Autonomous Vehicle News

  • Partners Initiate On-Road Testing of Heavy-Duty Autonomous Truck


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    IVECO and Plus say they are beginning public-road testing of their jointly developed next-generation automated trucks in Germany. As a part of the testing, the companies will collect road data to validate their autonomous truck’s operations and...

  • Commentary: Singapore must clear the roadblocks for driverless cars


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    SAVING LIVESIndustry players implicitly understand that if operating AVs safely is not the number one priority in developing the vehicles, there will be no industry to speak of. The strong focus on safety will result in the biggest benefit that...

  • Mercedes-Benz DRIVE PILOT first certified Level 3 autonomy in US beating Tesla


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    To be exact, DRIVE PILOT will be available for 2024 S-Class and EQS Sedan models, the first regular production vehicles authorized to drive autonomously on US public freeways. DRIVE PILOT, launched in Germany last May, can take dynamic control ...

  • California Could Outlaw Fully Autonomous Trucking


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    Proposed legislation would requires a safety driver to be present in the cab of any vehicle weighing more than 10,000 lbsA battle is brewing in California over whether to allow fully autonomous trucking in the state, and one side has introduced...

  • Ford Lost $2 Billion in 2022 as Some Investments Soured


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    Ford Motor said on Thursday that it lost $2.2 billion in 2022 as it wrote down the value of two big investments and struggled with high costs and supply chain problems. The company wrote down its investments in Rivian, a young electric truck ma...

  • Autonomous driving: New algorithm distributes risk fairly


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    In the next step the algorithm was told not to exceed a maximum acceptable risk in the various respective street situations. An example will illustrate the approach: An autonomous vehicle wants to overtake a bicycle, while a truck is approachin...

  • San Francisco, the city driven to distraction by autonomous car glitches


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    Self-driving cars operated by firms including Cruise have been blamed for causing disruptionBy the time one of San Francisco’s growing fleet of self-driving taxis chanced upon a huge fire on Hayes Street it had trained for “millions of miles”, ...

  • Invest Ottawa’s 10th birthday party comes with over $6.6 million in funding to support Area X.O


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    As the local tech community came together to celebrate Invest Ottawa’s tenth year, Ottawa’s economic development agency for innovation received a significant anniversary present from the federal government. Invest Ottawa expects the totality of...