Airbus Tests Electric Truck With Airliner Cockpit to Study Safer Taxiing May 24, 2024 By Tim Hepher Airbus is showing off an unusual vehicle – a truck fitted with basic A350 airliner controls – that it hopes...
Tesla Loses Top Safety Rankings From IIHS, Consumer Reports June 1, 2021 By Tom Krisher Two key groups that offer automobile safety ratings are yanking their top endorsements from some Tesla vehicles because the company...
Tech Firm Luminar, Planemaker Airbus Partner to Test Autonomous Flights April 26, 2021 By Sanjana Shivdas Luminar Technologies Inc. said on Monday it would partner with Airbus SE to test technologies which could increase aircraft safety...
Development of Fully Autonomous Vehicles as Complex as Manned Mission to Mars: VW March 11, 2019 By Edward Taylor Fully autonomous vehicles will take at least another five years to perfect, with the cost and complexity of rolling out...
Uber Cut Back on Safety Sensors on Volvo Involved in Fatal Accidents: Reuters March 27, 2018 By Heather Somerville, Alexandria Sage and Paul Lienert When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility...
Driving in Snow: Difficult for Humans and Driverless Cars March 22, 2018 By Allison Lampert A Canadian town known for its annual theater festival is emerging as a hub of “snowtonomous” research, as automakers face...
Investor Sues Uber Directors Over $680M Acquisition of Autonomous Car Firm December 14, 2017 By Jef Feeley Uber Technologies Inc. directors were accused of failing to properly review the ride-sharing company’s $680 million acquisition of a self-driving...
Self-Driving Delivery Cars, Robot Taxis ‘Will Be Ready to Roll’ in 2018 December 5, 2017 By Keith Naughton and Gabrielle Coppola Self-driving vehicles will be ready to roll next year, though the work to make them affordable to individual consumers is...
Chinese Venture Capital Firm, Sinovation Ventures, Boosts Investment in AI August 22, 2017 By Bloomberg News For years, Kai-Fu Lee would share his venture capital firm’s office space in Beijing with startups he was backing so...
What is Lidar and Why Are Autonomous Car Makers Fighting Over It? February 24, 2017 By Alex Webb Spacecraft use it to measure distance. Farmers use it to work out which fields need fertilizer. Archaeologists use it to...