Nioissues shares to buy some stakes, fund driverless-car R&D
Shares of Nio (NIO) – Get Report fell on Friday after the electric-car maker unveiled an offering of 75 million Class A American...
Read MoreLidar startupLuminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger
Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging...
Read MorePitt to study how autonomous vehicles can better serve those with disabilities
The University of Pittsburgh will lead a consortium of institutions to study how autonomous vehicles can be made accessible to those with...
Read MoreSelf-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on...
Read MoreThe Herculean task required to reduce liability claims involving autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles need their own space to operate, a report says, and auto executives agree that putting them on the same roads as...
Read MoreFord’s slumping sales buoyed by autonomous vehicle investment
Washington, DC (CNN Business)Ford reported Thursday that its revenues fell 50% in the second quarter, but it posted a profit due to...
Read MoreBMW iVenturesinvests in GenXComm, a company improving the performance of 5G networks using photonic circuits
The long-awaited rollout of ultra-fast 5G networks promises to greatly improve the performance of mobile devices worldwide, but 5G...
Read MoreLidar startup taps investment banker as new CFO
Luminar Technologies Inc.’s new finance chief is set to promote the company’s new distance measurement technology for self-driving cars,...
Read MoreWhy Elon Musk’s autonomous driving ideas don’t worry insurers
Five years ago, the impact of technology on auto insurers was thought to be straightforward: Self-driving cars were coming soon, and they...
Read MoreAutonomous driving business models: Part two
In my previous article, we discussed various drivers of business models and the way it will change cities, roads, parking, commuting,...
Read MoreIsraeli autonomous vehicle startupVayaVision acquired by Canada’s LeddarTech
Canadian company LeddarTech Inc. announced Tuesday it has acquired Israeli automotive company VayaVision Sensing Ltd. The financial terms...
Read MoreBasemark raises $7.9 million for autonomous car graphics software
Basemark, a maker of graphics software for autonomous vehicles, has raised $7.9 million in funding. ETF Partners was the sole investor in...
Read MoreThe federal government says Bird got at least a $5 million bailout loan, but the company denies it
Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company, received a loan worth between $5 million and $10 million from the federal government’s Paycheck...
Read MoreVelodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path
Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle control tower project receives funding in Ski, Norway
The CONNECTING project in Ski, Norway looks to progress the removal of on-board operators from autonomous vehicles, instead making the...
Read MoreChristopher Columbus and evaluating autonomous vehicles as an investor
In recent times, the news surrounding Autonomous Vehicles has been quite active. Examples include Amazon AMZN acquiring Zoox for over a...
Read MoreUC Riverside receives $1.2M grant to build GPUs for autonomous vehicles
Three UC Riverside engineers have received a $1.2-million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new generation of...
Read MoreTuSimple seeking $250 million in new funding to scale self-driving trucks
TuSimple,the self-driving truck startup backed by Sina, Nvidia, UPS and Tier 1 supplier Mando Corporation, is headed back into the...
Read MoreReport: Amazon to pay $1 billion+ for self-driving tech firm Zoox
Amazon is expected to announce a deal as early as today to purchase self-driving vehicle technology provider Zoox for upwards of $1...
Read MoreAutonomous driving business models: Part one
Autonomous driving is one of the most disruptive developments witnessed. It will change the way we think of cities, roads, parking,...
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