by Darlene A. Cepeda | Apr 17, 2020 | Car and Auto News
Pony.ai is repurposing 10 of its Hyundai Kona Electric small crossovers for autonomous package delivery in Irvine, California. The vehicles will be able to deliver 500 to 700 packages a day for Asian-products online retailer Yamibuy. Pony.ai, a Chinese startup, got a $400 million investment from Toyota earlier this year to research autonomous driving. As […]
by Darlene A. Cepeda | Apr 6, 2020 | Car and Auto News
The NAVYA project’s self-driving electric vehicles were already being tested in Florida, and now they’ve been repurposed to move coronavirus test samples for the Mayo Clinic there. Four shuttles run on a loop between the public drive-through test site and...
by Darlene A. Cepeda | Mar 19, 2020 | Car and Auto News
A new rulemaking proposal by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would redefine terms to allow easier certification of autonomous vehicles. Driverless cargo vans, for example, may be fully exempt from occupant safety standards. NHTSA wants to...