Tesla files patent for sourcing self-driving training data from its fleet
Tesla has filed a patent on how to source training data from its large fleet of customer vehicles in order to train its self-driving...
Read MoreMIT CSAIL’s VISTA autonomous vehicles simulator transfers skills learned to the real world
In a recent study, researchers hailing from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Toyota Research...
Read MoreRivian shuts down all facilities over COVID-19 pandemic concerns
Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle startup that is backed by Amazon and Ford, is shutting down all of its facilities due to the spread of...
Read MoreAUTOCRYPT officially joins 5GAA (5G Automotive Association) as an ITS security expert
SEOUL, South Korea, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AUTOCRYPT, South Korea’s pioneer in security operations for C-ITS highways,...
Read MoreBaidu to build self-driving test facility in Chongqing as the Chinese city pushes ahead with smart city infrastructure
China’s Chongqing city government has tapped search giant Baidu to build a testing ground for autonomous vehicles, as Chinese cities race...
Read MoreDespite setbacks, coronavirus could hasten the adoption of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots
This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread 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 MoreWaymo suspends all self-driving services in light of coronavirus pandemic
Waymo has extended the partial suspension of its autonomous vehicle service pilots to include fully driverless vehicle testing, the...
Read MoreNTSB criticizes Tesla Autopilot design in Model 3 crash report
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published its final report on the fatal 2019 crash that involved a collision between a...
Read MoreWaymo expands autonomous driving data set and launches $110,000 challenge
In August 2019, Wamyo released the Waymo Open Dataset, which Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claimed at the time was the...
Read MoreSelf-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...
Read MoreFord releases a data set to accelerate autonomous car development
This week, Ford quietly released a corpus — the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset — containing data collected from its fleet of autonomous...
Read MoreCoronavirus shows there’s still no such thing as a totally human-free self-driving car
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make human drivers obsolete. But the coronavirus pandemic is exposing how a technology designed to be...
Read MoreAdvances in sensor cleaning pave the way for autonomous driving
Sensor systems provide pivotal environmental data to smart cars, allowing for automated and autonomous functionality. They can tell a...
Read MoreToyota partners with China’s Momenta on high definition maps for autonomous cars
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp has partnered with Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta to...
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 MoreFederal regulators move to make room in safety standards for driver-less cars
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Tuesday moved to make changes in some safety standards to help pave the way for driver-less vehicles....
Read MoreReinventing mobility and manufacturing at once: Local Motors
Some of the most consequential technological and economic advances happen where two innovation trends intersect. Local Motors, a company...
Read MoreChinese EV startupXPeng Motors granted permit to test its new P7 sedan on roads in the U.S.
Chinese electric vehicle startupXpeng Motors is one of a new group of electric vehicle startups looking to follow Tesla’s lead by...
Read MoreWaymo pausing some robotaxi service after safety drivers raise coronavirus concerns
Waymo is temporarily shutting down some of its robotaxi services in Arizona, just days after The Verge reported that its contracted safety...
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