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Ford's new AI subsidiary wants to create hands-free, eyes-off driver assist systems
Latitude AI hopes you'll be able to take your eyes off the road someday.
Autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI is shutting down
Investors Ford and VW will absorb the company's tech and hire some of its employees, according to TechCrunch.
Ford's Argo AI begins driverless vehicle operations in Austin and Miami
On Tuesday, Ford's Argo AI announced it had begun driverless operations in Austin and Miami.
Ford, Walmart and Argo AI to launch autonomous vehicle deliveries in three cities
Ford, Walmart and Argo AI plan to launch autonomous vehicle delivery services in Miami, Austin, Texas and Washington DC later this year.
Volkswagen's ID.Buzz electric minivan appears as a self-driving prototype
Volkswagen has shown its closest look yet at the ID.Buzz minivan in the form of a self-driving, lidar-equipped prototype developed in collaboration with Argo AI.
Self-driving Ford cars will be available to Lyft customers in Miami later this year
Ford is bringing its Argo AI-powered driverless cars to Lyft's ride-hailing network by the end of the year.
Argo AI says its latest LiDAR sensor has a 400-meter range
The tech could bolster Ford and Volkswagen's self-driving ambitions.
Volkswagen is using its electric ID.Buzz van to test self-driving tech
VW will start testing its Argo AI self-driving systems in Germany this year using the retro-styled electric vans.
Ford's autonomous cars are delivering fresh produce in Miami
Ford and Argo AI have launched a pilot that uses self-driving cars to deliver fresh produce to Miami-area students learning at home during the pandemic.
Ford delays self-driving taxis to 2022
Ford is putting the future of being autonomously driven on hold until 2022 as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.
VW's self-driving car group will have offices in Silicon Valley and China
Volkswagen hasn't been as active or vocal about autonomous driving as some of its competitors. The company has focused much of its recent attention on electric vehicle offerings, but that seems to be changing. Today, VW announced the creation of an autonomous driving subsidiary called Volkswagen Autonomy, or VWAT. The new company already has offices in Munich and Wolfsburg, Germany, but will expand to Silicon Valley and China in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Ford is bringing its self-driving cars to Austin, Texas
Ford has announced it will bring its self-driving cars to Austin. The Texas state capital joins Miami and Washington, DC as initial launch markets for the company's autonomous vehicle service. It's also testing the cars in Detroit, Palo Alto and Pittsburgh.
Ford confirms it will build a car using VW's EV architecture
What was once rumored is now official: Ford is going to use VW's electric car platform, called MEB, for some of its own battery-powered vehicles. The announcement builds on the "global alliance" that the pair announced back in January. Ford says it will use VW's MEB to build "at least one high-volume fully electric vehicle" in Europe "starting in 2023." The MEB framework is already being used in a variety of yet-to-be-released EVs by Volkswagen and its subsidiary brands. Ford is the first external company beyond e.GO Mobile AG, a German EV startup, to use MEB, however.
Carnegie Mellon will help Argo AI advance its self-driving vehicle tech
Ford's autonomous vehicle arm Argo AI is already testing self-driving vehicles in a handful of cities. But the company has a few key puzzles to solve before it can deploy its fleets on a large scale. To help answer the remaining questions -- like how can autonomous vehicles reason in highly unstructured broken-traffic conditions -- Argo is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The newly formed Carnegie Mellon University Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research will work to advance the next-generation of self-driving tech.
Ford will test new self-driving cars in Detroit
Ford is testing a new fleet of self-driving vehicles in its homebase of Detroit. Argo AI, Ford's autonomous vehicle arm, announced it would deploy its third-generation vehicles in Detroit and Corktown. The Ford Fusion Hybrids will be equipped with a "significantly upgraded sensor suite", as well as new sets of radar and cameras with higher resolution and higher dynamic range, wrote Argo AI president Pete Rander in a blog post.
Volkswagen ends deal with self-driving startup Aurora
Volkswagen is cutting ties with Silicon Valley self-driving startup Aurora after only a year, amidst talks of working with Ford's Argo AI instead. Financial Times reported the news of the split, adding that VW expects to reach a deal with Argo AI this summer. Sources told FT that VW declined to renew its contract with Aurora after a trial run, ending some projects earlier this year.
