NTSB criticizes Tesla Autopilot design in Model 3 crash report
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published its final report on the fatal 2019 crash that involved a collision between a...
Read MoreVoluntary temporary suspensions of self-driving car roadway tryouts due to Coronavirus have added payoffs
Many of the major self-driving car roadway public tryouts that are taking place on our highways and byways are temporarily being suspended...
Read MoreWaymo expands autonomous driving data set and launches $110,000 challenge
In August 2019, Wamyo released the Waymo Open Dataset, which Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claimed at the time was the...
Read MoreSelf-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck...
Read MoreFord releases a data set to accelerate autonomous car development
This week, Ford quietly released a corpus — the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset — containing data collected from its fleet of autonomous...
Read MoreCoronavirus shows there’s still no such thing as a totally human-free self-driving car
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make human drivers obsolete. But the coronavirus pandemic is exposing how a technology designed to be...
Read MoreAdvances in sensor cleaning pave the way for autonomous driving
Sensor systems provide pivotal environmental data to smart cars, allowing for automated and autonomous functionality. They can tell a...
Read MoreToyota partners with China’s Momenta on high definition maps for autonomous cars
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp has partnered with Chinese autonomous driving startup Momenta to...
Read MoreHow to lease an autonomous delivery van
Something happened on the way to robotaxis taking over the world. The timeline to transport people without a human driver, particularly...
Read MoreUSDOT announces $20.3 million grant to improve transport with innovation
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced approximately $20.3 million in grant...
Read MoreFederal regulators move to make room in safety standards for driver-less cars
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Tuesday moved to make changes in some safety standards to help pave the way for driver-less vehicles....
Read MoreReinventing mobility and manufacturing at once: Local Motors
Some of the most consequential technological and economic advances happen where two innovation trends intersect. Local Motors, a company...
Read MoreChinese EV startupXPeng Motors granted permit to test its new P7 sedan on roads in the U.S.
Chinese electric vehicle startupXpeng Motors is one of a new group of electric vehicle startups looking to follow Tesla’s lead by...
Read MoreWaymo pausing some robotaxi service after safety drivers raise coronavirus concerns
Waymo is temporarily shutting down some of its robotaxi services in Arizona, just days after The Verge reported that its contracted safety...
Read MoreThe problems of medical emergencies while inside a self-driving car are going to be challenging
Jonathan got into his car that morning and was driving over to the grocery store. It was a day like any other day. He had driven the route...
Read MoreCoronavirus fears halt autonomous vehicle testing for Uber, Cruise, Aurora, Argo AI, Waymo, and others
Following Waymo’s announcement that it would limit its ride-hailing service in Phoenix, Arizona and autonomous car testing on California...
Read MoreWaymo funding shows long road to AVs
There can be no doubt: The development of autonomous vehicles is going to require more — way more — time and money than people thought...
Read MoreVelodyne Lidar announces multi-year sales agreement with NAVYA
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced a multi-year sales agreement with NAVYA, a leading company in autonomous driving systems. Since 2015, NAVYA...
Read MoreMining industry laboratory for self-driving tech
As the debate continues about how – or even whether – to deploy autonomous vehicles in populated areas, lest lives be at risk,...
Read MoreApex’s electric supercar includes an AR race coach and partial self-driving
How do you make a name for yourself as an EV startup when you have plenty of rivals? By promising a mix of breakneck performance with...
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