U.S. spending bills allocates upto $100 million for R&D into autonomous vehicles and its impact on the traditional transportation job market

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…

Uber Technologies in talks with Toyota Motors on installing its self-driving tech in Toyota’s minivans

Toyota Motors, an investor in, is reportedly in discussions with Uber Technologies to quicken the pace of bringing autonomous automated driving to the mass market. On Friday, Japan’s Nikkei reported, without citing any sources, that Uber Technologies is in the process of negotiating the installation of its self-driving system in Toyota Motor Co’s minivan vehicles.…

Nissan begins public field tests for its autonomous vehicle services, Easy Ride in Yokohama, Japan

Analysts at IHS Markit see global autonomous vehicle sale touching 33 million units ub 2040, while Goldman Sachs has predicted that the ride-hailing market will grow 800% by 2030 and be five times the size of the current taxi market. In a strategic development, Nissan Motor Co has taken the first steps towards becoming an…

Nvidia Corp consolidates and expands its position in the self-driving technology chip market

By expanding its partnerships with companies involved across the supply chain of the self-driving car market, Nvidia is rapidly expanding its footprint in this emerging segment. Aimed at increasing its footprint in the emerging autonomous vehicle industry, Nvidia Corp stated it will partner with Volkswagen AG and Uber Technologies Inc to bring about further gains…

Alphabet to help develop Quayside into the world’s first smartcity with reduced carbon footprint

Quayside is an upcoming waterfront project in Toronto’s Lake Ontario which Alphabet is developing as a smart city. Canada has contracted Alphabet Inc to plan a mixed-use development along Toronto’s Lake Ontario waterfront using smart urban design and cutting edge digital technologies. As per Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Alphabet which develops new technologies for…

Self-driving vehicles are finally going to hit U.S. roads thanks to this bill

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…

Continental joins Intel, BMW and Mobileye led self-driving platform

This collaborative effort will shift into production gear in 2021. On Tuesday Continental disclosed it would be join the self-driving platform pioneered by Intel, BMW and Mobileye in efforts aimed at integrating the handling of components and software. This integration of hardware and software data has accelerated the pace of development of self-driving vehicles and…

BlackBerry’s anti-hack toolset for automakers has the potential to resurrect it

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…