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Uber will test 'autonomous' food delivery sometime next year
Motional will supply the self-driving vehicles, which will shuttle self-driving meal kits (and human operators) to Santa Monica residents soon.
GM increases its self-driving and EV investment to $35 billion
GM has increased the money it's earmarking for its combined EV and self-driving investment from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion.
NVIDIA to buy autonomous vehicle mapping company DeepMap
NVIDIA has acquired DeepMap, a company that makes high-definition mapping technology for self-driving cars.
Volkswagen targets fully autonomous electric taxi vans by 2025
Volkswagen is preparing ID.Buzz vans capable of Level 4 autonomy, which can serve as robotaxis by 2025.
UK says 'self-driving' cars could be allowed by the end of 2021
The UK government has announced that basic self-driving cars with automated lane-keeping system (ALKS) could arrive on British roads by the end of 2021.
Lyft is selling its self-driving unit to Toyota for $550 million
Lyft is offloading Level 5, its internal autonomous vehicle development team.
Waymo has two new CEOs, one of whom is a woman of color
John Krafcik is handing over the job to executives Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov.
Aurora is helping Volvo develop autonomous semi trucks
Volvo has selected Aurora to help it develop Level 4 autonomous trucks for carrying cargo across North America.
Yandex's autonomous cars have driven over six million miles in 'challenging conditions'
Yandex's self-driving cars have now driven over 10 million kilometres, mostly on Moscow's icy roads.
Hitting the Books: Why Travis Kalanick got Uber into the self-driving car game
Autonomous vehicle developers have faced myriad similar challenged over the past three decades but nothing, it seems, turns the wheels of innovation quite like a bit of good, old-fashioned competition — one which DARPA was only more than happy to provide. In Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car, Insider senior editor and former Wired Transportation editor, Alex Davies takes the reader on an immersive tour of DARPA’s “Grand Challenges” — the agency’s autonomous vehicle trials which drew top talents from across academia and the private sector in effort to spur on the state of autonomous vehicle technology — as well as profiles many of the elite engineers that took place in the competitions. In the excerpt below however Davies recalls how, back in 2014, then-CEO Travis Kalanick steered Uber into the murky waters of autonomous vehicle technology, setting off a flurry of acquihires, buyouts, furious R&D efforts, and one fatal accident — only to end up selling off the division this past December.
Volkswagen partners with Microsoft on automated cars
Volkswagen Group is enlisting Microsoft’s help to speed up the development of autonomous driving systems.
Toyota is developing autonomous taxis with help from Aurora
A mere two months after acquiring Uber’s self-driving car unit, autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is partnering with the world’s largest automaker.
Ford commits $29 billion to electric and autonomous vehicle development
Ford will invest $29 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025, more than double the $11.5 billion it promised through 2022 less than a year ago, the automaker announced.
Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski
Anthony Levandowski, an engineer convicted of stealing information about self-driving car tech from Google/Waymo, has been pardoned by Donald Trump.
Microsoft teams up with Cruise and GM on self-driving cars
Cruise, GM and Microsoft have entered a partnership to speed up the arrival of self-driving cars.
Waymo will no longer use the term 'self-driving' to describe its tech
The next time Waymo talks about its autonomous vehicle technology, you won’t see the Alphabet subsidiary use the term “self-driving.”
Lyft aims to bring fully driverless cars to multiple US cities in 2023
Motional has helped the company carry out more than 100,000 self-driving rides.
Walmart will test driverless delivery trucks in Arkansas next year
Next year, there won’t be any human drivers in the Gatik autonomous trucks working a two-mile route in Arkansas for Walmart.
Uber is selling its self-driving unit to autonomous vehicle startup Aurora
As expected, Uber is selling off its self-driving unit.
The Boring Company offers a look inside a Las Vegas loop station
The Boring Company shared a short clip showing off one of the underground stations it’s building as part of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) loop.