Japanese self-drive cars map developer to buy rival US startup: Report
Japanese map platform developer Dynamic Map Platform plans to acquire Detroit-based Ushr for nearly 20 billion yen (US$181.1 million) in a...
Read MoreMitsubishi Electric develops robust sensing for autonomous driving
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed sensing technology for highly accurate detection of...
Read MoreBikes put spanner in works of Dutch driverless car schemes
The Dutch love affair with the bicycle has emerged as an obstacle to government plans to introduce driverless cars to the roads of the...
Read MoreIn the race for self-driving people movers, May Mobility could beat Waymo
While automotive companies and technology giants are racing to make cars drive themselves on the open road, a Michigan-based start-up is...
Read MoreApple’s self-driving cars disengage from autonomous mode about once per mile, highest rate in California
From December 2018 through November 2019, Apple’s fleet of heavily modified Lexus RX450h SUVs recorded an average of 871.65...
Read More1550-nm Photonics promise eye-safe, cost-effective autonomous machines
While LiDAR is needed to provide a high-resolution detailed 3D vision for autonomous vehicles and other applications, the technology is...
Read MoreWorld’s largest parade of autonomous cars happened, fittingly, in China
Autonomous cars have yet to generate passion among car enthusiasts — and if we’re honest about it, they probably never will. Nevertheless,...
Read MoreSoftBank fund invests big in self-driving deliveries
A Silicon Valley startup working on self-driving delivery vehicles on Monday announced nearly a billion dollars in fresh funding from the...
Read MoreSensor, processor innovations move autonomous vehicles forward
Self-driving cars are changing lives by delivering unprecedented personal mobility. In fact, they represent a paradigm shift in the...
Read MoreInterview: Pronto’s Anthony Levandowski on new autonomous venture, rep and redemption
Anthony Levandowski is aware of his reputation. One of the most controversial figures in autonomous driving, his background has been...
Read MoreThe mystery of Tesla’s autopilot-less European model 3
There are recent reports that Tesla’s “Autopilot” isn’t type-approved in Europe, and therefore absent in the first batch fresh off the...
Read MoreAmazon’s self-driving bet and more car news this week
THAT OLD SAW about watching the money turns out to work as well in the wild world of transportation as anywhere else. First up, the...
Read MoreA self-driving car expert describes the biggest problem with semi-autonomous driving systems like Tesla’s Autopilot and Cadillac’s Super Cruise
Semi-autonomous driving systems like Tesla’s Autopilot and Cadillac’s Super Cruise are designed to reduce the stress of...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars could actually make congestion much worse
Where does your self-driving car go after it has dropped you off? That’s the question Adam Millard-Ball set out to answer in his...
Read MoreTesla vs. self-driving competition — new MIT video
Autonomous driving technology promises to unleash sweeping changes on our society. However (perhaps fortunately), it’s likely to be some...
Read MoreToyota’s moonshot: Self-driving car for sale – in a year
They call it Toyota’s moonshot: In just one year, Japan’s biggest carmaker wants to start selling a self-driving vehicle that...
Read MoreSorry, self-driving cars won’t make your Uber ride any cheaper
Automakers like GM and Ford are banking on the the assumption that if they can lower the cost per mile of self-driving taxis to $1 or...
Read MoreAutonomous cars are driving the reinvention of IP protection
Early 1900s society struggled to transition from horse-drawn buggies to automobiles. It may seem odd today, but there was a time when...
Read MoreGM’s Cruise self-driving car division lost $728 million in 2018
General Motors recently reported an $8.1 billion net profit for 2018, marking a major turnaround from the year prior. But not all of the...
Read MoreThe woman in charge of laying the groundwork for Waymo’s self-driving taxis in cities across the US reveals why humility is key to the company’s future
It’s assumed that if you want to work at Alphabet, your best path runs through a computer-science program at a major university....
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