How China’s first autonomous driving unicorn Momenta hunts for data
ao Xudong turned up on the side of the road in jeans and a black T-shirt printed with the word “Momenta,” the name of his startup. Before...
Read MoreUL acquires kVA for autonomous vehicle safety biz
Global safety science company UL completed the acquisition of US based technical and management consulting company kVA on Thursday. kVA...
Read MoreWaymo doesn’t want its self-driving cars to annoy the hell out of you
It’s all about balance when it comes to riding in self-driving cars. The sensor-loaded cars pick up so much more information than a...
Read MoreCheaper sensors could speed more self-driving cars to market by 2022
The first heavily automated mass-market vehicles for consumers could go on sale as soon as 2022, if one or more vehicle manufacturers...
Read MoreUber unveils next-generation Volvo self-driving car
Uber Technologies Inc unveiled its newest Volvo self-driving car in Washington on Wednesday as it works to eventually deploy vehicles...
Read MoreHyundai Motor invests in Aurora, which is helping it create self-driving hydrogen SUVs
Hyundai Motor and its Kia division are investing in self-driving tech firm Aurora, which is working with the Korean auto giant to create...
Read MoreSelf-driving urban vehicle transports people by day, collects trash by night
Swedish startup Scania is developing a self-driving urban concept vehicle that is designed on a modular system that could allow it to...
Read MoreDon’t tell lidar foe Elon Musk but this maker of the robo-car vision tech just raised $170 million
Innoviz Technologies, a maker of laser lidar sensors for self-driving and highly automated cars, just closed a $170 million funding round,...
Read MoreHow Bosch maintains record pace despite multiple global challenges
Some of the biggest European auto suppliers have seen their profits slump over the past year, but Robert Bosch — the largest of them...
Read MoreTesla Autopilot safety stats said imbued with statistical fallacies, interpret cautiously
As I’ve mentioned in my column posts, Tesla and Elon Musk’s vision for the realization of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars is...
Read MoreTNO and Siemens put connected and automated driving in the fast lane
At the ITS European Conference in Eindhoven, June 3 -6, 2019, TNO and Siemens announced that Streetwise, TNO’s real-world scenario...
Read MoreBans on facial recognition will impact self-driving cars, reciprocally so
Recent headlines have made well-known the ban that San Francisco has enacted on facial recognition within its borders, becoming the first...
Read MoreBosch demos new systems to improve autonomous vehicle safety, performance
Remember that old Saturday Night Live bit where the best way to improve almost anything is “more cowbell?” Based on a series of...
Read MoreTesla now offers early software updates to Full Self-Driving buyers, report says
Tesla has been offering an option called Full Self-Driving option on its cars for years now, despite the FSD technology not being ready...
Read MoreHarnessing integrated toolchains in autonomous vehicle development
The starting point of any vehicle development process is occupant safety. Shifting responsibility from driver to car maker to prevent...
Read MoreTake the next step in automated driving with a comprehensive development tool
Software for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving represents a strong driver of innovation within the...
Read MoreRadar finds new place in self-driving technology
On a mid-March afternoon, 3 inches of fresh snow blanketed M-14, a state highway in southeast Michigan. Lane markings were covered in a...
Read MoreSoftBank’s service to help power self-driving buses, farm machinery
Japan’s SoftBank said on Monday it will launch a service this year that would use satellite navigation data and the telco’s...
Read MoreRadar sensor module to bring added safety to autonomous driving
When a child runs out onto the road, the average human driver takes 1.6 seconds to hit the brake pedal. The reaction time is cut to 0.5...
Read MoreTesla Autopilot, at times unsafe for automatic lane changes, lays bare machine-learning brittleness
In my column of last Sunday, I analyzed a Tesla Autopilot incident involving a Tesla Model 3 that slammed into a stalled car on a highway,...
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