Self-driving Vehicles

Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing plans to start a self-driving taxi service in Shanghai within a few months, hopes to roll out in three Chinese cities by 2020 (Josh Horwitz/Reuters)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing plans to start using self-driving vehicles to pick up passengers in a district of Shanghai city in a pilot scheme, a senior executive said, taking a further step toward commercializing self-driving …

Zenuity, a self-driving start-up backed by Volvo Cars and Veoneer (NYSE:VNE), said that it's teaming up with renowned European physics research organization CERN to help its cars learn and make decisions more quickly.  Why is this important? Let's put it thi…

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) showed a notable improvement in growth across the business in its latest quarter. Besides the strength in the gaming segment, two other areas that stood out in Q2 2020 were the data center and automotive divisions, with both showing an in…

TOKYO Toyota and Suzuki will take small equity stakes in each other, the Japanese car makers said on Wednesday, as they seek to develop newer technologies and meet sweeping changes upending the global auto industry. The tie-up is the latest example of automa…

A former Google engineer spent months downloading Googles secret files on self-driving cars before he abruptly quit the company in 2016 to run Uber's autonomous vehicle program, federal prosecutors alleged on Tuesday. Interested in Google? Add Google as an …

Investors have been buzzing about the tremendous potential of self-driving vehicles for several years now. There are good reasons for the buzz: In theory, at least, vehicles that can safely move people and goods from place to place without human drivers could…

Anthony Levandowski (pictured above) stands accused of pilfering intellectual property from the tech giant and taking it with him to bitter rival Uber. The news: According to the New York Times, federal prosecutors have charged Levandowski with 33 counts of …

San Francisco (AFP) - A former Google engineer was hit with criminal charges Tuesday alleging he stole trade secrets from the technology giant's self-driving car project before he went to work at Uber. If convicted on the charges, Anthony Levandowski faces u…

Sebastian Thrun can’t be described easily. He’s a serial entrepreneur and educator, a computer scientist and inventor. He helped bring self-driving cars out of academia through X, the Google moonshot factory he founded. (That little project is now known as W…