As AI continues to expand beyond the digital world into real-world applications, AAVI recently sat down with AEye to discuss the growing role of perception in the era of physical AI, in an exclusive interview first published in the April 2026 issue

Please describe your company.
At AEye, our focus is simple – we give machines sight. Just as systems like ChatGPT unlocked the value of digital intelligence, physical AI depends on the ability to perceive and understand the real world. We’re building the technology that enables that – delivering ‘vision’ optimized for machines.

Continue reading INTERVIEW: Matt Fisch, chairman and CEO, AEye at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Lucid Motors explores the details behind robotaxi readiness, including the development of its autonomy-ready platform – built for autonomy first, humans second

Most vehicles are designed for human drivers and then adapted for autonomous use. Lucid Motors, through its planned next-generation robotaxi service with Uber Technologies and autonomy platform partner Nuro, reimagines mobility, enabling passengers to work, read or relax while the vehicle continuously processes real-time data and makes driving decisions en route to its destination.

The Lucid Gravity platform was engineered with critical systems such as steering and braking redundancy built into the architecture from the earliest stages.

Continue reading Inside Lucid’s autonomy-ready architecture for next-gen robotaxi operations at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

AAVI recently caught up with Xavier Banqué, strategic marketing manager at Trimble, to talk about the key trends driving location technologies, in a feature first published in the April 2026 issue.

Please can you introduce yourself to our readers?
Originally educated as a telecommunications engineer, I have a dual professional profile – covering both technical and business – resulting from a 20-year career that was focused on technical positions during the first decade before I transitioned to become a business strategist in the last 10 years, when I spearheaded a GNSS software company [Rokubun] as CEO and founder.

Continue reading INTERVIEW: Trimble discusses the key trends driving location technologies at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

AAVI catches up with Pony.ai’s founder and CTO, Tiancheng Lou, following the company’s recent launch of PonyWorld 2.0, the latest upgrade to its proprietary world model and a major advance in the core training system behind its autonomous driving stack.

After validating the unit economics of robotaxi operations in two major metropolitan markets in China with its seventh-generation robotaxi fleet, Pony.ai is keen to speed commercialization across China and beyond. It is targeting a fleet of more than 3,000 vehicles by the end of this year, with deployments spanning 20 cities globally. Nearly half of those cities will be in overseas markets.

Continue reading INTERVIEW: Tiancheng Lou, founder and CTO, Pony.ai on PonyWorld 2.0 at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Germany’s defense force has transformed testing efficiency using driverless solutions, redefining military vehicle testing

Durability testing in the defense industry

Durability testing is critical for ensuring defense vehicles remain operational in the harshest environments. Germany’s defense force, the Bundeswehr, conducts extensive durability tests on its vehicles at its Technical Centre for Land-Based Vehicle Systems (WTD 41) in Trier, Germany. Part of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), WTD 41’s job is to ensure Bundeswehr’s equipment is safe and fit for purpose.

The challenge

The nature of durability testing requires vehicles to be repeatedly driven over extreme surfaces, subjecting drivers to intense vibrations that can strain the entire body, particularly the spine, intervertebral discs and even internal organs.

Continue reading German military adopts driverless testing systems for safety evaluation at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Nitish Sanghi develops and deploys safety-critical perception and diagnostics for industrial autonomous vehicles. In this feature, he discusses the common issues that arise in autonomous vehicle systems, often found in real use cases, rather than in simulation or bench testing. These challenges highlight that while individual components may perform correctly in isolation, maintaining alignment and reliability across the full system under real-world conditions remains a critical hurdle

Why vehicle integration still surprises teams

A stack can look stable in replay and still brake late the first week it runs on a real vehicle. By then, most AV programs have already been through bench, simulation, and in-the-loop work, with production code running on real processors and parts of the vehicle brought into the loop.

Continue reading FEATURE: Integration failures that only appear on real vehicles at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

In this interview with Focal Point Positioning, Muhammad Nauman Nasir, ADAS lead at Mercedes-Benz, explains how cutting-edge vehicle autonomy balances innovation, safety and trust – emphasizing that in ADAS, every line of code carries both a moral and a technical responsibility.

ADAS technology sits at the intersection of innovation and safety-critical systems. How do you balance the push for cutting-edge features with the absolute necessity of reliability and safety?

In ADAS, innovation without safety is not ambition, it is irresponsibility. Every single line of code must be written with a human life in mind. That sounds like a constraint.

Continue reading FEATURE*: Muhammad Nauman Nasir of Mercedes-Benz on building safe, AI-driven, human-centered autonomous systems at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Having recently partnered with Holon to create a scalable pathway for organizations to introduce autonomous services into existing transportation systems, CharterUp founder and CEO Armir Harris caught up with AAVI to tell us more about how the partnership combines Holon’s autonomous technology and operational systems with CharterUp’s end-to-end software platform and deployment expertise. CharterUp will deploy Holon’s integrated autonomous mobility solution across its AI-enabled network, including campuses, airports, transit agencies and community environments.

Can you describe CharterUp’s current operation?

CharterUp manages the largest group transportation marketplace in North America, providing access to thousands of vehicles across all 50 states and Canada.

Continue reading INTERVIEW: Armir Harris, founder and CEO, CharterUp at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Vehicle software used to feel like a finish line: verify, sign off, ship. In modern fleets, that mindset breaks down. Deployment is where risk shows up, even after pre-release validation.

Hardware variants, uneven connectivity, partial installs and real-world edge cases turn rollout strategy into a safety variable. For advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) features, how a release is executed can matter as much as what is released. The point of staged rollout is simple: expansion decisions are based on measurable gates, not optimism.

The direction set by emerging standards

UN Regulation No. 156 requires manufacturers to operate a software update management system (SUMS).

Continue reading Staged rollouts become safety evidence at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

In this interview with Focal Point Positioning, Augustin Friedel, a software-defined vehicle expert and associated partner at MHP, shares a candid view of what it takes for incumbent OEMs to make the leap to software-led operating models, how to think about the path to a full software-defined vehicle (SDV), and what it will take to build customer trust as autonomy scales.

You guide OEMs through SDV transformation. What is the biggest organizational barrier you see when large, legacy companies move toward software-led models? 

Willingness and ability to change is the number one barrier, and it shows up in subtle but systematic ways.

Continue reading FEATURE*: Augustin Friedel on how OEMs can succeed in SDV/AV transformation at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.