USA Today did an excellent summary of the autonomous driving sector at last week’s CES in this article. One of the observations by author Mike Snider that .. “It’s clear now that engineers are able to make cars drive themselves. […]
NVIDIA put on a typically impressive performance at CES last week. In particular focus was their progress as a key supplier of platforms for autonomous vehicles, namely the AI-based DRIVE PX 2. Scott Keogh, president of Audi of America, speaks […]
MediaTek laid out their plans to bring holistic, fully integrated system solutions to the automotive industry beginning Q1 2017 according to their Nov 29’th 2016 press release- details here. The renowned Taiwan-based global fabless semiconductor giant is a market leader in […]
GM’s reported $1B acquisition (cash, stock & retention incentives) of autonomous-driving startup, Cruise Automation, marked a distinct change in the auto-maker’s strategy. You can read the WSJ report on the deal here and a more recent Forbes article here. Earlier, this […]
Privately held autonomous-driving startup yesterday announced that they will begin testing their self-driving Renault Zoe electric vehicle before the end of the year in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in the Seaport section of the city- details from their […]
At SC16 last week, AMD announced that their Radeon Technology will be available on Google Cloud Platform in 2017. Coming just a month after a similar announcement with Alibaba, things are looking up for AMD. This Forbes article gives some further […]
Back in August (2016), global automotive parts maker Delphi and MobileEye, a leader in the field of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, announced a new partnership, details from the Wall Street Journal here. The deal is interesting because it highlights Delphi’s […]
First off, LiDAR is aa detection system which works on the principle of radar, but uses light from a laser. Why should you care? Well, they are a critical component in 3D mapping systems- and- based on this investment from […]
Last month, the Society of Automotive Engineers of China (SAEC), published its blueprint for the development of the automotive industry until 2030, with particular emphasis on highly or fully autonomous driving- you can read the details here. According to the […]
Last month, autonomous vehicle startup nuTonomy stopped all trials of its vehicles until investigations into an accident involving one of its driverless cars is completed, according to the company’s co-founder Emilio Frazzoli, details here. Just two months earlier, the world’s […]