The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium will focus on advancing safe deployment of SAE Level 4 and Level 5 automated vehicles. Ford, GM and Toyota announced they are partnering with SAE International to form a new pre-competitive consortium
The European Parliament, Council and Commission have agreed that the next generation of vehicle safety standards are to become mandatory in new European vehicles by 2022.
Lumotive, a lidar startup funded by Bill Gates, have announced an innovative beam-steering technology to significantly improve the performance, reliability, and cost of lidar systems for the self-driving car industry.
Jenoptik Group revenues rose by 11.6% to €834m. The 4th quarter was the strongest in 2018, with €241m; the company say this performance was mainly driven by strong demand from the semiconductor equipment industry and the delivery of toll
Ouster, a San Francisco-based startup who have developed high-resolution, multi-beam flash lidar sensors for a variety of applications, say they have raised another $60m in series-A funding. The combination of equity and debt finance, led by Runway
The second annual Global LiFi Congress will take place on 12–13 June 2019 at the Salons Hoche in Paris, France. Scientific and economic leaders involved with LiFi technology will be brought together to create a timeline and determine
ZF Friedrichshafen entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wabco. The planned acquisition has been approved by ZF's Management Board and Supervisory Board and Wabco's Board of Directors. Together, ZF says it and Wabco will form a leading global
A German research network with research institutions, universities, IT companies and companies from the automotive industry has developed a near-series fusion platform with open interfaces, called Open Fusion Platform (OFP) to enable automobile
The GLOSA technology—for Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory—uses V2I communication 
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organisation that regards the open-source idea as enabling