Driverless Report

LEO constellation to offer positioning and navigation capabilities... Saying it wants to provide accurate navigation for autonomous vehicles, Geely Holding Group last week launched 11 Geespace low-Earth orbit satellites....

HERE Technologies and what3words have announced an expansion of their partnership to allow its Location Services application programming interfaces (APIs) customers to use the United Kingdom-based company’s...

Available geolocation data at the center of domestic violence... The Federal Communications Commission is asking the largest automakers and wireless carriers how they retain, share, or sell...

Company has own GNSS augmentation service... Solidifying its position as one of the top industrial users of satellite technology, John Deere DE -0.88%↓ this week signed a deal with SpaceX to...

LAS VEGAS—San Francisco-based Point One Navigation’s Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections technology was used by all autonomous racecars in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC).  The race, part of...

LAS VEGAS—Despite fears of automotive market saturation, there were dozens of companies offering lidar sensors for automotive and other uses at CES.  Some companies...

LAS VEGAS—Overture Maps Foundation Executive Director Marc Prioleau said at CES that the organization’s main assumption is that the base layers of a map should be open...

HERE Technologies, Mapbox and TomTom court OEMs LAS VEGAS—Among dozens of mobility and auto companies at this year’s CES trade show, mapping companies took the...

HERE Integrates HD Live Map in BMW’s 7 Series’ Personal Pilot, Partners With Techjockey.com HERE Technologies has announced that its HERE HD Live Map, based on UniMap, is...

Autonomous vehicle companies have been getting hammered by the regulatory agencies lately, but May Mobility this week announced a $105 million Series D round.  The round, led...