Canadian Government Publishes Autonomous Vehicle Paper

  https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/421/TRCM/Reports/COM_RPT_TRCM_AutomatedVehicles_e.pdf Link to report above. Driverless cars are already a reality but Canada is ill-prepared for their arrival, the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications said...

2018 Will Be Great Year for Connected Vehicles

LAS VEGAS-While autonomous vehicles seem to get most of the media attention these days, the foundation technologies that connect vehicles will continue to grow...

CTS Panel Addresses Self-Driving Policy, Public Acceptance

LAS VEGAS--A panel of executives at last week’s Consumer Telematics Show here said that in order for autonomous vehicles to be successfully integrated on...

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 Download full report by clicking above. 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...