Startups from around the world are coming to the purpose-built track that recreates an urban environment over 5 acres at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. The roads look like any other in the city, with stop lights, crosswalks and traffic signs. There's even a rain simulator...

Country is aging fast https://www.economist.com/business/2019/02/23/why-retired-people-could-be-ideal-customers-for-self-driving-cars Uber Has Open-Sourced Autonomous Vehicle Visualization...

Waymo will locate its vehicle integration operations in southeast Michigan and received a grant of up to $8 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corp...

Daimler is calling its service an "automated shuttle," but it's not referring to some blobby, slow-moving van. It's going to start out using a fleet of S-Class luxury sedans and B-Class hatchbacks, with long-term plans for vehicles designed for autonomous driving, like the F 015 "Luxury in...

Buried in a criminal complaint against a former Apple engineer who's being charged with stealing trade secrets is a remarkable revelation about the size of Apple's autonomous driving systems project: 5,000 employees are working on it. Obviously Apple is fully committed to SDC...

Drive.ai announced yesterday that it will launch a ride-hailing service using autonomous vehicles in Frisco, Texas. https://qz.com/1271375/driverless-car-startup-drive-ai-is-launching-a-ride-hailing-service-in-dallas-texas/ Drive.ai's program will serve limited, fixed routes, with clearly marked...

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By Heather Somerville and Gina Cherelus >Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] put its self-driving cars back on the road on Monday, voicing confidence in its autonomous vehicle program three days after one of its cars was involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona...

Inside The R&D Lab Where Uber Is Building "The City Of The Future" The Advanced Technologies Group Center in Pittsburgh, where Uber is building autonomous cars, is a gleaming white vision of the future. Source...

So I'm sitting near the bars last night right before 2:00AM when the familiar silhouette of a white Ford Focus pulls up next to me. He's waiting for his passenger, I see the gear, the sensors, the spinning LIDAR system. We're both waiting so I look at him, flash my phone displaying the driver...

Ride-hailing service is creating new division to develop the technology Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-in-artificial-intelligence-drive-after-buying-startup-1480942804 A fleet of self-driving car at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh. The company is trying to...

Here's an interesting discussion about market saturation and demand. Are autonomous Ubers already affecting surge? Last year our market would surge daily, I'm talking Monday thru Saturday when I would drive. It would surge 2.0-3.0x on weekday evenings regularly regardless of what was going on...