autonomous vehicles

Cleveron Mobility, a company developing technology of driverless autonomous vehicles, and the parcel delivery company DPD Eesti are the first in Europe to deliver a package to a customer with a driverless autonomous vehicle. The driverless autonomous vehicle, manufactured by Cleveron Mobility, is developed as a robotic courier with the aim to deliver goods and equipment in a more efficient, flexible  and environmentally friendly way.

Autonomous taxi-provider Cruise announced its robots now cover 70 percent of the San Franscisco area. Only last year Cruise was the first to operate a robotaxi-service in California when the California Public Utilities Commission authorized Cruise to participate in California’s first pilot program to provide driverless autonomous vehicle (AV) passenger service to the public. 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Intel Federal LLC with support from Intel Labs and its collaborators, the Computer Vision Center Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Texas at Austin, the opportunity to develop advanced simulation solutions for off-road autonomous ground vehicles.

192.2 mph/309.3 kph. Never before has a car driven by artificial intelligence alone been this fast. Last week on the straight of the Space Shuttle airstrip at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, the car created by the Politecnico di Milano-PoliMOVE broke the world speed record for a fully autonomous car on a straight.

Bosch has acquired Five, a European startup in the field of automated driving. At six locations in the United Kingdom, its roughly 140 associates are working on self-driving vehicles. Five gave preference to Bosch over other takeover bidders. The agreements with Five were signed at the beginning of April. It has been agreed that the financial details will not be disclosed. The acquisition is still subject to approval by the antitrust authorities.

Autonomous vehicle-manufacturer Tesla has released drone footage of its first gigafactory in Europe, based in Berlin-Brandenburg. This is meant to be the most advanced, sustainable and efficient facility yet. Slated for completion this year, it will manufacture hundreds of thousands of Model Y vehicles and millions of battery cells.

Startup technology firm Pony.ai has issued a recall for some versions of its autonomous driving system software. The reason for this recall is an October crash in California, according to U.S. regulators.

Bosch has acquired Atlatec, provider of high-resolution digital maps for driver assistance and automated driving. The Karlsruhe-based company will become part of the Bosch Cross-Domain Computing Solutions division as an independently operated company. The company, which was spun off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2014, employs around 25 people in Germany, Japan, and the United States.

Gartner identified the top five technology trends for 2022 that CIOs need to consider to better prepare for the software, hardware and digital transformations occurring in the automotive sector.

Der neueste IDTechEx-Bericht “Kfz-Radar 2022-2042” zeigt alle technologischen Innovationen auf, die die Leistung des Radars in neue, unbekannte Bereiche vorantreiben. Warum sollte Tesla in Anbetracht all der Vorteile, die Radar bieten kann, davon abrücken und sich auf ein reines Kamerasensorpaket konzentrieren?