Taxis and Ride Sharing

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.

Self-driving vehicle startup Faction is partnering with GoCar Tours for driverless delivery of vehicles to…

Toyota-backed self-driving vehicle startup Pony.ai is partnering with a division of SAIC Motor, China’s largest…

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 government wants to take advantage of the self-driving revolution to boost the economy and improve road safety backed by £100 million to support industry investment and fund research and create an estimated 38,000 new jobs from the predicted £42 billion industry.

The Chinese government has released a draft of its first national set of guidelines on…

Chinese search giant Baidu has become the first and so far only company in China…

The company’s most recent partnership with Point One Navigation, to help guide its autonomous B2B delivery fleets, builds on others with Nvidia, Arcimoto, and ElectraMeccanica aimed at solving the challenge of urban delivery and personal transportation with autonomy and teleoperation.

The LiDAR maker will provide InnovizTwo sensors and perception software to Volkswagen’s software unit for some of its brand segments for advanced ADAS features, with the direct-to-OEM deal expected to influence more car makers to follow the supply decision in their autonomous vehicle programs.

The company says that the Apollo RT6 autonomous vehicle is ready to provide driverless service as the company moves toward a future in which taking a robotaxi will be half the cost of taking a taxi today.