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Tesla says 'robotaxis' coming next year, touts self-driving microchip
Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. "robotaxis" with no human drivers will be available in some markets next year thanks to exponential improvements in technology. "Probably two years from now we'll make a car with no steering wheels or pedals," he predicted, while acknowledging ...
GM to slash up to 14,000 jobs in North America, may shutter five factories
General Motors will lay off up to 14,000 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles. The reduction includes 8,100 white-collar workers, some of ...
Uber revs up Canadian operations with new AI funding for Toronto self-driving car lab
American ride-sharing service Uber said Thursday it would spend 200 million Canadian dollars ($154 million) over five years to expand its Toronto lab dedicated to developing artificial intelligence for self-driving cars. The company also will open a new engineering office in Canada's largest metropolis in ...
Startup AutoX delivers groceries in self-driving cars in Silicon Valley
Startup AutoX on Monday announced the Silicon Valley debut of a service that will turn self-driving cars into mobile grocery shops summoned with a touch of a smartphone application. The service will kick off this month in parts of the California city of San Jose ...
Ford Motor Co. is making Miami-Dade County its new test bed for self-driving vehicles. The automaker and its partners — Domino's Pizza, ride-hailing company Lyft and delivery company Postmates — are starting pilot programs to see how consumers react to autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Self-driving ...
China could seize the lead in self-driving cars
Alibaba is building systems that will link vehicles to the roads they drive on.
Volvo looks to supply Uber with up to 24,000 self-driving cars
Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking the transition of the U.S. firm from an app used to summon a taxi to the owner and operator of a fleet of cars. The nonbinding framework deal could offer San Francisco-based Uber ...
Ford taps 400 BlackBerry workers for Canada connected-vehicle research
Ford Motor Co. will hire approximately 400 employees from embattled communications company BlackBerry Ltd. as part of sizable new investments in Canada that include a connected-vehicle research center in Ottawa, the smartphone-maker said Thursday. Ford said the Ottawa research center is part of a 500 ...
The government plans to compile guidelines for self-driving cars in fiscal 2017 starting April 1 as it prepares to rework the existing legal framework ahead of the rollout of such vehicles, officials said Thursday. Japan is seeking to promote the spread of automated driving in ...
Denso, NEC to tie up on self-driving technology for automobiles
Major auto parts maker Denso Corp. will team up with NEC Corp. on developing self-driving automobile technology that makes use of artificial intelligence, sources at the two companies said. With NEC boasting expertise in developing artificial intelligence and software, Denso plans to use its information ...
G-7 transport chiefs meeting in Nagano to weigh self-driving car regulations
Transport ministers from the Group of Seven countries are expected to agree at their meeting in central Japan to set up a working panel tasked with creating global safety regulations for commercializing and promoting self-driving cars, a draft declaration of their summit showed Thursday. The ...
Abe and the media get ahead of themselves on driverless cars
In a new TV commercial for Nissan, American actress Charlotte Kate Fox, who appeared in last year's NHK morning drama series, "Massan," is driving on city streets at night. She pushes a button on the dashboard and slowly takes her hands off the steering ...
