Gasgoo Munich-On the streets of Paris, Chinese autonomous driving technology is out to prove its worth.
Diverse road conditions abroad were once a major barrier for the export of autonomous driving technology.
This explains why Chinese autonomous driving firms are racing to establish local European teams.
What defines the completion of globalization for Chinese autonomous driving?
From vehicle exports driving supplier expansion to Chinese technology participating in global model definition, system R&D, and industry specialization, the internationalization of Chinese autonomous driving is entering a new phase.
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Elbit Systems has completed the acquisition of International Submarine Engineering (ISE), a Canadian developer of autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated systems, as the Israeli defense group expands its portfolio of unmanned technologies into the underwater domain.
The acquisition gives Elbit access to a company with more than five decades of experience in subsea robotics and a track record of delivering more than 250 underwater vehicles to customers in over 20 countries.
Based in the Vancouver area, ISE develops and manufactures autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, robotics and computer control systems.
The announcement, however, did not specify which ISE systems Elbit plans to deploy, identify any new customers or disclose a timetable for integrating the technology into its existing products.
The ISE acquisition follows a similar strategic direction, bringing specialized technology into Elbit’s broader defense portfolio rather than building every capability internally.
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Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have separately expanded their partnerships with NVIDIA to advance automated driving, according to press releases from both automakers.
It will enable future Volvo cars to safely navigate complex real-world environments from door to door.
“Volvo has been synonymous with car safety for almost 100 years,” said Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars president and CEO, in the release.
Mercedes-Benz says its partnership with NVIDIA brings together the automaker’s engineering and safety expertise with its MB.OS operating system.
NVIDIA’s Halos builds on the Mercedes-Benz safety foundation, including a parallel safety stack that adds redundancy and guardrails, the release adds.
10h ago · via repairerdrivennews.com
Santa Monica is working toward an agreement that would let Zoox, the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, stage and store up to 150 of its robotaxis in city-owned parking facilities, including the Main Library parking structure.
Primary consideration is being given to the first underground level of the Main Library structure and parts of the library's surface lot.
According to the staff report, the arrangement would follow the Parking Division's standard license protocol and would indemnify the city for incidents involving Zoox vehicles.
"We have plenty of capacity — unused parking capacity that's sitting vacant at the library," Chi said.
City staff are still determining Zoox's technical requirements and whether the facilities meet them.
1d ago · via smdp.com
This follows reports from early July that the team around Andy Burnham are more sceptical of autonomous vehicles than the Starmer team were, for similar reasons.
If autonomous vehicles are as transformative as they are promised to be, there will of course be a significant impact on jobs.
But I don’t think this is a good reason to slow down Britain’s autonomous vehicle rollout.
But all of this aside, the stronger argument for embracing autonomous vehicles is the purely progressive one: that autonomous vehicles are a building block towards us building a better world for everyone.
If autonomous vehicles need to be stored, they can park further out of town.
1d ago · via arguably.uk
Without the attention mechanism, obstacle avoidance success rate dropped by 2.71 percent.
The risk field contributed most significantly to safety—its removal caused a 13.25 percent drop in obstacle avoidance success rate—while the improved replay mechanism accelerated convergence, with its absence resulting in a 15.69 percent decrease in obstacle avoidance success rate.
Beyond raw success rates, the method demonstrated superior trajectory quality in overtaking and obstacle avoidance scenarios.
Subject of Research: Multi-objective optimization of lane-changing trajectories for autonomous vehicles based on deep reinforcement learning Article Title: Multi-objective optimization of lane-changing trajectories for autonomous vehicles based on deep reinforcement learning Article References: Hu, Y., & Li, Q.
Multi-objective optimization of lane-changing trajectories for autonomous vehicles based on deep reinforcement learning.
1d ago · via bioengineer.org
that causes someone to lose their job,” Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous driving, told me.
If autonomous driving is the future, it’s a future you can visit in San Francisco.
Ridesharing provided a business model for autonomous cars, and rideshare companies were eager to eliminate the expense of human drivers.
Tesla and Uber had embraced a Wild West image; Waymo was doing its autonomous driving in hybrid Chrysler minivans.
Waymo sought a restraining order against Stacker One; the City of Santa Monica sued Waymo; Waymo sued Santa Monica.
1d ago · via newyorker.com
The Jaguars are imported from a plant in Austria and outfitted with Waymo’s self-driving tech in Arizona.
While the bulk of those sales were in China, Zeekr has recently eyed expansion into new markets like Europe and Latin America.
A Waymo spokesperson said the company “strongly supports the Department of Commerce’s BIS connected vehicle rule and legislative efforts to address the national security concerns about foreign connected vehicle technology.”
“For any base vehicle Waymo uses, Waymo actively takes steps to ensure that they are in compliance with the government’s connected vehicle rules,” the Waymo spokesperson said in a statement.
“Additionally, Waymo does not share personally identifiable information about Waymo riders, Waymo vehicle telemetry data, or data collected through Waymo’s automated driving system with vehicle manufacturers.”
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On Sept. 14, the San Diego City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling for greater local control over the deployment of autonomous vehicles in San Diego, including driverless robotaxis such as Waymos.
“Critically, it was the decision made about San Diego without San Diego,” she said.
On Jan. 15, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System board of directors voted to oppose Waymo’s expansion into San Diego, urging the restoration of regulatory powers to local jurisdictions.
“Nobody asked the San Diego City Council, San Diego Fire-Rescue, or the workers who keep this city moving.”
“I hope to see the state give San Diego the authority to decide when and how this technology is deployed in our city,” von Wilpert said.
1d ago · via ucsdguardian.org
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology published “Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool?
A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks.”
Abstract excerpt: “This survey systematizes thirteen representative works into thermal perception integrity, telemetry leakage, and model-information extraction, comparing them by privilege, timescale, co-tenancy, deployability, and AV relevance.
“Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool?
A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks.”
1d ago · via semiengineering.com
What if that neighboring vehicle could simply tell your car, “Vehicle merging from the right, about 15 meters away, moving quickly.”
This simple idea of cars helping each other by describing what they see in natural language motivates UNCAP, our new framework for cooperative autonomous driving.
UNCAP teaches autonomous vehicles both who to talk to as well as how much to trust what they hear.
In reality, with the rise of autonomous driving, the roads are instead observing a mixture of manufacturers, sensor configurations, and heterogenous software stacks.
Read the paper in full UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles, Neel P. Bhatt, Po-han Li, Kushagra Gupta, Rohan Siva, Daniel Milan, Alexander T. Hogue, Sandeep P. Chinchali, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhangyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu.
Oct 18, 2026 · via robohub.org
MicroVision announced on 15 October 2026 that Overland AI has selected its IRIS long-range lidar sensor for integration into the IBEX next-generation fully autonomous ground vehicle.
IBEX carries a 2,000-pound payload and can drive at speeds above 35 mph in full autonomy.
MicroVision's IRIS uses a 1,550-nanometre wavelength invisible to night-vision goggles, offering a tactical advantage, and its solid-state design supports harsh off-road environments.
Why it matters: Overland AI is the first ground-autonomy company to prime a production contract with the US military, and the selection extends MicroVision's push into the security and defence market, where lidar provides perception for autonomous vehicles, robotics and perimeter security.
"The selection of IRIS for Overland's IBEX vehicle underscores the capability and readiness of our sensor to reliably perform in the most challenging defense environments," said MicroVision CEO Glen DeVos.
Oct 18, 2026 · via app.dealroom.co
The announcement reinforces the two companies’ shared ambition to make increasingly sophisticated automated driving technology safer, more capable and accessible for everyday use.
The combination is designed to support new driving functions, continuous over-the-air software updates and the development of more advanced automated driving capabilities.
NVIDIA’s Alpamayo Stack will provide full-stack driving software with AI reasoning capabilities, helping vehicles interpret complex traffic situations and make more informed driving decisions.
Combined with Mercedes-Benz’s established approach to vehicle safety, these technologies aim to strengthen the reliability of future automated driving systems.
Beyond improving current driver assistance features, the partnership will support the development of future SAE Level 4 autonomous driving applications, including robotic limousines.
Oct 18, 2026 · via electriccarsreport.com
But the companies believe the partnership works thanks to their shared ambition to deploy autonomous vehicle taxi rides around the world.
Verne has its own plans to roll out a “business class” form of autonomous vehicle mobility service.
In April, the partnership launched its robotaxi service, giving users in Zagreb the chance to order a driverless vehicle for their journey.
The current setup is what is known as a level 4 driverless car programme, which means the car can drive itself without human interference, but only in strictly controlled areas.
But we don’t want to roll out tests in a city if we don’t see it as an option in the future to fully roll out a driverless service as the end goal.
Oct 18, 2026 · via euronews.com
Lewis George, who represents Ward 4 on the D.C. Council, shared her concerns on social media following Waymo’s official debut in the District.
“DC is facing a jobs crisis,” Lewis George wrote.
“Rushing the legalization of autonomous vehicles is irresponsible given the anticipated AI-related job displacement and disruptions that put countless workers at risk.”
Lewis George said the District should be able to embrace emerging technology while also protecting workers and focusing on public safety.
Waymo announced in March 2025 that its fully autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One, was coming to Washington, D.C.
Oct 18, 2026 · via mocoshow.com
Here, GM is testing a human driver's response in vehicles just as much as it's testing the vehicle tech itself.
That simulation is how GM and other automakers are testing future iterations of their advanced driver assistance systems.
Automakers with the best tech will get more consumers to subscribe to those capabilities, making automated driving a lucrative play for the industry.
Far smaller rollouts of sophisticated light-duty driving systems from various auto companies have been available in limited markets in recent years, but have been discontinued.
Because of that, he said, "It remains to be seen where GM will be able to offer their eyes off system come 2028."
Oct 18, 2026 · via arkansasonline.com
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The California Highway Patrol hopes that newly released dashcam video serves as a wake-up call for drivers who take dangerous chances with their automated driver assistance systems.
CHP’s statement indicated that the two state officers who were in the vehicle at the time were seriously injured in the crash.
Despite all that, the video shows the Tesla coming up behind the law enforcement vehicle and crashing into the back of it.
The driver of the Tesla told investigators that he was sleeping at the time of the crash and that the vehicle’s self-driving features were in control.
What they're saying: "Despite its name, full self-driving is not fully autonomous," CHP reminded drivers in its post.
Oct 17, 2026 · via livenowfox.com