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DiDi Autonomous Driving said to close over $3 million funding round

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Finance, News

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- DiDi Autonomous Driving, the self-driving technology arm of Didi Chuxing (DiDi), is about to raise over $300 million,...

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The long road to automated cars

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Sergey Brin knows a little about ground-breaking technology. But when the Google co-founder said in 2012 that we could ‘count on one hand’...

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Finance, News

Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to...

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Apple loses multiple top managers from self-driving car division

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Cars, News

Apple Inc. has lost multiple top managers of its self-driving car team in recent months, a sign of attrition at the division involved in...

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Local Motors partners with door2door for joint development of autonomous shuttle ridepooling and analytics software

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Buses, News, Technology

CHANDLER, Ariz., June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Local Motors, a leader in the design and manufacturing of autonomous vehicles,...

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kVA by UL and Stantec GenerationAV™ team up to advance global approach to autonomous vehicle safety

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in News

NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — kVA by UL, a global leader in automotive safety standards, and Stantec GenerationAV™,...

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Self-driving coalition announces new board members Embark and Aurora

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in News

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Self-Driving Coalition – dedicated to working with lawmakers, regulators and the public...

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Robot shuttles are not robotaxis, explains IDTechEx

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

BOSTON, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Robotaxis are nothing more than repurposed autonomous cars used for ride-hailing. Some may be...

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RTI joins the Teleoperation Consortium to collaboratively advance autonomous vehicle adoption

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in News, Technology

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the largest software framework company for...

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Cruise urges Biden to back autonomous vehicle deployment boost

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle (AV) company majority-owned by General Motors Co (GM.N), has urged President Joe Biden to back efforts...

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Thales Alenia Space to assess feasibility of EGNSS integrity service

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in News, Technology

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has been selected by the European Commission for a new...

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What you should do if you see an AI self-driving car behaving badly

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Humans can be troubling. How so? Consider your daily commute. The odds of coming across a driver that is doing something untoward is...

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Why high definition maps are key to autonomous trucking

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

With relatively constrained, predictable drive paths, trucking presents the nearest-term viable opportunity for autonomous-vehicle, or AV,...

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BMW’S i4 sedan is the electric 4 Series you’ve been waiting for

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Cars, News

Months after revealing its first new electric vehicle in nearly a decade, the iX SUV, BMW is ready to pull back the curtain on its next...

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Cruise urges Biden to back autonomous vehicle deployment boost

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in News

Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle (AV) company majority-owned by General Motors Co (GM.N), has urged President Joe Biden to back efforts...

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Simulator supports multiple robotaxis

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

The latest simulator technology from Budapest-based AImotive supports multi-node, multi-client operation to allow multiple autonomous...

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FLIP. First fully autonomous vehicle by SberAutoTech

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Editor’s Picks

MOSCOW, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SberAutoTech, a Sber ecosystem company, has revealed a prototype of its own autonomous vehicle for...

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The dream of the truly driverless car is officially dead

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Lyft’s quest for driverless cars is over. The company recently announced the sale of its self-driving unit to the auto giant Toyota....

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