Sentences with phrase «test autonomous»

That's why General Motors chose New York's Brooklyn Bridge to test the autonomous functions it is building into its new Cadillac XTS and ATS sedans.

California is the second state in which Uber won't be able to test autonomous vehicles on public roads.

Uber will not renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads when it expires Saturday.

The suspension of the ride - hailing service's ability to test autonomous vehicles comes after a fatal accident involving a pedestrian.

Apple appears to be leasing a former Fiat Chrysler - owned proving grounds in Arizona to test autonomous vehicles, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Lyft has been granted a permit from the state of California to test autonomous vehicles on public roads, Reuters reports, citing the California Department of Motor Vehicles website, which tracks the companies that have received the permit.

According to Business Insider, the startup had also applied for manufacturer plates in Michigan, which it will need if it plans to test autonomous cars on public roads there.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said on Tuesday that Uber indicated it would not renew its current permit to test autonomous vehicles in California.

For example, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) could require companies that want to test autonomous vehicles on public roads to submit more detailed data beyond disengagement reports that some states like California currently require.

«In addition to this decision to suspend testing throughout the country, Uber has indicated that it will not renew its current permit to test autonomous vehicles in California,» DMV Deputy Director / Chief Counsel Brian Soublet wrote in the letter.

«By the terms of its current permit, Uber's authority to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads will end on March 31, 2018.»

The two firms will work to test autonomous surface vessels on offshore wind projects.

The automaker received the DMV's okay to test its autonomous tech on its public roads on February 9th.

Audi has announced that it is the first company that has been authorized by the state of New York to test autonomous vehicles in the state.

Nissan is currently building a test facility in Japan with real roads and buildings — not simply cardboard mock - ups — where it will test autonomous driving technologies over the coming years.

These partnerships were created in order to test autonomous vehicles because Lyft intends to incorporate them into their vehicle fleet and use them as part of their ride - hailing business.

Over the next few years, Google hopes to test the autonomous vehicles on a more widespread scale, potentially further paving the way for a mainstream, commercially available self - driving car.

Previously, GM has announced it will test autonomous Chevrolet Volts in 2017 at its engineering and design center in Warren, Michigan.

Lexus has shown an autonomous version of the LS luxury sedan, Nissan says it will sell a self - driving car by 2020, Volvo hopes to test autonomous vehicles on Swedish streets by 2017, Mercedes - Benz is testing the fully - autonomous S - Class Intelligent Drive, and Ford has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to build a self - driving Fusion sedan.

DETROIT — Google plans to test its autonomous car prototypes on northern California roads «later this year» says Chris Urmson (below, right), director of the Internet search engine giant's self - driving car project.

Given Volvo's recent commitment to test autonomous cars on the road by 2017, we expect that vehicles on the SPA platform will play a significant role in this development.

Audi will test autonomous cars that meet the Level 3 criterion defined by the Society of Engineers, meaning the vehicles can drive autonomously at posted highway speeds under certain conditions.

Audi will become the first company to test autonomous vehicles in New York when its demonstration car hits the streets of Albany in mid-June.

Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions of miles they would need to log for consumers to consider them road - ready.

Mike Stanyard at Cornell University in Ithaca is using the FAA's site in rural New York to test an autonomous plane (pictured) designed to help farmers track their crops and animals.

Companies like Google, Tesla and General Motors all hold permits to test autonomous vehicles in California.

The company received the official go - ahead to test its autonomous vehicles in three major Chinese cities earlier this year.

That is confined to Ford's Mcity, a fake town the company built to test autonomous driving.

While Google is often lauded for being one of the pioneers of self - driving technology and for being the first to test autonomous technology on public roads, the company has yet to unveil a clear path to market.

The federal government has voluntary guidelines for companies that want to test autonomous vehicles, leaving much of the regulation up to states.

The site in Concord, California, about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, hopes to lure other carmakers to test autonomous cars there.

Uber launched its self - driving pilot in San Francisco on Dec. 14, after which the DMV ordered the company to cease its operations until the vehicles got the permits required to test autonomous technology on public roads.

Earlier this month, GM announced plans to test autonomous drive vehicles in the Detroit area late next year.

According to a Reuters report, Baidu, the Google equivalent of China, also got permission to road - test its autonomous car technology.

All three vehicles in each convoy will still have a driver in the cabin — but it's a significant step forward in efforts to test autonomous driving technology on British roads.

Airbus has previously claimed the so - called «Vahana» project will build and test an autonomous flying vehicle by the end of 2017.

The growing list of companies with state approval to test autonomous vehicles on city streets and highways highlights the race to turn the sci - fi technology into reality.

A New York Times report in August said Apple was going to test its autonomous vehicle technology in a shuttle that transports the company's employees between buildings on its campus.

There's plenty of snow and rain in the state as well as mCity, a 32 - acre simulated real - world urban environment at the University of Michigan used by automakers to test autonomous driving tech.

The company announced in January plans to take its self - driving Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans to Atlanta, the 25th city for Waymo to test its autonomous vehicle technology in since 2009.

Alphabet and Tesla have been testing autonomous driving technologies and Samsung rival Intel acquired Mobileye last month in its own effort to enter the market.

Aurora confirmed to Fortune that it has been testing its autonomous vehicles on private courses and is now ramping up its test fleet operations on public roads in California, including in Palo Alto, Calif..

«California has more manufacturers testing autonomous vehicles than any other state and today's rules continue our leadership with this emerging technology,» California Transportation Agency Secretary Brian Kelly said in a statement.

To date, Waymo and its predecessor have logged more than 2.5 million miles testing autonomous - drive technology.

Waymo, Google's self - driving car project, will start testing its autonomous vehicles in Michigan.

The companies already are testing autonomous cars in a Singapore business district and plan to bring the technology to the U.S. and Europe for tests starting next year.

Meanwhile, Daimler is already testing its autonomous driving technology in Nevada, and in May 2015 the company was issued a license to test self - driving semi-trucks on public roads.

Honda has been testing its autonomous cars at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in San Francisco since March 2015.

In September, California officials started requiring companies testing autonomous vehicles on public roads to get permits.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.