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Industry experts explore scaling the autonomous vehicle market, emphasizing safety and collaboration among automakers, tech innovators, and policymakers to drive growth and adoption.
Shared autonomous vehicles, which are AVs that are part of a ride-sharing or car-sharing service, now operate in more than 10 cities worldwide, including Beijing, Oslo, Phoenix, and San Francisco, McKinsey says.
Lucid says it will eventually sell “privately owned” autonomous vehicles with the help of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology. The company is the latest to declare its intention to sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles to its customers, despite a range of theoretical and logistical challenges standing in the way.
Former Google driverless car project leader Chris Urmson says autonomous vehicles are finally here, after almost 20 years.
The Boston City Council postponed a vote on Wednesday on an ordinance that would ban commercial autonomous vehicles.
Lucid Group Inc. plans to launch what it describes as the first Level 4 autonomous vehicles for consumers to be manufactured in Arizona, with a new Nvidiaz partnership.
Lucid aims to develop fully autonomous vehicles for private use and introduce artificial intelligence in its factories via a new alliance with NVIDIA.
American companies led by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo have drawn much of the limelight with driverless cars deployed almost entirely on home soil. Now that some are beginning to look abroad, they’ll have to share roads with Chinese companies quietly making plenty of progress.
Boston city councilors are proposing an ordinance that would put several speed bumps ahead of any autonomous car service beginning commercial work in the city.
A Waymo autonomous vehicle was involved in a three-car crash on Airport Boulevard Monday morning. No serious injuries were reported, APD said.