Singapore autonomous bus test doesn’t hit peacocks, tourists
Roaming peacocks, tourists and bushes were all causing headaches for operators of the first autonomous bus shuttle services on public roads in Singapore. Read more…
Roaming peacocks, tourists and bushes were all causing headaches for operators of the first autonomous bus shuttle services on public roads in Singapore. Read more…
Driverless cars are cool and all, but how will it affect the insurance industry? Self-driving cars are touted that as the future of transportation by many. Read more…
Self-driving cars could make traffic congestion in urban centers worse instead of better, says a new study. The problem: parking costs. Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – US chipmaker Nvidia has signed separate deals with Chinese electric vehicle startups XPeng Motors, Singulato Motors and SF Motors to develop autonomous driving technology, chief executive Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. Huang, Read more…
KT Corp says it has successfully tested a self-driving bus at Incheon International Airport (IIA) showcasing its own 5G-based autonomous vehicle technology. At IIA the driverless bus covered 2.2 kilometers at a speed of 30 Read more…
(Reuters) – Canada’s BlackBerry on Friday raised its bets on the fast-growing areas of autonomous cars and artificial intelligence (AI) with the $1.4 billion purchase of California-based cybersecurity company Cylance. The company’s shares rose as Read more…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Volvo Cars has teamed up with Chinese search engine operator Baidu to develop a self-driving taxi for China, it said on Thursday, opening another frontier to secure its place in the robotaxi Read more…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co and Baidu launched a two-year project on Wednesday to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop autonomous vehicle technology. Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp and SoftBank Group are teaming up to develop self-driving car services, signalling deepening alliances between top automaker and tech firms as the global race to develop autonomous cars intensifies. Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – BMW rivals and ride-hailing companies are considering joining its consortium for developing self-driving cars as auto industry profits come under increasing pressure, board member Klaus Froehlich said on Tuesday. Carmakers and ride-hailing Read more…
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LONDON (Reuters) – Autonomous car features are moving closer to mass-market production, with British chip designer ARM introducing the first in a new line of safety-hardened processors for building features such as automated collision avoidance into Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s capital city has designated 11 more roads for self-driving vehicle testing, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday, to try to speed up the technology’s development. The 11 roads are Read more…
GOTHENBURG (Reuters) – Volvo Cars presented a fully electric robo-taxi on Wednesday, as the Geely-owned Swedish company races to meet an ambitious target for driverless vehicle sales with its Uber supply deal on hold. Besides Read more…
Waymo may appear to be struggling with some of the most basic vehicle operations, but the little data that there is still suggests that it is miles ahead of the competition. A report from The Read more…
(Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will invest $500 million in Uber to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday, a bid by both companies to catch up Read more…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo has set up a subsidiary in Shanghai, according to a business registration filing, the latest sign that the US internet giant is attempting to make new inroads into Read more…
While the regulatory environment is moving towards an acceptance of autonomous vehicles far more quickly than I thought, I still think that the main resistance will come from the insurance industry, despite some studies indicating Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – A self-driving car service could be on Tokyo’s public roads in time for the 2020 Olympics as Japan looks to drive investment in new technology to drive economic growth, according to a Read more…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Mobileye, Intel’s Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply 8 million cars at a European automaker with its self-driving technologies, a company official told Reuters. Financial terms of the Read more…
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