Velodyne Lidar signs five-year sales agreement with ThorDrive
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a five-year sales agreement to provide Ultra Puck™ sensors to ThorDrive, an autonomous technology...
Read MoreAurora strikes deal with Toyota, Denso to develop, test self-driving Sienna minivans
Aurora has reached a deal with Toyota and auto-parts supplier Denso to develop and test vehicles equipped with the self-driving startup’s...
Read MoreBlackBerry’s QNX Black Channel Communications to be used in Motional’s driverless platform
WATERLOO, ON, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced its QNX® Black Channel...
Read MoreBestmile partners with Perrone Robotics to provide fleet orchestration for autonomous fleets
LAUSANNE, Switzerland and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bestmile, the leading Fleet Orchestration Platform that...
Read MoreSwift Navigation raises $50 million Series C round to accelerate consumer adoption of automotive safety and precise navigation applications across the globe
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS (Global Navigation...
Read MoreOxbotica and bp complete autonomous vehicle trial at refinery
bp has successfully completed an autonomous vehicle trial at its Lingen refinery in Germany, working with Oxbotica, a global leader in...
Read MoreVolvo Cars & Luminar open up long-distance lidar dataset
There are approximately a dozen autonomy-related companies I’m keeping an eye on. As noted in a recent article about Waymo’s approach...
Read MoreGreat Wall pushes further into smart cars with Horizon deal
(Bloomberg) — Beijing-based Horizon Robotics Inc. and Great Wall Motor Co., China’s top maker of sport utility vehicles, are teaming...
Read MoreTesla looks to hire data labelers to feed Autopilot neural nets with images at Gigafactory New York
Tesla is looking to hire a team of data labelers to feed images to help train its Autopilot neural nets at Gigafactory New York in...
Read MoreBaidu introduces world’s first multi-modal autonomous driving MaaS platform in Guangzhou
BEIJING, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) today deployed a multi-modal autonomous driving MaaS (mobility as a...
Read MoreExamining the world through signals and systems
There’s a mesmerizing video animation on YouTube of simulated, self-driving traffic streaming through a six-lane, four-way intersection....
Read MoreVolkswagen plans to challenge Google with own autonomous car software
HAMBURG (Reuters) – Volkswagen plans to develop most of the software needed for autonomous cars in-house, the head of the German...
Read MoreTrimble teams with ROBORACE for its autonomous racing series
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and ROBORACE, the world’s first autonomous racing series...
Read MoreLuokung announces partnership between EMG and leading electric vehicle manufacturer BAIC BJEV to jointly develop mapping services for autonomous driving
BEIJING, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Luokung Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: LKCO) (“Luokung” or the “Company”), a...
Read MoreThe Fusion Project works to accelerate data management for connected and autonomous vehicles
SEATTLE, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Airbiquity®, Cloudera, NXP® Semiconductors, Teraki™, and Wind River® today announced The Fusion...
Read MorePremier smart city, Peachtree Corners, launches test vehicle for use by public to research and test mobility technology
PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Peachtree Corners – the nation’s first smart city environment powered by...
Read MoreKuo: ‘Apple Car’ to use Hyundai’s E-GMP platform, GM and PSA partnerships possible
Noted TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo weighed in on “Apple Car” on Monday, saying Apple will work in close cooperation with...
Read MoreTeijin and Applied EV develop autonomous vehicle platform for LS-EV
Teijin Limited and its joint development partner Applied Electric Vehicles (Applied EV) have achieved a major milestone toward their...
Read MoreInnoviz has the lidar technology Tesla and Apple need for their autonomous vehicles, says CEO
“If Tesla wants to reach full autonomous driving capabilities it will need lidar,” Omer Keilaf, co-founder and CEO of Innoviz,...
Read More‘Apple Car’ may recognize hand signals from people directing traffic
Apple is researching how to make a future “Apple Car” correctly recognize and respond to a person directing traffic at the...
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