Driverless Cars

The Geely Holding and Baidu joint-venture brand’s first model for the Chinese market features a Robo Drive subscription supported by dual Nvidia Drive Orin chips and the first mass production Qualcomm 8295 cockpit chip powering its Simo AI “partner.”

At its Tech Day 2023, the Chinese OEM startup discussed how it will build upon its safety credentials by introducing XNGP ADAS without HD map coverage, an AI Valet Driver smart driving feature for frequently traveled routes, and one architecture for full-scenario ADAS capabilities.

The autonomous vehicle technology company’s fourth annual Consumer Mobility Report looks at the road to adoption and the hurdles standing in the way of driverless solutions.

At its fourth annual Tech Day in Taiwan today, Hon Hai (aka Foxconn) announced it will use Nvidia Drive Hyperion 9 for the manufacture of highly automated and autonomous EVs and will use Nvidia AI to help accelerate smart manufacturing.

Forecasters still see long-term adoption in certain segments, with mobility-as-a-service and robotaxis expected to lead the transition to an autonomous vehicle future, while broad deployments of Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving systems will reach at least 31% of new vehicle sales globally by 2035.

The autonomous vehicles of Google’s sibling Waymo are significantly safer than ones driven by humans,…

The supplier’s system, which learns the driving route and performs parking using ultrasonic and surround view monitor cameras, is an intermediary technology on the competitive path to unmanned autonomous parking.

Auburn University Autonomous Tiger Racing, sponsored by Safran Electronics & Defense, recently completed a full…

Relatively inexperienced drivers fare poorly in case of driver takeover, which may suggest regulations are needed to account for them.

The root of the problem appears to be how the images used to train the systems feature more adults and lighter-skinned pedestrians.