Autonomous Vehicles News & Discussions

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I think in the next couple of years you'll have full autonomous driving. Probably 5-8 years these cars will be allowed to drive people around that need to be transported. That will be a gods sent!

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Invisible man: German startup bets on remote driver
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-inv ... river.html

With no one in the driver seat, the SUV pulling up resembles an autonomous robotaxi like those becoming increasingly present in some cities—but the car from German startup Vay is something else.

One of a number of emerging players aiming to disrupt road transportation, the seven-year-old company is built around remote driving, where a human is very much present, though sitting in an office using TV monitors to guide the car.

Over the last year, riders in Las Vegas have been able to test drive Vay, and the company was demonstrating its technology ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's most important tech show.

Thomas von der Ohe, chief executive and co-founder of Vay, said his was a lower-cost approach "that has nothing to do with autonomous driving."

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BYD’s self-driving hypercar leaps 20 ft over road spikes
By Utkarsh Sood
January 09, 2025

Remember the Yangwang U9? Yeah, the same 1,287-horsepower electric hypercar from China that made headlines a few months back for doing bunny hops and spinning in a circle at a standstill. In a recently released video, the BYD hypercar is seen driving autonomously and jumping over a variety of obstacles, including road spikes like in a game of Moon Patrol.

The US$236,000 EV is sold in China under BYD's premium Yangwang brand. Previously, it was spotted driving on three wheels and hopping around in a sort of dance thanks to its Disus X active suspension setup.

Now, in the latest clip posted to YouTube by the Chinese publication CarNewsChina, the hop-happy car has been spotted demonstrating another party trick: jumping legit obstacles while flying down the road entirely autonomously – like it has a Game Shark built in.

https://newatlas.com/automotive/byd-yangwang-u9-jumps/

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Skyryse turns helicopter take-offs into a one-button job
By David Szondy
January 14, 2025

If you've ever ridden in a car that can park itself at the push of a button, you'll appreciate the achievement of Skyryse, which has made a fully-conforming production helicopter that can hover with the swipe of a finger.

Helicopters have been very successful ever since Igor Sikorsky developed the VS-300 in 1939. Since that time they have revolutionized military tactics, civilian travel, and rescue operations – which is surprising since the controls on a helicopter are essentially designed to be used by a three-armed pilot.

The problem with flying a helicopter is that it requires both hands, both feet, and a third hand that you don't have, plus a lot of attention at all times. There's the Cyclic Control that resembles a joystick and controls the pitch of the main rotors, allowing the pilot to go forward, back, left, and right. Then there's the Collective Control – the stick next to the pilot's seat that controls pitch of the individual rotor blades to control lift. The Throttle on the Collective Control feeds power to match the blade pitch. And, finally, foot pedals control the tail rotor to point the helicopter in a particular direction.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/skyryse-h ... ne-button/

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Tesla Q4 Earnings Show FSD and New Vehicles Are Still on Track
January 29, 2025 by Brian Wang

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/01/t ... track.html

Tesla has its 2024 update on financials and operations.


Plans for new vehicles, including more affordable models, remain on track for start of production in the first half of 2025. These vehicles will utilize aspects of the next generation platform as well as aspects of our current platforms and will be produced on the same manufacturing lines as our current vehicle line-up.

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Musk promises Tesla robotaxis yet again – this time by June
By Abhimanyu Ghoshal
January 29, 2025

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will roll out a fleet of autonomous vehicles that will operate as taxis with no driver behind the wheel in Austin, Texas, in June. Hmmm, where have we heard that before?

Oh, right – from Musk himself back in 2019. At the automaker's Autonomy Day nearly six years ago, he said robotaxis would be a thing by some time in 2020. That didn't happen, obviously.

The latest bold claim comes from Tesla's Q4 2024 earnings call, in which the company reported a significant drop in year-over-year profits (US$2.3 billion, down from $7.9 billion in 2023).

https://newatlas.com/automotive/elon-pr ... june-2025/

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Lyft aims to start robotaxi rides in 2026, beginning with Dallas
By Abhimanyu Ghoshal
February 11, 2025

Ride-hailing company Lyft says it's set to launch robotaxis powered by Mobileye tech as soon as 2026, starting in Dallas, Texas. The service will subsequently arrive in more cities with thousands of self-driving cabs, notes CEO David Risher.

The company, which operates in hundreds of cities across North America and serves 40 million riders annually, hasn't stated how many autonomous vehicles it will deploy in Dallas, or how driverless rides will be priced.

https://newatlas.com/automotive/lyft-ro ... 26-austin/

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