Waymo has finally gotten its permit that will allow it to run driverless operations in the San Francisco area. The company already operates its autonomous services in downtown Phoenix.
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A member of NVIDIA Metropolis, Seoul Robotics, is making cars autonomous by employing an AI-enabled computer vision platform that is backed by NVIDIA CUDA libraries, along with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin.
Xiaomi announced its plans to invest RMB 3.3 billion ($490 million) in developing Xiaomi Pilot Technology. The investment pays R&D costs of the 500 researchers and acquisitions of 10+ enterprises.
Canalys has said that Level 2 autonomous cars are finally becoming mainstream. In the United States, they've reached a penetration level of 30%. Globally sales hit 11.2 million in 2020.
Gartner has announced that in 2023, the net additions of autonomous-ready vehicles will reach more than 740,000. The figure was at just 137,000 in 2018 which shows decent growth in the market.
The new computing center will leverage Tencent's cloud computing capabilities and enable BMW to analyze the large amounts of real-time data that self-driving cars produce from their sensors.
The self-driving car technology company has today announced that its cars have driven a total of eight million miles on public roads, with an average of 25,000 miles driven per day.
Tesla improves its Autopilot in the latest firmware (17.32) update along with other notable improvements. We take the latest for a test spin to see how much it has improved.
Following last week's acquisition of Mobileye, Intel has now announced a partnership with Fiat Chrysler, in addition to BMW, to deliver fully automated driving for production by 2021.
Just after announcing the completion of the acquisition of Mobileye, Intel has announced its plans to build a fleet of 100 autonomous vehicles for testing in the United States, Israel, and Europe.
Intel's $15.3 billion all-cash bid for Mobileye, which develops technology for autonomous vehicles, has now completed, Mobileye will be combined with Intel's Automated Driving Group.
BMW has revealed its vision for connected self-driving cars, opting to integrate Microsoft's Cortana as the "digital assistant that customers are familiar with in other areas of their daily life."
It was recently reported that Apple was in discussions with supercar company McLaren over purchasing its business. However, the vehicle company refuted this, stating that there were no talks going on.
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