What’s in a name? For Tesla’s Full Self Driving, it may be danger
Federal regulators perked up when Tesla last month started letting some customers test new autonomous driving software that it had added...
Read MoreSelf-driving delivery firm Nuro raises $500 million as COVID-19 boosts e-commerce
(Reuters) – Self-driving delivery company Nuro, whose R2 unit has no pedals or steering wheel and only room for packages, said Monday it...
Read MoreBeijing’s self-driving vehicle road test mileage tops 2 mln km
The safe driving mileage of autonomous vehicle road tests in Beijing exceeded 2 million km by the end of October, according to the Beijing...
Read MoreWhy those puddles on the roadway can be startling hazardous for self-driving cars
Have you ever encountered roadway puddles that turned out to be worse than you thought? It is easy to misjudge a puddle and assume that...
Read MoreDespite promises, totally self-driving cars still in the future
Tesla recently made headlines with the beta launch of its Full Self-Driving system. That system comes with a disclaimer saying, “It may do...
Read MoreWhy Tesla’s Full Self-Driving is such a big deal: 4D data continuity & trajectory projection
In a video by YouTuber Dr. Know-it-all Knows it all, the good doctor shared his thoughts on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta and why...
Read MoreAutonomous driving startup Pony.ai raises $267 million in latest funding round
Autonomous driving startup Pony.ai, which is backed by Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. and is working with the automaker on self-driving...
Read MoreTest of self-driving taxi begins in Tokyo
An unprecedented road test of a self-driving taxi using a fifth-generation, or 5G, ultrahigh-speed wireless network started in Tokyo on...
Read MoreVolkswagen CEO says will tweak strategy to maintain electric, autonomous push
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen will tweak its strategy to maintain investment momentum for developing electric and autonomous cars...
Read MoreMercedes-Benz no longer interested in autonomous race
Mercedes-Benz has revealed that it will back away from the autonomous vehicle race and avoid morphing into a mobility company, as so many...
Read MoreCOMMENT: How to pivot autonomous drive strategies in the post-pandemic period
The disruption of COVID-19 has had a major impact on many automotive companies. Autonomous drive projects have been particularly hard hit...
Read MoreWhen a tree falls on top of a self-driving car
A popular riddle that has been asked since at least the 1800s is whether a tree that falls in a forest will make a sound if there isn’t...
Read MoreInflexor Ventures invests in Steradian Semiconductors
Early-stage technology-focused VC fund Inflexor Ventures on Wednesday said it has invested an undisclosed sum in Steradian Semiconductors,...
Read MoreTesla Full Self-Driving Beta appears to detect and avoid road debris in video
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta has impressed with its capacity to navigate city streets, and it now looks like it can also detect and...
Read MoreElon Musk’s next big thing could be using the SpaceX Starlinknetwork to connect Tesla vehicles
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk upended the auto industry when his company launched the fully-electric Model S sedan in 2012. In the eight...
Read MoreForesight completes integration of NVIDIA platforms for use in autonomous machines and vehicles
Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq and TASE: FRSX), an innovator in automotive vision systems, announced today that it has...
Read MoreConsumer Reports says Cadillac’s Super Cruise automated driving system outperforms Tesla’s Autopilot
Electric automaker Tesla, which now has become the world’s most valuable automaker, pioneered the use of autonomous driving...
Read MoreSelf-driving firm Pony.ai gets funding from China carmaker FAW
(Bloomberg) — Self-driving technology startup Pony.ai struck a funding agreement with carmaker FAW Group, calling it the first...
Read MoreWaymo moved its self-driving cars in San Francisco to a ‘secured location’ in case of election chaos
Waymo is pulling its autonomous vehicles out of San Francisco in anticipation of Election Day unrest, The Verge has learned. The Google...
Read MoreCutting through the self-driving hype: A realistic view of an exciting opportunity
Earlier this year, AI analyst Emerj pointed out that despite the bullish public pronouncements of the auto industry CEOs, it is “still a...
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