Autonomous driving is set to revolutionize mobility over the last mile in the city. People have been talking about it for more than ten years and companies have invested billions. Despite all the positive reports, the question arises as to whether too much is still being promised for PR reasons. Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet,…
Waymo is currently making more than 250,000 trips with passengers per week in four US cities with over 1,500 robotaxis. By the end of next year, more than 2,000 additional Jaguar electric vehicles are to be converted into self-driving cars.Vehicles based on a Chinese Zeekr model are also set to join the fleet in the…
Twelve project partners from industry, science, software development and infrastructure have successfully completed the “Atlas-L4” research and development project. The targeted L4 automated truck for lift-to-lift transport was brought onto the highways in the three and a half years of the project. “The development and integration of the redundant components required for safe operation, such…
In 2015, Toray became the world’s first plant-based nonwoven suede manufacturer, and today more than half of their sales volume is of their more environmentally conscious material. The Apure shuttle, realized in partnership with German design firm Neomind, is a key milestone in Toray’s push for a fully plant-based reality.This self-driving shuttle concept is a…
Geely has developed a fully automated, production-ready solution for parking and charging electric cars in parking lots and parkades.Daughter company Zeekr Power demonstrated the system to a group of international journalists. In the underground parkade of the Geely headquarters in Hangzhou, a metropolis of 11 million people, a Zeekr 007 sedan automatically drove into the…
Volkswagen Group of America, Moia, and American ride-hailing company Uber are partnering to introduce autonomous vehicles in the USA. From 2026, fully electric, self-driving versions of the ID.Buzz will initially be used in Los Angeles on the Uber platform. Testing of the vehicles will begin at the end of 2025.Over the next ten years, Volkswagen…
Tier IV, which provides open-source software for autonomous driving, has unveiled their latest prototype, a robotaxi designed to operate without a steering wheel or pedals. Tier IV is sharing the design of the autonomous driving system – including vehicle specifications and software architecture – making it easier for companies in the automotive industry to enter…
Audi’s Denkwerkstatt has developed a new app called Ecomove to help users understand and reduce their personal carbon footprint caused by mobility, and offset unavoidable emissions. To do this, the Audi app automatically recognizes, for example, which means of transport users use are currently traveling and calculates a personal mobility score. To improve this score,…
Torc Robotics has started to validate software for autonomous driving. Trucks from Daimler Truck are driving on a multi-lane, cordoned-off test track without a safety driver behind the wheel. The product acceptance test was carried out at full operating speeds of up to 105 km/h.The function of the driving software—to move a truck safely without…
Everyone has experienced it: you need help with a simple query, contact customer service – and end up with a chatbot that doesn’t understand the question properly or keeps you trapped in an endless loop of standard answers. The experience with AI-supported customer service solutions advertisement has often been bad. Will this ever really change?…
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