Lidar startup Luminar raises $100 million, unveils Iris sensors
Luminar is a lidar startup that in 2017 emerged from five years of stealth with $36 million in funding. The early funds came from 1517...
Read MoreUK stakes claim for lead role in autonomous mapping
Published by Zenzic, the UK’s umbrella organisation for self-driving technology, and national mapping agency Ordnance Survey, the Geodata...
Read More2020 Hyundai Sonata turned fully autonomous by Russia’s Yandex
Last March, Hyundai signed a memorandum of understanding with Russian technology company Yandex to jointly develop Level 4 and Level 5...
Read MoreChina-based Idriverplus using Velodyne lidar in autonomous driving products
Idriverplus, one of the first companies in China to launch the commercialization of driverless technology and realize mass production, is...
Read MoreInrix expands its digital rule book beyond self-driving cars to help cities with scooters, bikes and delivery bots
Cities use paint and signs to communicate the rules of the road in a world where urban spaces must choreograph an infinite dance between...
Read MoreFuturistic driverless vehicle offers ‘last mile’ delivery solution
British-made autonomous vehicle ‘Kar-go’ is the latest robotic solution to the high cost of so-called ”last mile”...
Read MoreWaymo Wants to Help You Be Productive While Riding in a Driverless Taxi
Waymo’s driverless taxis take keeping eyes on the road off the to-do lists of passengers. So what to do with all that free time? The...
Read MoreTier IV raises over $100 million to develop open source software for driverless cars
Tier IV, a Japan-based driverless car software maintainer and provider, this week announced the closure of a round north of $100 million...
Read MoreCar parts group Valeo announces 500 million euros of orders for its ‘Lidar’ sensors
PARIS – French car parts company Valeo has won 500 million euros ($564 million) worth of orders for its ‘Lidar’ car...
Read MoreUPDATE 1-Car parts group Valeo announces 500 mln euros of orders for its ‘Lidar’ sensors
PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) – French car parts company Valeo has won 500 million euros ($564 million) worth of orders for its ‘Lidar’...
Read MoreHow do autonomous cars deal with double-parked vehicles?
For autonomous vehicles to become self-sufficient on public roads, they must be fully capable of performing complex driving maneuvers...
Read MoreNew flaw in Boeing 737 forewarns emergency procedure bugs in driverless cars
Boeing is back in the news with a newly found flaw in the 737 system, sorry to say. I’ve previously pointed out that the Boeing 737 MAX...
Read MoreIntegrated Photonics Looks to Advance Safety for Lidar
The history of radar (radio detection and ranging) dates back to the 1880s when renowned German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio...
Read MoreApple once envisioned retractable bumpers for its self-driving cars
Apple once dreamed of self-driving cars with retractable bumpers. In 2015, the company filed a patent for “extendable bumpers”...
Read MoreViziblezone wants to make pedestrians more visible to autonomous cars
Israel-based Viziblezone wants to make it easier for self-driving cars to spot pedestrians, even if they aren’t yet in the field of view...
Read MoreHow safe are robotaxis? BMW, Intel, Aptiv (and 8 others) just laid out a safety blueprint
Self-driving vehicles are often trumpeted as the answer to the millions of injuries and deaths that occur each year on the world’s...
Read MoreThe Nomad Wireless Charger Adds Premium Features To Its Tesla Model 3 Charger
One of the biggest design gaps in the interior of the Tesla Model 3 is the lack of integrated wireless phone charging. The folks over at...
Read MoreSuppliers need product technology strategy
Like it or not, the automotive industry’s shift to electrification is in full swing. Tesla has deservedly gotten the lion’s...
Read MoreBaidu releases Apollo 5.0 with upgrades for ‘complex’ road scenarios
Beijing-based Baidu last week quietly released the latest version of Apollo, its open source full-stack software solution for driverless...
Read MoreHow Robots May Help Automakers Cope With EV Adoption Uncertainty
The automotive industry today finds itself in a no man’s land of risk and reward and contradicting trends. While the number of electric...
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