Self-driving Vehicles

Built Robotics, a company aiming to make construction equipment autonomous, is announcing a $33M Series B round this morning. With the construction industry facing a global labor shortage, Built’s aim is to allow one equipment operator to oversee a fleet of …

If you are in or around the Brooklyn Navy Yard and want to get to the East River Ferry, you can have a self driving car take you there. I did that yesterday: It’s sort of like a van. There are six passenger seats in the vehicle rand I saw…

Uber is taking its self-driving cars to Dallas, Texas, though at the start the company wont be testing them in autonomous mode. Instead, beginning in early November, its Volvo SUVs will be operated manually during outings to collect data to help it build the…

Uber uses a test track with dummies to train its human drivers in how to control self-driving cars. Uber Uber's self-driving car operations are growing. The company said Tuesday that the newest city where it'll be testing its autonomous vehicles is Dallas. …

Riding high on a newly formed partnership with the United States Postal Service (USPS), self-driving truck startup TuSimple today announced that it’s secured an extension to its $95 million series D round led by Weibo creator Sina, which reached a total of $2…

Rachel Premack: So first of all, I guess, what do you think about self-driving trucks and what sort of impact do you think that they'll have on your career, if any?Dan McCreary: I'm 47. I think that — I don't know. My career's probably not going to see a whol…

Danger of ‘Pittsburgh Left’ shows that self-driving cars must learn local road rules

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin A Tesla vehicle is shown charging at a Tesla Supercharger site in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, July 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) photocredit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Tesla (NAS…

Voyage, the autonomous vehicle startup that spun out of Udacity, announced Thursday it has raised $31 million in a round led by Franklin Templeton. Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land-Rovers InMotion Ventures, and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in th…

Voyage, a self-driving car startup that spun-out of online education giant Udacity back in 2017, has raised $31 million in a series B round of funding led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, a…