We read an interesting report in Automotive News recently about how Israel is becoming another centre for automotive technology. In fact it has been a slow burn country for vehicle development. Motoring Weekly has written about Better Place that moved to Israel from Silicon Valley before collapsing in a heap. Back in 2008, the original version of General Motors opened a … [Read more...]
BMW Self Driving Consortium
Over the last few weeks, Motoring Weekly has been publishing articles about the companies behind the scenes of autonomous vehicle development. Most are unknown to the general public, however this article covers a name that everyone knows about: BMW. Firstly though, it is important to define what “autonomous” means and the levels of autonomy that the industry has agreed on - … [Read more...]
Self Driving Trucks
In the last few weeks Motoring Weekly has introduced two companies who are working in the background of autonomous vehicles: drive.ai and Nauto. Both are definitely not household names like Tesla or Uber, even Waymo is starting to be more well known globally and General Motors has its Cruise Automation division making some noise. Now it is time to introduce you to two more … [Read more...]
Nauto
In a series of articles about the quiet achievers of the new age of automotive use, here at Motoring Weekly, we have highlighted the work at drive.ai. Now we have another company to be aware of: Nauto. Nauto was founded in 2015 with a view to getting modern cars and drivers to be safer and they have given themselves a huge target: zero traffic accidents. What sets them apart … [Read more...]
drive.ai
We heard about this company whilst researching other small technology companies in the automotive space - and with the constant chatter about autonomous cars, here at Motoring Weekly, we felt that we should look at those companies that aren’t so well known today. Drive.ai was spawned from the Stanford University where the Artificial Intelligence Lab was developing systems. … [Read more...]