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The autonomous mover from the new Benteler vehicle brand, which had its world premiere at CES 2023, combines sustainability, inclusion, comfort, and safety with help from Pininfarina, Mobileye, Cognizant Mobility, and Beep, with a U.S. production start planned for the end of 2025. 

From its first client, a bakery, Faction aims to expand into other metro areas this year.

The launch of the Polestar 3 and Volvo EX90 electric vehicles represents a significant move by Google up the auto value chain into safety and greater driver assistance, and the map info combined with sensor data, Nvidia core computer system, and Zenseact software will enhance ADAS and AD.

At the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the team made up of autonomy-focused students and faculty from Politecnico di Milano in Italy and the University of Alabama, reached 180 mph—a new speed world record for the IAC on a racetrack, following its November victory at IAC competition in Texas.

Celebrating its 55th anniversary at CES 2023, Italdesign unveiled the Climb-E, for which the design house was responsible for horizontal mobility, partners Schindler for vertical mobility and Politecnico di Torino for architectural integration, and the mobility concept featuring Easyrain’s safety-system technologies.

Automobiles are increasingly becoming software-defined platforms, which opens up a lot of flexibility but creates potential pitfalls as well, according to speakers on the first day of CES 2023.

The 28-nm RFCMOS radar one-chip—adopted by lead customer Denso for next-generation ADAS platform development—is aimed at safety-critical applications including automated emergency braking and blind-spot detection using a highly integrated RF front-end and a multi-core processor.

Record SuperVision and future AV design wins in 2022 led to an expected $17 billion ADAS revenue pipeline through 2030 and its innovation roadmap includes key new technologies like imaging radar.

Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division and Dayou are now excited to announce the availability of product development test beds in Beijing, Shanghai, Anqing and Shenzhen for OEMs in the automotive and micromobility industries.

Among the supplier’s big show news was the world premiere of next generation Level 4 autonomous shuttle and a new partnership with Beep on autonomous transport systems for customers in the U.S. and a new multi-domain version of ZF ProAI high-performance computer.