Tesla has announced a recall implicating 362,758 Model S, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over the US’s safety regulator’s fears that its full self-driving beta software may “act unsafe” in certain driving situations. Tesla’s voluntary recall was put in place after the company’s full self-driving (FSD) software was criticised […]
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Hyundai trailing Level 4 autonomous driving tech with RoboRide
Hyundai has announced plans to team up with Korean rideshare company RoboRide to trail its level 4 autonomous driving features with a pair of IONIQ 5 EVs on the streets of Seoul. The collaboration marks the first car-hailing service to be using autonomous driving vehicles on the streets of Gangnam, […]
Audi Urbansphere concept revealed, first-class autonomous driving
Audi has given us a look at its take on the future of first-class vehicles with the release of a massive four-seat concept called the Urbansphere. Designed to take the stress out of long commutes in busy city centres, the Urbansphere has been co-developed by its Ingolstadt and Beijing design […]
Jaguar Land Rover partners up with NVIDIA for next-gen autonomous tech
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a newfound partnership with computing giant NVIDIA to help co-develop an autonomous driving system featuring artificial intelligence and connected services. The results of this partnership are expected to first break the veil in 2025, when JLR releases its first customer vehicles fitted with the […]
Video: Toyota shows off autonomous drifting technology with Supra
Self-driving technology is all the rage these days, but automotive diehards have surely wondered how this tech could some day translate to the world of tyre-shredding drift machines. Well, wonder no more, because Toyota has released a clip overnight showcasing its latest advances in self-driving and, evidently, self-drifting technology. It’s […]
Mercedes gets go-ahead from regulators for Level 3 autonomous driving
Mercedes-Benz is celebrating a significant regulatory win after receiving official approval for its Level 3 autonomous driving system, marking an important milestone as the company looks to install this autonomous driving tech on its passenger and commercial vehicles. The news came after Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) granted system […]
US safety regulators request data from carmakers to assist in Tesla probe
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has called on a number of major automakers to provide data on their self-driving and driver assistance programs to aid its investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system. As reported last month, the NHTSA opened a formal probe into Tesla’s Autopilot system for a […]
Safety regulators in USA probe Tesla Autopilot system
Safety regulators in the USA have announced the formal opening of a probe into Tesla’s Autopilot system, after concerns were raised about a number of crashes involving vehicles using the system. The probe is set to look at as many as 765,000 vehicles that Tesla has produced since 2014, fitted […]