ABI Research has found that high Robo-Taxi vehicle utilisation rates above 70% will be required to undercut the current cost of vehicle ownership of $0.71 per mile. At these rates, ensuring minimal Robo-Taxi downtime through over-the-air (OTA) updates and advanced prognostics, as well effective fleet-management will be crucial to future driverless mobility providers. Without it, [...]

NEVS, a leading Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer, has taken another step towards autonomous driving by using Phantom Auto’s teleoperation safety technology. NEVS (formerly Saab Automobile) and Phantom Auto, a leading provider of teleoperation safety technology for autonomous vehicles (AVs), are collaborating to ensure the safe and efficient deployment of NEVS’ electric AVs throughout the world. [...]

A federal investigation has found that a self-driving Uber SUV that hit and killed a pedestrian in March had its emergency braking system disabled. The preliminary report, issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), stated that while the vehicle’s guidance system had spotted the woman about six seconds before impact, emergency braking manoeuvres were [...]

Byton CEO and co-founder Carsten Breitfeld has stated the company has the ambitious goal of changing the world of mobility. Some six month after the world premiere of the Byton Concept at the world’s largest trade fair for consumer electronics, CES in Las Vegas, Carsten said, ‘We have set the ambitious goal of changing the [...]