BMW said data gathered from a car's onboard sensors will be combined with remote information, for example about weather and traffic, using next generation mobile networks, also known as 5G. Any autonomous cars will rival the ones being developed by …
In fact, most of the world's major auto companies established research and development labs of one sort or another in the Bay Area. BMW and Volkswagen set up shop there in 1998, General Motors in 2006, Toyota and Ford in 2012, Renault-Nissan in 2013.
Mercedes AMG wants to tackle autonomous vehicles in the future, Range Rover wants to throw another SUV in the mix, and Audi’s sportier SUV, the SQ7 is on the way! Plus, Lexus is putting an…
While my esteemed colleague, Douglas Main, was busy debriefing the head of Mercedes Benz about its futuristic F015 prototype, I had but one burning question to ask Daniel, an earnest young German schooling me on Audi's self-driving automobiles at CES …
An Audi RS7 performance car reached 140 miles per hour on a racetrack Sunday — with no one behind the wheel. The RS7 Piloted Driving Concept successfully lapped the Hockenheimring racetrack in Germany at high speeds using only computers and …
Audi will continue the work it started there Sunday, demonstrating a car that can take over and do some of the most boring driving for you. They're taking their Audi Connect prototype back into a simulated traffic jam, challenging the car's 22 cameras …
Instead, a traffic jam will be re-created with several other vehicles to test the automated car's sensor capabilities. Plus, the driverless car is unable to direct itself at speeds greater than 40 mph, said Bradley Stertz, a communications manager for …