Self-driving Vehicles

Cruise recently received a permit to transport passengers in its autonomous vehicles in California. Granted by the California Public Utilities Commission, the permit is part of the state’s Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service pilot. As part of the program, Cruise must provide data and reports to the CPUC regarding any incidents,…

A popular self-driving car dataset for training machine-learning systems – one that’s used by thousands of students to build an open-source self-driving car – contains critical errors and omissions, including missing labels for hundreds of images of bicyclists and pedestrians. Machine learning models are only as good as the data…

PHOENIX A man described as a disgruntled former Waymo driver has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately crashing a passenger car into one of the companys vans with self-driving capabilities near Phoenix, authorities said Thursday. Tempe police said Raymo… Read More

For all the talk about self-driving cars taking over our roads and literally relegating human drivers to the back seat, its in the ancient practice of agriculture where autonomous, artificial intelligence vehicles seem destined to go into service first. The l… Read More

Articles about how autonomous vehicles are almost here and how big a deal it’ll be aren’t exactly uncommon, but this one from a couple of days ago over at Interesting Engineering struck me in particular because it rehashes an idea that’s at the root of so many articles and self-righteous…

By Malcolm Owen Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 08:41 am PT (11:41 am ET) Apple's long-rumored car could have a headlight system that provides drivers with more awareness of the road, by highlighting areas of interest ahead of the vehicle by making the light shining from the headlights brighter specifically in…

Volvo and it's Chinese owner Geely plan to fully merge, the companies said Monday. Geely bought Volvo from Ford in 2010.The company plans to list in Hong Kong and possibly Sweden as well. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Geely Automobile and its sister company Volvo Cars are planning to merge…

Ted Persson has just been made a partner at Sweden's EQT Ventures, a leading European VC fund, to continue looking for startups which will change the future.Persson focuses on "moonshot investments" having previously backed VR/AR startup Varjo, Swedish self driving company Einride, and electric aviation company Heart Aerospace. "If a company…

Enlarge / An experimental self-driving car from Cruise Automation is festooned with lidar sensors.The 2020 Consumer Electronics Show was absolutely crawling with companies hawking lidar. Short for light radar (yes, really), this powerful type of sensor generates a three-dimensional pointcloud of its surroundings. Experts and industry insiders not named Elon Musk see…

What started out as a temporary pilot project to test a robotaxi service in Las Vegas has turned into a multi-year partnership between self-driving software company Aptiv and Lyft and a new milestone that suggests the operation is ramping up. The companies announced Tuesday that they’ve given 100,000 paid rides…