The BMW Group and Daimler have been getting closer these years, as the automotive landscape is forcing traditional rivals to bury the hatchet. The two German giants decided they can only face the changes ahead…
In early 2018, self-driving software company Aptiv and Lyft launched a pilot project to test a robotaxi service — with human safety drivers still behind the wheel — in Las Vegas during the the annual…
Autonomous driving is the next big step in the automotive world, so car makers are working hard to stay ahead of the competition, investing heavily in the technology needed to make it happen. Even though…
Even though high-ranking BMW officials have repeatedly said that (fully) autonomous driving is still a long way out and may not even become reality at all as we imagine it today, it looks like the…
The levels of autonomous driving are representative of an ever greater autonomy of the car and reduced reliance on the active cooperation of the driver. In the extreme case – called Level 5 – the…
The issue of fully autonomous cars, how they will work and how they will be regulated is still a hot topic in the automotive industry. The vast majority of the automotive realm considers this is…
BMW’s plans towards an autonomous driving world were reinforced today in China where the company announced their intentions to join the Apollo, the open autonomous driving platform by Baidu. The MoU marks the beginning of a new…
Autonomous driving definitely seems to be the automotive industry’s Holy Grail these days, as peculiar as that may sound. Working round the clock to get the steering wheel out of the cars doesn’t seem to…
The BMW Group, through its BMW i Ventures subsidiary, announced a strategic investment in May Mobility today. The US-based company is one of the few focusing on developing a fleet of self-driving micro-shuttles set up to…
At last month’s CES, the Korean carmaker Hyundai has announced that it plans to develop autonomous vehicles with Aurora by 2021. Now the German media has learned that the Koreans are also interested in a…
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