AUTONOMOUS CARS

In partnership with Luminar Technologies, Volvo announced an autonomous driving system called Ride Pilot at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Volvo customers in California will have access to Ride Pilot as a subscription service…

The new IDTechEx report, “Autonomous Cars, Robotaxis & Sensors 2022-2042”, discovers that level 3 autonomous vehicle technology has been ready since 2017- so where are the autonomous vehicles? The answer lies in unclear liability rules,…

The Finnish company Unikie develops software for real-time autonomous operation and process management in automotive and industrial solutions, including automated factory parking and valet parking. At the test facility in Turku, Finland,…

Autonomous cars will match or exceed human safety by 2024, after which they will overgrow at a CAGR of 30%, finds IDTechEx’s new report “Autonomous Cars, Robotaxis & Sensors 2022–2042”. By the 2040s, they will be capable of fulfilling the…

Waymo, the self-driving vehicle company under Alphabet, has launched a robotaxi service open to specific vetted riders in San Francisco. On Tuesday, the company officially kicked off its Waymo One Trusted Tester program in the city with a…

This week the US federal agency governing road safety has announced an investigation into Tesla and its self-driving car claims, bringing the challenges of autonomous vehicle adoption to the spotlight.  The National Highway Traffic Safety…

Being involved in a car accident is equal parts scary and frustrating. If you have not been badly injured, then the frustration takes over. Who has caused this accident and put a spanner in the works of your day? You get out of the car, usually…

Swedish T-Engineering and Finnish Sensible 4 will continue their collaboration by bringing an autonomous Dongfeng shuttle bus called Sharing-VAN to the European market in 2022. The shuttle bus will be integrated with the first version of…

“Autonomous vehicles will be here in 2 years” has been a standard sentence from the industry for the past 5 years or so. Now there is good reason to expect autonomous ride-hailing services to hit our roads within 3 years. So, what has happened…

The IDTechEx report, “Robot Shuttles and Autonomous Buses 2020-2040,” predicted second-generation robot shuttles, and here they come - vectored traction and steering, smart windows, robotic fast charging, and solar bodywork, so 10-40% less…