Autopilot

NIO, with plenty of cash on hand, reportedly restarts L4 autopilot development
NIO was an early EV maker in China that began automated driving development in 2015, but the automated driving team was most affected by layoffs in North America in 2019 due to fin ...
Beijing has issued plates to 14 firms including NIO for self-driving road tests
Beijing has issued temporary number plates to 87 vehicles from 14 companies, including NIO, BAIC New Energy, Baidu and Daimler, for self-driving road tests, according to Xinhu ...
NIO, XPeng challenge Tesla on assisted driving
NIO and XPeng, two of the leading companies in the new Chinese car manufacturing industry, have a skill set previously reserved for Tesla. ...
Tesla exec says FSD in China won't raise prices for now
Following Tesla CEO Elon Musk's announcement that the US version of the full self-driving (FSD) software will soon increase in price, Tesla's vice president of external affairs Gra ...
Huawei unveils AI-powered autonomous driving solution ADN
Huawei today announced the Huawei autonomous driving solution ADN, which introduces AI into the full stack to create an automated driving network solution. ...
Chinese truck maker FAW Jiefang launches self-driving heavy duty truck capable of L3 autopilot
The J7, an L3 self-driving super heavy-duty truck led by Chinese truck maker FAW Jiefang, was launched on September 6, becoming a milestone product in FAW Jiefang's "Columbus Smart ...
Alibaba's autopilot upgrade gives LiDAR recognition more than 3x improvement
DAMO Academy, Alibaba's research and innovation institute, today announced that its sensing algorithm has enabled high-beam simulation of low-wire-beam LiDAR. This indirectly incre ...
Tesla caught misquoting XPeng's video in article introducing its traffic light recognition capabilities
In a Chinese article today describing its Autopilot traffic light recognition capabilities, Tesla misquoted a video from its Chinese competitor XPeng that introduces similar capabi ...
Huawei's Autopilot operating system gets ASIL D certification for first time
Huawei recently announced on Weibo that the Huawei Autopilot operating system kernel (including virtualization mechanism) has been awarded the highest level of functional safety ce ...