Why Alphabet just led a $185 million investment round in a trucking startup
Alphabet’s investment arm, CapitalG, just announced a $185 million investment in Convoy, a technology-enabled trucking network....
Read MoreDetroit gets share of $5.25M to give residents voice in self-driving
Detroit will share in a $5.25 million project to help cities tap into the self-driving car revolution. The Motor City, along with Long...
Read MoreZF plans $14 billion autonomous vehicle push, concept van
German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen said it is developing its own self-driving vehicle technology in the latest sign of how technology...
Read MoreUber to invest over $150 million in Toronto driverless car hub
Uber Technologies Inc. said it will spend more than $150 million in Toronto to support driverless car research....
Read MoreRenesas in US$6.7 bln deal for IDT to boost chips for self-driving cars
Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp said it had agreed to buy Integrated Device Technology Inc (IDT) for US$6.7 billion, its second...
Read MoreIn Tesla’s shadow, China’s NIO prices IPO at low end of target: source
Chinese electric vehicle start-up NIO Inc priced at the bottom of its targeted price range in its U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday,...
Read MoreParkWhiz raises $20 million to help ready parking facilities for driverless cars
Chicago-based ParkWhiz announced Friday that it has raised $20 million in new venture capital and plans to use the investment to fund its...
Read MoreDenso leads $65 million Series C funding round in ThinCI to make autonomous cars a reality
DENSO Corporation, a $48.1 billion company and one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers of technology and components, continues to...
Read MoreFiat Chrysler spending $30M on self-driving test facility at Chelsea
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is adding more muscle to its self-driving vehicle testing efforts. The company will spend more than $30 million...
Read MoreTesla decreases the price of Enhanced Autopilot after delivery temporarily, still hasn’t fixed Full Self-Driving price
It is an interesting time for Tesla Autopilot and its different option packages ahead of upcoming updates. Tesla is now temporarily...
Read MoreVW acquires minority stake in autonomous-drive software company
Volkswagen Group has acquired a minority stake in eastern German software startup FDTech, in a bid to strengthen its expertise in...
Read MoreWaymo success spells big upside for Alphabet, Morgan Stanley says in street-high forecast
The accelerating success of Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, spells big upside for stakeholders, according to Morgan...
Read More$3 billion deal could turn Manassas into key supplier for self-driving car components
Micron, a publicly traded semiconductor manufacturer based in Boise, Idaho, announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $3 billion to...
Read MoreZF invests in future engineers with expanded FIRST presence
The tens of billions of dollars being spent to develop self-driving vehicles has exacerbated a frustrating problem in the auto industry:...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle vision program receives big investment
FLIR Systems, who specialize in thermal imaging, have made a strategic investment in CVEDIA, a Singapore-based machine learning and AI...
Read MoreToyota will reportedly invest $500 million in Uber for self-driving car research
Toyota will invest $500 million in Uber in a deal that values the ride-hail giant at $72 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As...
Read MorePony.ai racing to top of Chinese self-driving startups for funds raised
China is a market leader in terms of electric cars, but that’s just one of the emerging trends in the automotive world. Autonomous...
Read MoreCarmera, the mapping startup for autonomous vehicles, raises $20 million
Autonomous vehicles need more than a brain to operate safely in a world filled with obstacles. They need maps. Or more specifically,...
Read MoreStealthy self-driving startup Ghost Locomotion raises $15 million, filings show
The SF Bay Area is home to a lot of self-driving car initiatives. Some startups, like Zoox, are trying “to make the whole widget” by...
Read MoreHyundai Mobis bets big on AI-based camera
Hyundai Mobis recently invested 8 billion won ($7.14 million) in a local startup named StradVision to develop high-tech cameras for safer...
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