VW acquires minority stake in autonomous-drive software company
Volkswagen Group has acquired a minority stake in eastern German software startup FDTech, in a bid to strengthen its expertise in...
Read MoreMiniature Lidar
The Micro-Motion Technology (MMT) platform of miniature lidar solutions from Cepton Technologies Inc. are designed for autonomous driving....
Read MoreDaimler claims massive growth in mobility services
Daimler claims 24.4 million people worldwide are using its various mobility services. That’s an increase of 64 percent over the...
Read MoreVolkswagen reinforces competences in highly automated driving
Friedrich Eichler, Head of Chassis Development of the Volkswagen brand, says: “We are working flat out to integrate highly automated...
Read MoreBaidu researchers develop a new auto-tuning framework for autonomous vehicles
Researchers at Chinese multinational tech company Baidu have recently developed a data-driven auto-tuning framework for self-driving...
Read MoreHumans—not technology—are the leading cause of self-driving car accidents in California
Self-driving cars will eventually hit the roads. But it might still be humans we’ll need to worry about when that happens....
Read MoreHow do you get people to trust autonomous vehicles? This company is giving them ‘virtual eyes.’
One of the biggest challenges facing car companies developing driverless vehicles has little do with sophisticated robotics or laser...
Read MoreWaymo success spells big upside for Alphabet, Morgan Stanley says in street-high forecast
The accelerating success of Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, spells big upside for stakeholders, according to Morgan...
Read MoreTesla’s ahead of the competition. Can it stay in front?
Tesla got a big jump on the competition in the battle to create the perfect electric car with driverless capabilities. More escapades like...
Read MoreCleanTechnica exclusive: Electric autonomous Byton prototype is a showstopper at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Bringing a 21st-century mobility prototype to the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is a bold move that needs to be backed up. Byton...
Read MoreThe top startups paving the way for self-driving vehicles
How far away are we, really, from a fully autonomous vehicle future? According to recent reports about how self-driving vehicles handle...
Read MoreByton teams up with Aurora to test autonomous cars in America
Nicolas Zart, CleanTechnica’s under assistant West Coast promo man, spent last weekend hobnobbing with the swells at the annual Pebble...
Read MoreToday in VC: Autonomous vehicles and blockchain
Autonomous driving and blockchain have particularly excited (and confused) the venture world over the last year, and today is no...
Read More$3 billion deal could turn Manassas into key supplier for self-driving car components
Micron, a publicly traded semiconductor manufacturer based in Boise, Idaho, announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $3 billion to...
Read More‘I hate them’: Locals reportedly frustrated with Alphabet’s self-driving cars
Alphabet’s self-driving cars are annoying their neighbors in Chandler, Arizona. More than a dozen locals who work near Waymo’s...
Read MoreDriverless taxi debuts in Tokyo in ‘world first’ trial ahead of Olympics
A self-driving taxi has successfully taken paying passengers through the busy streets of Tokyo, raising the prospect that the service will...
Read MoreAI will be the most influential technology in coming years, say state IT chiefs
Development of artificial intelligence platforms will be the most impactful information technology topic for state governments over the...
Read MoreBrits not ready to buy autonomous cars, says Close Brothers Motor Finance
MORE than half of British motorists aren’t yet willing to buy an autonomous car, according to Close Brothers Motor Finance....
Read MoreZF invests in future engineers with expanded FIRST presence
The tens of billions of dollars being spent to develop self-driving vehicles has exacerbated a frustrating problem in the auto industry:...
Read MoreToyota and Uber extend collaboration to automated vehicle technologies
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) today announced that they have agreed to expand their collaboration with...
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