Hesai Technology has announced it will supply automotive lidar solutions for more than 10 BYD models expected to enter mass production in 2025.

BYD sold over four million intelligent vehicles last year, surpassing all domestic competitors, and has now announced that all its models will be equipped with God’s Eye – BYD’s next-generation advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), ensuring that ADAS features are accessible to everyone. As an integral component in vehicles featuring navigation on autopilot (NOA) for cities and highways, lidar will empower two God’s Eye system variants.

According to Chinese automotive news site Gasgoo, the automotive lidar market in the country continues to see strong growth, with the (on-the-road) lidar installation volume exceeding 1.5 million units for the first time in 2024, more than double the volume in 2023.

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May Mobility announced the launch of its commercial driverless autonomous transportation service in the City of Peachtree Corners, a suburb of Atlanta. This marks May Mobility’s third driverless deployment in USA, following successful deployments in Sun City, Arizona, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The deployment comes as a result of a partnership with Curiosity Lab, T-Mobile and the City of Peachtree Corners. May Mobility has been offering public rides in its Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS to visitors of Peachtree Corner’s Curiosity Lab, one of the USA’s first smart city environments powered by connected infrastructure and T-Mobile’s 5G, since September 2024 with safety drivers in place.

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Cognizant has announced a new partnership with Elektrobit for the integration of Elektrobit’s Software Development Kit (SDK) for EB corbos AdaptiveCore into Cognizant’s software-defined vehicle (SDV) solution accelerator.

This enhanced accelerator, featuring Elektrobit’s proven Adaptive AUTOSAR solution, aims to help OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers create scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient SDV architectures.

Cognizant’s SDV solution accelerator is built with Gen AI-led productivity elements, and helps speed up development and testing, improve quality and reduce development costs. It does this by integrating signal-based and service-oriented applications into modern electrical/electronic (EE) architecture, including vehicle computers and zonal controllers.

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Aurrigo International has introduced new software to help airports overcome the challenge of operating autonomous vehicles in intense wet weather and snow. The new rainfall algorithm helps to identify the difference between drops of rain and objects while operating in up to 50mm of precipitation per hour.

Alongside new housing to protect lidar sensors, the software breakthrough means the firm’s Auto-DollyTug can safely and effectively move baggage and cargo around airports in intense weather conditions that would have prevented manual operation.

The new software has been successfully tested in both scheduled simulated rain and opportunistic heavy rainfall, both proved by observation and by rain meter readings.

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Fusion Processing has unveiled the first Alexander Dennis Enviro100AEV autonomous electric bus, equipped with Fusion’s CAVstar automated drive system.

This is part of the Innovate UK-backed Connector project, led by the Greater Cambridge Partnership and supported by a consortium that includes Fusion Processing, Alexander Dennis, IPG Automotive, dRisk, and Gamma Energy. The project receives funding and guidance from the UK government’s Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV).

The new autonomous electric bus was revealed at an event held at Alexander Dennis’s technology hub in Farnborough. It will soon undergo track-based testing to calibrate the CAVstar system, which provides the vehicle with fully autonomous capabilities.

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Qorix and Qualcomm Technologies have announced that they will cooperate to advance the development of SDVs (software-defined vehicles). The companies aim to provide high-performance, pre-integrated, scalable solutions to enable OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to develop next-generation vehicles quickly and efficiently.

Qorix’s middleware will be integrated into Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis platforms, which includes the Snapdragon Ride Platform and Snapdragon Cockpit Platform. Both solutions will also be available separately.

Addressing SDV challenges

The collaboration between Qorix and Qualcomm Technologies is focused on addressing integration challenges in system development. The integration of Qorix’s middleware into the Snapdragon Cockpit and Snapdragon Ride platforms aims to enable high-performance, scalable solutions for advanced applications.

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Foretellix is collaborating with MathWorks to help develop Mazda’s next generation of AD/ADAS. The partnership will integrate Foretellix’s Foretify platform with Simulink and MathWorks’ Automated Driving Toolbox, enabling Mazda engineers to generate, execute and analyze large-scale scenarios in a virtual environment.

The Foretellix and MathWorks technology stack enables Mazda to move real-world driving data into virtual simulation to test and scale scenarios. This combination helps engineering teams identify edge cases and gaps in coverage, and validate performance much earlier in the development process. As a result, time-to-market can be accelerated and system quality and safety improved.

Yasuhide Yano, deputy general manager of the integrated control systems development division at Mazda, said, “By using Foretify, Simulink and Automated Driving Toolbox, efficient and exhaustive verification can be performed in a virtual environment to achieve our goals in a short period of time.

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Stellantis and Mistral AI are strengthening their collaboration to integrate AI across multiple areas, from vehicle engineering to in-car experiences. This partnership leverages Mistral AI’s expertise in large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven automation to bring AI to many systems and applications across Stellantis.

Introducing In-Car Experience with AI

The latest initiative under this partnership is an advanced in-car assistant, designed to provide conversational support for drivers. The assistant functions as a real-time, voice-enabled user manual. Customers will be able to ask questions to receive immediate guidance through a natural, conversational interaction. It will be continuously updated and adaptable to Stellantis brands and models.

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WeRide’s new Robovan W5 is an unmanned delivery solution featuring Level 4 autonomous driving technology, providing a system that operates 24/7 in all weather conditions and scenarios.

The Robovan W5 offers long-distance and bulk delivery capabilities with a rapid deployment system integrating vehicle, cloud and operations. It also addresses key challenges in the logistics industry, particularly in express delivery, urban distribution and various point-to-point logistics, with an advanced unmanned delivery solution.

Level 4 autonomous driving

The Robovan W5 benefits from WeRide’s track record of 1,900 days of autonomous operations and nearly 40,000,000km of autonomous driving on public roads.

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Integrity Security Services (ISS) has announced that it has joined the 5GAA to advance the development of an interoperable security solution for connected vehicle technology. This move will enhance driver safety, support emergency response and streamline traffic flows.

5GAA bridges the automotive and telecommunication industries to address society’s connected mobility needs, bringing inclusive access to smarter, safer and environmentally sustainable services and solutions that can be integrated into intelligent road transportation and traffic management. It unites more than 110 members globally to work on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.

David Sequino, co-founder and CEO of ISS, said, “Providing our market-leading technology and real-world know-how will be indispensable to drive security standards that work across the industry, and we are happy to share our expertise with global auto OEMs and IOOs.

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