Walmart will test driverless delivery trucks in Arkansas next year

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Engadget

In 2019, Walmart started working with a company called Gatik to test autonomous delivery trucks on a two-mile route between a fulfillment center and a store in Bentonville, Arkansas. After those vehicles logged more than 70,000 miles with a human dri...

Uber is selling its self-driving unit to autonomous vehicle startup Aurora

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Engadget

As expected, Uber is selling off its self-driving unit. On Monday, the company confirmed the sale of its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to Aurora Innovation, one of its now previous competitors in the autonomous vehicle space. As part of the deal,...

The Boring Company offers a look inside a Las Vegas loop station

Posted on 04/12/2020 by Engadget

The Boring Company’s work in Las Vegas is starting to take shape. On Twitter, the company shared a short clip showing off one of the underground stations it’s building as part of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) loop. As you can see from the vi...

Hitting the Books: How autonomous EVs could help solve climate change

Posted on 28/11/2020 by Engadget

Climate change is far and away the greatest threat of the modern human era — a crisis that will only get worse the longer we dither — with American car culture as a major contributor to the nation’s greenhouse emissions. But carbon-neutralizing energ...

Motional’s fully driverless cars are coming to Nevada’s roads for testing

Posted on 17/11/2020 by Engadget

Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, plans to start testing fully driverless cars in Nevada. The state is allowing the company to trial autonomous vehicles without having a safety driver behind the wheel. "The coming months will see t...

MIT tests autonomous ‘Roboat’ that can carry two passengers

Posted on 26/10/2020 by Engadget

We’ve heard plenty about the potential of autonomous vehicles in recent years, but MIT is thinking about different forms of self-driving transportation. For the last five years, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) an...

GM will test fully driverless cars in SF later this year

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

General Motors and its self-driving car unit Cruise say they’ll start testing unmanned autonomous vehicles in San Francisco by the end of 2020 (via NBC News). On Thursday, the subsidiary said it received a permit from California’s Department of Motor...

Einride makes its autonomous delivery EVs more aerodynamic

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Electric truck maker Einride has updated the design of its autonomous Pod delivery vehicle to make it more aerodynamic. It also opened pre-orders for two models from the Autonomous Electric Transport (AET) range. AET 1 and AET 2 should start shipping...

Tesla update lets vehicles drive through green lights automatically

Posted on 02/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Tesla’s Autopilot feature is getting a new trick. Autopilot will soon be able to drive through green lights automatically, even if there isn’t another car in front of the vehicle, Electrek reports.As with past Autopilot software rollouts, Tesla is be...

Uber backup driver charged with negligent homicide in self-driving accident

Posted on 16/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It has been more than two years since one of Uber’s autonomous SUVs struck and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. Last year one group of prosecutors (from another county due to a conflict of interest in the area where the crash happened) decid...

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