General Motors announced that it is acquiring Cruise Automation, a startup company that makes self-driving kits for certain types of cars. With this deal, General Motors will add Cruise Automation's software talent and rapid ...
Nissan has announced that it will produce Qashqai crossover with semi-autonomous driving technology at its Sunderland plant in the UK. This will be the first car from Nissan that will feature partial self-driving technology. The ...
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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 ...
One of Google’s self-driving car has recently crashed into an oncoming municipal bus in Mountain View, California. The incident actually took place on 14th of February and said to be the first accident involving its self driving ...
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Consumer Watchdog demands police investigation and release of technical data and video of the recent Google car crashing with a municipal bus in California. Google's account of the crash was posted on the California Department of Motor ...
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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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has removed a key barrier for Google and other companies developing autonomous technologies saying that the computer that handles the car can be considered as drivers under the ...
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General Motors has bought the assets and technology of ride-sharing provider Sidecar as the company gears up to address competition from companies like Uber. The company had recently invested $500m in Lyft, a ride-sharing provider. For ...
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Audi has introduced the H-tron Quattro concept, hydrogen powered car at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The car combines fuel cell technology which is capable of delivering up to 110 kW through a battery ...
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General Motors is teaming up with ride hailing service provider Lyft to create an integrated network of on-demand autonomous vehicles in the US. Under the agreement, General Motors (GM) is planning to invest $500m in Lyft to help the ...
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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China backed electric and autonomous vehicle startup Faraday Future has unveiled its first concept car, ‘FFZERO1 Concept’, a self driving Batmobile style car capable of producing up to 1,000hp. The car is powered by 4 Quad ...
Eco-friendly cars and self-driving technology became the hot topics for the international automobile industry in 2015. In January at Detroit's North American International Auto Show, over 40 new vehicles were unveiled. They included a ...
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Two self driving car makers, Google and Ford are teaming up to create an independent company to build autonomous vehicles. The companies have not made an official announcement yet, as they are expected to unveil the plan at CES show in ...
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