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Honda Motors - Manufacturing and Innovations

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Cruise - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

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Aurora Innovation - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

Aurora Innovation - Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

Uber - and self-driving autonomous vehicles

Uber - and self-driving autonomous vehicles

Waymo and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

Waymo and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

Deliveries and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

trends, tech and issues related to AI and autonomous vehicles -- with a special look at the techn...

Ethics, AI and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

trends, tech and issues related to AI and autonomous vehicles -- with a special look at the techn...

Trucks and Buses - Electric and Self-Driving Technology

a collection of articles and videos about innovations with Trucks and Buses - Electric and Self-D...

GM - General Motors and Innovations

a collection about GM and tech and innovations

Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Cities and Policy Issues

a collection of articles and videos about Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Cities and Policy Issues

Ford Motors and Innovations

a collection about Ford and tech and innovations

Car Rental business

a collection of articles and videos about the Car Rental business

Self-Driving Cars | Special Report from The Economist

Autonomous vehicles special report from The Economist

Self-driving autonomous vehicles: Technology and Companies

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Aeye becomes latest lidar company to go public via SPAC – TechCrunch

Aeye, a lidar startup that developed its technology for use in autonomous vehicles as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems in pass... (2021)


Article

Rivian raises $2.65B as it pushes toward production of its electric pickup

Rivian has raised $2.65 billion as it prepares to begin production this summer of its all-electric pickup truck. The round, which was led by funds ... (2021)


Article

Uber’s fraught and deadly pursuit of self-driving cars is over

Uber will sell its self-driving car business to Aurora Innovation, a startup founded by the former head engineer of Google’s pioneering autonomous ... (2020)


Article

Uber in talks to sell ATG self-driving unit to Aurora

Eighteen months ago, Uber’s self-driving car unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment ... (2020)


Article

Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers - Bloomberg (2020)

The Google sister company is the first to offer a commercial ride-hailing service in cars with empty front seats. (2020)


Article

Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months (wsj.com)

Waymo Adds $750 Million to War Chest as Driverless Cars Prove Tough to Deploy Waymo has raised another $750 million, pushing the total outside... (2020)


Article

The Relentless Startup Fast-Tracking Ford’s Self-Driving Cars

Meet Bryan Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving. (2020)


Article

Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from SoftBank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a ... (2020)


Article

GM commits $3 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles in Michigan – TechCrunch (2020)

GM said Monday it will invest $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs as well as a self-driv... (2020)


Article

There’s a big problem with AI: even its creators can’t explain how it works - MIT

No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (2019)


Article

Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from. - MIT

The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. (2019)


Article

Ghost raises $63.7 million to develop an aftermarket kit that gives cars self-driving capabilities

Ghost claims its aftermarket kit -- which will be available in 2020 -- can safely give existing cars self-driving capabilities. (2019)


Article

Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians – TechCrunch

Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedes... (2019)


Article

Coursera and the University of Toronto roll out autonomous cars specialization | VentureBeat

Coursera is partnering with the University of Toronto to launch a Self-Driving Cars specialization, which it claims is the first of its kind. (2019)


Article

A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values | The New Yorker

Caroline Lester on a game called “Moral Machine,” and an effort to determine what driverless cars should do if faced with a version of the trolley ... (2019)


Article

Crowdsourced maps should help driverless cars navigate our cities more safely - MIT Technology Review

Swedish startup Mapillary is compiling a huge database of roadside objects such as signs and markings to help driverless vehicles get around. (2019)


Article

How Waymo Made Chandler, Arizona the Self-Driving Capital of the World | WIRED

As Waymo launches its robocar service, we hit the ground to see how the Phoenix suburb is handling the new tech. (2018)


Article

Driverless? Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker | UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education Working Partnerships USA (2018)


Article

$5.25 million Knight Foundation initiative puts people at the center of local self-driving vehicle programs

New investment will support pilot projects in Detroit; Long Beach, California; Miami; San Jose, California; and Pittsburgh (2018)


Article

Toyota invests $500 million into Uber – TechCrunch

Toyota is investing $500 million into Uber. Under the agreement, Toyota vehicles will be equipped with Uber’s self-driving technology, an unnamed s... (2018)


Article

A day in the life of a Waymo self-driving taxi (from Google) - The Verge

In advance of the launch of its commercial ride-hailing service later this year, Waymo shared exclusive details with The Verge about the work that ... (2018)


Article

Uber’s self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars – TechCrunch

Uber is shuttering its self-driving trucks unit, a beleaguered program borne out of the company’s controversial multi-million acquisition of Otto n... (2018)


Article

As Rental Cars Fade Away, Avis Will Try Anything to Survive

The 72-year-old company is ready to try just about anything, from bikes to robots, to stick around. (2018)


Article

SoftBank to Invest $2.25B Into Cruise, GM's Self-Driving Car Unit | Fortune

Japan’s SoftBank plans to invest $2.25 billion into GM's self-driving car unit Cruise to help bring autonomous fleets to market faster. (2018)


Article

The success of AVs will depend on sensible regulation - Rules of the road - The Economist

Smart regulation and smart technology must go hand in hand "REGULATING A COMPLEX new technology is hard, particularly if it is evolving rapidly.... (2018)


Article

Self-driving cars will profoundly change the way people live - A different world - The Economist

Foreseen and unforeseen consequences "ROAD TRIPS. DRIVE-THROUGHS. Shopping malls. Freeways. Car chases. Road rage. Cars changed the world in all... (2018)


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A chance to transform urban planning - The new autopia - The Economist

How autonomous vehicles will reshape cities "MODERN CITIES, PARTICULARLY in America, are habitats for cars as much as people, devoting huge amou... (2018)


Article

Self-driving cars will require new business models - Selling rides, not cars - The Economist

Carmakers, tech companies and ride-hailing firms are all fighting for a piece of the action "IF YOU WANT to buy a fully self-driving car, you ma... (2018)


Article

Autonomous-vehicle technology is advancing ever faster - From here to autonomy - The Economist

Making vehicles drive themselves is hard, but getting easier "THE MODERN AUTOMOTIVE era began with a competition. In the early 1890s there was m... (2018)


Article

Autonomous vehicles are just around the corner - Reinventing wheels - The Economist

Driverless vehicles will change the world, just as cars did before them. What went wrong last time round holds valuable lessons for getting it righ... (2018)


Video

Why Ford And VW Shut Down Their Multi-Billion Dollar Self-Driving Project

Ford invested $1 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI in 2017, and Volkswagen joined with a $2.6 billion investment 2 years later. It was an att... (2023)


Video

What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj | TED

What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we... (2018)


Video

10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z

a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)


Podcast

Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z on SoundCloud

Stream a16z Podcast: Tesla and the Nature of Disruption by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)


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