It seems Lyft is hoping to catch up to Uber’s string of autonomous vehicle partnerships. Lyft announced Wednesday three separate partnerships — with startup May Mobility, automated driving company Mobileye, and smart dashcam firm Nexar — all aimed at establishing a foothold in the emerging autonomous vehicle market. In the announcement, the ride-hailing company said… Continue reading Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to the app
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At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster
Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000… Continue reading At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster
Waymo is letting you tip — but there’s a catch
It looks like it’s actually for charity. It looks like it’s actually for charity. Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. A security researcher who lives in San Francisco discovered… Continue reading Waymo is letting you tip — but there’s a catch
Furious Crowd Tears Waymo Robotaxi Limb From Limb
Brutal. Maximum Car-nage Expensive-looking robotaxis make easy targets, it seems. On Saturday, a self-driving Waymo cab was badly trashed by a crowd, who tore the vehicle to absolute shreds as it idled in the middle of a quiet street in Los Angeles’s Beverly Grove, The Los Angeles Times reports. Local police say they received a… Continue reading Furious Crowd Tears Waymo Robotaxi Limb From Limb
Clean Technica: Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Strategy Stranded By Technological Divergence003812
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! It’s been a decade since I first wrote about Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, comparing it to Google’s (now Waymo’s). At the time, my technical assessment based on my experience with both AI and robotics was that Tesla’s approach… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla’s Autonomous Driving Strategy Stranded By Technological Divergence003812
Clean Technica: 7 Tesla Good News Stories You May Have Missed003805
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A handful of Tesla stories have come up in recent weeks that I almost covered, that seemed worth covering, but in the end that just didn’t stimulate enough for a full story. After running across several more stories, I… Continue reading Clean Technica: 7 Tesla Good News Stories You May Have Missed003805
Automotive LiDAR Market worth $9.59 billion in 2030 | MarketsandMarkets
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Jan. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Automotive LiDAR Market is projected to reach from USD 1.19 Billion in 2024 to USD 9.59 Billion in 2030, at a CAGR of 41.6%, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. The automotive LiDAR market is shifting as some companies have discontinued LiDAR projects due to high costs, integration challenges,… Continue reading Automotive LiDAR Market worth $9.59 billion in 2030 | MarketsandMarkets
Waymo Finds a Way Around US Restrictions Targeting Chinese Cars
This week, President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration finalized rules effectively banning all Chinese- and Russian-connected vehicle tech from American roads—a landmark crackdown with far-reaching effects, not least on the rising trade of inexpensive Chinese EVs. The US Commerce Department has argued that the rules, first proposed in September, are necessary to protect American vehicles from… Continue reading Waymo Finds a Way Around US Restrictions Targeting Chinese Cars
Why 2025 is set to be a crucial year for Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit
A Zoox robotaxi sits outside the company’s large office and warehouse in Las Vegas. Michael Wayland / CNBC LAS VEGAS — This year is expected to be a crucial one for Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit Zoox, as the company plans to grow its operations and commercialize its robotaxi business. Zoox is aiming to begin offering… Continue reading Why 2025 is set to be a crucial year for Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit
German Manager Magazine: USA vs China: Joe Biden bans connected cars from Chinese manufacturers003897
US President Joe Biden (82) is setting up new hurdles for Chinese cars in the last few meters of his term in office. According to new rules, the… USA Connected vehicles from manufacturers under Chinese or Russian control will no longer be allowed to be sold. The ban should apply from the 2027 model year.… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: USA vs China: Joe Biden bans connected cars from Chinese manufacturers003897