#autonomous driving

Xpeng’s autonomous driving chief told Electrek the company is spending roughly 300 million RMB per month on AI training and believes it has already reached parity with Tesla’s Full Self-Driving.

A reported internal discussion at Rivian suggests the EV maker is considering bringing lidar development in-house as it builds out a broader autonomous driving stack.

A report says Rivian is considering manufacturing its own lidar sensors in the United States, a sign the EV maker may be expanding vertical integration from vehicles and software into perception hardware.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed building factories to retrofit millions of HW3 vehicles that were sold with full-autonomy expectations but lack the hardware needed to deliver them.

Nissan says its next-generation ProPilot system, due first in Japan in 2027, performed a 40-minute unscripted drive through Tokyo streets and highways without the driver touching the controls.

General Motors has started testing Level 3 autonomous driving technology on California and Michigan highways, marking the first time a major US automaker has run eyes-off vehicles on public roads ahead of a planned 2028 production launch in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

Once a $75,000 rooftop sensor, lidar has evolved into a mass-market automotive component as Chinese adoption drives down costs and U.S. automakers begin widespread integration.

A new architecture called LatentVLA argues that natural language may not be the best abstraction for autonomous driving, proposing latent reasoning models instead.

Volvo rolls out a sweeping over-the-air software update to 2.5 million vehicles, revamping infotainment and adding Pilot Assist to more models.

A NASA scientist's 169,000-mile Tesla experience reveals dramatic FSD improvements from v12 to v14, while ChatGPT image tests expose stubborn AI accuracy limits.