CES Self-Driving Car Panel: Government and Industry Need to Work Together
LAS VEGAS—When politicians and industry executives talk about a new technology rollout, sometimes it isn’t pretty. However, at an autonomous vehicle panel last week’s...
LiDAR Presence Growing at CES
LAS VEGAS—The number of companies offering LiDAR (light imaging detection and ranging) units at CES is growing each year as autonomous vehicles continue to...
Autonomous Vehicles Highlighted at CES
Wading through dozens of car companies, their suppliers and startups at CES last week was exhausting. The show had more than 185,000 attendees and...
Ford to Move Autonomous Vehicle Divison to Detroit
Reuters
Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it would relocate its autonomous and electric vehicle units to Detroit from Dearborn, Michigan.
“The relocation brings together Ford...
New LiDAR Startup Focuses on Accuracy, Price
A Silicon Valley-based LiDAR company said today that it was coming out of stealth mode to offer units with more than 300 lines of...
Landon Garner Named Taoglas’ CMO
Taoglas named Landon Garner to the newly created position of chief marketing officer (CMO). Garner oversaw Ingenu’s corporate launch in 2015. From 2012 to...
More LiDAR Accuracy Means Better Autonomous Testing
Despite the proliferation of LiDAR in autonomous vehicles, many industry observers say that the technology needs augmentation for better accuracy. In some cases, LiDAR,...
GAO Says Comprehensive Autonomous Vehicle Plan Would Help DOT
Government Accountability Office
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Automated cars and light-duty trucks-from vehicles already on the road equipped with driver assistance technologies to fully...
Driverless Car Bill Hitting Hits Snag in Senate
The Hill
A driverless car bill that had been speeding through the Senate hit a speed bump in the upper chamber this week.
The measure was...
GM says it will launch a robot taxi service in 2019
The Verge
GM says it will have a ride-sharing service featuring its line of self-driving Chevy Bolts ready to go by 2019. That would place...
GM’s robot Cruise car still isn’t better at driving than you...
Recode
Not many of us have been in self-driving cars. And that’s probably why a lot of people still fear the idea of getting behind...
Ex-Uber staffer says in bombshell letter that the company had a...
Business Insider
(Go to the Business Insider story, at the link above, for interesting Tweets)
A trade theft trial between Uber and Alphabet's autonomous vehicle...
Waymo’s self-driving cars rack up 4 million miles on public roads
The Verge
Self-driving cars are still very much a technology of the future, however their presence in the here and now is...
Personal Sedan Sales in Jeopardy as U.S. Auto Market Transitions to...
KPMG Research
KPMG predicts that self-driving cars and mobility services will provide options that will reduce consumer desire to own cars, particularly sedans. Pushing a...
U.S. prosecutors’ letter spurred orders in self-driving car lawsuit
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The judge overseeing a lawsuit between Uber Technologies Inc and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit issued a...
The driverless revolution may exact a political price
Los Angeles Times
Whilst there have been many recent technological advancements aimed to help truck drivers, such as the use of Power Landing Gear in...
Uber Strikes Deal With Volvo to Bring Self-Driving Cars to Its...
The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — No one knows what the future of self-driving cars will look like, or how long it will take...
Social Mobility in a Dockless, Driverless Age
Bloomberg
In a long profile of automaker Ford Motor Co.’s efforts to remake itself in a new era of mobility, Kevin Roose says that “driving...
Waymo’s Arizona rollout is a black eye for the Golden State
The Hill
California is home to Silicon Valley, some of the world’s top research universities and of Waymo, the recently spun-off self-driving vehicle arm of the...
Tesla debuts electric semi with up to 500 mile range, production...
CCJ
With a style more fitting of Star Wars than Smokey and the Bandit, Tesla’s electric semi made its twice-delayed debut Thursday in Hawthorne, Calif., the...
