Qualcomm is leveraging automotive connectivity for assisted and autonomous driving, digital cockpit, and more
As Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said during CES, the company is “all in on auto.” With its Snapdragon Digital Chassis, a platform designed to facilitate the transition to software-defined vehicles via...
Qualcomm CEO: "The technology you find today in your phone, you can simply think about this future where every other device can have the same technology”
Joining business and government leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon...
Juniper noted that the growth of 91% will be driven by the advancement of both ADAS and increasing the capabilities of in-vehicle infotainment systems
The number of connected vehicles in service is forecast to reach 367 million globally in 2027, up from 192 million in...
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo Cars has taken full ownership of its autonomous driving software division Zenseact. It said it acquired the remaining 13.5 percent of shares in Zenseact from automotive software and hardware company ECARX, co-founded in 2017 by Eric Li, as the company's...
We’ve been hearing so much about the amazing future of autonomous and self-driving cars for several years. And while I do believe the future will be filled with a wide variety of self-driving technologies that today we only see today in sci-fi movies, getting...
The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom
The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, demonstrated the outcomes of an autonomous driving pilot that connected low latency, autonomous and assisted driving...
SoftBank said it aims to realize a next-generation network for autonomous driving in Japan by leveraging its expertise in vehicle communications with May Mobility's autonomous vehicle technology
Japanese operator SoftBank and U.S. autonomous vehicle technology company May Mobility have entered into a partnership agreement to...
Thanks to John Deere, this stoop-dwelling, turnstile-hopping New York City kid got to ride in her first tractor! Fortunately for everyone, I didn’t have to drive it. That’s because, with just a swipe on a smartphone app, the tractor takes care of that part...
Qualcomm sees the combo of cooperative radar sensing, C-V2X sidelink positioning and smart RSUs as key to improving road safety
As part of its commitment to intelligent transportation systems, Qualcomm’s R&D team demonstrated 5G connectivity, C-V2X ranging and positioning, and smart RSUs at the company’s...
At this year’s GTC, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced updates to its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for autonomous driving DRIVE Orin, as well as the unveiling of DRIVE Atlan, an AI-enabled SoC that will be available to automakers for their 2025 models.
The SoC integrates...
Stefania Sesia, the senior director and head of global application marketing for automotive at u-blox, explains the difference between V2X for sensing, V2X for cognition, V2X for decision and V2X for actuation and why each element is important to autonomous driving.
NEC Corporation has opened a mobility test centre in Japan to develop autonomous driving technologies and intelligent transportation systems. The setup uses a private 5G network running high-speed video analytics to help vehicles connect with and navigate through traffic and road infrastructure.
The new Mobility...
A 5G-enabled autonomous minibus will operate along a short route on the island of Djurgården, Sweden
As part of a pilot project, 5G Ride, a 5G-enabled autonomous minibus, will now operate along a short route on the island of Djurgården, Sweden for approximately the next...
Qualcomm briefed me on how their 5G technology is working with the automotive industry and transforming the driving experience. This briefing was very exciting because it showed what tomorrow will look like and the central role these companies and technologies are playing in that...
Automotive OEMs: Beyond the active safety level of vehicle autonomy, the cost of the system becomes “prohibitive”
LAS VEGAS – Qualcomm’s President Cristiano Amon took to the stage at CES 2020 yesterday to confirm that this will indeed be the year of 5G and to...
China is currently testing self-driving and connected vehicles in a mountain highway in eastern Shandong province, South China Morning Post reported.
The local Qilu Transportation Development Group earmarked a 26-kilometer-long highway for autonomous driving and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, in cooperation with partners including Chinese vendor Huawei...
WISPA vs. 5GAA
Automotive manufacturers seem to prefer C-V2X rather than DSRC as the connectivity medium for vehicles in the push toward full-on autonomous driving. But the 5.9 GHz band is not without its defenders, particularly fixed wireless broadband providers who use the mid-band frequency.
In...
Further to last week’s sub-polemic on the wrongheaded marketing of 5G services, it is worth considering, again, just how transformational the next generation of mobile technology could be – and why the hype is building so feverishly in the first place.
Of course, the only...
AID expects to launch fully autonomous vehicles in 2021
U.S. company Luminar announced its collaboration with Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) to provide the LiDAR technology and accelerate plans towards AID’s first fully autonomous deployments in 2021.
AID, a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG, is the...
C-V2X would let vehicles communicate with, well, everything
Companies investing in autonomous driving have logged thousands of hours and millions of miles on the road to test out sensor arrays, Lidar, radar, cameras, etc...But these elaborate systems still face limitations, particularly when it comes to...
The two basic rules for autonomous driving are: Rule number 1: Do no harm. Rule number 2: Don’t get hurt.
Forget about insurance companies’ claim that autonomous driving is safer and that insurance rates will be lower. When people hear about an autonomous car running...
Bosch and Daimler will test a fleet of autonomous vehicles in California, with a view to launching a driverless shuttle service on certain routes in the second half of 2019. The pair have selected US tech company Nvidia to provide the artificial intelligence (AI)...
Swedish car-maker Volvo has taken a stake in US start-up Luminar, based in California and Florida, to develop sensor technology for autonomous vehicles.
Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of Chinese automotive company Geely, has been working with Luminar already on development and testing of LiDAR technology,...
Annual sales of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the US will reach five million by 2026, according to a new study by Juniper Research. Juniper also expects a total of 20 million new AVs to be sold globally during the same year.
The main drivers...
