Self-driving Cars
Aurora was founded by Chris Urmson, the former CTO of Google’s self-driving car project, and Sterling Anderson, Tesla’s former director of Autopilot.
The Apple Car is alive — whatever it is.
The company further says that an injunction isn’t necessary because all the cars on the road are using Velodyne lidar.
A little less than two months in and yes, it’s already a saga.
Kah Seng Tay will be heading up engineering at autonomous tech startup Drive.ai.
Uber says it doesn’t believe it has those files in its possession.
With every defection, Uber and Google are feeding the fire of their own competition.
The company suspended its testing of all autonomous vehicles on Saturday after one of its cars got into a collision with a human-driven car.
There are few details about the incident so far, but Uber says the car was in autonomous mode and no one involved was seriously hurt.
Its self-driving car unit, Waymo, poached a government affairs guru from eBay.
A first look at Uber’s progress.
Anthony Levandowski, who launched self-driving company Otto publicly in May, was consulting Uber’s self-driving arm weeks before that.
Companies like Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm see connected cars as essentially “the” computing device of the next decade or so.
A lack of consistent and concise rules of the road will keep self-driving cars from reaching their potential anytime soon.
Think of your future car as a rolling computer.
The deal gives Intel control over a big auto supplier in the self-driving space.
As written, the laws restrict autonomous vehicle operation to automakers.
Embark launched out of stealth on Friday.
The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.
Krikorian joined Uber after more than five years at Twitter to head up the company’s Pittsburgh headquarters.
And that’s why Uber might beat Google and Apple.
Car companies want the government to set the standards, but stay neutral on the technology.
The automaker will take a majority stake in Argo AI, founded by two top engineers from Google and Uber.
Daimler will use Uber’s platform to get consumers into their self-driving cars.
Recode’s Johana Bhuiyan demystifies the landscape of autonomous vehicles on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Waymo’s move to bring its hardware manufacturing in-house shows the company’s attempt to edge out suppliers like Delphi and Mobileye.
There are still some lingering questions about human distraction while driving in a semi-autonomous car.
The system will specifically help self-driving cars navigate reversible lanes (or lanes that can go both ways).
Almost all the major carmakers are actively embracing the three big shifts: Electrification, autonomous driving and new ownership models.
The key? Building it in-house.
That means it’s more important than ever to get autonomous systems right.
The chipmaker is acquiring 15 percent of Here Maps, the former Nokia mapping unit.
The ride-hail company says its cars aren’t autonomous.
With drivers behind the wheels.
NuTonomy is already running a commercial pilot program in Singapore.
Historically, the company has believed in making the whole device, not just the software.
The press event was more over the top than anything from Pied Piper.
A unique advantage.
Driverless cars represent the true Wild West of public policy.
“Dozens of employees” have reportedly left Apple’s secret car project.