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General Motors Co’s Cruise has started charging fares for driverless rides in San Francisco, the company said on Thursday, a step towards commercialization of the service. Cruise earlier this month became the first company to secure a permit to charge for self-driving car rides in the U.S. city, after it overcame objections by local officials. […] June 27, 2022 at 01:15AM

Toyota has patented an autonomous vehicle to help you walk your dog. In the drawings accompanying the filing the vehicle looks like a mail cart, but these are often rudimentary diagrams used only to describe the function, not an actual depiction of the vehicle. What’s more important is what it promises to do. Toyota calls […] April 17, 2022 at 12:46AM

With the Audi Urbansphere concept is headed for an online reveal April 19, Audi might be littering the Interwebs with digital crumbs from now until then. We’ve seen a dark teaser revealing tidbits of the silhouette and interior, now comes a video highlighting some of the shiny bits and features we can look forward to. […] April 13, 2022 at 06:45PM

Last August, Audi showed us its Skysphere concept, the expandable, open-topped GT. One month later, the Grandsphere concept glided out, all 17.6 feet of it. With the imminent debut of Audi’s Ubansphere concept, the Ingolstadt brand’s three-sided glimpse into the future of luxury electric, autonomous and connected travel is just about complete. Whereas the digital […] April 11, 2022 at 07:20PM

SAN FRANCISCO — Japan’s Toyota Motor and Aurora Innovation Inc, a U.S. developer of automated driving systems, have started testing autonomous ride-hailing fleet in Texas, with two safety operators and no passenger on board, Aurora said. Toyota’s Sienna minivans, retrofitted with Aurora’s self-driving system, will be tested on highways and suburban streets in the Dallas-Fort-Worth […] The post Toyota, Aurora test-drive autonomous ride-hailing in Texas appeared first on Automoto Network . March 28, 2022 at 06:16AM

DETROIT — Luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover and Silicon Valley artificial intelligence company Nvidia said Wednesday they will collaborate to develop the computer brains and nervous systems for Jaguars and Land Rovers launching in 2025 and beyond. The companies did not disclose financial terms of their multiyear agreement. The collaboration is a high-profile win for […] February 17, 2022 at 07:20AM

For many enthusiasts, autonomous driving represents the antithesis of everything we love about cars. However, Toyota says that autonomous driving technology isn’t necessarily out to turn your car into a living room on wheels. Instead, the carmaker sees it as a way to augment the driver — and so it has developed the world’s first […] February 05, 2022 at 06:15AM

The string of engineers who spoke Thursday night during a deep dive into Cruise’s autonomous vehicle technology never mentioned Tesla’s name. They didn’t have to, although the message was clear enough. GM’s self-driving subsidiary Cruise presented a technical and deployment roadmap — at a granular level — that aimed to show how it has built […] November 07, 2021 at 06:47AM