Micro mirror gives autonomous vehicles vision upgrade
Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Society have developed a new type of microscanner mirror that integrates with LiDAR to provide...
Read MoreOxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications
While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of...
Read MoreAre artificial cities the answer to AV road safety?
Roads are unpredictable places. Though there are plenty of rules in place for conduct on every highway in every part of the world, we...
Read MoreTeledyne is buying FLIR to create a super-sized sensor shop with thermal and laser vision
Industrial sensor giant Teledyne will acquire FLIR, an Oregon-based company that makes thermal-imaging and night vision technology, the...
Read More4D imaging radar looks to advance ADAS and Level 5 automation
In contrast to cameras and LiDAR, 4D imaging radar uses echolocation and the principle of time-of-flight measurement to find things in its...
Read MoreLidar startup Aeva raises another $200M ahead of its debut as a public company
Aeva, the lidar company started by two former Apple engineers, has raised an additional $200 million in private investment from Hong Kong...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars turn off hype highway
The future of the car will again be caught in the headlights of the annual CES consumer electronics show next week, but expectations for...
Read MoreThis year, autonomous trucks will take to the road with no one on board
Companies like Tesla, Uber, Cruise, and Waymo promise a future where cars are essentially mobile robots that can take us anywhere with a...
Read MoreTesla’s China rival Xpeng to use lidar sensors from DJI affiliate Livox
The battle is heating up between Tesla and its Chinese challenger Xpeng as the latter makes clearer its stance on the future of autonomous...
Read MoreRolling out driverless cars is ‘extraordinary grind’, says Waymo boss
Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car. The Google sister company raised $3.2bn,...
Read MoreForget about a self-driving ‘iCar’
Do you have an iPhone? Ever tried to unlock it using Face ID while wearing any kind of face covering? It doesn’t work, because the...
Read More‘Peak hype’: why the driverless car revolution has stalled
By 2021, according to various Silicon Valley luminaries, bandwagoning politicians and leading cab firms in recent years, self-driving cars...
Read MoreHow truck automation may change roadside inspections
Here’s an exercise in future think: You know what can happen now at a roadside inspection of one of your trucks. But what might happen in...
Read MoreOn self-driving cars that might misclassify a snowman as a pedestrian
Have you ever eaten a papple? Probably not, and the odds are that you might not have even heard of one before either. It is a type of pear...
Read MoreToyota files for car wash judgement patent for autonomous vehicles
On Christmas Eve, the United States Patent and Trademark Office released a patent application from Toyota for something called a “car wash...
Read MoreHow Apple’s self-driving car plans might transform the company itself
What would an Apple self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious plans to roll out...
Read MoreThese five patents offer hints about what an Apple car could look like
Apple (AAPL) hasn’t commented publicly on its plans for the project, nicknamed Titan, so it’s not clear exactly what will come...
Read MoreElon Musk promises 3 free months of Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ software for vehicles delivered in the final 3 days of 2020
Newly minted Tesla owners who receive their vehicles this week, before 2020 is over, will get a surprise holiday bonus: three free months...
Read MoreGreat Wall Motor to realize Level 3 autonomous driving with full-car redundancy in 2021
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On December 30, Great Wall Motor (GWM) announced it will achieve the Level 3 autonomous driving function with...
Read MoreLargest ever cyber hack provides vital lessons for self-driving cars
They say it is the largest ever cyber hack. Unless you are living under a rock or inside an Internet-disconnected cave, you’ve undoubtedly...
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