Baidu is on the cusp of making self-driving cars more practical. The Chinese tech giant has revealed that its Apollo Computing Unit, billed as the “world’s first production-ready” autonomous driving computer, is ready for use on the streets. It’s...
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StradVision gets recognition for futuristic technology; Joins South Korea’s ‘K-Unicorn Project’ investment program
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Korean startup StradVision, which is developing technology for Autonomous vehicles and systems, has achieved a prestigious recognition that establishes its identity as a ‘future unicorn.’ StradVision, whose AI-based camera perception software is a leading innovator in Advanced Driver Assistance...
Ever since 2016 Waymo and FCA (which will soon be known as Stellantis) have partnered on self-driving vehicles and technology, and now that connection is expanding “in several important ways.” From FCA’s side, it’s exclusively using Waymo’s...
Mobileye and Ford are expanding their longstanding partnership. The former will provide chips and software to power Ford cars' driver-assist features.Read...
Drone swarms frequently fly outside for a reason: it’s difficult for the robotic fliers to navigate in tight spaces without hitting each other. Caltech researchers may have a way for those drones to fly indoors, however. They’ve developed a machine...
Intel’s Mobileye self-driving division has received regulatory approval to test its vehicles on German roads, Intel announced. With a safety driver at the wheel, it can shake down its systems on city streets and the Autobahn at up to 130 km/h (81...
On top of the $1.3 billion that Amazon has offered to acquire autonomous vehicle company Zoox, the company is paying a high cost to retain the talent.Read...
Shelter-in-place orders have forced many companies that are developing self-driving cars to stop testing their vehicles. That’s bad news for the nascent industry because the machine learning that the cars rely on learns best from road testing.Consider ride-hailing company Lyft, among the...
May Mobility, an apparent success story in the self-driving industry, suffered from overambition and technological limitations that cratered its business.Read...
Refraction AI, a startup based in Ann Arbor, has launched an autonomous delivery pilot for customers of the local Produce Station.Read...
Amazon has announced that it will acquire Zoox, a self-driving startup founded in 2014, which has raised nearly $1 billion in funding and which aims to develop autonomous driving technology, including vehicles, for the purposes of providing a full-stack solution for ride-hailing. Zoox will...
Amazon will reportedly pay over $1.2 billion to acquire Zoox, one of the many companies working on self-driving technology, according to The Information and The Financial Times. The acquisition would be Amazon’s biggest step into self-driving so...
Volvo’s self-driving car efforts have been most closely associated with Uber, but it’s about to make you rethink that connection. The automaker has formed an alliance that will see Waymo be the exclusive partner for Level 4 self-driving (that is,...
Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz detailed the autonomous driving system that'll power forthcoming vehicles from the latter company.Read...
Lyft’s self-driving team called Level 5 has published its first ever Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment (VSSA) report (PDF), giving us a glimpse of how it plans to make sure that its autonomous vehicles are safe to use. The company says it’s applying...
After less than a year, BMW and Mercedes are ending what was supposed to be an ongoing partnership to develop automated driving technology. The two automakers described the split as "mutual and amicable." They were also quick to note they may renew...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a new initiative that will give you access to more information on automotive vehicle tests conducted by various companies. It’s a voluntary effort called Automated Vehicle...
Self-driving cars are theoretically ideal for safety. Take human limitations out of the mix and no one gets hurt, right? Not necessarily. A new IIHS study (via Autoblog) suggests that completely switching to autonomous technology would only prevent...
Today, the Russian internet giant Yandex revealed its fourth-generation self-driving car, a collaboration with Hyundai. This generation brings Yandex tech to the 2020 Hyundai Sonata. By the end of this year, Yandex plans to add 100 Sonatas to its...
Today, the Russian internet giant Yandex revealed its fourth-generation self-driving car, a collaboration with Hyundai. This generation brings Yandex tech to the 2020 Hyundai Sonata. By the end of this year, Yandex plans to add 100 Sonatas to its...
Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that has a close relationship with Ford, closed a $2.6 billion funding round led by Volkswagen at a $7.25 valuation.Read...
Waymo’s plan to resume self-driving operations will soon extend to San Francisco. A spokesperson has confirmed a report in The Verge that Waymo’s autonomous minivans will return to San Francisco Bay Area streets on June 8th. The company isn’t...
Less than two weeks after Uber shared plans to lay off 3,700 employees, the company announced that it will let another 3,000 workers go. In other words, in the course of a month, Uber has made plans to get rid of roughly a quarter of its...
Hyundai and Aptiv redeploy autonomous vehicles to deliver meals to vulnerable people in Las Vegas
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The Hyundai-Aptiv Driving Joint Venture has redeployed self-driving cars in Las Vegas to deliver food to families in partnership with Delivering with Dignity.Read...
Waymo resumes limited autonomous driving testing in Phoenix in first step back to normalcy
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Waymo today announced that it will resume operations in the Metro Phoenix area, roughly two months after pausing all service and testing.Read...
Volvo plans to equip its vehicles with built-in LiDAR beginning in 2022. The automaker is working with Luminar and says its next generation Scalable Product Architecture (SPA2) vehicles will be hardware-ready. The cars won’t be fully self-driving,...
Volvo announced it will use lidar sensors from startup Luminar Technologies in its forthcoming SPA2 vehicle development platform.Read...
Self-driving vehicles require massive amounts of data, which can be difficult to obtain without vehicles equipped with cameras and LiDAR and miles and miles of testing. To help advance autonomous vehicle research, Ford is releasing a comprehensive...
Intel’s autonomous driving ambitions may soon get a boost from a well-known app developer. Calcalist, The Marker and TechCrunch sources claim Intel is close to acquiring transit app developer Moovit in a deal that would be worth around $1 billion....
DeepMind isn’t the only one with an Atari-savvy AI. A team of Uber AI researchers has developed a set of algorithms, Go-Explore, that reportedly beats any Atari 2600 game with “superhuman” scores, including ones where AI previously had trouble...