Toyota Research launches $800m investment fund in move to Woven Planet
The Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development (TRI-AD) has set up a global investment fund called Woven Capital as part of...
Read MoreBaidu launches its ‘Apollo Go’ robotaxiservice 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...
Read MoreCruise’s AI enables driverless vehicles to navigate uncommon scenarios
Driverless startup Cruise today detailed a homegrown tool — the Continuous Learning Machine — that tackles on-the-road prediction tasks....
Read MoreVirginia autonomous driving firm invests $8.5 million in second facility, expects to triple workforce
A developer of self-driving vehicle technology recently announced an expansion that is expected to triple its current workforce. Torc...
Read More5GAA expects 5G-V2X basic car automation in 2024, cooperation in 2026
Wireless engineers, automakers, and governments have spent years preparing for a future where autonomous cars will communicate with each...
Read MoreNASA safety expert joins Torc Robotics self-driving truck team
BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Former NASA safety engineering executive John Marinaro has joined Torc Robotics, the...
Read MoreAmazon jobs UK: Online retail giant hiring new Cambridge team for exciting driverless delivery service
Online retail giant Amazon is set to hire a new team of engineers to help develop driverless deliveries in the UK and globally, following...
Read MoreStradVision selects BlackBerry to drive advancements across South Korean automotive industry
WATERLOO, ON and SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced...
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...
Read MoreHefei licenses DiDi to have autonomous car road tests
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- DiDiChuxing (DiDi) has been given green light to conduct road tests for autonomous cars by Hefei government, the...
Read MoreAurrigo makes breakthrough in driverless pods technology
A Coventry-based company has created 10 new jobs over the past year to meet rising demand across the world for the driverless pods it has...
Read MoreGM and Honda join forces as the post-coronavirus consolidation of the auto industry begins
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the global auto industry faced a period of unprecedented change. Many automakers weren’t dealing...
Read MoreChina’s Anhui opens 5G-covered road for testing self-driving cars
HEFEI, September 3, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — A 5G-covered road for testing self-driving cars was formally opened in Baohe District...
Read MoreTomTom launches ‘RoadCheck’, which allows automaker’s to decide which roads are safer for automated driving
Navigation and mapping company TomTom has released an innovative new product for automakers called RoadCheck. The program allows...
Read MoreDaimler Trucks and Torc Robotics celebrate one year of successful collaboration – adding testing center in New Mexico
September 2020 marks one year of Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics partnering as a team after the U.S. based automated driving technology...
Read MoreBritish Tesla driver warned not to test full self-driving on UK roads
Letting a car drive itself is not allowed in any European country currently and if you do try it, you might get in trouble....
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 MoreRyder, DHL, NFI sign with Ike to deploy autonomous trucks
Ike, a developer of autonomous trucking technology, today announced partnerships with Ryder, DHL, and NFI to deploy Level 4 autonomous...
Read MoreCavonixenables autonomous vehicles with LeddarTech’sLeddarPixell LiDAR technology
QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LeddarTech®, a leader in ADAS and AD sensor technology, is pleased to announce that...
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