Road test area for ICVs extended in Cangzhou City, north China’s Hebei
A man tries a self-driving car in Cangzhou City, north China’s Hebei Province, May 14, 2020. The road test area for intelligent...
Read MoreThe state of the self-driving car race 2020
It turns out self-driving cars aren’t dissimilar from self-driving humans: It takes about 16 years for them to be ready for the road....
Read MoreTesla fast tracking full self-driving development with advanced neural net training techniques
Autonomous driving has been one of the fundamental pillars of Tesla’s push to electrify transport, and by all accounts, the California...
Read MoreVW, Ford forge ahead with technology sharing to save costs
(Bloomberg) — Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co. are pushing ahead with plans to team up on electric and self-driving vehicles even as...
Read MorePatent office declares AI cannot be an inventor, stuns AI devotees, has impacts for self-driving cars
Can AI be an inventor? According to a recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the answer seems to be no....
Read MoreWaymo develops a machine learning model to predict the behavior of other road users for its self-driving vehicles
The emerging field of machine learning has important uses in a variety of fields, such as finance, healthcare and business. For...
Read MoreGM-Cruise lays off 8% of staff as self-driving companies face tough times
Cruise Automation, the General Motors company developing shared, autonomous EVs, laid off about 150 people on Thursday. It’s the latest...
Read MoreThis was supposed to be the year driverless cars went mainstream
Tech companies once promised that fully functional, self-driving cars would be on the road by 2020 and on the path to remaking...
Read MoreSome autonomous vehicle companies resume public testing, others express caution
In March, the coronavirus pandemic forced companies testing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. to pause operations temporarily. Safety...
Read MoreBerkeley Simons Institute launches online video shorts with an eye-opening look at perception
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California Berkeley is a highly regarded venue that was established...
Read MoreWaymo’s first external fundraising round just grew to $3 billion
Waymo’s first external fundraising round, initially expected to bring in $2.25 billion for the self-driving company, just grew to $3...
Read MoreFiat Chrysler and AV startup Voyage partner on self-driving minivans
Self-driving vehicle startup Voyage said Monday that it has inked a deal with Fiat Chrysler to supply purpose-built vehicles, a...
Read MoreThe crazy story how self-driving’s biggest star stole Google secrets, joined Uber, and became bankrupt
What started out as a private legal case between Google and its former head of self-driving technology, Anthony Levandowski, that no one...
Read MoreThe vaunted ‘murder hornet’ could ominously be spread by the advent of AI self-driving cars
Recent headlines about a type of hornet referred to as the “murder hornet” have gotten quite a lot of buzz this past week or so. It seems...
Read MoreHyundai and Aptiv redeploy autonomous vehicles to deliver meals to vulnerable people in Las Vegas
The Hyundai-Aptiv Driving Joint Venture, a collaboration between Hyundai and Aptiv (formerly Delphi) to develop autonomous vehicle...
Read MoreHow does Tesla Autopilot handle a typical daily commute?
It’s dark and raining, plus the traffic is relatively heavy at times. Tesla owner and popular YouTube influencer Andy Slye takes us...
Read MoreCan robotaxis ease public transport fears in China?
The rise of self-driving taxis in China comes at a time when people are nervous about taking public transport. Robotaxi providers plan to...
Read MoreVideo Friday: Robot startup Refraction AI testing contactless food delivery
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly...
Read MoreAs Waymo resumes self-driving tests, backup drivers are still worried about the virus
Waymo is planning to resume testing its autonomous vehicles in Arizona on May 11th, nearly two months after pausing its robotaxi service...
Read MoreCutting through the self-driving hype
As recently as March 2020, AI analyst Emerj pointed out that despite the bullish public pronouncements of the auto industry CEOs it is...
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