Self-driving Vehicles

Nuro is one of the few companies that offers fully driverless vehicles, Via EngadgetNuro’s driverless delivery vehicles just got another important approval. California’s DMV has given Nuro a permit to test completely self-driving couriers in specific parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, including Silicon Valley mainstays like Mountain…

Image: NuroFollowing the approval of Alphabet’s Waymo to run without a safety driver, Nuro is only the second company to be allowed totally driverless testing on California roads. Mostly because the Nuro R2 prototypes aren’t big enough to fit a driver anyhow. On Tuesday the self-driving startup was granted a…

The devastating personal and financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have required world leaders to resort to previously unimaginable tactics – including shutting down entire cities – to slow the spread. Could self-driving cars be another unconventional answer to defeating COVID-19 or preventing future pandemics? How self-driving cars could help…

Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. If this is your first time, hello; I’m glad you’re with us. I have started…

I’ve been reviewing cars from a tech point of view in preparation for the arrival of self-driving vehicles. As those cars aren’t here yet, I had to settle for a Mercedes-AMG CLA 35. This Mercedes-Benz model wasn’t an electric car, but it was a luxurious vehicle loaded with technology. The…

General Motors and Honda announced that they would expand their partnership to develop two electric vehicles.Honda will design the models using GM's new Ultium technology, and a GM plant will manufacture them.GM and Honda aren't merging, but their EV collaboration is starting to look like an experimental tie-up to pursue…

By Polina Nikolskaya and Polina IvanovaMOSCOW (Reuters) - The southern Russian region of Chechnya on Friday became the first to introduce a night curfew to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, despite having reported only a dozen confirmed cases.Rights activists have raised concerns over how the lockdown measures…

Phantom AI, a startup developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for cars and trucks, today announced that it has raised $22 million. CEO Hyunggi Cho says it will enable the company to expand availability of its modular, software-based platform, which lets OEMs and Tier 1 automakers select components they wish to…

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle research division, today detailed a system — Progressive Population Based Augmentation (PPBA) — it claims has improved the performance of its autonomous systems while reducing the amount of data required to train them. Specifically, Waymo says PPBA bolstered its cars’ object detection capabilities while decreasing costs…

Essential workers in the Philippines are getting a helping hand from mobility company Grab in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. In an update to users last week, Grab said it has deployed 50 e-scooters to local governments specifically use by health care workers and other essential employees. Workers in…