Self-driving cars stories

Taxi Chaos 2 offers colourful, gadget-packed cab rides on Xbox Series X, but repetition and frustration stall its Crazy Taxi ambitions.

Software-defined vehicles have overtaken EVs and driver-assistance as carmakers' top priority, with zonal designs and cloud-led updates surging.

Tesla will scrap its USD $8,000 Full Self-Driving buy-out from 14 February, shifting the driver-assist system to USD $99-a-month only.

Seeing Machines debuts a unified 3D in-cabin sensing platform at CES 2026, mapping whole vehicle interiors with a single perception layer.

Siemens deepens Nvidia AI alliance and debuts digital twin tools, targeting an industrial metaverse and copilots across factory floors.

Elon Musk's xAI raises USD $20 billion, turbocharging Grok model training and GPU build-out as rivalry in frontier AI heats up.

Siemens launches PAVE360 Automotive, a cloud digital twin promising day-one virtual development for complex software-defined vehicles.

LG will debut its 'Affectionate Intelligence' AI car cabin at CES 2026, turning windscreens and windows into personalised media hubs.

AI, geopolitics and safety rules will force manufacturers to rethink factories, robotaxis and in-car screens by 2026, says Forrester.

CMC says AI, energy, robotics, defence and store-of-value trades will be the “Furious Five” megatrends steering markets into 2026.

AI supply chains will consolidate by 2026, with tight human oversight, integrated infrastructure and trust becoming key differentiators.

Seeing Machines secures USD $1.8m order to supply AI-driven Guardian Backup-driver Monitoring Systems for North American autonomous vehicle fleet expansion.

Seeing Machines has secured a USD $1.2 million deal to supply driver monitoring systems for a North American autonomous vehicle firm's test fleet expansion.

The global intelligent transport system market is forecast to grow from USD $41.7bn in 2024 to USD $124.8bn by 2035, driven by urbanisation and tech advances.

NVIDIA's next-generation in-vehicle computing platform, DRIVE Thor, is being adopted by major companies to transform transport, ranging from cars to autonomous delivery vehicles.

AI-driven trends spearhead seismic shifts in the security industry, with AI-led video technology redefining the landscape, moving beyond passive observation to proactive solutions by 2024.

Pure Storage enhances its AI storage offering and continues to support global AI deployments with reliable access to data and streamlined infrastructure.

The autonomous vehicle market is booming, with 745,705 units expected by 2023, up from 137,129 in 2018, mainly in North America, China, and Europe.

The UK is spearheading global standards for high-definition mapping crucial for the safe deployment of self-driving vehicles, aiming for wide-scale use by 2030.

Volvo and Uber lift the curtain on a self-driving Volvo XC90, marking a significant milestone in their quest to revolutionise autonomous ridesharing.