Waymo resumes testing self-driving trucks in Arizona
Waymo — Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle company — announced that it would resume testing its trucks on Phoenix freeways....
Read MoreToyota to deploy driverless vehicles at Oz warehouse
The vehicles will apply Autopilot driverless technology to achieve mobility in conveyance, towing, lifting and the ability to autonomously...
Read MoreDaimler Trucks establishes global unit for highly automated driving
Daimler Trucks announced Wednesday the formation of the Autonomous Technology Group, the newest part of Daimler Trucks’ global effort to...
Read MoreVW is working on ways to prevent nausea in self-driving cars
It took me years to condition myself to be able to look at my phone from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle without getting nauseous,...
Read MoreFord and Agility Robotics collaborate on autonomous vehicle-to-robot doorstep deliveries
Using autonomous vehicles to deliver packages directly to the doorstep of customers, without help from humans, could be more seamless with...
Read MoreRevealing the driverless car strategies within proposed Fiat Chrysler, Renault merger
Yesterday was the Monday of Memorial Day weekend in the United States, traditionally a day of attention to matters of the heart and an...
Read MoreLidar maker Velodyne wins patent challenge from rival Quanergy
Lidar is an important component for self-driving cars, acting as the “eyes” of an autonomous vehicle alongside data fused from...
Read MoreDriverless delivery vans are here as production begins in China
Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans. A Chinese startup called Neolix kicked off mass production of its self-driving...
Read MoreAurora backs LiDAR after Musk bashes it
CEO Chris Urmson of Aurora, a pioneer in autonomous driving, said that his company bought Blackmore LiDAR, which develops and manufactures...
Read MoreUSPS goes driverless between Phoenix & Dallas with TuSimple
The US Postal Service has entered into a contract with self-driving truck startup TuSimple to haul mail between Dallas and Phoenix. “It is...
Read MoreEverything you need to know to have an intelligent conversation about autonomous vehicles
I recently attended the 4th annual transportation technology conference hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and had the...
Read MoreEverything you need to know to have an intelligent conversation about autonomous vehicles
I recently attended the 4th annual transportation technology conference hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and had the...
Read MoreTesla on Autopilot slams into stalled car on highway, expect more of this
Here’s a driving situation that I’m guessing most of us have all experienced at one time or another. You are driving along on a highway or...
Read MoreFormer Opel CEO Neumann joins board of U.S. self-driving software startup
Former Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann has joined the board of directors of California-based Apex.AI, a company working to make open-source...
Read MoreDOT to seek public input on integrating autonomous cars and trucks into U.S. roadways
Two agencies within the U.S. Department of Transportation are seeking public input on removing regulatory barriers to allow the...
Read MoreFord wants to use human-like robots to help self-driving cars make autonomous deliveries
Ford wants to use self-driving cars as delivery vehicles, but that presents a problem: how do the packages get from the car to the...
Read MoreGM faces blowback on federal driverless car petition
General Motors Co. is running into opposition to its petition to federal regulators for permission to put up to 5,000 driverless cars —...
Read MoreAutonomous driving startup Aurora to acquire lidar company Blackmore
Aurora, a well-funded Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving startup, announced that it is acquiring lidar company Blackmore. In a blog...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle pioneer doubles down on technology Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls ‘freaking stupid’
A pioneer in autonomous driving is doubling down on a self-driving technology called lidar that uses sensors to help navigate through...
Read MoreMIT’s AI makes autonomous cars drive more like humans
Creating driverless cars capable of humanlike reasoning is a long-standing pursuit of companies like Waymo, GM’s Cruise, Uber, and others....
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