Self-driving startup Aurora bets on lidar in first acquisitionAurora recently raised $530 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Amazon.com Inc. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc.
24 May, 2019, 08.56 AM IST
Self-driving dream team gets $530 million from Sequoia, AmazonAurora’s three co-founders are legendary within the tight community of roboticists and engineers who are leading the charge to make self-dr...
08 Feb, 2019, 09.50 AM IST
VW is said to have approached self-driving startup AuroraThe German carmaker has been scouring Silicon Valley for targets or partnerships that can help it develop self-driving cars and other mobil...
23 Aug, 2018, 10.37 AM IST
From Uber to Aurora here's why everyone is focusing on self-driving automobileI believe they will be as personal as an Uber, as affordable as public transport, but won’t require I own and run a fuel-guzzling machine t...
16 May, 2018, 10.28 AM IST
Who’s winning the self-driving car race?In the next three years, almost all of these contenders will be able show off cars capable of navigating city streets at casual speeds alon...
08 May, 2018, 09.41 AM IST
Despite Uber-tragedy, Google's self-driving cars aren't slowing downIf a Waymo vehicle encountered a similar situation, CEO Krafcik said that the car would have avoided the death without human help.
02 Apr, 2018, 06.33 PM IST
Ex-Google, Tesla, Uber driverless czars partner with VW, HyundaiAurora - a startup formed by one-time executives from autonomous car projects at Google, Tesla and Uber - will develop self-driving electri...
05 Jan, 2018, 10.45 AM IST
Collateral benefit: Why self-driving cars owe a lot to Afghan, Iraq warsThese cars carry scars and dent from participation in a legendary series of competitions organized by the Darpa, a research and development...
31 Oct, 2017, 09.33 AM IST
Waymo hires ex-Tesla engineer to lead self-driving hardwareJeyachandran, 38, spent nearly seven years at Tesla before leaving earlier this year.
23 Jun, 2017, 10.05 AM IST
Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google?Self-driving technology has become a fixation for Kalanick. Developing a driverless car, he’s often said, is “existential” to Uber.
18 Mar, 2017, 12.03 PM IST
Learning more about Google's self-driving cars made me terrified to ever drive againPooling together all of the data from all of its cars, the software inside each one has approximately 90 years of driving experience.
05 Oct, 2015, 01.59 PM IST
Five revolutionary things promised in five years timeJeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech executives have chosen five as the magic number of years for their big predictions t...
20 Mar, 2015, 03.36 PM IST
6 Simple Things Google's Self-Driving Car Still Can't HandleThey have been for decades.For Google, that future isn't quite as close as you might think-as of right now, its autonomous vehicle would fa...
31 Aug, 2014, 09.40 AM IST
There's still one major problem with Google's self-driving carsWhile the idea of simply hopping into a car, pressing a button, and arriving at your destination sounds enticing, we're still far away from...
29 Aug, 2014, 02.20 PM IST