View original post.As nice as it’d be to have the option of catching up on some reading — or sleep — while an autonomous vehicle drives you to work, the real draw of self-driving cars is the idea that they’ll be safer drivers than whoever just cut you off in the exit lane with inches to spare. After all, if …

View original post.Waymo, Google’s former self-driving venture that is now a business under Alphabet, has been given permission by California regulators to transport passengers in its robotaxis, TechCrunch has learned. The approval is a milestone for the company as it begins to ramp up toward a commercial service. The California Public Utilities Commission granted Waymo a permit on Tuesday to …

View original post.Israel-based Viziblezone wants to make it easier for self-driving cars to spot pedestrians, even if they aren’t yet in the field of view of the car’s sensors. I haven’t heard of all that many pedestrian detection startups, but there is a first for everything and if nothing else, Viziblezone is tackling an important issue, with millions of pedestrians …

View original post.This morning, a coalition of 11 companies — Aptiv, Audi, Baidu, BMW, Continental, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Here, Infineon, Intel, and Volkswagen — published a whitepaper (“Safety First For Automated Driving”) describing a framework for the development, testing, and validation of “safe” autonomous vehicles. The members claim it’s the broadest representation across the industry to date, and they …

View original post. Today at Baidu’s annual Create AI developer conference in Beijing, the China-based search giant announced a slew of updates across its ever-expanding driverless car ecosystem. They come as analysts at Research and Markets forecast there will be some 20 million autonomous and semiautonomous cars in operation in the U.S. by 2030, up from millions today. Baidu revealed …

View original post.Autonomous vehicle technology has seen billions in investment, spectacular advancements, and tragic reminders of how far we still have to go. Not since 3D printing has a technology been so lauded, so predicted to imminently change our everyday lives, and so deeply misunderstood. Currently there are no companies that are able to offer a fully autonomous ride in …

View original post.Waymo is starting its slow autonomous drive into existing ride-hailing services, with a partnership with Lyft seeing some users of the service offered self-driving minivans for their journey. The collaboration builds on Waymo’s existing pilot scheme for Waymo One, the autonomous ride-hailing service it has been offering since late last year. Waymo One is the first commercial push …

View original post.While sceptics keep on wondering if our cars will ever be self-driving, OEMs keep investing and inventing in autonomous technology. Here are three paths to follow.  Follow the money First of all, the autonomous vehicle industry is continuously attracting investors. Recently the self-driving car startup Argo AI, which is backed by Ford, pledged to invest $15 million over …

View original post.The founders of Argo AI, the self-driving startup backed by Ford, are giving back to their alma mater to the tune of a $15 million investment in Carnegie Mellon University to fund the creation of a new research center. The Carnegie Mellon University Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research (phew) will use those funds to “pursue advanced …

View original post.NOVI, MI – Interior supplier Yanfeng is showing the industry the interior possibilities of an autonomous vehicle for use in a mobility fleet. Mobility-as-a-service, vehicles that are ride-hailed or ride-shared, is projected to take off once Level 5 (fully autonomous vehicles) come to fruition, removing the cost of the driver. The vehicles in those fleets will have unique …