As Uber winds down autonomous truck business, Otto founders aren’t giving up
Uber doled out more than $600 million to acquire self-driving truck startup Otto two years ago. Last week, Uber announced it was ceasing...
Read MoreScale raises $18 million to label data from autonomous car companies like Lyft and Embark
Autonomous cars need data. Lots of data. According to research conducted by the Rand Corporation, they’ll have to drive hundreds of...
Read MoreKodiak Robotics raises $40M for self-driving trucks
Kodiak Robotics has emerged from stealth mode and raised $40 million in Series A funding to develop technology for self-driving trucks....
Read MoreWhy Waymo is worth a staggering $175 billion even before launching its self-driving cars
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s multibillion-dollar self-driving vehicle bet hasn’t yet launched commercial operations but that’s not stopping...
Read More‘Voice of Waymo’ helps driverless vehicles’ passengers
When commuters settle into one of Waymo’s self-driving cars there might not be a driver behind the wheel, but the Voice of Waymo is always...
Read MoreWhy Europe is losing ground in race to offer self-driving cars
Johann Jungwirth is visibly frustrated. In Hanover to present the latest iteration of the SElf-DRIving Car, or Sedric, Volkswagen...
Read MoreCosworth providing vision solutions for ADAS and autonomous vehicles to MuCCA
Cosworth is extending its range of camera and data systems to provide vision solutions for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and...
Read MoreSchaeffler buys drive-by-wire technology for autonomous vehicles
German automotive supplier Schaeffler is acquiring drive-by-wire technology Space Drive from Paravan GmbH, which it said on Monday would...
Read MoreMontreal announces plans to test out driverless buses this summer
Montreal’s Olympic Park is going to feel like an episode of The Jetsons. The city and transit company Transdev have announced a new...
Read MoreThree companies vying for traction in self-driving software platform race
The Apollo 3.0 Launch Event in Mountain View last night highlighted the strides made by the open-source self-driving car project backed by...
Read MoreAutonomous driving Lidar pilot program announced by CEA Tech, Transdev, IRT Nanoelec
A pilot program to characterize and assess lidar sensors to improve performance and safety of autonomous vehicles has been announced by...
Read MoreAptiv posts solid Q2 and remains a top driverless-vehicle stock
Aptive, which is positioned to help develop the next generation of vehicle safety solutions, driverless vehicles, and ways vehicles...
Read MoreAPTIV: Smart vehicle architecture: The backbone of the future
The concept of Smart Vehicle Architecture (SVA) was born a few years ago at Aptiv. We define Smart Vehicle Architecture as the power and...
Read MoreAudi and Ericsson to pioneer 5G for automotive manufacturing
At Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany, the two companies agreed on a range of activities exploring the potential of 5G as a...
Read MoreRideOS raises $25M to become the traffic control center for self-driving cars
A mere sprinkling of autonomous vehicles exist in a few dozen cities today. A smattering in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. A dusting in...
Read MoreSpending on future tech eats into BMW quarterly profit
Net profit at BMW fell 6 percent in the second quarter as it spent more on developing new technologies for electric, autonomous and...
Read MoreMichigan brings its smart cities together for state-wide change
To be part of the future–whether it’s autonomous cars and shared mobility or advanced healthcare and sustainable communities–it takes...
Read MoreElon Musk says Tesla A.I. chip project is ‘finally coming to fruition’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company’s custom-built chip for handling autonomous driving is nearly ready. Tesla is...
Read MoreBoeing to research autonomous vehicles at new MIT Location
Boeing will lease approximately 100,000 square feet at MIT’s upcoming building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The agreement makes...
Read MoreSacramento eases into the self-driving scene
Quick, think of a California hotbed of technological might. There’s Silicon Valley, duh. And enterprising Silicon Beach, down in the...
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