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Faction Technology, Inc. and Arcimoto, Inc. have showcased a next-generation driverless delivery vehicle based on the Arcimoto Platform at the new Arcimoto RAMP manufacturing facility in Eugene, Oregon. Equipped with Faction’s DriveLink and TeleAssist technologies, the completely driverless Faction D1 combines autonomy ...

Mobileye, Benteler and Beep to Develop All-Electric Autonomous Movers in the US

Intel’s Mobileye, Benteler EV Systems, and Beep Inc. have announced a collaboration to develop and deploy fully electric, autonomous movers in public and private communities across North America. Aimed at first- and last-mile use cases in urban areas, the shuttles ...

Tesla Autopilot Predicts Accident

By now, many of us are already familiar with various active safety features of modern cars such as Mercedes-Benz’s Pre-Safe and Collision Prevention Assist. I too, had a personal experience of such a system at work in real world driving. ...

Xavier Supercomputer From Nvidia Drives Car

Nvidia is a well-known technology company especially among gamers as it makes the popular GeForce graphics processing unit (GPU), as well as System-On-Chip (SOC) for mobile computing and the automotive industry. At the ongoing CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2017 ...

Alphabet's Waymo, CH Robinson To Test Automated Trucks In Texas

Long-haul trucks should be easier to automate than robotaxis Alphabet Inc’s self-driving technology unit Waymo and truck fleet operator C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc said on Wednesday they would team up to test automated trucks with safety drivers behind the ...

Volkswagen CEO Sees Widespread Autonomous Driving Within 25 Years

Herbert Diess – CEO, Volkswagen AG Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess expects the car industry to see widespread autonomous driving within 25 years, the manager said on Wednesday in a question-and-answer session on the social media platform Reddit. Diess ...

Waymo Via & C.H. Robinson Announce Partnership to Advance Development of Autonomous Trucking

Waymo Via, the trucking and local delivery unit of autonomous driving technology company Waymo, and global logistics company, C.H. Robinson, have formed a long-term strategic partnership to explore the application of autonomous driving technology in logistics and supply chains. The ...

VIDEO: Meet MARTY, The Awesome Self-Driving And Self-Drifting DeLorean

Stanford University is known for fostering some great technical minds, feeding the growth of the Silicon Valley’s seemingly insatiable demand for the best and brightest. This time, some students (under the direction of their Professor, Dr. Chris Gerdes) have unveiled ...

Hyundai Mobis At Full Speed To Chase Autonomous Driving Vision

Hyundai Mobis, one of the largest automotive suppliers out there, plans to enter the autonomous driving arena and double down its efforts to keep pace with competitors – essentially the pack leaders in the race toward fullly self-driving car of the ...

Automotive Sector: What We Want To See In 2021

With 2020 having come to a relatively uneventful close, here's what we hope to see in the coming year for the automotive sector and infrastructure in Malaysia. We'll be honest – things are not looking great with COVID-19 cases back ...

Nissan Motors Japan Introduces Fully-Automated Towing System At Oppama Plant

Nissan Motors Japan has successfully introduced Intelligent Vehicle Towing (IVT), a fully-automated towing system at its Oppama production plant. The IVT system uses a modified Nissan Leaf electric vehicle to autonomously tow trollies which carry finished cars between designated loading and ...

Kangaroos Confuse Volvo’s Animal Detection Software

With the majority of carmakers perfecting hardware, software and algorithms preparing for the day cars will pilot themselves – Volvo has hit a snag in its autonomous driving program with kangaroos. In a report by ABC Network Australia, the unusual ...

Mercedes-Benz Opens Autonomous and Digital R&D Center In Israel

It may be a little difficult to believe, but one of the top countries for autonomous driving development and in-car digital services is Israel. There is a thriving startup culture and ecosystem, and the government has funded approximately 5,000 start-up ...

Autonomous Driving, Porsche Style - And The "Mark-Webber-Function"

You wouldn’t expect Porsche to be particularly fond of the idea of autonomous cars, but they seem to be taking it in stride – at least according to Lutz Meschke, Vice President of the Executive Board. The more obvious traits of ...

After Huawei and Xiaomi, Now OPPO Wants To Build A Car

OPPO, the brand that brought you the budget-conscious tech-laden smartphones now wants to build a car of its own. CEO, Tony Chan is believed to be driving this project but the direction that OPPO will take remains unclear. Whether to ...

BMW Group Is Building a Centre For Autonomous Driving Development

Autonomous cars are the future. Despite the odd crop of moral issues that pop up, self-driving cars will revolutionize the way we get around. I’m all for hitting some mountain roads over the weekend, but if I can take a ...

Volvo Show Off Their Vision For The Autonomous Driving Interface Of Tomorrow

Volvo has released new information and even a video on its IntelliSafe Auto Pilot. They say it is among the industry’s most advanced and easy-to-use interfaces, seamlessly switching from driver control to autonomous driving and vice versa. Always one to ...

Canada’s LeddarTech Announces $140 Million in Series D Financing & Debt Facility

LeddarTech, a Canadian ADAS and AD sensing technology group, has announced an investment of $140 million, which comprises $116 million in Series D funding plus debt facility of $24 million. The financing round was led by FS Investors. The investment ...

Volkswagen in collaboration to develop automated parking

In a collaborative project involving Bosch and several leading universities, Volkswagen is supporting development of an automated parking system not only saves users precious time from hours of fruitless searching but also, in the case of electric vehicles, managing the ...

TuSimple to Run Autonomous Trucks for Union Pacific Railroad

Autonomous driving tech company TuSimple has announced that Union Pacific Railroad will become its first customer on its fully automated trucking route in Arizona. Union Pacific, which has been in operation since the time of the American Civil War, ...

An Autonomous Drifting Toyota Supra Will Save Lives

Autonomous driving is typically marketed as a luxury item, a technology of convenience, something to handle the mundane parts of driving so you don’t have to. While some autonomous driver aids can help increase safety, full autonomous driving systems ...

Annotell Raises $24m to Improve Autonomous Car Safety

Annotell, a Swedish startup that builds software to determine the perception levels of autonomous systems, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round. Working with many large OEMs, sensor manufacturers, and autonomous companies, including Mercedes and Volvo, ...

Cruise Gets Huge $1.35 Billion Investment as it Starts Public Robotaxi Rides

Cruise is starting to offer driverless robotaxis in San Francisco and is set to receive a $1.35 billion investment from SoftBank. The GM-backed startup revealed the two pieces of news in tandem as it opened a sign-up page for ...

French car makers achieve autonomous driving first

PARIS: A Peugeot Citroen prototype has become the first self-driving car to travel on French public roads, navigating from Paris to Bordeaux fully autonomously As the first carmaker to obtain permission for self driving technology testing on the nation’s ...

Can Japan overtake the US as the place to test autonomous driving tech?

TOKYO: Following Toyota and Nissan, Bosch is the latest car company to realise the benefits that Japan offers as a location for developing and testing autonomous driving technologies in real-world conditions. The company is setting up a dedicated facility ...

Jaguar aims for autonomous driving with a human touch

LONDON: Jaguar Land Rover is taking to a new British road dedicated to developing connected and autonomous driving systems. The 66km stretch of road is part of a multi-million-pound investment to accelerate the development of technologies that can cut ...

Cadillac InnerSpace concept reimagines the luxury experience of motoring in future

For those who have not followed the changes in Cadillac, the quintessential American automobile brand, their products are no longer the huge and heavy ‘aircraft carriers’ they once were. In fact, since the 1980s, the General Motors subsidiary has ...

May Mobility Raises $83 Mn to Accelerate Development of Autonomous Mobility Services

May Mobility, a leader in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, has announced the initial closing of its Series C round of funding with an investment of $83 million. New investors include Tokio Marine and Toyota Tsusho, ...

VW Unit Cariad and Bosch Partner to Develop Automated Driving Functions

Volkswagen Group subsidiary Cariad and Bosch have announced an extensive partnership to accelerate the introduction of automated driving functions across all vehicle classes. The companies want to make partially and highly automated driving suitable for volume production. For the vehicles ...

TuSimple And Navistar Receive 6,775 Reservations for Fully Autonomous Trucks in The U.S.

TuSimple (Nasdaq: TSP), a self-driving technology company based in San Diego, California, has received 6,775 reservations for a new line of purpose-built Level 4 autonomous trucks in partnership with Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV). Among the first customers to place reservations are Penske Truck Leasing, Schneider, and U.S. ...

Co-Founder of Klarna, Niklas Adalberth, Joins Board of Freight Tech Company Einride

Niklas Adalberth, Co-founder of Klarna and Founder of Norrsken Foundation, has joined the Board of Directors at the Swedish freight tech company Einride. Norrsken Foundation is one of the early investors in Einride, playing an important part in both Series ...

Logistics Giant DHL Partners With Embark Trucks to Deploy Autonomous Fleet Starting in 2024

Embark Trucks, Inc., a U.S. developer of autonomous technology for the trucking industry, has announced that DHL Supply Chain will participate in Embark’s ongoing reservation program, which counts over 14,200 reservations to date. DHL plans to deploy autonomous trucks within ...

Einride to Begin Autonomous Electric Shipping in the US

Autonomous and electric shipping company Einride has revealed it is beginning operations in the US. The Swedish company has been operating in Europe since 2016 but its range of Flatbed Pod vehicles will soon be carrying goods Bridgestone and GE ...

Yandex Robots to Start Pilot Deliveries of Russian Post Parcels

Robots manufactured by Yandex have begun delivering letters and parcels for Russian Post – the country’s national postal operator. Initially, the robots will only be active in Moscow, where the robots will deliver parcels from 27 post offices in ...

First Glimpse of UK’s First Level-4 Autonomous Bus Service, CAVForth

The UK transport operator Stagecoach, in partnership with Fusion Processing, Alexander Dennis and Transport Scotland, has revealed the first glimpse of the new special livery for the autonomous bus project, CAVForth. The service launches in Scotland in 2022. The new ...

Gatik And Walmart Achieve Fully Driverless Deliveries (Minus a Safety Driver)

Autonomous trucking company Gatik and Walmart Inc. have announced that Gatik is operating daily without a safety driver behind the wheel on its delivery route for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas. The deployment represents the first time that the safety driver ...

Waymo Via to Begin Testing Autonomous Trucks in Texas

Waymo Via, the trucking arm of Alphabet’s self-driving company, has expanded its UPS partnership to conduct autonomous trial runs with class 8 trucks. Previously, the two companies had collaborated on sending parcels from UPS stores in the Metro Phoenix ...

Waymo to Begin Testing in New York

Waymo, the Google-owned autonomous driving company, is set to begin mapping the streets of New York in order to facilitate better autonomous driving in the city. Waymo’s fleet of vehicles will be manually operated by “autonomous specialists” at all times ...

U.S. Self-Driving Trucking Company Kodiak Robotics Raises $125 Million in Series B Round

Kodiak Robotics, Inc., a U.S. self-driving trucking company, has raised $125 million in an oversubscribed Series B fundraising round for a total of $165 million raised to date. Recent investments previously announced include Bridgestone Americas and BMW i Ventures. Kodiak is building an advanced technology ...

Einride And GE Appliances to Deploy First U.S. Fleet of Autonomous And Electric Trucks

Swedish freight technology company Einride and GE Appliances, have announced a partnership for the implementation of electric and autonomous transport at scale. It will be the first time in history an autonomous and electric truck is live and operating on U.S. soil. ...

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