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Uber Technologies Inc. will list New York’s yellow taxis on its app, the first alliance of its kind in the U.S. in an effort to ease a driver shortage and pressure on fares. Uber’s shares jumped 5 percent. The ride-hailing giant reached a deal with the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission’s technology partners,

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley has reshaped the company’s internal operations to accelerate development of autonomous vehicles and foster new technology businesses. Farley formed Ford Next late last year and put it under the direction of Franck Louis-Victor, a hard-charging specialist in new businesses hired last June from Renault SA. The unit

SAN FRANCISCO — Toyota Motor Corp. and Aurora Innovation Inc., a U.S. developer of automated driving systems, have started testing autonomous ride-hailing fleet in Texas, with two safety operators and no passenger on board, Aurora said on Tuesday. Toyota’s Sienna minivans, retrofitted with Aurora’s self-driving system, will be tested on highways and suburban streets in

As efforts to deploy autonomous vehicles heat up, competitors are unleashing fleets of test vehicles in the real world. But they are also spending as much time — or in some cases more — training their systems within the safe confines of simulation. One company favoring simulation is Waabi, a Toronto-based startup founded by Uber

The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As such, those routes are some of the simpler challenges on the

Andy Kunz knows what makes a city great. After all, he has degrees in fine arts and urban design and a background in landscape architecture and urban planning. But it took a more whimsical, or you could say magical, experience during his childhood to draw him toward his passion, high-speed rail: It was the 1971

General Motors is acquiring SoftBank Vision Fund’s equity ownership stake in Cruise and plans to make an additional investment that will bring its share of the self-driving vehicle company to 80 percent. The automaker is acquiring SoftBank’s stake for $2.1 billion. The additional investment will be for $1.35 billion. Honda Motor Co. is also a

SHANGHAI — Mercedes-Benz Group said on Friday it opened a research and development center in Shanghai that will focus on mobility technology. The center, its second R&D site in China, will work in tech fields such as connectivity, automated driving and big data, the company said in a statement. Mercedes-Benz did not elaborate on the

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple Holdings Inc., backed by Chinese social media firm Sina Corp., is looking to sell its business in China and focus on the U.S. market, sources told Reuters. The decision comes after the startup reached an agreement with the U.S. government to restrict the China unit’s access to data due to U.S.

Lyft said on Wednesday riders in the United States, except those in New York City and Nevada, would have to pay an extra 55 cents for their commute as the ride-hailing company looks to cushion the impact of high gas prices on drivers. Companies hiring gig workers have started imposing these surcharges as drivers on

Miami’s sunny skies may soon be getting crowded. Supernal, Hyundai Motor Group’s air mobility division, inked a memorandum of understanding with the South Florida city on March 1 that lays the groundwork for the launch of flying taxis as early as 2028. The company and city leaders together intend to address regulatory and infrastructure needs

An Israeli startup says that by 2032, it will have batteries ready for mass production that can give an electric vehicle 100 miles of range in just two minutes of charging. StoreDot released the target this month as part of a road map outlining how the company expects its fast-charging battery tech to evolve over

Just weeks after starting to offer self-driving vehicle rides to the public in San Francisco, Cruise is preparing to quickly expand to other cities and other types of vehicles. “We get our early users to love the product and come back again and again,” Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said Thursday at the Morgan Stanley Technology,

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Thursday issued final rules eliminating the need for automated vehicle manufacturers to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls to meet crash standards. Automakers and tech companies have faced significant hurdles to deploying automated driving system vehicles without human controls because of safety standards written decades ago that assume

While Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. gives the ax to nearly a quarter of its headcount after the EV startup’s stock crash last month, it is padding the fall of its former top executives behind the turmoil. Chairman Jason Luo and CEO James Taylor were forced to resign their positions effective Feb. 1 after an

WASHINGTON — Startup technology firm Pony.ai agreed to issue a recall for some versions of its autonomous driving system software after an October crash in California, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. The recall covers three vehicles that have been repaired, the company told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency said on Tuesday this

DETROIT — Chevrolet’s electric Blazer crossover will become the brand’s first performance electric vehicle. Chevy teased the 2024 Blazer EV SS on Wednesday in a video that shows the Blazer charging before speeding down a road. The Blazer EV will debut this year and go on sale next spring, Chevy said. The Equinox EV and

While Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. gives the ax to nearly a quarter of its headcount after the EV startup’s stock crash last month, it is padding the fall of its former top executives behind the turmoil. Chairman Jason Luo and CEO James Taylor were forced to resign their positions effective Feb. 1 after an