With no need to park, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will clog city streets and slow traffic to a crawl, according to a new paper by University of Santa Cruz transportation planner Continue Reading
In the backyard of California’s Capitol sits Franklin Boulevard, a largely industrial area where many residents earn a living keeping old vehicles on the road. The state, which has been Continue Reading
At CES 2019 last week, NVIDIA showcased DRIVE Localization—an open, scalable platform for vehicles to position themselves on high-definition maps with unprecedented robustness and accuracy, using mass-market sensors. It’s vital Continue Reading
Tesla has been warning its buyers who have ordered the ‘Full Self-Driving package’ that the option may not be available for a very long time because of regulations in various Continue Reading
The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) will introduce the TRI-P4 automated driving test vehicle on 7 January at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. The P4 is based on the new fifth-generation Continue Reading
A Waymo autonomous vehicle in Chandler, Ariz., where the driverless cars have been attacked by residents on several occasions. The assailant slipped out of a park around noon one day Continue Reading
Autonomous vehicle trial runs are growing in real numbers in California, and so are the crashes coming from the self-driving cars. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has increased the Continue Reading
Two of the world’s biggest carmakers, Ford Motor Company and Germany’s Volkswagen AG, are in discussion to set up a joint venture to develop self-driving cars, and could announce a Continue Reading
To study the potential benefits of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a simulation framework that analyzes the impact of partial market penetration of Continue Reading
Alphabet’s Waymo has been granted California’s first permit to test fully driverless vehicles on public roads as it races towards commercialising autonomous technology. The permit from the state’s Department of Continue Reading
Private hire taxi business Adison Lee and British self-driving software specialist Oxbotica said on Monday that they struck a strategic alliance aiming to deploy and operate self-driving services in London Continue Reading
Fully self-driving cars may be on the fast lane to U.S. roads under a pilot program the Trump administration said on Tuesday it was considering, which would allow real-world road Continue Reading
In the race to develop self-driving cars, winning does not necessarily mean coming first. General Motors has bolstered its claim to be the leading carmaker developing self-driving systems after Honda Continue Reading
Tesla will release its biggest software update in two years by the end of the week, chief executive Elon Musk, true to himself, said in a tweet in response to Continue Reading
Zoox, a secretive driverless car start-up, has raised $500m in new funding as it gears up to take on larger rivals, including Alphabet’s Waymo and GM’s Cruise. The deal valued Continue Reading
Chinese tech giant Baidu announced that its newly developed self-driving bus would begin mass production as the 100th bus came off the production line Wednesday in southeast China’s Fujian Province. The Continue Reading
The world’s biggest truckmaker says Silicon Valley should hit the brakes on expectations for self-driving lorries. Martin Daum, chief executive of Daimler Trucks, says it will take at least five Continue Reading
SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion in General Motors Co.’s driverless-car unit, as the auto maker battles technology companies and startups in a race to commercialize autonomous vehicles. GM Continue Reading
Waymo LLC plans to dramatically increase the number of driverless vehicles it has on the road in the coming years, announcing Thursday a deal to buy as many as 62,000 Continue Reading
SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion in GM Cruise Holdings LLC (GM Cruise), further strengthening the company’s plans to commercialize autonomous vehicle (AV) technology at large scale. GM will Continue Reading
BP Ventures has provided US$20 million in funding to an Israeli startup that makes ultrafast-charging batteries, which aims to make it possible for electric cars to charge in just five Continue Reading
Mobileye, Intel Corp’s Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars at a European automaker with its self-driving technologies, a company official told Reuters. A Continue Reading
Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is constructing a closed-course test facility to develop automated vehicle technology. Construction permits were filed this week to transform an approximately 60-acre site at Michigan Technical Continue Reading
China has made self-driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow those efforts Continue Reading
As Uber Technologies Inc. reels from a fatal crash involving one of its autonomous vehicles, rival Waymo is moving ahead, buying as many as 20,000 Jaguar vehicles for its robot Continue Reading
NVIDIA has introduced a cloud-based system for testing autonomous vehicles using photorealistic simulation, creating a safer, more scalable method for bringing self-driving cars to the roads. NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation is Continue Reading
Beijing issued temporary license plates for Baidu’s self-driving vehicles for public road testing on Thursday. The capital has opened 33 roads of a total length of 105 kilometers for autonomous Continue Reading
Self-driving cars are still working to master the snow . It turns out that excessive sun can also pose a problem for the coming wave of robot drivers. The threat Continue Reading
General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. Roof modules for GM’s self-driving vehicles will be Continue Reading
The Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a leading automotive research firm, just released a new study that casts doubt over autonomous and electric vehicles taking a huge share of traditional Continue Reading
Ford Motor Co. F -2.57% , which is focusing its entry into the driverless-car business on around-town deliveries, has picked Florida’s Miami-Dade County as its first test-bed. The Miami experiment, Continue Reading
Investors have built a billion-barrel bet on higher oil prices. But they are a different breed of bull than years past. The “net long” position held by fund managers in Continue Reading
California regulators have given the green light to truly driverless cars. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday that it was eliminating a requirement for autonomous vehicles to have Continue Reading
California has approved broad new rules allowing driverless cars that do not require a human operator to sit behind the wheel, in a long awaited win for Silicon Valley lobbyists. Continue Reading
Intel Two real-life, practical, semi-autonomous vehicle launches next year are an indication that the self-driving car is really happening. Audi is expected to make its up-to-35-mph hands-free driving system available Continue Reading
Waymo, a unit of Alphabet, is set to launch a ride-sharing service similar to Uber, but with no human driver behind the wheel. Officials in Arizona granted Waymo a permit Continue Reading
American drivers are beginning to embrace self-driving vehicles, according to a new study from AAA. The annual survey reveals that 63 percent of U.S. drivers report feeling afraid to ride Continue Reading
Navigant Research has issued a new iteration of its Leaderboard Report on Autonomous Driving (AD), reflecting the new partnerships, strategic investments and acquisitions made since the early version less than Continue Reading
