BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua): Beijing greenlighted the commercial operation of autonomous driving service without in-car safety supervisors for the first time this week.\nThe pilot programme involved the unmanned autonomous vehicles' ability to deal with complex scenarios such as intersections, narrow roadways, as well as extreme weather conditions like rain, snow and sandstorms.\nPreviously, safety supervisors were required to stay in the driver's seats, passenger seats or second-row seats when the vehicles underwent road tests and commercial operation.\nThe permit allows Baidu and Pony.ai to provide fully driverless rides without a safety supervisor aboard in a 60-square-kilometre area of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area.\nResidents can summon a driverless car without a safety supervisor inside to travel to various destinations, such as subway stations, key commercial areas, public parks and residential communities, through mobile applications.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Tesla Releases FSD Beta 11.3.2 and Begins Wider Roll Out","slug":"tesla-releases-fsd-beta-11-3-2-and-begins-wider-roll-out","publishDate":"2023-03-19 07:52:10-04:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-19 14:30:49.986731","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Tesla's FSD Beta v11.3.2 is now rolling out with version 2022.45.11.\nHowever, in the early hours of Sunday morning, FSD Beta has now started going out 'wide'.\nWhat's NewFor the most part, the release notes for FSD Beta v11.3.2 are the same as FSD Beta v11.3.1, however there is one notable addition to the release notes of v11.3.2.\nNew in FSD Beta V11Besides the big feature of FSD Beta use on the highway, Tesla has also redesigned the Autopilot menu to remove older options and make your options clearer.\nOne of the most exciting new features in FSD v11.3.2 is the addition of FSD messages.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Barra meets with U.S. senators on self-driving cars","slug":"barra-meets-with-u-s-senators-on-self-driving-cars","publishDate":"2023-03-17 06:26:11-04:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-18 14:31:05.803101","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"WASHINGTON -- General Motors CEO Mary Barra met with two key U.S. senators on Thursday as the automaker pushes for legislation to speed deployment of self-driving vehicles on U.S. roads.\nBarra met with Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Sen. Gary Peters, a fellow Democrat and a Commerce Committee member, the company confirmed.\nCongress has been stymied for more than six years over legislation to ease regulations that would allow for the deployment of thousands of autonomous vehicles.\n\"We must act to ensure U.S. manufacturers can compete with countries like China, create jobs here and improve roadway safety,\" said Peters, who represents Michigan, where GM is based.\nHe added that Barra discussed with the lawmakers \"the future of mobility -- including autonomous vehicles.\"
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Visiting China's Capital City? Don't Be Surprised If Your Taxi Has No Driver","slug":"visiting-china-s-capital-city-don-t-be-surprised-if-your-taxi-has-no-driver","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-03-18 14:31:04.166555","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Over 2 million passengers have ridden in Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles as of the end of January 2023, the company says.\n\"The city is also exploring pathways to operate autonomous driving vehicles [to] the city's nearby airport, serving the wider Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,\" Baidu says.\nBaidu launched its autonomous driving service in 2017, according(Opens in a new window) to the South China Morning Post.\nIts vehicles operate with Level 4 autonomous driving, with Level 5 being the highest (see our explainer).\nBut autonomous driving is a notoriously thorny AI problem due to the infinite scenarios a vehicle may encounter on the road.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Baidu Wins China Capital City's First-Ever Permit to Provide Fully Driverless Ride-hailing Service","slug":"baidu-wins-china-capital-city-s-first-ever-permit-to-provide-fully-driverless-ride-hailing-service","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-03-18 14:31:02.863693","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"This marks a major milestone worldwide as the first-ever fully driverless fleet deployed in the capital city of any country.\nUsers can now have access to fully driverless robotaxi service in three megacities in China: Beijing, Wuhan and Chongqing.\nUpon receiving the permit, Baidu becomes the first provider of fully driverless autonomous ride-hailing services in the capital city of China, with no driver or safety operator in the car.\nBaidu is currently the only company to provide fully driverless autonomous ride-hailing services in multiple cities across China, including Beijing, Wuhan, and Chongqing.\nThe city is also exploring pathways to operate autonomous driving vehicles bridging the Yizhuang Economic Development Zone and the city's nearby airport, enabling commercial autonomous driving logistics operations serving the wider Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Visiting China's Capital City? Don't Be Surprised If Your Taxi Has No Driver","slug":"visiting-china-s-capital-city-don-t-be-surprised-if-your-taxi-has-no-driver","publishDate":"2023-03-17 16:55:55+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-18 14:31:02.122573","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Over 2 million passengers have ridden in Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles as of the end of January 2023, the company says.\n\"The city is also exploring pathways to operate autonomous driving vehicles [to] the city's nearby airport, serving the wider Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,\" Baidu says.\nBaidu launched its autonomous driving service in 2017, according to the South China Morning Post.\nIts vehicles operate with Level 4 autonomous driving, with Level 5 being the highest (see our explainer).\nBut autonomous driving is a notoriously thorny AI problem due to the infinite scenarios a vehicle may encounter on the road.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"GM Cruise says can test Origin in Austin without NHTSA approval","slug":"gm-cruise-says-can-test-origin-in-austin-without-nhtsa-approval","publishDate":"2023-03-17 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-18 14:31:01.646374","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Cruise will begin testing the Origin on public roads in Austin within weeks, Vogt said.\nA Cruise spokesperson however, told Fortune that the company is permitted test Origins on public roads through the federal FAST Act, which does not require NHTSA approval.\nCruise is manufacturing the Origin vehicles in Michigan at GM’s Factory Zero, a facility dedicated to electric vehicles that received $1 billion in state tax incentives.\n“There’s really no fundamental bottlenecks on the technology side or scaling side that are going to hold back building cars,” Vogt said.\nAs Fortune previously reported, autonomous cars operated by Cruise and Alphabet-subsidiary Waymo have been involved in numerous worrisome traffic incidents in San Francisco and Austin.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"VW joins China price war as new emissions rule looms","slug":"vw-joins-china-price-war-as-new-emissions-rule-looms","publishDate":"2023-03-17 08:51:00-04:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-18 14:31:01.122669","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Guangzhou Automobile Group, the Chinese partner of both Honda and Toyota, has also offered subsidies running from March 15 to March 31.\nChinese passenger vehicle sales fell 20 percent in January-February, industry data showed, even as some manufacturers offered reduced prices to stimulate demand.\nSales of new-energy vehicles, which include full-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, grew faster than the overall market, accounting for over 30 percent in February.\nThe price war is likely to accelerate consolidation of the fragmented local auto industry which has over 130 passenger car manufacturers, state-owned newspaper Economic Daily said in a commentary on Friday.\nLocal governments have been supplementing incentives to revive demand for cars produced by local automakers.
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