Autonomous Vehicles

Back in 2017, Ford made a significant investment in startup Argo, and the pair are now bringing Lyft into the fold in an effort to deploy autonomous ride-hailing on a commercial scale, with the first rides to take place later this year.

Pininfarina gets back to bringing to life envelope-pushing concept cars with the Teorema. The design house reshapes automotive packaging into an all-electric self-driving pod that's nearly as comfy as a camper.

Tesla released its FSD beta 9.0 software on Saturday night, another leap forward ahead of the pack with some impressive new abilities. But it's going to need to get a lot more boring and mundane before this tech really starts changing the world.

Baidu has partnered with EV maker Arcfox, part of China's state-owned BAIC Group, to accelerate the commercialization of fully autonomous ride-hailing services, and to jointly release the latest version of the Apollo robotaxi.

Nuro has entered an agreement with logistics giant FedEx, which has committed to using the startup's autonomous vehicle for last-mile deliveries in the long-term and at a "large scale."

The latest test run for TuSimple's self-driving trucks involved hauling a load of fresh produce over hundreds of miles across the US, where it demonstrated that it can complete such tasks in quick and highly efficient fashion.

Chinese technology giant Baidu has launched what is says is the country's first commercial robotaxi service, which will see its Apollo self-driving vehicles shuttle paying customers around Beijing's Shougang Park without a safety driver onboard.

After first unveiling the Trombia Free fully autonomous electric street sweeper last year, Finland's Trombia Technologies has now taken to the streets of Helsinki as part of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab.

The UK's Department of Transport has announced that it's moving to conditionally legalize self-driving cars in which the driver doesn't have to pay attention to the road or keep their hands on the wheel, in a move that it expects will save lives.

There was nobody in the driver's seat when a Tesla Model S ran off the road and crashed this week, killing two. No other manufacturer would be blamed for an incident like this, but does Tesla's audacious Autopilot rollout bear some responsibility?

Israel's Mobileye has teamed up with startup Udelv to get an autonomous electric delivery pod called the Transporter on the streets by 2023, with a plan to produce 35,000 of the self-driving electric cargo haulers by 2028.

Japanese firm Teijin has teamed up with Australia's Applied Electric Vehicles to reimagine the role some cars might play in the future of urban mobility, developing a solar-topped electric vehicle that is low on speed and high on energy efficiency.