Self-driving Vehicles

Google's self-driving ambitions are spreading to Europe. Waymo, the self-driving firm owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, on Thursday acquired British startup Latent Logic. —Waymo (@Waymo) December 12, 2019 "By joining Waymo, we are taking a big lea…

Lidar startup Aeva has deepened its relationship with VW Group with a new investment from Porsche Automobili Holding SE, thanks to a next-generation sensor that is headed for the ID Buzz AV, an electric reboot of the automaker’s iconic bus that will be used a…

A pedestrian in New Yorks Queens borough was reportedly crushed to death between two parked cars after a 2002 Lexuss remote engine ignition system was activated, causing the vehicle to lurch forward, Streetsblog reported on Wednesday. According to Streetsblo…

Image copyrightPlus.aiImage caption The Plus.ai lorry relies on sensors, cameras, radar and Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology and computer vision software underpinned by artificial intelligence A Silicon Valley start-up says it has completed t…

A fleet of Mercedes-Benz S Class vehicles are now plying the roads of San Jose, California as part of a robotaxi pilot project that Daimler and Bosch have been developing for two and a half years, but the launch itself could be chalked up as a mere blip on th…

Walmart is trying out self-driving shipments. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walmart is testing new ways to deliver your milk, eggs and bread using self-driving vehicles. The world's largest retailer said Tuesday it has teamed up with Nuro, a Mountain View, …

Just in case you needed a little reminder as to whether or not you lived in a fictional 2019 where we have fully autonomous, self-driving vehicles or the actual 2019 where we have, at best, partially self-driving vehicles that require constant driver attentio…

A multitude of factors can contribute to a flight being delayed, but Air France, who partnered with a handful of other companies, is testing the worlds first self-driving luggage tug in hopes of streamlining airport operations and improving the speed of getti…

The busy San Carlos/Stevens Creek corridor between west San Jose and downtown should be good test for the self-driving tech used by Mercedes and Bosch. Rather than just playing with prototypes, the companies want to create a production-ready SAE Level 4/5 sel…

Some best friend. On Saturday, a Tesla Model 3 on auto-pilot crashed into two vehicles one of them belonged to the Connecticut State Police, according to ABC News. So why was driver relying on the self-driving software? He explained that he was checking o…