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Baidu has partnered with EV maker Arcfox, part of China’s state-owned BAIC Group (Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. Ltd), to accelerate the commercialization of fully autonomous ride-hailing services, and to jointly release the latest version of … Continue reading Baidu partners with BAIC to introduce Apollo Moon robotaxi
Over the past few years, Nuro has been taking some important steps toward a future of autonomous delivery through partnerships with some big names, and it’s just landed what might be its biggest fish yet. The startup has entered an agreement with logis… Continue reading FedEx eyes a future of automated delivery through partnership with Nuro
With ambitions to establish a network of autonomous trucking routes across the US, transport startup TuSimple is taking some steady and significant steps forward as it proves its technology through trials and expands into Europe. The latest test run fo… Continue reading TuSimple’s autonomous truck cuts 10 hours off 900-mile trek across the US
Matt Novak of Gizmodo posted an article on April 30, 2021 with the title “Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars,” available at Elon Musk Shares Painfully Obvious Idea About the Difficulty of Self-Driving Cars… Continue reading Will Full Autonomy Ever Be Realized?
Chinese technology giant Baidu has launched what is says is the country’s first commercial robotaxi service, which will see its Apollo self-driving vehicles shuttle paying customers around Beijing’s Shougang Park without a safety driver onboard. The mo… Continue reading Baidu launches China’s first paid robotaxi service
After first unveiling a fully autonomous electric street sweeper last year, Finland’s Trombia Technologies has taken to the streets of Helsinki as part of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab. This saw the Trombia Free begin operations along the Helsinki Baana … Continue reading Autonomous street sweeper cleans up city streets in Helsinki pilot
The UK’s Department of Transport has announced that it’s moving to conditionally legalize self-driving cars in which the driver doesn’t have to pay attention to the road or keep their hands on the wheel, in a move that it expects will save lives.Contin… Continue reading UK prepares to conditionally legalize self-driving cars
A few days ago, two Texan men, aged 59 and 69, died in a bizarre road accident when their car, a 2019 Tesla Model S, ran off the road at high speed in a curve, hit a tree, and burst into a fireball that took four hours to fully extinguish. The shocking… Continue reading How much blame should Tesla accept if customers misuse its products?
Israel’s Mobileye, which was acquired by Intel back in 2017, has teamed up with startup Udelv to get an autonomous electric delivery pod called the Transporter on the streets by 2023, with a plan to produce 35,000 of the self-driving electric cargo hau… Continue reading Mobileye and Udelv confirm first large order for driverless delivery pod
When it comes to making road transportation more sustainable automakers are putting a lot of work into to fitting out conventional cars with electric drivetrains, but others are thinking a little further outside the box. Japanese firm Teijin has teamed… Continue reading Self-driving EV takes a slow, steady approach to solar-powered mobility