On Road

CES Brief: The startup focused on vision perception for autonomous driving platforms will introduce at CES 2023 what it says is the industry’s highest performing compute platform for autonomous mobility, pitching 1000-TOPS processing at the vehicle’s edge.

French engineering firm M3 Systems has developed a new tool for GNSS and multi-path simulation. The test bench is particularly well suited to testing assisted and autonomous driving applications.

The ZF ProConnect platform securely connects vehicles with cloud and infrastructure with integration of leading-edge positioning solutions from Hexagon, which is demonstrating the high-precision satellite navigation for automated driving in a demo car at CES 2023.

The new trials are part of Dubai’s larger autonomous public vehicle ambitions.

The transaction aligns with Magna’s Go-Forward strategy of accelerating investments in high-growth areas and broadens Magna’s ADAS portfolio with complementary products, customers, and geographies.

In the two-year, $50-million project, Kodiak will develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other high-risk missions.

Funding will support the Sheffield University spin-out’s radical new approach using Antimony to dramatically improve performance over silicon-based sensors, the new architecture being ten times more sensitive and with 50% more range compared to equivalent sensors.

The race towards autonomous road transport is gaining pace, with truck maker Scania and partner TuSimple now testing autonomous hub-to-hub transport in busy, open-road conditions.

With Tesla in their cross-hairs, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Volkswagen look to create class-leading automated driving systems.

Deep dive: A strong business case and less complex driving mean that self-driving trucks may have many market advantages over other autonomous vehicles.