Self-driving vehicles may take a long time to hit the road in large numbers. The sensors driving much of their progress, however, are starting to go mainstream. Lidar technology is trickling into human-driven vehicles in some cases. In others, it’s finding scale in different industries. The latest example of lidar for human-driven vehicles came earlier […]

Driverless cars have been just around the corner for nearly a decade. Yet after ambitious promises by CEOs of automakers and startups and buy-in from investors to the tune of more than $200 billion, there is not yet one fully autonomous vehicle on public roads in the U.S. today. And it isn’t even all that

Volvo Cars’ CEO Jim Rowan sees electric vehicles reaching price parity with their fossil fuel-burning counterparts a lot sooner than many. How soon? Roughly two to three years from today. Furthermore, Rowan said: “There’s no way that any company should be relying on government subsidy to be successful.” The former Dyson executive ,who took the

Automakers and battery suppliers are in search of a vehicular holy grail — a battery chemistry for electric vehicles that sharply reduces charging times and greatly increases range while remaining cheap and easy to mass produce. Unprecedented sums of money are being poured into battery research to find such a solution, and battery performance has

There’s a phrase that keeps getting tossed around in the autonomous vehicle business: trough of disillusionment. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said it on General Motors‘ recent earnings call, and Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson used a variation of to describe where the industry is right now. Their comments came after Ford and Volkswagen-backed Argo AI