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With global ambitions, VC firm Maniv Mobility raises $100 million from automakers, suppliers
What started as an accident has turned into a venture firm with a global reach and backing from some of the biggest corporations in the automotive and transportation industries. Maniv Mobility, the Is
Lyft, Aptiv and the National Federation of the Blind partner on self-driving for low-vision riders
Lyft and Aptiv are already running autonomous driving trials in Las Vegas, and now they’re expanding that limited pilot to include low-vision and blind riders in a new partnership with the Natio
How safe are robotaxis? BMW, Intel, Aptiv (and 8 others) just laid out a safety blueprint
Self-driving vehicles are often trumpeted as the answer to the millions of injuries and deaths that occur each year on the world’s roadways. Developers and proponents of the technology argue tha
Self-driving car startup Argo AI is giving researchers free access to its HD maps
Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open-source some of the information it has captured
Innoviz extends funding round to $170 million to bring its lidar tech to self-driving cars
Just a few months ago, Innoviz became one of the better capitalized lidar startups when it announced it had raised $132 million in a Series C funding round. But that wouldn’t be the end of it. T
Aptiv’s self-driving BMWs have made more than 50,000 rides on the Lyft app in Las Vegas
A little more than a year ago, self-driving software company Aptiv and Lyft launched a pilot project to test a robotaxi service — with human safety drivers still behind the wheel — in Las Vegas du
Aptiv’s Karl Iagnemma at TC Sessions: Mobility July 10 in San Jose
Before automakers and giant tech companies kicked off their own autonomous vehicle pilots, a startup called nuTonomy launched a self-driving taxi service in Singapore for the public, not just its test
Waymo and Lyft partner to scale self-driving robotaxi service in Phoenix
Waymo is partnering with Lyft to bring self-driving vehicles onto the ride-hailing network in Phoenix as the company ramps up its commercial robotaxi service. Waymo will add 10 of its self-driving veh
Aptiv takes its self-driving car ambitions (and tech) to China
Aptiv, the U.S. auto supplier and self-driving software company, is opening an autonomous mobility center in Shanghai to focus on the development and eventual deployment of its technology on public ro
Uber spent $457 million on self-driving and flying car R&D last year
Uber spent $457 million last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars (known as eVTOLs) and other “technology programs” and will continue to invest heavily in t
Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility
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Lidar and perception startup Innoviz raises $132 million
Innoviz, the Israel-based startup developing solid-state lidar sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles, has raised $132 million in a Series C funding round that includes major Chinese
Polestar CEO speaks, Tesla terminology, and a tribute
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I'm your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is the fourth edition of our newsletter, a weekly jaunt into the wonderful worl
Audi, Mobileye, Waymo, other top automakers unite to spread the self-driving gospel
The self-driving vehicle evangelists are uniting. A number of major automakers, technology companies and organizations with a stake in autonomous vehicles, including Audi, Aurora, Cruise, GM, Mobileye
Israeli autonomous technology developer Innoviz is entering China’s car market
Innoviz, a developer of light-detection and ranging technologies for computer vision and autonomous vehicles, is getting a toehold in China, the world’s fastest growing auto market, through a pa
Aptiv and Lyft’s Vegas self-driving pilot to expand beyond CES
Self-driving technology provider Aptiv and ride-hailing company Lyft ran a pilot program of self-driving, on-demand ride hailing during CES in Las Vegas this year, offering transit between 20 differen
Aptiv and Lyft’s self-driving BMWs are picking up CES passengers
Self-driving and connected car tech company Aptiv (formerly Delphi) is back at CES again in 2018, and this time it’s partnering with Lyft to demonstrate its latest developments in self-driving t
Delphi’s autonomous driving business is being renamed ‘Aptiv’
Delphi is renaming the part of its business that’s focused on automated driving and electrification, calling the new entity Aptiv starting from March, when it will formalize the separation of th