Wowza — that’s a top-tier troll to start the weekend. This autonomous driving space is getting especially saucy in 2021. There have been hot comments and battles in logic (ahem, lidar) in the past in this field, but recent snipes from Waymo CEO (until just this month) John Krafcik, Tesla … [continued]
While the world struggles with the coronavirus pandemic and its entire, gigantic, enormous economic fallout, it’s perhaps surprising to find out that some companies (other than Amazon and Zoom) have been growing in that time. One of those firms is Aurora, a self-driving vehicle firm led by Chris Urmson, who was Waymo’s top dog for years.
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Hyundai is planning to invest up to $40 billion over the next 5 years in new all electric models and autonomous driving technology. It will unveil an all new dedicated electric car platform in 2020 and expects to offer 44 electrified models by 2025.
Autonomous driving startup Aurora Innovation has completed an new $530 million funding round that included a major investment from Amazon.
We’ve previously written about Byton, a Chinese electric vehicle (EV) startup that hopes to conquer the global market with its autonomous design and generous internal display, as well as other important features. The company just announced it has secured a Series B funding round to the tune of $500 million.
Volkswagen Group has announced a collaboration with the fresh self-driving technology company Aurora, a name that seems to be popping up here, there, and everywhere in the self-driving world of technology lately.
Hyundai Motor Company and Aurora, a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, have announced a strategic partnership to bring self-driving Hyundai vehicles to market by 2021. You may not recognize the name Aurora yet, but you probably recognize the name of its CEO, Chris Urmson, who was the CTO of self-driving cars at Google for several years. His fellow co-founders at Aurora are Sterling Anderson, who was most recently director of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, who was previously Uber’s autonomy and perception lead.
Tesla is suing the former head of its Autopilot system program, Sterling Anderson, for his alleged attempts to recruit active Tesla engineers for his new venture while still working at the company, according to recent reports.
Following 7½ years of work on the project, one of the top executives on Google’s self-driving vehicle initiative, Chris Urmson, will be stepping down. Notably, Urmson has been with the project since its inception, and has often served as a public face for it — even testifying before a US … [continued]
