Ride-sharing provider Lyft is going bicoastal with its first ever permanent office in New York, which will house not only sales and marketing, but also engineering staff – including those working on autonomous vehicle tech, as well as Lyft’s marketplace product and its infrastructure efforts. The NYC office is located in Chelsea, and can play host to over 80 employees across… Read More
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Uber rival Grab crosses 1 billion rides in Southeast Asia
Grab, Uber’s fierce rival in Southeast Asia, announced today that its service has crossed one billion completed rides. The firm hit the milestone on October 26 when 66 concurrent trips from across its seven markets took it into ten-figure territory . The company started out in Malaysia in 2012, and today it covers 142 cities across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam,… Read More
Quantifying the driverless startup boom
For driverless car startups, raising capital seems to happen on autopilot. Investors and acquirers have put billions into the space over the past couple of years in the race for early-mover advantage. They’ve shown no desire to hit the brakes lately either, as indicated by a spate of recent deals. Read More
Quantifying the driverless startup boom
For driverless car startups, raising capital seems to happen on autopilot. Investors and acquirers have put billions into the space over the past couple of years in the race for early-mover advantage. They’ve shown no desire to hit the brakes lately either, as indicated by a spate of recent deals. Read More
Sidewalk Labs could pilot city-changing tech in Toronto sooner than you think
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs smart city subsidiary is working with the city of Toronto to help plan a brand new community, but nothing’s set in stone on that front yet, with a 12-month lead-up period during which they’ll work out the project and make sure all involved agree to move forward. But that doesn’t mean Sidewalk has to wait at least a year to start exploring how… Read More
Tesla could upgrade customer computers to meet self-driving requirements
Elon Musk had some thoughts to share regarding full autonomy and how the automaker is preparing to deliver this to customers down the road. The company announced that its new vehicles had all the hardware on board they needed to achieve full auto…
View More Tesla could upgrade customer computers to meet self-driving requirementsTesla predicts production rate of 5K Model 3 cars per week by late Q1 2018
Tesla went into a bit more detail about the production challenges it faces with the Model 3 in its letter to investors on the heels of its earnings report for Q3 today. We already know that Tesla shipped only 222 Model 3 vehicles during the quart…
View More Tesla predicts production rate of 5K Model 3 cars per week by late Q1 2018Ford’s Canvas monthly car subscription car service expands to LA
Canvas is expanding beyond its home city of San Francisco, with an expansion of its monthly subscription car ownership model to Los Angeles – possibly the most car-loving city in the world. The LA expansion marks the first time Canvas has spread its wings beyond its founding territory, and since it was acquired by Ford’s credit division late in 2016. The Canvas model is… Read More
Building the best possible driver inside Waymo’s Castle
Waymo has been very protective of its testing process in past, but recently it started opening up – likely as a bid to help get the public more comfortable with self-driving vehicle technology as it moves towards broad deployment of its autonomous cars. As part of that, the former Google self-driving car project asked a group of journalists to pay a visit to its Castle testing facility… Read More
Waymo focuses on user experience, considers next steps
Waymo is investing a lot of time and effort on building out the user experience of its self-driving vehicles, which includes both the external and internal user-facing features of its autonomous cars. This includes looking at everything from how …
View More Waymo focuses on user experience, considers next stepsTaking a truly driverless ride in Waymo’s Chrysler Pacifica
Today was a first for me: I drove in a fully autonomous vehicle on roads without anyone behind the wheel. They weren’t public roads, but they did have intersections, other vehicles, pedestrian traffic, cyclists and more, and the car managed a fairly long route without any human intervention – and without any cause for concern on my part. I’ve done a lot of self-driving… Read More