Didi Chuxing’srobotaxi unit lands $500 million from Softbank-led group
Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing service, said it has raised $500 million for its autonomous vehicle business from an investment...
Read MoreVolkswagen’s board approves multi-billion dollar alliance with Ford to develop electric & commercial vehicles
German carmaker Volkswagen AG said on Thursday its supervisory board had approved several projects in a multibillion-dollar alliance with...
Read MoreSpeaking of space launches, here’s how Apollo 12 was saved by a steely-eyed missile man, plus lessons for self-driving cars
This is an exciting week for space travel and kudos goes to NASA and SpaceX for being on the verge of launching astronauts into space from...
Read MoreChina’s Baidu finishes building ‘world’s largest’ test ground for autonomous vehicle, smart driving systems
Chinese search engine giant and artificial intelligence (AI) champion Baidu said on Tuesday that it has completed construction of what it...
Read MoreChina’s Baidu finishes building ‘world’s largest’ test ground for autonomous vehicle, smart driving systems
Chinese search engine giant and artificial intelligence (AI) champion Baidu said on Tuesday that it has completed construction of what it...
Read MoreMobileye demos self-driving car that uses cameras to get around
Mobileye, Intel’s driverless vehicle R&D division, today published a 40-minute video of one of its cars navigating a 160-mile stretch...
Read MoreNuro’s self-driving vehicles to deliver prescriptions for CVS Pharmacy
Nuro, the autonomous robotics startup that has raised more than $1 billion from SoftBank Vision Fund, Greylock and other investors, said...
Read MorePurpose-built autonomy driver for OEM GNSS receiver built on Robot Operating System
Hexagon | NovAtel has released its first purpose-built driver, powered by Robot Operating System (ROS), to support its OEM7 family of GNSS...
Read MoreOptimus Ride begins delivering food to families in need in Washington, D.C.
Optimus Ride, a startup developing self-driving shuttles principally for transportation, today announced that three of its vehicles will...
Read MoreHow Mercedes Benz is keeping drivers safe using ‘Car-to-X’ communication technology
A major focus of German automaker Dailmer AG throughout its history is the automaker’s commitment to the safety of passengers. For...
Read MoreBMW Driving Assistant Professional gets additional functions
Starting this summer, BMW’s Driving Assistant Professional package will come with a few new functions, to make highway driving a tad bit...
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon University to join Roborace autonomous racing championship
LOS ANGELES, May 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — A student team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is joining the upcoming season of...
Read MoreArnold Schwarzenegger’s contribution to autonomous vehicles
In 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a futuristic science fiction movie called Total Recall. The core of the movie was a typical...
Read MoreAutonomous car company Aurora increases hiring amid industry struggles
Autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Aurora today announced it has roughly doubled its workforce to 500 people (up from 250 as of May 2019) and...
Read MoreAmazon buying Zooxmay save $20 billion, put Tesla on its heels
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc.’s talks to buy driverless vehicle startupZoox Inc. has analysts speculating the deal could save the...
Read MoreFLIR releases first European thermal imaging dataset for automotive driver assistance development
FLIR Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of its first European thermal imaging regional dataset and the third in a series of...
Read MoreFor better or for worse, ballot harvesting for election voting would be a cinch with self-driving cars
There is a lot of controversy about ballot harvesting. First, some prefer to call it ballot collecting, since the word “harvesting” seems...
Read MoreGM’s Cruise self-driving unit beefs up board with executive who ran advanced research for Google, Facebook, DoD
Cruise, a majority-owned self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has added prominent inventor and tech executive Regina E. Dugan to its...
Read MorePedestrians and cyclists make Guangzhou ‘efficient’ for testing self-driving cars
WeRide, a Chinese robotaxistartup, recently compared its results testing self-driving cars in both Silicon Valley and Guangzhou, China....
Read MoreAutonomous and electric cars to be key part of autos sector -Macron
PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) – Autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles will form a key part of the automotive sector after the...
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