Jul 5, 2024 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Marine
Amar Shar, the co-founder of British AI unicorn Wayve, has backed Oshen, a budding startup building miniature autonomous sailboats. The little robots could transform the way scientists monitor everything from ocean temperatures and waves to...
Jun 27, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, V2X
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) a $20 million grant to “connect the west” with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology. This technology uses sensors and wireless connectivity so...
Jun 27, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
There is a new player in the autonomous urban mobility space. Today, Rimac Group CEO Mate Rimac revealed a new urban mobility service and vehicle at the new Rimac Campus near Zagreb, Croatia. Verne, the new brand, is named after Journey to the Center of the...
Jun 27, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
The trucking industry appears ready to embrace SAE Level 4 technology that would permit driverless operations along predetermined, geofenced routes, allowing the industry to address driver shortages and ever-rising e-commerce freight volumes. But after a few...
Jun 20, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
A pair of engineers at the University of Central Florida has found that autonomous vehicles are generally safer than those driven by humans except under two conditions. In their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, Mohamed Abdel-Aty and Shengxuan...
Jun 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Robotaxis, Transit
In Los Angeles, it is possible — right now — to drive from Santa Monica to West Hollywood without touching a steering wheel or gas pedal (provided you don’t get on the freeway). In Phoenix, you can go from the airport to an appointment downtown and back without...
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