Inside Aurora’s autonomous trucking operation in Texas While other autonomous startups such as Starsky Robotics and TuSimple have folded or scaled back efforts in the U.S., Aurora is delivering loads in Texas.

Shares of Chinese Tesla rival Xpeng fall 5% after head of autonomous driving resigns Xinzhou Wu, vice president of autonomous driving at Xpeng, has tendered his resignation “for personal and family reasons,” the company said in a statement.

Test Driver Who Was In Autonomous Uber Prototype When It Killed A Pedestrian Sentenced In March 2018, one of Uber’s autonomous prototypes hit a pedestrian crossing the street. The victim, Elaine Herzberg, was taken to the hospital and later died from her injuries. It was later revealed that Rafaela Vasquez, the safety operator, was looking at her phone leading up to the fatal crash. At the time there… Read more…

Feds Thinking About Maybe Regulating Autonomous Vehicles Lawmakers in Washington are reportedly looking to reignite much-delayed legislation on the safe and regulated adoption of self-driving vehicles. According to Reuters, a congressional hearing is now scheduled for July 26. That panel will consider separate draft legislation from Republican Representative Bob Latta and… Read more…

VW will test its autonomous ID Buzz in the US starting this month Image: VWVolkswagen announced it will test autonomous vehicles in the US starting with driverless versions of its ID Buzz electric microbus. The new fleet will be tested on public roads in Austin, Texas, starting later this month. The announcement comes months after VW, along with Ford, pulled funding for Argo AI, the self-driving startup that …