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AutoX’s fully driverless robotaxi fleet exceeds 1,000 units

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in Cars, News

AutoX, an autonomous driving company, announced on Wednesday that its fully driverless RoboTaxi fleet has exceeded 1,000 units, making it...

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Electro-photonics bridges a sensor logjam for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in News, Technology

BOSTON, Feb. 9, 2022 — Photonic computing company Lightmatter, with Boston University College of Engineering and the Harvard John A....

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Waabi’s new simulator could scale autonomous vehicle tech faster

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in News, Technology

Testing autonomous vehicles on public roads is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor, and one that Raquel Urtasun, former chief...

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Embark gives self-driving truck to carrier Knight-Swift in pilot program

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in News, Trucks

Feb 8 (Reuters) – Self-driving truck company Embark Technology Inc (EMBK.O) on Tuesday said it was handing over a few of its trucks...

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GM’s robotaxis are only coming out after dark

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Cars, News

Washington, DC (CNN)Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, started offering robotaxi rides this week in San Francisco....

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Continental considers partial IPO of automated driving business, report says

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Finance, News

BERLIN — Continental wants to make its automated driving business more independent and is considering a partial IPO, Handelsblatt...

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Tesla cut a steering component from some cars to deal with chip shortage, sources say

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in News, Technology

Under pressure to hit fourth-quarter sales goals while coping with widespread semiconductor shortages, Tesla decided to remove one of the...

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Automotive simulation platform Morai secures $20.8M Series B to expand its global footprint

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Finance, News, Technology

Morai, which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving...

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Audi and Aptiv invest $285 million in ‘orchestral director’ for self-driving car data

Posted on Feb 3, 2022 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

An automotive software firm little known outside the industry has raised $285 million in fresh funds to help realize carmakers’ ambitions...

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Baraja and Tier IV collaborate for autonomous vehicle sensing

Posted on Feb 3, 2022 in News, Technology

Baraja, creator of the breakthrough Spectrum-Scan™ LiDAR technology for autonomous vehicles, and Tier IV, an open-source autonomous...

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Annotell raises $24M for tech that tests autonomous vehicle perception systems to improve how they work

Posted on Feb 3, 2022 in Finance, News, Technology

As the automotive industry inches slowly ahead on the road to self-driving vehicles, we’re seeing the emergence of startups aiming to fill...

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Annotell raises $24M for tech that tests autonomous vehicle perception systems to improve how they work

Posted on Feb 3, 2022 in Finance, News, Technology

As the automotive industry inches slowly ahead on the road to self-driving vehicles, we’re seeing the emergence of startups aiming to fill...

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TuSimple automates nation’s first trucking lane in Arizona

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 in News, Trucks

Union Pacific Railroad will become the first customer to move freight on TuSimple’s fully-automated trucking route between the...

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Automated vehicle legislation sought to make U.S. roads safer

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 in News, Policy & Regulation

Lawmakers are showing renewed interest in regulating automated vehicles as traffic deaths spike and self-driving technology continues to...

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Toyota Research Institute programs the world’s first car that can ‘autonomously drift’ around obstacles to avoid accidents

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Could the act of drifting in a vehicle help prevent accidents? One day its might be possible, so engineers at the Toyota Research...

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Waymo can keep some driverless data secret for another 22 days

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in News, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Waymo had small win Monday in its fight to keep certain details about its autonomous vehicle operations from public view. The...

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Nuro’s 3rd generation delivery robot is ready for manufacture

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in News, Technology

Nuro, which has a good claim at being the leading (and certainly best funded) company in road-based autonomous delivery, has released its...

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Cruise, loaded with another $1.35B from SoftBank, opens up driverless ride-hailing to the public

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in Cars, Finance, News

Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps toward commercialization...

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Del. judge says Amazon self-driving vehicle unit must provide some merger records

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in News, Policy & Regulation

(Reuters) – Self-driving vehicle developer Zoox shareholders can see limited records on Amazon’s $1.3 billion acquisition of the...

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Tesla to recall FSD Beta software that lets drivers slowly roll past stop signs

Posted on Feb 1, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Tesla will recall software from 53,822 of its Model S, X, 3 and Y vehicles in the U.S. to eliminate a feature that let cars automatically...

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