Within 4-5 years, it will be commonplace to see on our roads autonomous cars drive alongside human-driven ones. Here’s the lowdown on how of the leading players in this industry is making that happen. An official from Mobileye, Intel’s autonomous driving unit, stated it has signed a contract to supply 8 million cars with self-driving…
The U.S. Administration is increasingly boosting efforts to tilt, what has so far been so far in recent history, a one-sided affair, of collaboration and forced technology transfer from the U.S. to China. Beijing’s Made in China 2025 industrial policy has opened the administration’s eye to China’s furtive motives of leveraging the dual benefits of…
The Chinese automakers stated if the U.S. were to impose stiff penalties on Chinese vehicle exports, its planned entry into the U.S. market by 2019 will be significantly affected. On Wednesday, China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd stated the brewing trade conflict between China and the United States, especially if stiff tariffs were imposed, its…
With companies racing to place their autonomous automated smart vehicles on the U.S. market from 2019, this funding program aims to assess the impact, including the feasibility, safety and potential job losses, these technologies will bring about for commercial autonomous vehicles. In a significant development, a U.S. spending bill includes a $100 million for a…
Having acquired Opel from GM, Peugeot SA is now banking on the expertise of Opel’s engineers to surge back in the race of automated, autonomous self-driving vehicles. In a significant development, Carlos Tavares, the CEO of French automaker Peugeot SA disclosed that it will capitalize on Opel’s engineering know-how to develop electric vehicles and re-enter…
In a historic development, a U.S. senate panel has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at reducing the time gap before robotic self-driving cars are deployed on U.S. roads. In a development that will lend further momentum to automakers, a U.S. Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill aimed at speeding the deployment of self-driving vehicles…
This is going to be a landmark bill. In a significant development, an influential U.S. House committee has overwhelmingly approved a revised bipartisan bill on a 54-0 vote that will speed the deployment of self-driving autonomous vehicles in the country and bar states from blocking autonomous vehicles. The bill allows automakers to obtain…
BlackBerry is testing its security tool with automakers. As per a financial analyst, BlackBerry Ltd is collaborating with at least two car manufacturers for developing a security service that can remotely scan vehicles for computer viruses and tell drivers to pull over if they are in critical danger. In a note to clients, BlackBerry is…
Although Uber did not give any reason for Jones’ exit from the company, the fact that he quit before seven months is telling. Uber Technologies took a major hit with its president Jeff Jones leaving the company for greener pastures. Jones was a key figure since being a marketing expert, he was hired to help…
Ford’s banking on Autolivery and its investment in Argo AI for surging ahead of the competition in the fight for supremacy in self-driving and automated package delivery technology. Believe it or not, in the coming years the world created in “Wall-E” could become a reality. Ford has a vision wherein an army of autonomous drones…
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