Pages Navigation Menu

News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

VW considers charging over $8 an hour for Level 4 autonomous driving tech

Posted on May 6, 2021 in News, Perspective, Technology

GM charges a subscription for their Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system and it appears Volkswagen will follow suit. In an...

Read More

Hyperdrive Daily: China ramps up its autonomous vehicle development

Posted on May 4, 2021 in Perspective

Hi, it’s Nick Albanese here — Colin is off this week. I head up BloombergNEF’s Intelligent Mobility research team, which looks at how...

Read More

The moral dilemma of Apple Car

Posted on May 3, 2021 in Perspective

Three decades ago, the internet was just beginning to revolutionize human communications. Little did the world know how much power would...

Read More

Automation is the future of trucking, but it’s not all about autonomous driving

Posted on May 3, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

Automation is regarded as the next great horizon for trucking. Experts predict swelling pressures on the supply chain in recent years will...

Read More

Hot off the presses: Defining standard for self-driving cars gets newly updated and released, here’s what you need to know

Posted on May 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The new phonebook is here, the new phonebook is here! That’s a famous line that people use to exclaim when the latest iteration of the...

Read More

Marvell debuts new multi-gig Ethernet PHY for next generation cars and trucks

Posted on May 3, 2021 in News, Perspective, Technology

As a tech analyst, one of my favorite coverage areas is the multi-industry cadre of companies working to advance and enable...

Read More

When autonomous cars teach themselves to drive better than humans

Posted on May 3, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Whether or not autonomous vehicles are able to develop the kind of dynamic, adaptive, common-sense reasoning that humans are able to...

Read More

In a year of major shifts, the self-driving car market is consolidating

Posted on May 2, 2021 in Perspective

News broke this week that Woven Planet, a Toyota subsidiary, will acquire Level 5, Lyft’s self-driving unit, for $550 million. The...

Read More

Chinese tech giants Huawei, DJI jump on to the lidar bandwagon as they eye huge potential in self-driving cars

Posted on May 2, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Lidar sensors, a critical technology for self-driving cars, has emerged as the new battleground for Chinese tech firms. At the forefront...

Read More

The race to build self-driving trucks has four horses and three jockeys

Posted on May 1, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

Over the last five years, as it’s become clear that self-driving cars will take longer than expected to arrive on most American streets,...

Read More

Gnarly skateboarders trying dangerously to hitch a ride on self-driving cars

Posted on May 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

The skateboarder was eyeing a self-driving car and decided that it might be quite rad to try and hitch a ride....

Read More

Hyperdrive Daily: The self-driving car race hardly matters

Posted on Apr 30, 2021 in Perspective

When Guidehouse Insights sent me its annual study on the leaders in self-driving, I wondered how the report would rank a field that...

Read More

“It’s a matter of a year or two”: Innoviz outlines autonomous vehicle roadmap

Posted on Apr 29, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

Each year, giants like Elon Musk try to prepare the public for when we will see the widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles on city...

Read More

Waymo’s new CEOs say self-driving unit eyes outside funding

Posted on Apr 29, 2021 in Finance, News, Perspective

Waymo, the prized self-driving arm of Alphabet Inc., is looking to nab further outside investment and make acquisitions of its own, the...

Read More

Self-driving cars to conveniently haul fancy stores to your doorstep for your shopping delight

Posted on Apr 29, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

You look out the window of your home and see what appears to be a fancy store parked temporarily outside in front of your house. Say what?...

Read More

Baidu launches robotaxi service in outer Beijing. How ‘fully driverless’ is it vs. AutoX?

Posted on Apr 29, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Baidu BIDU -1.6%, the leading search engine in China, has launched a robotaxi service in Shougang Park – an industrial park on the...

Read More

AA President raises concerns over government’s announcement for self-driving vehicles

Posted on Apr 29, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Yesterday, the government announced that self-driving vehicles could be on UK streets by the end of this year. However, the AA say it’s...

Read More

Zoox CEO on the future of EVs and autonomous vehicles

Posted on Apr 27, 2021 in Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox discusses the newest technologies and innovations in mobility, EVs and self-driving vehicles with Bloomberg’s Ed...

Read More

How to build maps for self-driving cars (end-to-end)

Posted on Apr 27, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

The ability to get from one place to another, anywhere in the country, is one of the most remarkable gifts of our modern technology. Maps...

Read More

Introducing NPM: Designed to shape the future of mobility

Posted on Apr 26, 2021 in Buses, Perspective

As with any developing technology, much of the innovation which prompts advancement in driverless capability comes from different sources....

Read More

Would you like to receive regular updates on new links?

Your Email