Dec 15, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
Arcimoto, the maker of the three-wheeled electric Fun Utility Vehicles (FUVs), is teaming up with Faction to develop EVs that can be delivered to a customer’s hotel through a combination of low-level autonomy and tele-assist technology. The tie-up is part of...
Dec 8, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Defense, Military
Kodiak Robotics Inc., a self-driving technology company active in trucking, announced in a blog post this month that the Army and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) selected it for a 24-month, $49.9 million agreement to adapt its self-driving platform, Kodiak Driver,...
Dec 8, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles
Apple has reportedly scaled back the debut of its self-driving electric vehicle, delaying the car’s targeted launch date to 2026. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg reported Monday that the project — known as Project Titan — has been in...
Dec 1, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Mapping
Autonomous cars find the way to their destination using a number of critical technologies, including some version of a global position system and a central brain to interpret that and other data. But many of those technologies are not reliable or accurate enough...
Dec 1, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles
On a damp evening in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, just after a rainstorm, a white van drove up through an empty high school and performing arts center parking lot. The van that picked me up, a Toyota Sienna, looks different from a regular Sienna. It has a cylinder mounted...
Nov 17, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%. The studies released Tuesday, one by a government-auto industry partnership and the other by the...
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