Pages Navigation Menu

News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

Shanghai sees intelligent cars as a US$72 billion industry by 2025, unveils plan to spur autonomous driving tech

Posted on Sep 6, 2022 in News, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Shanghai is doubling down on intelligent cars, and specifically autonomous driving technology, as the engine of a high-potential growth...

Read More

What is reinforcement learning? How AI trains itself

Posted on Sep 5, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Machine learning (ML) might be considered the core subset of artificial intelligence (AI), and reinforcement learning may be the...

Read More

Caocao Mobility and Geely cooperate to create commercial automated driving platform

Posted on Sep 5, 2022 in News, Technology

Caocao Mobility, a Geely-backed online ride-hailing platform, started cooperation related to robotaxis on September 5 with the Smart...

Read More

It’s time to embrace the tech that could confront the crisis in aging

Posted on Sep 4, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

A constellation of technologies can help aging populations thrive and live independently — and for longer. These include AI and...

Read More

Self-driving hubris

Posted on Sep 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Humans found horses 30,000 years ago. For the most part, the horses served as food. In South America, horses were hunted to extinction. It...

Read More

GM’s Cruise recalls and updates self-driving software in cars following crash

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

General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit Cruise has recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving robotaxis after a June crash in San...

Read More

Apple’s Car is beloved before it even exists

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

If semiconductor shortages, recession risks and the once-a-century shift in propulsion weren’t enough to keep auto executives up at night,...

Read More

$52M federal grant boosts mobility innovation in Michigan

Posted on Sep 2, 2022 in Finance, News, Technology

(TNS) — The Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation is to receive a $52.2 million federal grant from a Department of Commerce program to...

Read More

Cambricon unveils three autonomous driving chips under development

Posted on Sep 2, 2022 in News, Technology

During the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on September 1, Chen Tianshi, the chairman of Chinese AI chip firm...

Read More

Autonomous driving firm Autra Tech partners with ByteDance’s Volcano Engine

Posted on Sep 1, 2022 in News, Technology, Trucks

Volcano Engine, a cloud services platform owned by ByteDance, reached a formal cooperation agreement on August 31 with Autra Tech, a...

Read More

Baidu’s Robin Li: Next commercial stage of autonomous driving is L4, not L3

Posted on Sep 1, 2022 in News, Technology

The 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), under the theme “Intelligent Connectivity, Infinite Multiverse,” was held in...

Read More

Why we invested in Faction

Posted on Aug 31, 2022 in Finance, Perspective, Technology

TDK Ventures has identified the energy-saving and environmental advantages that electric vehicles can deliver as a major focus area for...

Read More

Waymo opens up driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted passengers

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle developer under Alphabet, is opening up its driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted local...

Read More

Will transit agencies fight or yield to the self-driving revolution?

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Transit operators and transit fans have, since almost the beginning, cast a wary eye on the arrival of the self-driving car, and in...

Read More

Former Tesla engineer Guangzhi Cao joins automated driving startup Pegasus

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in News, Technology

On August 23, Xiaolang Zhang, a former Apple engineer, pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from Apple’s automotive department. The...

Read More

Subjective attribute engineering vital to ADAS and autonomous development

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

A consumer’s decision to purchase a vehicle is, more often than not, driven by its attribute performance, such as the way the vehicle...

Read More

Microsoft debuts total automotive and mobility solution in China

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in News, Technology

Microsoft unveiled a total solution for the automotive and mobility sectors on August 28 at 2022 World New Energy Vehicle Congress...

Read More

Auto insurance watchdog warns that one of the most important features of self-driving cars can fail to spot pedestrians at night

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in Cars, News, Technology

Dozens of companies are working on making the dream of self-driving cars a reality, but a key feature behind every autonomous vehicle...

Read More

Nexar releases its ‘Driver Behavioral Map data’ that can help autonomous vehicles operate more like human drivers

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in News, Technology

Computer vision company Nexar, which developed a dashcam application that seeks to rid the world of car crashes, has released its Driver...

Read More

Sanborn expands the Sanborn M-Map coverage for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Aug 30, 2022 in News, Technology

The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) has successfully completed the collection of geospatial data for 4,250 line miles of highway...

Read More

Would you like to receive regular updates on new links?

Your Email