Those hoping for another peep under the hood of Apple's mysterious car project are in luck. It's only a peep though. In a November letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a US government agency that sets and enforces ...
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Nissan Motor has agreed to divest its 41% stake in Japanese auto parts firm Calsonic Kansei to private equity firm KKR for JPY498.3bn ($4.5bn). This deal is being regarded as one of the largest deals in Japan, particularly in the ...
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Savari has signed an agreement with SAIC USA, a subsidiary of Chinese automaker SAIC Motors, to manufacture and distribute its V2X communications solutions in the Greater China and selected ASEAN countries. With this partnership, the ...
A self-driving vehicle has been tested in public for the first time in the UK. The demonstration in Milton Keynes was coordinated by the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) and marked the completion of the LUTZ Pathfinder project, which has ...
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nuTonomy, a developer of software for self-driving cars, and South-east Asian ride-hailing service Grab have partnered to expand public trial of on-demand self-driving car service in Singapore. The trial will give select Grab users a ...
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Ford is planning to mass produce driverless cars and introduce them in commercial operation in a ride-hailing service by 2021. To help speed up development of self-driving cars, Ford is investing in or collaborating with four startups on ...
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American motor vehicle manufacturing firm Local Motors has unveiled Olli, a self-driving vehicle which incorporates IBM Watson advanced cognitive computing capabilities. The vehicle, which can carry about 12 people, was debuted during the ...
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Automakers Ford, Volvo along with technology giant Google and taxi-hailing firms Uber and Lyft have joined forces to push US regulators to draft regulations that support self-driving cars deployment. The coalition, dubbed the Self-Driving ...
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European policy makers and European automakers have reached an agreement to work together on deploying connected and self-driving vehicles across the region. All the parties have endorsed the 'Declaration of Amsterdam' during Informal ...
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Fully-functional self-driving vehicles may still take time to hit the roads but customers in the UK are buying cars with self-activating safety systems. A recent study conducted by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) ...
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Toyota announced that it has hired Jaybridge Robotics engineering team in order to strengthen its autonomous vehicle development effort. The 16 member Jaybridge engineering team will join Toyota Research Institute's (TRI) facility in ...
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has unveiled two new shaped tires concepts for future autonomous vehicles at the 2016 Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland. The concepts, the Eagle-360 and IntelliGrip, are expected to reshape ...
For Nevijo Mance, a vice-president of BMW China, buying a car would always be more than just looking for mobility. A car can also express your value, the group of people you think you belong to. And in the near future, a really good car ...
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Google has announced that it will start testing its self-driving vehicles in the city of Kirkland, Washington. This announcement was made in the official Google Self-Driving Car Project Google Plus page. According to Google, Kirkland ...
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California has released its first ever regulatory proposal for self-driving cars, which requires a licensed driver to be present in the car to take control of it in case of technical failure or emergency. It will also require ...
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