The staggering cost of self-driving cars is behind Ford and …
Quartz–Jul. 12, 2019
Car companies are struggling go it alone in the autonomous age. As the costs and experience needed to develop self-driving vehicles come into focus, …
Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric …
Blog–The New York Times (blog)–Jul. 12, 2019
Blog–The New York Times (blog)–Jul. 12, 2019
Waymo gets permission to pick up California passengers with …
Driving–Jul. 7, 2019
Autonomous tech company Waymo has been given the go-ahead to begin picking up actual human passengers in California with its self-driving cars. But before …
Chandler employees to use self-driving cars for work rides
International–Arizona Public Media–Jul. 8, 2019
International–Arizona Public Media–Jul. 8, 2019
New track for self-driving cars opens in Logan County
ABC6OnYourSide.com–Jul. 10, 2019
EAST LIBERTY, Ohio — The competition for which company can be first to create a fully autonomous car could run through Central Ohio. The largest …
European startups navigate long, winding road to self-driving …
Reuters–Jul. 10, 2019
Startups such as Oxbotica, FiveAI and Wayve that are testing cars in Britain say the … The amount of venture capital funding going into autonomous car and tech …
Volkswagen zooms ahead in extension of alliance with Ford to …
Reuters–Jul. 12, 2019
VW will invest $2.6 billion in Argo AI, Ford’s self-driving cars venture, and will buy $500 million worth of Argo shares from Ford, giving the two automakers equal …
This crash sounded like an indictment of autonomous vehicles …
Washington Post–Jul. 11, 2019
It was taken by critics and naysayers as an indictment of autonomous vehicles. Now, the National Transportation Safety Board has weighed in with a 16-page …
Toyota and Denso form joint venture to develop self-driving …
CNET–Jul. 10, 2019
This new joint venture wouldn’t stop at self-driving cars either, since many of the components necessary to generate the computing power for autonomy could …
Toyota and Geely partner with Baidu’s Apollo self-driving car …
CNET–Jul. 8, 2019
Now, we’ve covered Baidu’s open-source Apollo self-driving car suite before, and it’s this that has Toyota knocking on Baidu’s door, or at least a version of it.
This Lidar Is So Cheap It Could Make Self-Driving a Reality
WIRED–Jul. 11, 2019
Critics of lidar, Tesla’s Elon Musk being, perhaps, the loudest among them, focus on the cost that the laser-based system adds to a self-driving vehicle.
Velodyne Touts Latest Lidar Advances, Autonomous Vehicle …
Robotics Business Review–Jul. 10, 2019
Velodyne Lidar, one of the leaders in developing lidar systems for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), said today it will …