DiDi Robotaxi Service Begins Operation in Shanghai

(Beijing, June 27, 2020) – Didi Chuxing’s on-demand robotaxi service will start picking up riders in Shanghai, China this week. Starting from June 27, upon sign-up through the main DiDi app, passengers may start requesting on-demand […]

Project Aslan Steers A New Course For Autonomous Urban Mobility

Unprecedented international collaboration to accelerate the commercial viability of autonomous vehicles in cities with the launch of a fully-functional open-source self-driving platform. Oxford, UK, 01 July 2020. The potential social, commercial and environmental benefits of autonomous […]

EnfuseNet: Rewriting the Economics of Vehicle Autonomy

Cambridge Consultants, part of the Capgemini Group, announces EnfuseNet, a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for autonomous vehicles. EnfuseNet fuses data from low-cost sensors and cameras – hardware costing just tens of dollars – to generate […]

NEVS Launches PONS – the First Mobility Ecosystem with Autonomous Vehicles for City Needs

NEVS presents its new mobility ecosystem: PONS – the first generation of autonomous vehicles with a connected user interface – which could become the mobility solution for smart and sustainable cities. The self-driving vehicle Sango is […]

Hyundai Motor Group Appoints Martin Zeilinger as Head of Commercial Vehicle Development Tech Unit

Zeilinger brings more than 30 years of experience in commercial vehicle development with a focus on autonomous driving and eco-friendly technologies Hyundai Motor Group will further strengthen its efforts on advanced commercial vehicle development in the […]

UC Riverside Receives $1.2 Million Grant To Build GPUs For Autonomous Vehicles

Project will develop energy-efficient, energy-elastic, and real-time-aware graphic-processing units Three UC Riverside engineers have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new generation of energy-efficient, energy-elastic, and real-time-aware GPUs suitable […]

Tesla Drivers Are Teaching Tesla Autopilot — That’s A Good Thing

Tesla owners are helping Tesla develop its Autopilot and eventually Fully Self Driving software. Despite being hailed as a bad thing by one automotive writer, this actually is a good thing. An article published by Forbes […]

175 Miles in the 150-mile Nissan Leaf 2018

Writer’s Perks – A Free Car It’s only really by driving a car that you can get a good impression of it, and I have been very fortunate to be offered the chance to borrow a […]

Toyota Research Institute Building Closed-Course Self-Driving Vehicle Test Facility In Michigan

An around 60-acre site at Michigan Technical Resource Park (MITRP) in Ottawa Lake is now slated to be transformed by the Toyota Research Institute into a closed-course self-driving vehicle testing facility, following the filing of construction […]