U.S. regulators on Thursday issued final rules eliminating the need for automated vehicle manufacturers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards.
Automakers and tech companies have faced significant hurdles to deploying automated driving system (ADS) vehicles without human controls because of safety standards written decades ago that assume people are in control.
Magna has acquired the technology, IP and assets of Optimus Ride, a startup based in Boston that was trying to commercialize electric autonomous shuttles. As part of the deal announced Tuesday, Magna has hired more than 120 employees of Optimus Ride. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed,
Distracted driving has been a problem for as long as vehicles have been on roads. However, the meteoric rise of technology and the ever-growing distractions of modern life have driven the issue to centre stage—and it’s no wonder why. In the US alone, more than 35,000 fatalities occurred in 2020 as a result of motor vehicle traffic crashes.
Self-driving cars, or autonomous cars, refer to cars that rely on sensory and image data of the surrounding environment to navigate. By replacing human drivers with intelligent software, they promise to make road travel safer .
To classify self-driving cars with varying levels of automation, governments and the automotive industry often adopt the six levels of automation proposed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)].
Autonomous truck companies are looking to public markets for financial backing as they try to take their technology into full production at a commercial scale.
PlusAI Corp.’s agreement to merge with a special-purpose acquisition company could make the startup the second autonomous driving provider to list on a U.S. exchange, after rival TuSimple Holdings Inc. made its debut last month in a $1.35 billion initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock market.
Four years ago, Argo AI made its first acquisition as a young, newly backed self-driving vehicle startup. Now, Argo says its acquisition of lidar company Princeton Lightwave is paying off and is poised to help it deliver autonomous vehicles that can operate commercially on highways and in dense urban areas starting next year.
GM CEO Mary Barra sees the automaker selling personal autonomous vehicles by the end of the decade by leveraging technology from its self-driving subsidiary Cruise, according to comments made during the company’s Wednesday earnings call.
Barra wasn’t providing any specifics just yet, but instead laid out a vision for the automaker’s future and how its stake in Cruise and its own internal effort to further develop its advanced driver assistance system Super Cruise might evolve over the next nine years.
