Kevin Jost

The mission of the company’s rebranded EV Systems unit with partners Pininfarina, Beep, and Mobileye is to develop sustainable, inclusive, reliable, and safe mobility solutions for urban areas worldwide, with the world premiere of its new fully electric autonomous mover at CES 2023.

The company says that its SUV is the first unmodified mass-produced vehicle to qualify for autonomous tests on designated public roads in China and it follows the company’s debut of a City NGP Pilot program in Guangzhou.

The company’s expanded coverage map expansion is made possible by its transfer point model, leveraging Alterra Property Group and Ryder services at sites in key markets to automate core sunbelt lanes for carrier partners.

The most promising aspects of the shuttered startup’s business and technology will be absorbed by Ford and Volkswagen as both OEMs look to develop more ADAS applications inhouse and with other partners.

Powered by a breakthrough L3 digital lidar chip with back-side illumination, its OS range comes with precision and reliability advances and a new OSDome hemispheric view model for industrial automation, crowd analytics, and security applications.

Company execs at a signing ceremony this week targeted steer-by-wire technology development, information sharing, and to “jointly promote” the evolution and development of technology within many fields such as autonomous driving and electrification.

The joint software is intended to accelerate the introduction of new data-driven features, services, and enhancements for drivers, and eventually help all AWS automaker customers advance connected-car and software-defined vehicle capabilities.

The partnership will offer scalable parking navigation and Type 1 automated valet parking for the first time and an improved parking experience without the need for any costly additional infrastructure within parking facilities.

The 10-year agreement is expected to create one of the largest deployments of autonomous vehicles on a major ride-hail network, with the potential to reach millions of Uber riders.

The new centralized car computer platform features 2000 Teraflops of performance and integrates next-gen GPU and transformer engine to support the massive AI workloads required for safe autonomous vehicles, with Zeekr the first customer with production vehicles planned for early 2025.