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Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia

Mercedes-Benz will develop its next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems with Nvidia, the two companies said on Friday. The announcement came a day after Volvo Cars expanded its own Nvidia partnership for automated driving. Both carmakers will build on the same Nvidia self-driving stack. It combines the Hyperion computer and sensor architecture, […]

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Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati

Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas moderated. “I think over time we’re going to see this kind […]

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Waymo closes a $5bn loan, its first debt deal, to fund robotaxi growth

Waymo has closed a $5bn term loan, the first time the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company has raised money through debt. Pimco, Blackstone and Sixth Street led the loan, Waymo said on Thursday. The money will go into expanding Waymo’s driverless ride-hailing service across the US and abroad, according to the company. “Our strong momentum has enabled […]

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Uber and Pony.ai will test Chinese robotaxis in London within weeks

Pony.ai will start testing its seventh-generation robotaxis in London in the coming weeks, ahead of a service on Uber. The Chinese self-driving company announced the plan on X on Thursday. “We look forward to working with local officials, and our partners, as plans progress to begin trials for self-driving vehicles under the UK’s frontier plan,” […]

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Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says

“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said self-driving cars, not robots, will be the […]

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Waymo will pay riders $2.85 to also take public transport

Waymo will issue $2.85 in credit to San Francisco Bay Area riders who take a robotaxi and a public transport journey within two hours of each other, provided they pay with a Visa card. In Hamburg the same connection is arranged by the transit operator itself, which leads the autonomous shuttle project and lists the […]

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Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars

Wayve has signed a definitive production agreement with Mercedes-Benz to put its AI Driver into future vehicles within the next two years, providing urban and motorway point-to-point driving assistance. Mercedes invested in Wayve’s $1.5B Series D in February, and the software has been integrated into its production architecture using MB.OS. Wayve has signed a production […]

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Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis

Hyundai will build tens of thousands of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo at its plant in Georgia, chief executive Jose Munoz said, calling robotaxis the biggest new opportunity inside a slowing electric market. In Europe the only type approval route that works across the whole union for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 […]

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Bolt wants to put 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads

Lucid and Bolt have announced a non-binding partnership to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucid crossovers on European roads, with no vehicles ordered, no money committed and no deployment date. The only EU-wide type approval route for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year per type, and national approvals stop at […]

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BMW will show navigation and driver assistance in one 3D view from October

BMW will merge navigation and driver assistance into a single 3D view from October, on cars running its Operating System X, and says it will begin navigation-guided semi-automated urban driving in Germany in 2027. The UN regulation covering these systems only extends to system-initiated manoeuvres on urban roads from its 02 series, expected in force […]

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