Self-driving Vehicles

Yet another company partners with Googles self-driving car division, AKA Alphabets self-driving car division, AKA Waymo; everyone seems to hate Trumps new EPA rules; and supersonic jets. All that and more in the Morning Shift for June 20, 2019. 1st Gear: I G…

Waymo has locked in an exclusive partnership with Renault and Nissan to research how commercial autonomous vehicles might work for passengers and packages in France and Japan. This exclusive partnership has a deadline the public announcement says it will las…

Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open source some of the information it has captured while developing and testing self-driving cars. The aim, t…

Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedestrians are doing and what they’re about to do. Humanising Autonomy specializes this, and hopes to become a ubiqu…

China-based Zhejiang Geely Holdings is tapping Zenuity, the joint venture between Volvo and Swedish technology company Veoneer, as its preferred driver assistance and autonomous vehicle software supplier for its range of car brands. The decision means Zenuit…

At the moment, our spacecraft rely on a two-way relay system that needs to bounce signals to and from Earth-based atomic clocks to figure out where it is and where it's going. It uses the time that it takes to send a signal and to receive a response to calcul…

Nvidia Corp. is making a play for the multibillion-dollar, autonomous-truck market, joining forces with Volvo Group to go up against the likes of Tesla Inc., Alphabet Inc. and others that are developing the commercial vehicles of the future. Nvidia NVDA, +…

Volvo and Nvidia announced a new partnership today aimed at developing the next-generation decision-making engine for Volvo Group’s fully autonomous commercial trucks and industrial service vehicles. The partnership will use Nvidia’s Drive artificial intellig…

It’s been more than a year since Waymo unveiled a partnership with Jaguar to use its electric I-Pace crossover as part of its autonomous car fleet. While it took delivery of several of these vehicles in July 2018, for a long time it only used them with human…

As driverless cars become more capable and more common, they will change people’s travel habits not only around their own communities but across much larger distances. Our research has revealed just how much people’s travel preferences could shift, and found …