DoorDash and GM’s Cruise team up to pilot food delivery via self-driving cars
General Motors (GM) is partnering with DoorDash to enable on-demand food deliveries via driverless cars. The duo announced that a pilot...
Read MoreSegway unveils a more durable electric scooter and autonomous delivery bot
Wear and tear is a major issue in the realm of electric scooters, resulting in a short lifespan of individual scooters and poor unit...
Read MoreKia to showcase new autonomous driving technologies at CES 2019
Kia Motors is previewing a range of new technologies developed for the post-autonomous driving era at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019,...
Read MoreBaraja raises $32 million for autonomous vehicle lidar with prism-like optics
Lidar startup Baraja has raised $32 million in a series A round of funding led by Sequoia China and Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO...
Read MoreDon’t throw rocks at the Google self-driving cars
Violence is not the answer, or at least so says Arizona transportation executive Rob Antoniak. On the heels of a December investigative...
Read MoreSeveral companies to test autonomous bus technologies for public transit
Several companies have confirmed their involvement with a self-driving bus test project on East Japan Railway Company’s (JR East’s) Bus...
Read MoreEngineer who spurred court battle over autonomous tech forms new self-driving truck biz
Anthony Levandowski, the autonomous tech engineer who was at the center of a prominent court battle between Google‘s self-driving venture...
Read MoreSamsung tops in self-driving car patents
Samsung Electronics filed the largest number of patents related to self-driving cars in Europe, data showed on Monday, far above...
Read More“I don’t want to be their real-world mistake”: People lash out at Waymo’s self-driving cars
Not everyone is a fan of self-driving cars. Chandler, Arizona, is one of the Phoenix suburbs where Alphabet-owned Waymo is testing...
Read MoreKroger — not Uber, Google or Cruise — may be on the leading edge of driverless adoption
For all the multi-billion-dollar investments by automakers and Silicon Valley, regulatory hand-wringing around the globe, and geeky...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars keep tapping the brakes
In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless-car company, brought out the world’s first commercial robo-taxi service. But for now, the...
Read MoreThe 10 worst self-driving stories of 2018
One hour after publishing my “10 Best/Worst of Automotive Tech 2018,” I realized it was too short. A “Worst 100”...
Read MoreTesla wants more employees to participate in Autopilot Hardware 3 testing
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is calling for more employees to participate in the testing of Autopilot Hardware 3, with offers of discounts on the...
Read MoreDallas wants self-driving vehicles for planned redevelopment
If Dallas’ Valley View Center site is indeed ripe for redevelopment in the thriving neighborhood it helped create, one certain...
Read MoreTesla to start testing new Autopilot Hardware 3 in employee vehicles
Tesla is working to bring to market its new Autopilot Hardware 3, which consists of a new neural net computer that they claimed will be...
Read MoreToyota gives their take on interiors for autonomous vehicles
CES is less than two weeks away and Toyota Boshoku will use the event to introduce two interior concepts for autonomous vehicles. The...
Read MoreDriverless cars deliver from Kroger-owned store in Arizona
The nation’s largest grocery chain stepped into the driverless delivery market Dec. 18, bringing milk, eggs and other items to a...
Read MoreThe good, the bad, and the ugly of self-driving cars in 2018
Amidst stunning breakthroughs and tragic failures, for self-driving vehicles, 2018 was the year of yes, but… Yes, self-driving cars...
Read MoreBarra looks to China for GM’s electric rebirth
In April 2014, Mary Barra sat on Capitol Hill listening to accounts of families who’d lost a member while driving in a General Motors Co....
Read MoreFrost & Sullivan: Connected, autonomous commercial vehicles face daunting cyber threats
Complex cybersecurity threats, where security breaches could have devastating consequences in terms of lost productivity, disrupted supply...
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