Latest news, developments and reporting on Autonomous Driving.
WeChat said it is working to adapt its app to Apple's iPhone Duo as the foldable went on sale on Oct. 23. BYD expects L3 autonomous driving in 2028, Tesla reported a 43% profit drop, and OpenAI is reportedly near a $30 billion funding round.
Rivian has acquired UK startup Third Dimension, whose AI turns images and video into 3D worlds, to accelerate driver-assistance and robotaxi development; the 15-person team will join its autonomy unit.
US Navy tests GPS-free drone landings on moving ships using onboard cameras and algorithms, NAWCAD says.
A Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode struck and killed a 71-year-old man crossing I-80 in Vallejo, California, early Thursday.
Musk sets a 5 million Tesla delivery goal for 2030; The Verge says the math is daunting after two years of declines.
Tesla to expand Cybercab beyond Austin, starting in Dallas next month and selling to fleets by year-end.
GM says it remains committed to EVs and autonomy as Super Cruise expands to nearly every vehicle.
Tesla aims to sell Cybercabs by the end of 2026, starting with fleet buyers, while most units will remain Tesla-owned and unsupervised self-driving is targeted for 2027, Engadget reported.
Tesla's quarterly operating profit fell 56% despite higher gross profit, as Musk outlined spending plans for FSD, Robotaxi, Optimus and chips while after-hours shares dropped.
At the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference, Huawei's Jin Yuzhi said autonomous driving will reshape travel, citing 70% L2+ penetration, upcoming L3 rules and Yinwang's supplier role.
Qianli Smart Driving enters volume phase as two Galaxy models extend it to the RMB100,000-200,000 band, Leiphone reports.
Tesla set a Q2 2027 target for owners to add cars to its robotaxi fleet and said Cybercab sales will begin by year-end.
Meta beat revenue estimates and unveiled a nonvoting Class C stock split. Tesla beat adjusted earnings but posted flat revenue; its shares fell after hours as Musk floated a SpaceX merger.
US Army tests Airbus MQ-72C autonomous cargo helicopter that reroutes around sudden no-fly zones.
General Motors outlined plans to use AI and a more powerful central computer to halve vehicle development time, launch eyes-off highway driving in 2028 and add an OnStar AI assistant.
Waymo begins Las Vegas airport rides, its sixth major airport, initially for a few riders.
QCraft's single-chip city NOA reached nine partner models in four months, mainly in the RMB 100,000-200,000 segment.
Neolix completed a nearly $400 million Series E round, the largest single autonomous driving financing in China this year, and plans to expand its unmanned delivery network and end-to-end model training.
Hyundai Motor and Kia will begin test runs of Level 4 autonomous trucks early next year under an MOU with group affiliates and two startups, covering about 500 kilometers on two routes.
Kia launched a remote car-sharing pilot in Pangyo Techno Valley, with teleoperators delivering and returning PV5 vans.
Rivian CEO says autonomy could enable radically different vehicle designs, with profitability delayed to develop it.
Jia Xiaosong, an assistant professor at Fudan University’s Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, says the main obstacle in autonomous driving is not the stream of new VLA and WAM architectures but the limits of imitation learning and the difficulty of scaling reinforcement learning, according to a Leiphone.com interview. He traces his research from trajectory prediction to end-to-end driving, Think2Drive and DriveAdapter.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the automaker is developing AI models, an autonomy stack and custom silicon, and is clearing a path to license its technology to other brands.
U.S. cities and states are writing their own robotaxi rules as federal efforts stall, The Verge reports.