Driverless Report

U.S.-based Porsche Taycan owners can now use Apple Maps EV Routing to navigate and route-plan within Apple CarPlay.  Drivers no longer have to exit the CarPlay ecosystem to plot...

Hexagon’s Autonomy and Positioning division and Hitachi Zosen have announced an agreement to launch the TerraStar-X Enterprise correction service in Japan.  Among other applications, TerraStar-X Enterprise will provide lane-level...

More than 2 million customers had location data exposed... Toyota Japan has admitted to exposing millions of drivers’ vehicle information, including location, on the internet for...

TomTom  has announced that more than 10 million automated vehicles sold by carmakers in North America and Europe are powered by its advanced driver...

Lidar company Luminar LAZR -6.90%↓ has been accused of passing off a future chip design as its own technology at a recent investor conference, according to Forbes.  Israeli startup LidWave sent a...

Other location industry companies follow with cuts Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo laid off employees earlier this week in a move that came after large cuts at parent company Alphabet and Google GOOG 1.59%↑ . ...

WASHINGTON—The annual Transportation Research Board meeting here showcases government and academic programs, with student poster board sessions and updates on worldwide testing.  However, in a session...

San Francisco-based Point One Navigation announced this week that it has closed a $10 million Series A round of funding.  The funding, led by...

Autonomous race cars reach high speeds, but competition highlights challenges of GPS outages in demanding environment In a celebrated test two years in the making, Technical...

Reuters: TomTom Posted Quarterly Net Loss For The Last Two Years Citing the worldwide shortage of semiconductor chips that have curbed automotive markets, TomTom  said the...

5G Rapidly Becoming Mainstream for Location, Autonomous Vehicle Services Halo has launched a commercial driverless car service using the T-Mobile  5G network in Las Vegas.  The company,...

LAS VEGAS—Septentrio and Point One Navigation decided to get away from the crowded halls of CES to demonstrate new autonomous vehicle technology...

LAS VEGAS—Ireland-based Taoglas recently purchased rival combination antenna company ThinkWireless to strengthen its position in commercial vehicle markets.     

LAS VEGAS—An increasing number of LiDAR (light imaging detection and ranging) companies at CES this year touted higher resolution, smaller size and...

A new company is adapting advanced Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) technology to prepare a vehicle and its...

As 2018 comes to a close, the editors of Driverless Report asked industry veterans to give their thoughts on the year’s technology...

Location industry mergers and acquisitions have been increasing over the past few years. In fact, at least one industry analyst believes that more...

Full story at Reuters DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N) President Dan Ammann will take over as chief...

Reuters Full story at the link above... Fully self-driving cars may be on the fast lane to U.S. roads under a pilot program the Trump administration...

LOS ANGELES—While the recent Mobile World Congress Americas here had at least two dozen location industry companies exhibiting, few product announcements and partnerships were...