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With India’s first end-to-end AI autopilot system unveiled and partnerships with top OEMs underway, Minus Zero co-founder and CEO Gagandeep Reehal believes the future of autonomous driving won’t be built in Silicon Valley, it’ll be built for places like Bengaluru.
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This year, Volkswagen plans to test 10 ID Buzz electric vehicles retrofitted with Mobileye’s autonomous driving platform with safety drivers on board in limited areas of Austin, including downtown.
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Japan is far from the only place with autonomous vehicles on the roads, but its government has set acceleration of the technology as a key priority.
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The firm has taken the action to protect the Cruise and Super-Cruise brands following Ford Motors in April had renamed its Co-Pilot360 automated driving system as Blue Cruise. Despite the talks, consensus on the issue had been unsuccessful, GM said in court documents that was filed on July 23.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during an earnings conference call in January that he was "highly confident the car will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of human this year."
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report compiled by experts on the future of work. One of their theories is that driverless cars on public roads is a distant prospect.
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The ridehailing giant said the round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and marks the first time Didi's autonomous driving business has brought in external funding since it was established.
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Waymo was launched in 2009 by Google, as a part of its self-driving cars project, which gained tremendous momentum in the last decade.
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Uber was driving the vehicles on public roads in four cities” sometimes at night” at speeds as high as 55 miles an hour when testing was halted after the accident, the paper said.
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Overall, the company's total projected expenditure for the next five years amounts to 40 billion euros, the company said in a statement. It also plans restructuring measures that will generate 1 billion in earnings uplift already in 2018.
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The accident involving the U.S. technology firm's car in Arizona marked the first fatality linked to an autonomous vehicle and a potential blow to the technology expected to transform transportation.
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The largest U.S. automaker also said roof modules for GM’s self-driving vehicles will be assembled at its Brownstown Battery Assembly plant.
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The product, called Blackberry Jarvis, is being marketed first to automakers - a group of customers the former smartphone maker is hoping will power its turnaround efforts - but could also have applications in healthcare and industrial automation.
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The company, which already has partnerships in the industy with companies such as carmaker Tesla and China's Baidu, makes computer graphics chips and has also been expanding into technology for self-driving cars.
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The deal follows similar agreements with firms including Qualcomm Inc, Denso and Aptiv Plc to develop autonomous-driving technology with BlackBerry's QNX software, which are expected to start generating revenue in 2019.
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The report, released today by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum, is a mostly optimistic take on how autonomous vehicles could change cities.
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As the company increases the size of its test fleet, it has also reported more run-ins between its self-driving cars and human-operated vehicles and bicycles, telling California regulators its vehicles were involved in six minor crashes in the state in September.
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In 2015, Samsung had announced it would focus on self-driving car software through a new division, instead of building an entire vehicle
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Google, Apple, Volkswagen and others are racing towards making self-driven cars a reality.
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Rise of taxi aggregators, tougher emission regulations, GST roll out and autonomous driving will majorly impact Indian auto industry going ahead, according to Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) Managing Director Pawan Goenka.
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Musk envisaged a mass transit system in which trains travel as fast as 760 mph in pressurized capsule pods. These would ride on an air cushion in steel tubes and be driven by linear induction motors and air compressors.
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In a recent visit to India, Uber‘s CEO Travis Kalanick also doubted the relevance of self-driven cars in emerging markets like India.
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The ride-hailing company is refusing to obey demands by the state's Department of Motor Vehicles that it immediately stop picking up San Francisco passengers in self-driving cars.
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The company is "excited about the potential of automated systems in many areas, including transportation," Apple said in a November 22 letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offering Apple's opinion about draft regulations for the sector.
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Nissan Motor Co will make its first major foray into internet-connected cars by offering an option in some new vehicles that will use big data technology to notify drivers when vehicle maintenance is required.
