Autonomous Vehicles

Taxi firm Addison Lee Group plans to have self-driving cars in London by 2021. It has agreed a wide-ranging strategic alliance with Oxbotica, a British leader in self-driving vehicle software. Addison Lee says the alliance will accelerate…

Japan’s SoftBank is investing $2.25 billion in GM’s autonomous car unit Cruise in exchange for a 19.6% stake in the venture. Cruise has been operating as a separate unit from GM since the driverless car company was acquired by General…

Uber announced on Wednesday that it is shutting its self-driving car operation in Arizona. The decision to pull its autonomous vehicles out of Arizona comes after one of the company’s self-driving Volvos ran a woman over as she was…

Tesla executive Matt Schwall has left the company and joined rival Alphabet’s self-driving car unit Waymo. Schwall served as director of field performance engineering at Tesla, a role that involved dealing with federal safety regulators.…

The market for agricultural drones is growing, with applications ranging from fertilizer and pesticide spraying to detailed aerial mapping of farms and monitoring of crop health and disease. One report estimates that by 2027, the market…

Jaguar Land Rover is providing Waymo, the driverless subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet, with 20,000 of its all-electric I-Pace cars in a tie-up estimated to be worth up to £1.3bn. Waymo announced the partnership at the New York motor show.…

A self-driving car operated by Uber hit and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday. It is reportedly the first death of a pedestrian by an autonomous car on a public road. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tweeted Monday that the company…

Tesla boss Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the EV maker plans on making pick-up trucks in the future. Musk went to Twitter to ask his followers on the social networking service how Tesla can improve further. Musk tweeted:…

Singapore plans on deploying autonomous buses on public roads by 2022. The aim is to provide better connectivity for residents, the country’s Ministry of Transport said in a statement on Wednesday. The full-sized driverless buses,…

Partially self-driving lorries are going to be tested on major roads in the UK by the end of 2018, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced. The DfT and Highways England commissioned Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), an…