Mercedes parent company Daimler has struck the partnerships it thinks it needs to keep up in the race for autonomy. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b450aae9bc3f356f405942b/master/pass/F015Web_15C226_009.jpg
Tag: SelfDriving
Ex-Apple Employee Accused of Stealing Self-Driving Car Tech
Xiaolang Zhang allegedly left Apple in April to go to work for China’s Xpeng Motors, taking more than 40GB of Apple intellectual property with him. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b45290cc1920f0b658fa454/master/pass/applesecret.jpg
Exec accused of stealing Waymo’s trade secrets starts new self-driving company
Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski, then VP of engineering at Uber, speaking to reporters at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center on September 13, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: ANGELO MERENDINO/AFP/Getty Images) Anthony Levandowski, one of the most controversial figures in the self-driving car business, is connected to a new driverless truck startup, TechCrunch has reported. Called […]
A Cruise-on-Cruise Crash Reveals the Hardest Thing About Self-Driving Tech
Humans are wild beasts, and they’re not getting off the road anytime soon. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b3bf055a2bff9692c40a71f/master/pass/Cruise-Transpo-629988208.jpg
Massachusetts Welcomes Self-Driving Cars—With a Couple Caveats
The state’s DOT and cities in the Boston area are pioneering a new regulatory regime to encourage testing of this new tech, without letting developers do whatever they like. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b2be4c1e330f44f585227df/master/pass/Optimus-Ride-w.jpg
Massachusetts Welcomes Self-Driving Cars—With a Couple Caveats
The state’s DOT and cities in the Boston area are pioneering a new regulatory regime to encourage testing of this new tech, without letting developers do whatever they like. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b2be4c1e330f44f585227df/master/pass/Optimus-Ride-w.jpg
Apple hires ex-Waymo engineer for self-driving project
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Self-Driving Cars Likely Won’t Steal Your Job (Until 2040)
A new report finds that while some jobs, like trucking, will eventually fade, autonomous tech will benefit the economy overall. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b2059b94cf42749fa547c69/master/pass/truckstop-871223812.jpg
Tesla surges after Elon Musk says the first ‘full self-driving features’ are coming in August (TSLA)
YouTube / SpaceX Tesla‘s version 9 software should arrive in August, CEO Elon Musk said over the weekend. The first update since 2016 “will begin to enable full self-driving feature,” he tweeted. Musk also gave updates on the Roadster’s “SpaceX” package, which will include compressed air “thrusters” Follow Tesla in real-time here. Tesla surged more […]
With Cortex, Land Rover Takes Self-Driving Cars Off-Roading
Land Rover always delivers capability and convenience, and that means teaching its cars to drive themselves where the roads don’t go. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1ad962985bbd041c32d0f7/master/pass/Landrover-final.jpg
