Uber Freight, the logistics business spun out of Uber in 2018, is partnering with transportation fintech startup AtoB to offer carriers fuel cards and spend management software. AtoB, a four-year-old company that has been described as Stripe for transportation, offers an integrated financial platform based around its core product of a fuel card for truckers. Unlike… Continue reading Uber Freight offers carriers a fuel card powered by startup AtoB
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China’s EV players are starting to compete on driver assist tech
Huawei’s co-developed Aito electric car brand is now selling an updated version of the M5 model that comes with new driver-assist tech. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Companies in China are playing up assisted driving technology as a way to compete in the hot electric car market. Around the Shanghai auto show… Continue reading China’s EV players are starting to compete on driver assist tech
No one is driving this taxi. What possibly could go wrong?
San Francisco – I won’t forget the first time I took a ride in a car without anyone sitting in the driver’s seat. It happened one night last September when a Chevy Bolt named Peaches picked me up outside a San Francisco bar. Our ensuing half-hour ride together produced, at first, a titillating display of… Continue reading No one is driving this taxi. What possibly could go wrong?
Cruise robotaxis now run all day in San Francisco, with public access after 10 p.m.
A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kyle Vogt, CEO and founder of GM-owned autonomous vehicle company Cruise, announced Tuesday that the company’s robotaxis are now running around the clock in San Francisco. The company’s paid, driverless service is a step towards… Continue reading Cruise robotaxis now run all day in San Francisco, with public access after 10 p.m.
How Aurora is navigating the bumpy road to commercial self-driving trucks
Amid economic uncertainty, tight capital markets, wary investors and consolidation in the nascent autonomous vehicle industry, Aurora Innovation is still motoring on toward its target of commercializing self-driving trucks by 2024, ticking off waypoints and milestones along the way. It’s even managed to rack up a few wins in the past year, including launching or… Continue reading How Aurora is navigating the bumpy road to commercial self-driving trucks
Aurora opens terminal for autonomous trucking
Autonomous driving startup Aurora opens first autonomous truck terminal and awaits exemption Self-driving vehicle startup Aurora has its first commercial autonomous terminal trucks in Texas was opened, thus creating a model for a future network of terminals that will enable driverless transport around the clock. [embedded content] The new terminal coordinates trucks to move cargo… Continue reading Aurora opens terminal for autonomous trucking
What is AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence
Overall, the most notable advancements in AI are the development and release of GPT 3.5 and GPT 4. But there have been many other revolutionary achievements in artificial intelligence — too many, in fact, to include all of them here. Here are some of the most notable: ChatGPT (and the GPTs) ChatGPT is an AI… Continue reading What is AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence
Waymo vehicles get stuck in the fog
The Fog – is a horror film and a weather phenomenon. For Waymo it is a horror weather phenomenon, because the vehicles had to admit defeat to the fog. Driving in thick fog is a challenge for humans, but it seems self-driving cars are struggling too. As a precaution, five Waymo autonomous vehicles parked on… Continue reading Waymo vehicles get stuck in the fog
Ottonomy’s Ottobots Recognized as a Leading Innovator and Only Delivery Robot in Robotics Business Review’s RBR50 Robotics Innovation List
NEW YORK, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — This week, Ottonomy was selected for the second time as a recipient of Robotics Business Review’s 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award Honorees, the only delivery robot selected alongside the world’s most innovative companies including NASA JPL, Locus Robotics, Grey Orange, NVIDIA, and Waymo among others. Continue Reading The Ottobot… Continue reading Ottonomy’s Ottobots Recognized as a Leading Innovator and Only Delivery Robot in Robotics Business Review’s RBR50 Robotics Innovation List
Elon Musk says (again) Tesla might achieve ‘full autonomy’ this year, but what does it even mean?
Elon Musk announced again that he believes Tesla might achieve “full autonomy” this year, but it is not even clear what this means at this point. Over the years, Musk has so often claimed that Tesla was on the verge of achieving “full self-driving capability” that it is hard to believe him now. It’s not… Continue reading Elon Musk says (again) Tesla might achieve ‘full autonomy’ this year, but what does it even mean?