Alphabet’s Waymo valuation cut 40% by Morgan Stanley to $105 billion amid challenges in self-driving car market
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car division, is taking longer than expected to develop a commercialized product, leading analysts at...
Read MoreRenesas & StradVision collaborate on a deep-learning smart camera for autonomous vehicles
Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor and SoC products, together with vision processing...
Read MoreLosing control is the biggest fear for autonomous car users, reveals study
In a study conducted by Audi, it has been revealed that 70 per cent people among 21,000 participants see losing control of the car is...
Read MoreWhat happens when self-driving cars kill people?
In recent years autonomous vehicles have moved from a fanciful science fiction topic to actual reality, with real cars driving on real...
Read MoreSelf-driving startup Embark raises $70 million, opens freight transfer hubs for robot big rigs
Embark Trucks, a self-driving tech firm created by two twenty-something Canadian computer scientists, just landed $70 million in new...
Read MorePennsylvania groups partner to test autonomous vehicles
In the first project of its kind in the U.S., the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation received an $8.4 million grant last week from...
Read MoreFord’s autonomous vehicles are coming to Austin, Texas
Ford is bringing its autonomous vehicles to Austin, Texas, the company announced on Wednesday. Ford will start by mapping the streets of...
Read MoreIs the Scania AXL autonomous truck a self-driving workhorse of the future?
For over 100 years, automobiles have housed human passengers and the stuff they decided to take with them. Yet, the budding self-driving...
Read MoreAudi study finds high interest in self-driving cars, but far from a blanket statement
While autonomous cars and self-driving technology aren’t ready to roll in the near future, such technology is bound to become...
Read MoreBaidu snags autonomous car licenses, bringing China closer to driverless future
The capital of central China’s Hubei province granted licenses for companies to test self-driving vehicles, boosting robocar-related...
Read MoreA European university is testing 5G for self-driving vehicles
The University of Warwick, in collaboration with National Instruments (NI), has installed and will be testing Europe’s first...
Read MoreHyundai to set up $4 billion driverless car venture
Hyundai Motor Group will spend $1.6 billion to develop autonomous vehicles with Aptiv Plc, marking one of the biggest investments yet by a...
Read MoreRobotaxis as the norm are still ‘far away’
If there’s a voice of reason in the autonomous vehicle industry, Bryan Salesky is it. One might think the CEO of Argo AI would have...
Read MoreDrivers’ jobs post-autonomy, ‘disruption in chunks’: Panel talks self-driving trucks
Speaking earlier this month at the FTR Transportation Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, representatives from three autonomous truck...
Read MoreZoox CEO Aicha Evans to talk self-driving cars at Disrupt SF 2019
Aicha Evans, CEO of self-driving startup Zoox, is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in just two short weeks. Evans came on...
Read MoreRide-sharing alone scares some just as much as taking a self-driving car, survey finds
Would you rather take an Uber ride home alone late at night or have a self-driving taxi service come pick you up with no one at the front...
Read MoreAutonomous driving could explode soon — these chipmakers could cash in
The semiconductor industry is huge, and the promising outlook for autonomous driving is a potentially big tailwind for some chip makers....
Read MoreFAW readies electric SUV offering Level 4 autonomous driving
China FAW Group Corp. plans to launch sales of a full-electric SUV capable of Level 4 “hands off” autonomous driving next year...
Read MoreOxbotica unveils the software complexity associated with autonomous vehicle testing
According to Oxbotica, a leading autonomous vehicle software provider, autonomous vehicles driving on London’s complex and congested...
Read MoreTech startups cite progress on path to self-driving trucks
Over the past year, startups working to commercialize highly automated heavy-duty trucks competed for more capital and engineers, and...
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