Aug 12, 2020 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles
EHang, an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) development company, has unveiled what it says is the world’s first large-payload firefighting aerial vehicle built to tackle fires in high-rise buildings. According to EHang, the expansion of dense cities and...
Aug 12, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Automakers Volkswagen, Ford, and General Motors are betting billions that autonomous driving will get us moving again. The shock of losing air travel and public transportation has proven one sector of the American workforce to be especially resilient: the road...
Aug 12, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Hyundai’s autonomous vehicle joint venture with Aptiv has a new name: Motional. The company, which plans to test fully driverless vehicles for ride-hailing services later this year, said the new name is meant to evoke the “motion” of transportation as well as the...
Aug 6, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Moscow-based tech giant Yandex today announced it has expanded testing of its self-driving cars to Michigan. A fleet of Yandex’s driverless vehicles recently hit Ann Arbor city streets, including the company’s fourth-generation autonomous Hyundai...
Jul 30, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Regulation
Level 4 autonomous vehicles are those that can take full control of a vehicle under specific conditions, such as in a geo-fenced area, weather, traffic, and road types. While companies like Waymo and Uber are testing systems like this in the US, at the moment, there...
Jul 23, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Mobileye, Intel’s driverless vehicle R&D division, today announced that German certification body TÜV Süd awarded it a recommendation for a permit to drive its autonomous vehicles on public roads in Germany, including urban and rural areas as well as the...
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