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Autonomous truck developers are trying to figure out what a proposed ban on Chinese components will mean to them.

Lidar maker Ouster sued Chinese rival Hesai alleging patent infringement, a situation the company has experienced as a defendant.

A year ago, they fought over patent infringement. Now Ouster and Velodyne are one company seeking to win in the overcrowded lidar market.

Cepton’s Vista-X120 Plus is billed as the world’s slimmest software definable, top-end automotive lidar solution.

Ouster and Velodyne have seen their stock prices tumble this year, but can a merger between the two lead to a turnaround?

With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.

Aurora Technology pledges to be first to take the driver out of an autonomous truck in late 2023, but its freight ambitions are modest at present.

Lidar startups are selling their wares to autonomous vehicles and other businesses, hedging their bets to survive in an overpopulated field.

Does the search for a completely safe driverless truck mean that everything should wait for perfection? David Liu doesn’t think so.

AEye’s pencil dot-sized LiDAR sensor can see a half-mile ahead and instantly switch to wide view of traffic cut ins.

Waymo is leveraging software lessons from its autonomous ride-hailing pilots to Class 8 trucks, applying fifth-generation software that debuted on a Jaguar.

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Self-driving truck technology startup Plus is already working on an autonomous freight matching project in China. Now it has investors there.

Kenworth skipped the fanfare in showing its Class 8 autonomous truck for the first time ar CES 2020.

Anthony Levandowski, a star engineer at Google and Uber, is charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday, August 27.

Good day, Much to their chagrin, mobility companies aren’t known for their civic mindedness. Shifting the narrative, equity was a central theme at a TechCrunch mobility conference held this week in San Jose, California. TC Editor Matthew Panzarino set the tone with his introduction, saying: “We wanted to do a show on the future of mobility […]

Israeli startup TriEye, whose Short-Wave-Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology is able to see in adverse weather and night-time conditions, announced a $17M Series A funding round on May 28, led by Intel Capital. Other investors include Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, and TriEye’s existing investor Grove Ventures, headed by TriEye chairman Dov Moran, […]

Aurora Innovation plans to buy Montana-based Blackmore, a company that develops light detection and ranging radar (lidar) technology for self-driving vehicles. The acquisition comes several months after Aurora’s $530 million Series B funding round, which was led by Sequoia Capital and “significant investment” from Amazon and T. Rowe Price Associates. Aurora did not disclose the […]

The Series C financing was led by China Merchants Capital, with participation from Shenzhen Capital Group, New Alliance Capital, Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services, and Phoenix Insurance Company.

The company also announced the opening of a manufacturing facility in San Francisco’s Mission District that will soon have the capacity to produce several thousand sensors a month.

Baraja raised U.S.$35m on the back of its ability to use lasers, prisms and the colors of the rainbow to grant sight to machines. It’s a critical step on the path to helping vehicles drive themselves. Photo – Shutterstock.

Autobon AI is building an aftermarket autonomous vehicle system that would allow any commercial truck to be turned into an autonomous truck.

Luminar’s sensing platform that is scaling to a capacity possible of equipping every self-driving test vehicle globally by year’s end.

In a recent phone interview with FreightWaves, Quanergy CEO Louay Eldada spoke about what makes his company’s LiDAR sensors superior to the competition.

5 days into the trial, Uber settled the Waymo lawsuit on the cheap. But who really benefits? We break down the deal here.

Velodyne LiDAR in San Jose, CA, announced this morning the release of its ground-breaking new sensor for autonomous vehicles, the VLS-128, which offers double the range and 10x the resolution of its previous industry-leading sensor.

One of 2017’s biggest stories in the emerging autonomous vehicles industry—Waymo’s $2.6B lawsuit against Uber over stolen trade secrets—revolves around a single piece of technology that is currently fueling a frenzied global competition for investment dollars, engineering expertise, and manufacturing capacity.