Oct 22, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, has been issued a permit from California regulators that will allow it to test driverless vehicles on public roads in...
Oct 22, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Tesla sent out the first “Full Self-Driving” beta software update to a select group of customers this week, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday. On an earnings call Wednesday, Musk said more Tesla owners would get the update as the weeks progress, with the goal of a “wide...
Oct 22, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
In 2018, the company started taking passengers in a programme called Waymo One, but the only passengers allowed on board were people that had been vetted by Waymo, which involves signing an NDA barring them from disclosing any information about trips. According to the...
Oct 22, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured, Testing
Ford Motor plans to launch its self-driving commercial business in 2022 with vehicles based on the Ford Escape Hybrid crossover, the company said Tuesday. The vehicles are the automaker’s fourth-generation self-driving test vehicles in partnership with Argo AI, a...
Oct 14, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
Autonomous vehicle company Waymo provided a glimpse of its autonomous truck technology in a blog post this week, as the Alphabet-backed startup best known for self-driving passenger vehicles steps up its delivery and freight program. Waymo said its...
Oct 14, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Logistics
Driverless forklifts have been roaming warehouses since Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) were first brought to market in the 1950s. Compared to today’s standards, the technology was quite basic—the vehicles simply sensed and followed a wire buried in the floor. Over...
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