Category Automotive

Aidoptation has secured Belgian approval for Level 4 autonomous driving tests across 100 km of the E313 and E314 highways — the first EU highway-speed testing of fully autonomous technology.

Bosch and CARIAD have concluded their Automated Driving Alliance, delivering an AI-based Level 2 ADAS stack for series production, with the VW ID.EVERY1 first in line for 2027.

GM's Hands-Free Trailering, available only with Super Cruise, lets drivers tow up to 10,000 pounds hands-free while the vehicle automatically calculates trailer weight and adjusts steering, braking, and acceleration to match.

Valeo has won a contract to supply its next-generation corner radar for the L2+ and L3 systems of a North American electric vehicle maker, with 50 times the resolution of the previous generation.

Rivian's R2 debuts Rivian OS 2.0, a rebuilt platform running 200 sparse TOPS of edge AI compute, an offline Rivian Assistant, and haptic steering controls — the company's first AI-defined vehicle.

XPENG has unveiled X-Mind, a predictive world model that compresses a 12-frame road forecast into roughly 96 tokens, giving its vehicles a visual chain-of-thought to anticipate traffic before acting.

Karma Automotive will provide engineering, manufacturing, and design services to Line Mobility, whose on-demand autonomous transit platform moves passengers on elevated guideways above street level rather than on open roads shared with traffic.

Applied Intuition has extended its Self-Driving System to Japan, bringing L2+ and L2++ driver-assistance capabilities to dense urban roads less than a year after launching across North America and Europe.

A German automaker has moved Teradar into a paid technical evaluation of its Summit terahertz vision sensor, testing edge-case detection in fog and other conditions where cameras, radar, and lidar struggle.

WeRide's WRD 3.0 driver-assistance system won the Tianjin round of the China Urban Intelligent Driving Competition, marking a record sixth consecutive win as the Bosch-developed system scales toward mass production.

JD Power's 2026 Mobility Confidence Index holds at 39 as AV awareness climbs to 58%, with safety concerns and situational trust still limiting consumer readiness for self-driving vehicles.

Lucid has begun an over-the-air update bringing hands-free highway driving to the Lucid Gravity SUV in North America, alongside Google Maps Places navigation, adaptive high beams, and new charging insights.

BMW customers have driven more than 200 million kilometers hands-free with the BMW Highway Assistant, as the Level 2 system expands from a single European country to more than 20 under DCAS approval.