Toyota Acquires Lyft’s Self-Driving Division for $550 Million

Toyota Acquires Lyft’s Self-Driving Division for $550 Million

Woven Planet will pay the first $200 million upfront and the remaining $350 million over the next five years…

Honda Begins Rolling Out Level 3 Automated Driving

Honda Begins Rolling Out Level 3 Automated Driving

The Legend EX can autonomously steer, accelerate, and brake in order to pass slower cars on the highway before returning to the original lane…

What Are the Different Levels of Car Autonomy?

What Are the Different Levels of Car Autonomy?

As semi-autonomous vehicle technologies become more common, you may have encountered automakers advertising these with terms like “Level 3 autonomy”…

Toyota Won More Patents in 2020 than Any Other Automaker

Toyota Won More Patents in 2020 than Any Other Automaker

You may be wondering how a car company’s R&D division can possibly innovate enough to warrant getting nearly 3,000 patents in a single year. But Toyota says that every hour, it invests over $1 million in emerging technology globally…

Are Driverless Cars Safe?

Are Driverless Cars Safe?

The main selling point of driverless cars is that they are built to reduce human error. The technology is quite impressive, but the main question to be asked is: Are driverless cars safe?…

Is Detroit Moving Towards Self-Driving Cars?

Is Detroit Moving Towards Self-Driving Cars?

In an effort to keep up with the times, automotive industry giants…

Mitsubishi Electric Brings Ground-Breaking Automated Driving Tech to Tokyo

Mitsubishi Electric Brings Ground-Breaking Automated Driving Tech to Tokyo

In the race to create a vehicles filled with a number of…

Google Driverless Car: No Steering Wheel, No Problem

Google Driverless Car: No Steering Wheel, No Problem

Not every exciting new concept vehicle needs to rely on futuristic styling…

MIT and Stanford Auto Research to Aid Fusion Hybrid Research Vehicle

MIT and Stanford Auto Research to Aid Fusion Hybrid Research Vehicle

Ford will be teaming up with engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology…