Waymo takes step toward deploying autonomous vehicles in Chicago

The company, a subsidiary of Google’s parent Alphabet, said Wednesday that human drivers would use its vehicles to map the city "to lay the early groundwork for operations in Chicago." ...

Nvidia, Microsoft back self-driving firm Wayve as it hits $8.6 billion valuation

Autonomous driving company Wayve has hit an $8.6 billion valuation after securing fresh funds from Nvidia, Microsoft and Uber ...

Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers

Wayve provides what founder and CEO Alex Kendall calls the “contrarian” option in automated driving — contrarian both in its approach to tech and its business model, he told TechCrunch in an interview ...

Wayve, an A.I. Driverless Car Start-Up in Europe, Raises $1.2 Billion

The deal values London-based Wayve at $8.6 billion. The $1.2 billion funding, which could grow to $1.5 billion if Wayve meets ...

I Drove a Citroën Ami Quadricycle Through the Rainy Streets of Paris and Lived to Tell the Tale!

A microcar in France is known as a voiture sans permis (VSP) or voiturette. The Ami is a lightweight two-seater limited to 45 ...

Uber ‘Autonomous Solutions’ Reveals Their Strategy, Is It Enough?

Uber wants to provide all the many other ingredients of self-driving beyond the vehicle, including of course the ride hail ...
Houston Public Media

Waymo is officially giving rides to Houstonians in fully self-driving cars

The autonomous vehicle company is expanding its ride-hailing services to Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Select riders will ...

Uber unveils new services as it prepares to bring robotaxis to L.A. soon

Uber is planning to bring shared, autonomous taxis to Los Angeles later this year through a partnership with Volkswagen. The ...
Unite.AI

Reasoning on the Road: Can NVIDIA’s Alpamayo Solve the Self-Driving ‘Edge Case’ Problem?

Autonomous vehicles have made remarkable progress over the past decade, accumulating millions of miles and performing well on highways, in controlled test areas, and in select urban zones. However, ...

The next big car threat is an AI backdoor you can’t detect

Georgia Tech researchers discovered VillainNet, a dormant AI backdoor that lets hackers hijack self-driving cars with 99% success while remaining invisible to current security tools.

The first cars bold enough to drive themselves

His name was Leonardo Torres Quevedo, a Spanish engineer born in Santa Cruz, Spain, in 1852. Smart? In 1914, he developed a ...
IEEE

Car-Following Speed Prediction and Anomaly Detection for Mixed Traffic Flow of Autonomous Vehicle Based on Attention LSTM–Transformer

Abstract: In an autonomous vehicle-mixed traffic flow (AV-MTF) environment, accurately predicting vehicle speeds is essential for vehicle and traffic operation and management. However, existing ...