TriLumina: Lower costs for reliable lidar systems with VCSEL

TriLumina, founded in 2011, wants to enable broad deployment of 3D sensing with innovative illumination solutions. The company created a technology that combines Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) with multiple functions on a chip that helps increase reliability, and lower the cost as well as the size of LiDAR and 3D sensing systems. Back… Continue reading TriLumina: Lower costs for reliable lidar systems with VCSEL

Ford Smart Mobility and Zotye to Form EV Solutions JV for China’s Fast-Growing Ride-Hailing Market

Ford Smart Mobility LLC and Zotye sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a joint venture (JV) to provide smart, customized all-electric vehicle solutions to fleet operators and drivers in China’s fast-growing ride-hailing market Working closely with the Zotye-Ford manufacturing JV, which will offer a range of stylish and affordable all-electric vehicles under a… Continue reading Ford Smart Mobility and Zotye to Form EV Solutions JV for China’s Fast-Growing Ride-Hailing Market

Bentley boss: we could have been more prepared for electrification

The Bentayga hybrid is the brand’s first electrified model New company CEO admits the firm needs to accelerate its electrification plans – and hints full electric car is due within five years New Bentley boss Adrian Hallmark has acknowledged that the brand was not as prepared for future technology as it could have been –… Continue reading Bentley boss: we could have been more prepared for electrification

Bentley boss acknowledges brand could have been more prepared for electrification

New Bentley boss Adrian Hallmark has acknowledged that the brand was not as prepared for future technology as it could have been and is forging ahead with a revised strategy to ensure Bentley is at the forefront of electrification.  Since starting his position early this year, having previously been at the company as board member… Continue reading Bentley boss acknowledges brand could have been more prepared for electrification

Lyft partners with Udacity to hire self-driving car engineers

Lyft is teaming up with Udacity to find talent for its Level 5 autonomous driving engineering team. The partnership entails a challenge designed to identify the best candidates in Udacity’s self-driving car engineer nanodegree program. Called the Lyft Perception Challenge, the idea is to test problem-solving skills around perception for autonomous vehicles. The competition, which… Continue reading Lyft partners with Udacity to hire self-driving car engineers

Bentley Continental GT

Is it fair to define the Bentley Continental GT as a modern-day icon? On the basis that rivals chiefly built in Maranello and Gaydon have persistently kept it from the top rung of Autocar road test rankings for super-GT cars, you could convincingly argue that it is not. Then again, few other machines at the… Continue reading Bentley Continental GT

Regulus Cyber launches with a technology to secure autonomous vehicles

Over the next 20 years the autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow into a $700 billion industry as robots take over nearly every aspect of mobility. One of the key arguments for this shift away from manually operated machines is that they offer greater safety thanks to less risk of human error. But as… Continue reading Regulus Cyber launches with a technology to secure autonomous vehicles

Algolux Raises $10M in Series A-1 Funding

Algolux Inc., a Montreal, Canada-based provider of machine-learning stacks for autonomous vision and imaging, closed a USD $10M Series A funding. The round was led by General Motors (GM) Ventures, with participation from Drive Capital, Intact Ventures, and Real Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, Jason Nolte, GM Ventures Investment Manager, and Mark Kvamme, Partner… Continue reading Algolux Raises $10M in Series A-1 Funding

F-Series Posts Best April Results in 18 Years While New Expedition Climbs 26 Percent At Retail; New Navigator Retail Sales Jump 135 Percent

About Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified vehicles and Lincoln luxury vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company and is pursuing leadership positions in electrification, autonomous vehicles and mobility solutions.… Continue reading F-Series Posts Best April Results in 18 Years While New Expedition Climbs 26 Percent At Retail; New Navigator Retail Sales Jump 135 Percent

Parallel Domain wants to train self-driving cars in virtual worlds

Kevin McNamara, a former Apple and Pixar employee, is bringing his virtual world creation expertise to the domain of self-driving cars. And he has $2.5 million from Costanoa Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and others to do so. At Apple, McNamara says he worked on an autonomous systems project, where he explored automatic content generation of simulated… Continue reading Parallel Domain wants to train self-driving cars in virtual worlds