self-driving cars
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Canada's automotive suppliers will showcase their talents to the world via Project Arrow, and they have a hypercar engineer on their side.
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Self-driving technology company Argo AI makes lidar breakthroughBy as early as 2022, commercial services using Argo AI's self-driving system will be up and running.
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Baidu launches China's first commercial driverless taxi service
You can now book and pay for a ride in a driverless taxi from Baidu's Apollo Go service in parts of Beijing.
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VW plans to design own computer chips for self-driving cars, just like Tesla
VW Group will use its in-house software company Cariad to design computer chips for self-driving cars.
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Toyota just bought Lyft's self-driving car division for $550M
Toyota is betting big on self-driving cars.
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Walmart invests in Cruise, says driverless deliveries are coming
A new round of funding has seen Cruise's valuation climb to $30 billion.
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The Xpeng P5 is a small electric sedan with world-first technology.
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Huawei to invest in electric cars and self-driving tech
Huawei has joined fellow Chinese tech giants Xiaomi and Baidu in announcing plans to launch a car.
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Apple reportedly close to picking LG, Magna for car project
Apple is thought to be working on a self-driving electric car due for a reveal in 2024.
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Ford to release BlueCruise hands-free driving technology later this year
Ford BlueCruise to offer hands-free driving on certain divided highways in the F-150 and Mustang Mach-E starting in the third quarter of this year.
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Domino's launches autonomous pizza delivery with self-driving robot car
The Domino's pizza chain is launching an autonomous pizza-delivery service in Houston in partnership with startup Nuro.
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Volvo Highway Pilot promises unsupervised driving on highways*
Volvo could become the first automaker with a Level 4 self-driving system on the market.
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Waymo's CEO is stepping down as the company prepares for the deployment of its fifth-generation self-driving system.
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Xpeng self-driving system tested over 1,800-mile road trip
Xpeng has shown that its self-driving system for highways on average requires just 0.71 corrections per 62 miles.
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Project Trinity to spearhead Volkswagen's software-led transformation
An electric vehicle offering software services, including self-driving capability, is coming from VW in 2026.
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Teaser for VW's self-driving van due in 2025 likely hints at new Microbus
VW will reveal a modern Microbus in 2022 and a few years later enlist it in an automated taxi service.
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Toyota and Aurora partner on self-driving cars
Toyota and Aurora plan to start testing self-driving Sienna minivans in 2021.
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Ford ups investment in self-driving and electric cars to $29B
Get ready for an onslaught of EVs from Ford and Lincoln over the coming years.
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Apple is thought to be working on a self-driving electric vehicle, and it may just tap Hyundai to build it.
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Argo AI's 4th-gen self-driving car prototypes fitted with “product intent” hardware
The hardware of Argo AI's self-driving car prototypes has reached the level required for commercial applications.
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Cruise self-driving cars headed to Japan
Cruise self-driving car prototypes will start testing in Japan later in 2021 ahead of the launch of a fully automated taxi service.
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GM's “Hyper Cruise” trademark filing hints at fully autonomous driver-assist feature
GM could be close to announcing a self-driving feature that doesn't require any monitoring from the driver.
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Microsoft teams up with GM-backed self-driving technology startup Cruise
Cruise is now valued at $30 billion thanks to its latest round of funding, which included Microsoft among the investors.
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Geely teams up with Foxconn to build cars, parts for other companies
Just as your phone or computer might be manufactured by a different company to the one that developed it, in the future the same could be true for cars.
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