The city of Boston has given permission to nuTonomy to expand its autonomous car testing program to the entire city, following a short pause after the death of a pedestrian struck by an Uber test car earlier this year.
The self-driving vehicle systems developer nuTonomy has resumed its testing of vehicles on public roads in Boston (Massachusetts). This follows a short pause that resulted from the pedestrian fatality in Arizona caused by an Uber test vehicle, the company’s CEO has revealed.
Lyft is continuing to forge ahead with its nuTonomy partnership with a trial of its self-driving vehicles start soon in Boston. What does this mean for you?
The Boston-based self-driving vehicle tech firm nuTonomy is now in the process of being acquired by Delphi Automotive, according to a press release from Delphi. The newly signed acquisition agreement between the two firms calls for an upfront purchase price of $400 million + earnouts totaling around $50 million.
The self-driving vehicle technology firm NuTonomy is now aiming for the launch of a completely autonomous commercial taxi service in Singapore as soon as the second quarter of 2018, according to recent reports.
A long list of ecological ills come from the neverending stream of motorists burning millions of barrels of oil a day in the US alone — carcinogenic air and water, a destabilized climate, a dying Great Barrier Reef, and an overall threat to human life itself.
NuTonomy, the company that grabbed quite a lot of headlines earlier this year when it launched a self-driving car pilot in Singapore, will begin testing of its self-driving tech in Boston before the end of 2016.
One of the arguments used by critics of self-driving car technologies is that most people won’t be comfortable being driven by a computer. The ongoing self-driving taxi pilot in Singapore seems to contradict this, though — riders have been adjusting psychologically to the technology, and they’ve actually been doing so very rapidly, … [continued]
The world’s first public, self-driving taxi pilot program is now underway in Singapore, according to recent reports — with nuTonomy’s ride-hailing app now being functional for those looking to travel within Singapore’s one-north business district. This is the same district that the firm has been doing testing in since April. … [continued]
As with the renewable energy news link bomb I just published, here’s another one dedicated to electric car news: Tesla Motors Stuff Tesla Autopilot Performs Flawlessly During Motley Fool Highway Test GM Has Lobbied Against Tesla’s Direct Sales Model In At Least Five States Tesla Fights On In Utah And Connecticut Blogger Says Tesla Is Building Throwaway Cars … [continued]
