self-driving vehicles

  A recent report on highway safety by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) revealed that speed-related accidents accounted for approximately one-third of total road fatalities. Speeding can result from several different factors including fatigue, alcohol-impaired driving, high-...

According to court documents unsealed last week, Uber envisioned running 75,000 autonomous vehicles in commercial applications across a geographic spread of 13 cities – all by 2022. These extrapolations date back to 2016, and are part of the cache of documents that have been submitted by...

Good day, As the self-driving vehicle space matures, industry experts are calling attention to technology challenges that aren't quite as sexy as AV software but are just as important in getting the car or truck on the road to commercialization. "A lot of attention is paid to software and...

TuSimple, a San Diego- and China-based autonomous truck company, announced today it has raised $95 million in Series D funding based on a valuation of $1 billion. The investment brings TuSimple's total funding to date to $178 million. The latest round was led by SINA Corp (NASDAQ: SINA), a...

Last December, Anthony Levandowski—the brilliant autonomous vehicle engineer who gained notoriety during Waymo's $2.6 billion lawsuit against Uber—announced that he was back. In a Medium post, Levandowski assailed the broken promises of the autonomous vehicle industry, arguing that...

If Robert Brown, director of government affairs for the autonomous trucking startup TuSimple, has his way,  2019 will be the year that self-driving trucking hits the mainstream. "I want to get my mom and dad to ride along," said Brown during a conversation with FreightWaves at the...

The players in the self-driving vehicle space aren't exactly securely in the driver's seat, hands firmly on the steering wheel and controlling every move with foresighted precision. Rather, the self-driving space is left to contend with legal hurdles, in addition to the likes of technological and...

More than half of hedge fund manager and value investor Mohnish Pabrai’s portfolio is composed of shares in General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE: FCAU). Given his stake in the auto industry, as well as our own cherished stake in the Motor City, Benzinga was...

Traditional automakers are in a transition phase, where selling merely to retail customers and fleets will not place them in good stead. Disruptive technologies such as self-driving cars, ride sharing and ride hailing services are beginning to take hold, forcing the traditional players seek their...

Tesla Motors Inc(NASDAQ: TSLA) gave us a peak into the future after released an amazing video of its autonomous driving capabilities on its Model S. The video shows a person sitting in the driver seat, only because law requires it. The car does everything, from stopping for pedestrians, merging...

At this point, it seems inevitable that driverless cars are the future of the automotive industry. Investors who want to be a part of the transformative and potentially extremely profitable autonomous vehicle era have been piling into popular driverless car stocks like Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:...

Over the weekend, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced on its blog that it will be making a major strategy shift in its autopilot technology. Tesla has been adding radar hardware to all of its vehicles since late 2014 to be used as a supplementary sensor to the camera and image processing...

Wednesday, the Michigan State Senate voted unanimously to implement legislation that would not require drivers to be present in driverless vehicles being tested on public roads. In the past, researchers have acted as emergency drivers should such vehicles experience failure during test runs....

The race to create the world’s first fully autonomous vehicle is still in its infancy, with Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), General Motors Company (NYSE: GM), Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) and even Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) in on the competition. There seems to be little...