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Yandex self driving group gets $150 million, partners with Uber to bring autonomous vehicles to U.S.

Posted on Sep 11, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

On paper, a lot is happening with Yandex’s self-driving vehicles. Yandex NV YNDX -1.2%, a Russian multinational company that specializes...

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Baidu launches its ‘Apollo Go’ robotaxi service in China’s capital city of Beijing

Posted on Sep 10, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Three weeks after launching its “Apollo Go” robotaxi service in the Chinese city of Cangzhou, China’s tech giant Baidu Inc. announced that...

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U.S. NHTSA’s autonomous vehicle test tracking tool is light on data

Posted on Sep 2, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

In June, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for...

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Motional releases expanded self-driving data set with over 1.4 billion annotated lidar points

Posted on Sep 2, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Roughly a year ago, Scale and NuTonomy released a driverless data set called NuScenes that they claimed at the time surpassed corpora like...

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Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger

Posted on Aug 25, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging...

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Waymo self-driving trucks hit the road in Texas

Posted on Aug 25, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Texas will see more of Waymo in the months and years to come. On Tuesday, Alphabet’s self-driving car division said it’s officially ready...

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Self-driving cars could be allowed on UK motorways next year

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Motorists could be allowed to let their cars drive themselves on motorways, using automated technology, as early as next year, under...

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AutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai, competing with Didi’s pilot program

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous vehicle startupAutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi,...

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Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle project with Aptiv will now be called Motional

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle joint venture with Aptiv has a new name: Motional. The company, which plans to test fully driverless vehicles...

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Starting with Michigan, Sidewalk Infrastructure is looking to build roads specifically for autonomous cars

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, which spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to fund and develop the next generation of infrastructure,...

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Yandex begins testing self-driving cars in Michigan

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Moscow-based tech giant Yandex today announced it has expanded testing of its self-driving cars to Michigan. A fleet of Yandex’s...

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Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI  is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...

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Former Ford president joins self-driving radar startup’s board

Posted on Jul 20, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

(Bloomberg) — Joe Hinrichs, a former top executive at Ford Motor Co. who left the company earlier this year, is making a tentative return...

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Autonomous vehicle startupAutoX lands driverless testing permit in California

Posted on Jul 18, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

AutoX, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Alibaba, has been granted a permit in California to begin driverless testing on public...

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TuSimple finds a partner to help it build a fleet of robot semi trucks

Posted on Jul 16, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

US truck maker Navistar is joining forces with TuSimple, a leading autonomous vehicle startup, to build a self-driving semi truck that can...

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Mobileye wins permit to test autonomous vehicles in Germany

Posted on Jul 16, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Mobileye, Intel’s driverless vehicle R&D division, today announced that German certification body TÜV Süd awarded it a recommendation...

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Waymo targets southwest freight corridor for autonomous truck tests

Posted on Jun 30, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

As it moves forward with autonomous truck development, Waymo plans to focus its 2020 testing efforts on the southwest shipping corridor...

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First full-sized automated buses to operate in Connecticut in a U.S. first

Posted on Jun 25, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has announced a partnership with autonomous technology provider Robotic Research LLC to...

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Report: Amazon to pay $1 billion+ for self-driving tech firm Zoox

Posted on Jun 25, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

Amazon is expected to announce a deal as early as today to purchase self-driving vehicle technology provider Zoox for upwards of $1...

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DGWorld to boost Jebel Ali Port with autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jun 13, 2020 in Editor’s Picks

DP World will equip the Jebel Ali Port with a fleet of Autonomous Internal Terminal Vehicles (AITVs) as part of a contract with DGWorld....

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