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Ford Going Fully Autonomous Route As Engineers Fall Asleep At The Wheel

Ford Motor Co. has become convinced that fully autonomous is the necessary route to go for safe self-driving cars. Having Ford engineers fall asleep during autonomous vehicle test rides has created a...

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BMW and Mobileye Sharing Sensor Data To Support Autonomous Driving

BMW and Mobileye are partnering to share real-time sensor data from BMW vehicles equipped with Mobileye’s mapping system supporting autonomous driving. Mobileye’s Road Experience Management data...

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Renault-Nissan Alliance Bringing Self-Driving Zoes to Paris Test Run

Renault-Nissan Alliance will be testing electric self-driving vehicles for mobility services in France with transport operator Transdev. The research project will start with field tests in the...

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Caught In Crossfire From Negative Publicity

A wave of negative news coverage has put ride-hailing giant Uber in a squeeze to clean up its image that may open opportunities for competitors. CEO Travis Kalanick apologized last week to employees...

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Intel To Test Its Own Fleet of 100 Self-Driving Cars

Intel plans to roll out 100 almost fully automated “Level 4” self-driving cars for testing starting later this year. They’ll be tested in the U.S., Israel, and Europe. The fleet will start small and...

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FCA Joins Autonomous Vehicle Collaboration With BMW, Intel And Mobileye

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with BMW, Intel, and Mobileye to develop autonomous veghicles. The automaker says its aim is to be the first...

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Ford and Domino’s Testing Pizza Delivery In Autonomous Fusion Hybrid

Ford is testing out its self-driving test car through a test project with Domino’s Pizza over the next few weeks. The pizza delivery giant will have its employees carry out pizza orders for delivery in...

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Samsung Receives Approval In California To Test Self-Driving Cars

South Korean technology giant Samsung has entered the race to bring autonomous driving technology to market by gaining testing approval in California. Samsung Electronics Co.’s approval this week by...

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GM’s Cruise Automation Doubles Test Fleet, Reports More Collisions

GM’s Cruise Automation is doubling its autonomous test fleet and reports that the test fleet was involved in more collisions last month. Cruise Automation is General Motors’ self-driving unit. Cruise...

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AutoNation and Waymo Team Up to Service Self-Driving Cars

AutoNation, the U.S.’ largest automotive retailer, has struck a new multi-year deal to service Waymo’s self-driving car fleet. This agreement calls for AutoNation to provide long-term vehicle...

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GM Unleashes Self-Driving Bolt in San Francisco, Passing 117 Pedestrians and...

This week, a self-driving General Motors Bolt made its debut in San Francisco, rattling its brain with a cacophony of double-parked cars, orange traffic cones, and a taco truck. On Tuesday, GM’s...

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Volvo’s Drive Me Initiative Now Live using Swedish Families as Beta Testers

Volvo is now engaging Swedish families to participate as beta testers for its public autonomous driving program, Drive Me. In a partnership between Volvo, the Swedish Transport Administration, a...

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Trov Partners With Waymo To Insure the Ride-Hailing Service’s Passengers

Insurance brokerage firm Trov Inc. and Waymo have announced a partnership to provide coverage for Waymo’s passengers with its upcoming driverless ride-hailing service. The joint agreement will see the...

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Volkswagen and Self-Driving Startup Aurora Innovations Power On Toward Level...

Volkswagen and self-driving startup Aurora Innovations are partnering to integrate Aurora’s self-driving systems into Volkswagen’s vehicles. Due to have a presence at this month’s Consumer Electronics...

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Hyundai Mobis to Unveil Self-Driving Technology for Drowsy Drivers at CES

Hyundai Mobis, the parts and service subsidiary of Hyundai, is introducing a new self-driving technology addressing driver fatigue at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month. Its...

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Toyota Premieres Self-Driving Mobility-As-a-Service Platform, e-Palette, at CES

Toyota has just premiered a self-driving hybrid mobility platform, the e-Palette concept, at the Consumer Electronics Show. Endemic of the automaker’s Mobility as a Service (MaaS) efforts, the...

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Waymo to Test its Self-Driving Mettle in Atlanta’s Heavy Traffic

Notorious congestion hub Atlanta has been named as Waymo’s next testing ground for its fleet of self-driving minivans. The announcement came Monday via Twitter as Waymo declared Atlanta as its next...

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Pittsburgh May See Self-Driving Ubers in 2019

Self-driving Uber cabs may hit Pittsburgh’s streets in mid-2019. At Bloomberg’s #TheYearAhead global economic forum event in Davos, Switzerland, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made the remarks while...

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Lawsuit Filed Against General Motors by Motorcyclist for Self-Driving Vehicle...

A lawsuit has been filed against General Motors for a Dec. 7 crash involving a Cruise autonomous test vehicle and a motorcyclist. Last Monday, the plaintiff, Oscar Nilsson, filed the lawsuit in the...

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KPMG Ranks 20 Countries in Autonomous Vehicle Readiness

A new study by auditing firm KPMG International titled the “Automated Vehicles Readiness Index” has scored 20 countries in their preparedness to accommodate autonomous driving. In first place is the...

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