Schaeffler 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...
Read MoreBaidu Q2 revenues surge with Apollo blooming development
Chinese Internet giant Baidu achieved a blooming second quarter with revenues surging 32% year on year to RMB 26 billion and net profits...
Read MoreNetworked lighting to eliminate auto blind spots
It is a horror scenario for every driver: Suddenly, a previously invisible pedestrian comes out of the dark between two street lights or...
Read MoreWinners revealed in Govt £12.1m autonomous vehicle giveaway
The Government has announced the winners of a collaborative R&D competition for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), with £12.1m...
Read MoreNew material promises breakthrough IR sensing for autonomous cars
To overcome the issues inherent with using video or other forms of visible light detection (such as poor performance in fog, snow, and...
Read MoreTesla’s autonomous ‘coast-to-coast’ drive on hold while autopilot team focuses on safety
Tesla’s autonomous coast-to-coast drive, originally promised in 2016, is on hold while the company’s Autopilot team stays “heads down” on...
Read MoreAutonomous-car tech investment skyrockets on SoftBank deals
Private investment in autonomous-vehicle companies soared in the second quarter to more than in the last four years combined, according to...
Read MoreCepton LiDAR goes Anti-MEMS route
Chemistry is just applied physics… or so a physicist would tell you. And autonomous vehicles are just a collection of applied sensors – if...
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