Apple seems to be ramping up its autonomous vehicle efforts, nearing doubling the number of vehicles in its fleet since January. The company now has 45 autonomous vehicles in California registered with the DMV, according to the Financial Times. This makes Apple’s AV fleet the second largest in the state of California, outsized only by… Continue reading Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet has nearly doubled in the last two months
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An architect at the service of design
An architect by training, Tina Kentner works at Groupe Renault in the Group Design Identity division. An incongruous position? Quite the opposite. Her skills are essential to the development of many key projects, the most recent of which include the house that was part of the ecosystem of the SYMBIOZ autonomous hatchback concept at the… Continue reading An architect at the service of design
Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Raises $18 Million Series B Financing Round to Scale Automotive Lidar Solution
BOZEMAN, Mont., March 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, Inc., a leading developer of frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar for the automotive industry, announced today that it has raised $18 million in a Series B funding round led by BMW i Ventures. Additional investment comes from Toyota AI Ventures, Millennium Technology Value Partners… Continue reading Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Raises $18 Million Series B Financing Round to Scale Automotive Lidar Solution
Gatwick Airport to trial British self-driving car system from Oxbotica
Gatwick Airport will trial self-driving vehicles running software from Oxbotica Image: Oxbotica Gatwick claims it will be the first airport to operate self-driving cars “airside”, using a system from Oxford University spin-off Oxbotica. The vehicles will move staff around the airport, but at this stage, they will not be used by airline passengers. If the… Continue reading Gatwick Airport to trial British self-driving car system from Oxbotica
Uber’s transparency is key to making self-driving cars safer
Yesterday evening, a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona, struck a woman at a crosswalk. She would later die in the hospital as the result of the accident. Even though there was a human safety driver behind the wheel, the car is said to have been in autonomous mode at the time. The incident is… Continue reading Uber’s transparency is key to making self-driving cars safer
Teamsters Statement On Fatal Uber ‘Driverless’ Vehicle Collision
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Teamsters Union continues to stress its concerns with the testing and implementation of self-driving technology after a ‘driverless’ Uber in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, overnight. Uber has since temporarily halted its driverless testing program in Arizona, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. Last… Continue reading Teamsters Statement On Fatal Uber ‘Driverless’ Vehicle Collision
Here’s how Uber’s self-driving cars are supposed to detect pedestrians
A self-driving vehicle made by Uber has struck and killed a pedestrian. It’s the first such incident and will certainly be scrutinized like no other autonomous vehicle interaction in the past. But on the face of it it’s hard to understand how, short of a total system failure, this could happen when the entire car… Continue reading Here’s how Uber’s self-driving cars are supposed to detect pedestrians
Groupe PSA: emov Heads to Lisbon to Launch the City’s First All-Electric Carsharing Service
MADRID–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Groupe PSA (Paris:UG): Very successful in Madrid, emov already has more than 160,000 customers since its launch in December 2016, with a fleet of 600 Citroën C-Zero electric vehicles. This offer will be soon available in Lisbon with a stand-out feature: beyond the city-centre, emov users will be able to start and… Continue reading Groupe PSA: emov Heads to Lisbon to Launch the City’s First All-Electric Carsharing Service
Uber said to be negotiating sale of self-driving tech to Toyota
Uber might begin selling its autonomous driving systems to outside companies, including major automakers, according to a new report from Japan’s Nikkei. The report claims that Uber has had talks with Toyota regarding supplying the automaker with self-driving tech, and that the two are currently in negotiations around how this would work, with talk of… Continue reading Uber said to be negotiating sale of self-driving tech to Toyota
City vehicle: series production of the e.GO Life is due to start soon
e.GO Life (Image: e.GO Mobile) The e.GO Life from Aachen is to be built in three versions. For 15,900 euros there is a electric car with a tiny battery. Who spends up to 20,000 euros, gets a decent city coverage. This car is not for commuters: The e.GO Life The startup e.GO Mobile hardly reaches… Continue reading City vehicle: series production of the e.GO Life is due to start soon