Cruise recently brought on seven team members from Zippy.ai, which develops robots for last-mile grocery and package delivery, for an undisclosed amount of money. The deal did not include any of Zippy’s product or intellectual property. Instead, it seems Cruise was more interested in the skillsets of the co-founders, Gabe Sibley, Alex Flint, and Chris… Continue reading Cruise, GM’s self-driving car unit, brings on Zippy team
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UPDATE 1-Uber still believes autonomous vehicles have a future, says CEO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday that the ride-sharing company still believes in the prospects for autonomous transport after one of its self-driving vehicles was involved in a fatal crash in Arizona last month. FILE PHOTO – Dara Khosrowshahi, Chief Executive Officer of Uber Technologies, attends the World Economic Forum… Continue reading UPDATE 1-Uber still believes autonomous vehicles have a future, says CEO
Uber CEO outlines mobility plans
Uber is done being solely a ride-hailing company. Under the leadership of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is well on its way to becoming a multi-modal transportation platform. At a future of mobility event in Washington D.C. today, Khosrowshahi announced Uber’s foray into car rentals, shared bikes in D.C. and public transportation. Khosrowshahi also sat on a… Continue reading Uber CEO outlines mobility plans
Uber gets into car rentals and public transit
Uber is officially a multi-modal transportation platform. On the heels of its acquisition of bike-share startup JUMP, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi today announced Uber Bike‘s expansion into Washington D.C., along with two key partnerships in car rentals and public transit. The first is with instant car-booking service Getaround, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in… Continue reading Uber gets into car rentals and public transit
New centre of excellence for autonomous driving. BMW officially opens its autonomous driving campus in Unterschleißheim near Munich.
The BMW Group’s campus for autonomous driving is a state-of-the-art centre of excellence that covers every base when it comes to offering greater capacity for innovation and increased development efficiency – and ultimately securing the company’s future sustainability. 15 months ago, the BMW Group took the decision to pool together its development expertise in the… Continue reading New centre of excellence for autonomous driving. BMW officially opens its autonomous driving campus in Unterschleißheim near Munich.
Shell and Gordon Murray Design to bring flat-pack trucks to India
OX, the flat pack truck, with its developers Shell Lubricants has announced that it will commission a pre-production prototype of the flat-pack truck called ‘OX’ and it will take this truck to India. The ‘OX to India’ mission will showcase the capabilities of the vehicle for bringing low-cost all-terrain mobility to rural communities in developing… Continue reading Shell and Gordon Murray Design to bring flat-pack trucks to India
De Meo (Seat) calls for “reinventing” combustion engines with natural gas as the main actor
Updated 04/11/2018 13:01:57 CET MADRID, 11 Apr (EUROPA PRESS) – The chairman of Seat, Luca de Meo, defends that compressed natural gas (CNG) has a “clear potential” business for the automotive sector, so it is necessary to “reinvent” the combustion engines thanks to the fact that there are many types of fuels and technologies that… Continue reading De Meo (Seat) calls for “reinventing” combustion engines with natural gas as the main actor
Daimler and VW against Prevent: The wrong strategy of the German car industry
All articles and backgrounds 04/11/2018 Daimler and VW v Prevent The wrong strategy of the German car industry A guest commentary by Stefan Randak Volkswagen and Daimler in a clinch with Prevent: The increasingly open conflict between suppliers and car manufacturers is also affecting manufacturers The dispute between VW and Daimler and the supplier Prevent… Continue reading Daimler and VW against Prevent: The wrong strategy of the German car industry
Waymo takes a page out of Google’s Android Playbook
Waymo seems to be banking on confronting the automotive industry with the same challenge. By Alex Webb When Google set out to tackle the smartphone market with its Android operating system, it picked off the more vulnerable subscale brands with little software expertise. Within three years, those phone makers had surged up the sales charts… Continue reading Waymo takes a page out of Google’s Android Playbook
Lyft is considering entering Japan’s challenging ride-hailing market for some reason
Lyft, Uber’s chief nemesis in the U.S., is thinking of entering the fiercely competitive Japanese ride-hailing space, according to comments from one of its founders. “We would love to be in Japan, and we also will be looking at that possibility,” John Zimmer, Lyft co-founder and president, said at the New Economy Summit 2018 in Tokyo.… Continue reading Lyft is considering entering Japan’s challenging ride-hailing market for some reason