Chinese startup Pony.ai can now test driverless vehicles in three California cities
Chinese robotaxi startup Pony.ai has been given permission by California regulators to pilot its autonomous vehicles without a human...
Read MoreSilicon Valley is resetting expectations for self-driving cars and settling in for years of more work.
After years of hype, billions of dollars of investments and promises that people would be commuting to work in self-driving cars by now,...
Read MoreThe founder of lidar maker Velodyne is going to war with his own SPAC
David Hall, the founder of leading lidar manufacturer Velodyne, is going to war with the SPAC that acquired his company. In a letter, Hall...
Read MoreHitachi Astemo develops rider comfort tech for autonomous driving
Hitachi Astemo has developed Dynamics Planning, a highly precise vehicle trajectory planning technology for autonomous vehicles. The...
Read MoreJD.com, Meituan and Neolix to test autonomous deliveries on Beijing public roads
People in a Beijing suburb will begin to see autonomous delivery mini-vans across their neighborhood, moving cautiously alongside human...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars offer chance to re-imagine sound systems
As auto manufacturers continue developing tomorrow’s self-driving cars, there’s a parallel design process taking shape....
Read MoreLight detector adds awareness to autonomous vehicles
Developed by engineers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia, the first-of-its-kind device promises to give...
Read MoreOp-ed: Alphabet’s Waymo warns that describing vehicles as ‘self-driving’ before they’re ready can lead to unsafe driver behavior
Yesterday’s science fiction is a real transportation option today for a growing segment of the population. I’m referring specifically to...
Read MoreOpinion: It’s time for Elon Musk to start telling the truth about autonomous driving
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has shown that he has an influential platform by roiling the cryptocurrency market with his...
Read MoreKatech builds digital replica of Daegu city for AV certification and policy development
A high-fidelity virtual test platform has been developed by Korean research institute Katech to validate ADAS and autonomous driving...
Read MoreInfusing a dose of human driver skepticism into the AI driving systems of self-driving cars
Are you skeptical about most things? Maybe you are rarely skeptical. In that case, it might be that you take life as it seems to exist and...
Read MoreIn it for the long haul: Autonomous trucking startup Plus goes public via SPAC
Autonomous trucking startup Plus (formerly known as Plus.ai) is a company I’ve begun to follow closely. While much of the hype...
Read MoreThe costly pursuit of self-driving cars continues on. And on. And on.
It was seven years ago when Waymo discovered that spring blossoms made its self-driving cars get twitchy on the brakes. So did soap...
Read MoreElon Musk called lidar a ‘crutch,’ but now Tesla is reportedly testing Luminar’s laser sensors
A Tesla Model Y was photographed in Florida sporting rooftop lidar sensors made by buzzy sensor manufacturer Luminar. The sighting caused...
Read MoreFrom driverless cars to robotic warehouses, China looks to automation to solve population issues
GUANGZHOU, China — Qin Jiahao has been working at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s logistics operations for around six years. Now a huge...
Read MoreGermany takes step toward autonomous driving on public roads
German lawmakers agreed to allow some driver-less vehicles on public roads, a first step toward enabling autonomous driving in...
Read MoreSolving big city murder cases and other crimes via AI and self-driving cars
The nationwide murder rate is heading in the wrong direction. It is decidedly on the rise, rather than on the decline....
Read MoreLooking ahead to autonomous trucking
Although autonomous trucks are still in their infancy, the continued development and eventual deployment of these vehicles represents a...
Read MoreFord CEO says US needs to regulate automated driving systems
Detroit: The CEO of America’s second-largest auto company is calling for the federal government to set standards for fully or...
Read MoreChinese startup Pony.ai can now test driverless vehicles in three California cities
Chinese robotaxi startup Pony.ai has been given permission by California regulators to pilot its autonomous vehicles without a human...
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