Self-driving Vehicles

China is BMW’s largest market, and the German automaker knows in order to capture the country’s demanding consumers, its future models must support robust autonomous driving capability. But to build it itself in China is hardly possible. The success of auton…

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Bill Gates made his career and his billions bringing personal computer software to bear in the workplace. Forty-four years after cofounding Microsoft, he says the biggest changes brought by business software are yet to come—courtesy of artificial intelligence…

Domino's Pizza wants to roll out self-driving delivery robots because human workers are too expensive. The pizza giant recently partnered with Nuro to deliver pies using the startup's unmanned vehicles. The trial, set to take place in Houston this fall, re…

The Loihi chips are installed on a "Nahuku" board that contains from 8 to 32 Loihi chips. The Pohoiki Beach system contains multiple Nahuku boards that can be interfaced with Intel's Arria 10 FPGA developer's kit, as shown above. Pohoiki Beach will be very g…

Lexus This week, at a Lexus Milestones event held to celebrate 30 years of the Lexus brand, the Japanese luxury automaker gave a preview of its future. This included Lexus' plans for upcoming autonomous driving technologies and expanding the number of electr…

Enlarge/ Volkswagen CEO Dr. Herbert Diess (L) and Ford President and CEO Jim Hackett (R) announced their companies are expanding their global alliance to include electric vehicles and will collaborate with Argo AI to introduce autonomous vehicle technology in…

VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal, which has been rumored for months, is part of a bro…

Possibly suggesting grand ambitions for an Apple car, a patent application published on Thursday shows a wireless charging system for self-driving vehicles.Titled "Wireless Charging Alignment Systems," U.S. patent application 20190210480 describes a car in wh…

The latest Hyundai Sonata sedan is coming out later this year, but a self-driving version is already here. On Thursday, Russia's self-driving car service Yandex unveiled an autonomous prototype of the 2020 Hyundai Sonata, coming out this fall as a traditiona…