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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 13, 2022

Nuro’s newest autonomous delivery bot is designed for the masses

Nuro showed off Wednesday one of the final pieces of its commercial autonomous delivery strategy. The startup, which has raised more than $2.13 billion since former Google engineers Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu founded the company in June 2016, unveiled a third-generation electric autonomous delivery vehicle designed for commercial operations and manufactured in partnership with BYD North America....

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 13, 2022

Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

Local Motors, the company that crowdsourced and built the Olli autonomous shuttle as well as the Rally Fighter, will be shutting down operations by Friday, according to several posts from various employees on LinkedIn. The company has yet to release an official statement, but many employees are already openly looking for new work....

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 11, 2022

Magna acquires tech, hires engineers of autonomous vehicle startup Optimus Ride

Magna has acquired the technology, IP and assets of Optimus Ride, a startup based in Boston that was trying to commercialize electric autonomous shuttles. As part of the deal announced Tuesday, Magna has hired more than 120 employees of Optimus Ride. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed,...

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 10, 2022

All change please? GILLIG finds tech partner for self-driving buses

Jan 10 (Reuters) – RR.AI, a unit of self-driving technology startup Robotic Research, and U.S. bus maker GILLIG said on Monday they will jointly develop driver assistance systems and self-driving technology for commuter buses in the United States....

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 7, 2022

Volvo Cars set to debut unsupervised autonomous driving in California

Volvo Cars has announced plans to launch its new Ride Pilot unsupervised autonomous driving feature to customers in the state of California, and it will make its debut in an all-new, all-electric flagship SUV set to make its debut later this year....

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 6, 2022

Pa. bill would allow AV tests with no human driver

(TNS) — Forty years ago, Pennsylvania became a leader in self-driving vehicles when it deployed one to help clean up the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Harrisburg. Now, Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian said Wednesday it’s important to change state law to allow continued development of self-driving cars and trucks in Pennsylvania. ...

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 5, 2022

Ansys helps drive electric autonomous vehicle safety for EasyMile

EasyMile, an all-electric autonomous technology supplier headquartered in Toulouse, France looked to Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) software for a single-source, turnkey solution to demonstrate the safety of their driverless vehicles. With CADFEM France, Ansys enabled engineers to work from a single model for all safety activities across platforms—significantly shortening development cycles, speeding time to market...

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Posted by newsiteadmin on Jan 4, 2022

Self-driving truck company TuSimple to use Nvidia chips for autonomous computing

Jan 4 (Reuters) – TuSimple Holdings Inc (TSP.O) on Tuesday said it has partnered with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) to use the company’s vehicle chips to design and build an advanced autonomous driving computer for its self-driving trucks....

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