Self-driving Vehicles

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…

As Reuters notes, Congress has yet to reach an agreement on self-driving legislation even after working on one for years. Based on the hearing memorandum (PDF), it sounds like the panel will be discussing the role of the federal and state governments in the development and deployment of safe autonomous…

I'm currently in the market for a used pickup truck for the farm, and seeking something that's 4WD. Imagine that I buy one--and then the original manufacturer decides to magically delete the 4WD capability because I didn't pay full sticker.That's essentially happened to a guy named Alec, but with Autopilot…

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Photo: NuroThe first autonomous car to achieve federal regulation approval could soon be hitting the streets of a city near you. And they might just be delivering your groceries. Self-driving robot startup Nuro gets to bypass safety standards to start taking to the streets.This is honestly pretty big, and we’ll…

Image copyright Nuro The first self-driving vehicle designed without basic human controls such as steering wheels, pedals or side view mirrors has been granted permission to test on US roads.Nuro, the company behind the design, makes autonomous delivery vans.The vehicle is Nuro's second generation of its vehicles, which it is…

WASHINGTON A U.S. safety agency said on Thursday it has allowed SoftBank Group-backed autonomous vehicle startup Nuro Inc to temporarily deploy up to 5,000 low-speed electric delivery vehicles without human controls like mirrors and steering wheels. The Nati… Read More