Despite massive improvements in traffic safety, 1.2 million people are still killed in traffic every year. In 2007, this spurred Volvo Cars, as the only automotive manufacturer in the world, to launch…
Find out about BMW’s Autonomous Driving effort from Elmar Frickenstein
In September 2017, you and your team moved to the Autonomous Driving Campus in Unterschleissheim. What prompted the BMW Group’s decision to create this new site? We are currently experiencing the larg…
LG partners up with HERE for next gen telematics
LG Electronics (LG) is partnering with HERE Technologies (HERE), a global provider of digital mapping and location services, to offer a next-generation telematics solution for autonomous vehicles. HER…
Judge orders Uber to return stolen Waymo files
In the recent case of Waymo versus Uber in regards to the theft of secret documents containing secret technology around self-driving cars, the judge has written his judgement that Uber has to return a…
New York now accepts applications for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
In an announcement made, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo mentioned that the great state of New York is accepting applications from companies who are interested in autonomous vehicle testing on public roads. …
VIDEO: BMW explains the various levels of autonomous driving
When we talk about autonomous driving or autonomous cars, there are many levels of it. Starting from the basic cruise control to the more futuristic but close to reality self-driving cars where passen…
Apple getting ready to put staff behind self driving cars
Apple recently received permission from the DMV in California to test their self-driving cars. In recently acquired documents by the Business Insider, Apple is now preparing to get a group of staff to…
Bosch and Mercedes-Benz Team Up On Self-Driving Cars
Bosch and Mercedes-Benz are joining forces to develop fully automated and driverless cars by the beginning of the next decade. The two companies have already begun development on a series of fully au…
Volvo to Launch the Largest Autonomous Driving Trial in the UK [+video]
Volvo is set to launch UK’s most ambitious autonomous driving trial next year to speed up the introduction of a technology that promises to massively reduce car accidents as well as free up congested …
Porsche says no to autonomous cars
Autonomous cars may be the future for some, but Porsche has no plans to develop self-driving cars, said Porsche’s chief executive Oliver Blume. …
Ford accelerates autonomous vehicle development
Ford is tripling its fleet of fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid test vehicles – making it the largest in the automotive industry – and will use a new-generation sensor technology as the company furt…
Uber and Autonomous Cars?
When we think about self driving cars, the first thing that comes to mind is of course Google, Volvo, BMW, Audi and a slew of other manufacturers. I put Google first because although it is a tech comp…