Autonomous Vehicle News

  • Nissan-backed autonomous car project furthers self-driving technology in cities


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    Nissan autonomous projectA Nissan-backed autonomous car project has come to a close with a series of tests to look at how self-driving vehicles can cope with busy inner city traffic. ServCity, a project backed by Nissan and supported by the Gov...

  • Luminar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: LAZR): trength Attributed to Twitter Speculation Tesla Semi an...


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    Luminar Technologies Inc. (LAZR) saw a surge in its stock price, with a 10% increase in trading volume, following Twitter speculation that Tesla has been testing its Semi and Cybertruck prototypes with LIDAR sensors, which are produced by Lumin...

  • Federal Regulators Are Looking Into Zoox's Self-Certified Robotaxi


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    Federal regulators, including the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency, are looking into whether or not the robotaxis made by Amazon subsidiary Zoox actually meet requirements to travel on public roads. After the company self-certified...

  • Tesla recalls self-driving cars to fix unsafe actions


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    DETROIT — U.S. safety regulators have pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full Self-Driving” system because it misbehaves around intersections and doesn’t always follow speed limits. The safety agency says in docume...

  • Electric Nissan Leaf racks up 1,600 autonomous driving miles in ServCity project


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    A government-backed project that trialled a connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) on the roads of London has successfully concluded, providing a blueprint to help get the UK’s cities ‘CAV-ready’. Carried out by a consortium of firms that inclu...

  • CEO of Banyan Technologies Group delivers keynote speech on automobile mobility


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    The CEO speculated that electric vehicles will become more popular with general consumers, within the next decade on Feb. 16. Now, he’s the founder, chairman, and CEO of Banyan Technologies Group, an enterprise platform that is largely business...

  • Tesla recalls nearly 363,000 self-driving cars: five things to know


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    Texas-based Tesla has issued a recall for more than 350,000 of its cars after federal regulators said certain models with so-called “self-driving” technology could cause traffic accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini...

  • Hyundai 'very close' to achieving Level-3 autonomy


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    Level-3 autonomy allows a vehicle to driving itself in certain situations, said Latouf, adding that Hyundai is preparing to deploy such a system in South Korea. “So, no timelines yet, but it is of intense focus for us.” The industry, he added, ...