Autonomous driving experiment started in Gothenburg
Volvo Cars kicked off the autonomous driving experiment Drive Me in Gothenburg this morning. The autonomous Volvo XC90 SUV was finalized in Volvo Cars’ special manufacturing facility in Torslanda this morning and is the first...Read more
Volvo and Autoliv start joint venture for autonomous driving
Volvo Cars and Autoliv Inc have signed a letter of intent to set up a new jointly-owned company to develop next generation autonomous driving software. The planned new company will have its headquarters in Gothenburg,...Read more
Baidu gets permit for autonomous car testing in California
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued Baidu USA an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit earlier this week. This allows the company to test its autonomous driving technologies on Google’s home turf. “We will start testing...Read more
Nvidia launches mobile processor for autonomous vehicle
Nvidia launched a new mobile processor for the next generation of autonomous vehicles, called Parker. The company reveiled the architecture and underlying technology of this processor at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California. According...Read more
Volvo Cars and Uber jointly develop autonomous cars
Volvo Cars and Uber are going to join forces to develop next generation autonomous cars. The two companies have signed an agreement to establish a joint project that will develop new base vehicles that will...Read more
South Korea’s ministries cooperate in self-driving technology
The ministries of ICT and transport of South Korea are going to cooperate in developing self-driving cars, smart cities and drones. South Korea wants to commercialize autonomous vehicles by 2020. The new cooperation was announced...Read more
Google’s self-driving cars use horn as warning
Google’s self-driving software is designed to recognize when honking may help alert other drivers. In the May self-driving car report, the company said it taught its vehicles to distinguish potentially tricky situations from false positives. For example,...Read more
Microsoft offers technical solutions for self-driving cars
Microsoft is talking with automakers about solutions for self-driving technology. The company is looking at potential applications of its cloud-based service, productivity suite and operating system. Microsoft’s Peggy Johnson was one the speakers of the...Read more
Volkwagen and Gett work together on autonous cars
The Volkswagen Group invests 300 million dollar in the Israelian company Gett. With this investment, the manufacturer wants to open the way for new mobility concepts. Gett’s technology leverages big data, cutting edge predictive algorithms,...Read moreUS consumers not attracted to self-driving car technology
Consumers in the United States are still not that attracted to self-driving cars, according to a study of the University of Michigan. They remain concerned about some of the aspects of self-driving technology and still...Read more
‘Autonomous buses will make urban transport more efficient’
Autonomous and semiautonomous buses will ensure urban transport to be even more efficient by, for instance, increasing loading factors. This will allow vehicles and vehicle combinations of different sizes to find customers whenever required, instead...Read more
NXP launches autonomous vehicle platform
NXP Semiconductors have come up with a new BlueBox Engine that is expected to speed up the process of production of self driving cars. In autonomous vehicles systems, multiple streams of sensor data are routed...Read more
Chinese city Wuhu builds autonomous driving zone
Technology company Baidu has signed a cooperation agreement with the city of Wuhu in China to build a transportation zone dedicated to autonomous driving vehicles. The zone will be the first of its kind in...Read more