Pete Bigelow

VW and Ford have stakes in the self-driving tech firm, which said its business plans and partnerships remain unaffected.

Battery startup Our Next Energy is integrating its range-extending Gemini battery onto a BMW iX prototype that should be finished by the end of the year.

Self-driving tech company Yandex said it paused operation of its robotaxis in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and ended a delivery partnership with Grubhub.

Whether Waymo, still the only company that has deployed robotaxis without human backups open to the public in the U.S., has positioned itself as the self-driving leader or spread itself too thin is arguably the most important business-related question in the industry.

Mercedes-Benz and Luminar have inked an agreement that calls for the lidar-tech company to supply its Iris sensors for use in automated highway-driving systems.

Hyundai's customer-experience engineers are developing virtual worlds on Roblox to reach customers of the future.

Self-driving startup Pony.ai received a permit for driverless testing, a milestone that provides a glimpse into where the company is headed both in the U.S. and China.

When Autopilot is enabled, Tesla drivers' eyes stray from the road more frequently and for longer periods of time compared with manual driving, according to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.

As the electronics giant continues testing the safety functions in its sedan prototype, it has partnered with the German supplier to transform the cabin into a new entertainment space.

Intel subsidiary Moblileye plans to expand a robotaxi service across Europe by the end of the decade.

Volvo and Nationwide are two notable investors in Foretellix, which provides a platform for testing and validating the performance of automated vehicles.

Toyota President Akio Toyoda offered an apology to the Paralympian, and then issued a stinging rebuke of autonomous-driving technology.

Companies are drawing the attention of customers and investors as they race to make their systems better and cheaper.

Little more than a year after its first external fundraising, Waymo said Wednesday the latest round comes mainly from the same group of firms that invested in 2020.

The rate rose 21 percent in 2020 over the previous year, according to Governors Highway Safety Association estimates. And the increase may not subside along with COVID-19.