percent stake in ASAP, a Germany-based maker of software and testing...
Read MoreCognata raises $18.5 million to grow its autonomous vehicle simulation platform
Alphabet’s self-driving technology arm Waymo recently announced that it has now clocked 10 million self-driven miles on public roads —...
Read MoreToledo, Ohio, wins $1.8M grant to deploy driverless bus downtown
Toledo, Ohio, is getting in on the autonomous vehicle movement, with plans for a driverless bus loop around its downtown....
Read More$24 million raised to build an open source network for autonomous vehicles
DAV Foundation has raised $24 million in fundraising to develop an open source platform for self-driving vehicles, on the ground, in the...
Read MoreTesla shares slow as peers push forward their own self-driving cars
The market euphoria triggered Monday by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk’s weekend settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission is...
Read MoreHonda putting $2.75 billion into G.M.’s self-driving venture
In the race to develop self-driving cars, General Motors has picked up another hefty ally. Honda, the Japanese automaker, has agreed to...
Read MoreAeva raises $45 million for autonomous car sensors that can measure velocity
Myriad sensors go into making autonomous cars tick. Drive.ai‘s fleet of Nissan NV200 vans pack lidar (laser-based sensors that measure the...
Read MoreWith driverless cars investors don’t care if you’re first
In the race to build safe and affordable driverless vehicles, being first to deliver isn’t fetching a premium from investors....
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