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Hyundai Motor Group has put its autonomous driving Data Flywheel into full operation, pairing NVIDIA-based Level 2+ vehicles due in 2028 with proprietary Atria AI Level 2++ production targeted for 2029.
Volvo Cars has refreshed the XC40 with a new software and sensor platform, expanded Pilot Assist with lane change assist, a Door Opening Alert function, and a 3D 360 camera ahead of early-2027 deliveries.
Volkswagen is upgrading IQ.DRIVE on 2027 Atlas, Golf, ID. Buzz and Tiguan models with driver-initiated lane changes, an Emergency Assist Plus shoulder-stop function, a pedestrian-detecting rearview camera, and predictive ACC improvements.
American Rheinmetall secured a $7.28 million contract to deliver 12 Mission Master SP autonomous unmanned ground vehicles and five amphibious Marine Kits to the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, built on the PATH autonomy architecture.
Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless robotaxi test rides with passengers on a 13.7-mile Zagreb route, a European first, five months after launching the city's commercial service with an onboard operator.
WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain's first national Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicle permit, clearing mapping and testing of 20 GXR vehicles in Madrid ahead of a planned commercial launch by year-end.
Beep closed a Series B round led by Mobileye with existing investors participating, bringing total capital raised to about $130 million to expand its mobility-as-a-service offerings and AutonomOS platform.
AEye CEO Matt Fisch says lidar revenue grew roughly ninefold year over year and 25 customers now take paid shipments, as a NASA-backed Lunar Outpost contract and Alive3D deal open new verticals.
Lyft riders in central Nashville can now be matched with fully autonomous Waymo vehicles at no additional cost, the first market where Waymo runs on both the Waymo and Lyft apps.
Hirain and Arbe have been selected by a major automotive group for a multi-brand Level 3 passenger vehicle program in China, with series-production radar deliveries starting Q4 2027.
Inceptio Technology reports more than 1 billion kilometers of commercial autonomous trucking mileage, 97% highway coverage in China, and a new Freight Physical AI framework spanning model, scenario, and fleet intelligence.
Motional has open-sourced nuReasoning, a 20,000-scenario long-tail driving dataset with 247,000 human-verified reasoning annotations, and launched a companion research challenge with UCLA at ECCV.
UAE team Kinetiz won A2RL's first race outside Abu Dhabi, a 12-lap, five-car autonomous contest at Imola, after technical issues and a collision sidelined Unimore, PoliMOVE and two-time champion TUM.
NHTSA has opened Audit Query AQ26002 into Tesla's certification of the Cybercab as FMVSS-compliant, the same day Tesla began commercial deployment of the pedal-less, wheel-less vehicles in Austin, Texas.
PlusAI will go public through a SPAC merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III at an $800 million pre-money valuation, with up to $300 million in capital targeting a 2027 factory-built autonomous truck launch.
Zoox is sending its retrofitted test fleet to Houston and San Diego later this month, bringing its US presence to 12 cities and lining up freeway, fog, heat, and flood validation ahead of robotaxi service.
Wayve and Uber have launched supervised autonomous rides in London, the first in the UK, using Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles with the Wayve AI Driver and a TfL-licensed driver on board.
May Mobility and NTT Mobility plan to put the first autonomous Toyota e-Palette on Japan public roads in 2026, with multi-site deployments and a Level 4 driverless certification target.
ZF will show over-the-air update management, a high-speed Truck Trailer Link and centralized vehicle intelligence at IAA Transportation 2026 as building blocks of the software-defined commercial vehicle.
Bosch's MPC4 camera brings on-sensor data fusion and 20× the compute of its predecessor to trucks in 2027, joining a new radar, mirror-integrated driver monitoring, and redundant ServoE steering.