Stellantis and Wayve have entered a strategic technology partnership that will see Stellantis integrate the Wayve AI Driver, Wayve’s automated driving intelligence, into the STLA AutoDrive platform, enabling hands-free, supervised Level 2++ driving in both urban and highway environments.

The collaboration marks a significant step forward in Stellantis’s strategy to deliver intuitive, safe and natural advanced driver‑assistance systems to customers, while building a flexible foundation that can evolve toward more advanced levels of automation over time.

The agreement builds on Stellantis’s recent strategic investment in Wayve and marks the next phase of collaboration between the companies, combining Wayve’s end‑to‑end AI driving intelligence with Stellantis’s advanced STLA AutoDrive platform, engineering expertise and manufacturing scale.

Continue reading Stellantis and Wayve partner on hands-free, supervised Level 2++ driving at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Passengers may be able to book self-driving taxi and bus-style vehicles later this year, following the opening of applications on May 22, 2026, for operators seeking to run self-driving mobility services across the UK.

This pilot scheme will enable firms, including UK self-driving technology company Wayve, to bring cutting-edge technology to UK roads, creating thousands of jobs and unlocking billions for the economy by 2035.

Services could enhance journeys by supporting greater freedom and independence for older and disabled people, as well as expanding travel options across both work and leisure, the UK government said.

Self-driving technology could transform roads, with human error currently contributing to 88% of collisions on UK roads, said the UK Department for Transport.

Continue reading Applications open for self-driving taxi and bus operators in the UK at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Although manufacturers undertake extensive technical evaluations, there is a lack of objective assessments from customers to ensure that their needs and expectations are incorporated into ADAS development. This information gap led e-mobility market research firm Uscale to conduct a large-scale study of user perspectives on ADAS.

At this year’s Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo Conference in Stuttgart, Uscale managing director Axel Sprenger will highlight key findings from the study, including usage patterns, satisfaction and trust, differences between vehicle segments and brands, and recommendations for developers.

AAVI asked Sprenger to give us a taste of what to expect during his presentation on June 25.

Continue reading SPEAKER INTERVIEW: Uscale managing director Axel Sprenger on the results of the company’s ADAS Satisfaction Study at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Everyone can show promising results in simulation, but regulators and cities are asking: does it actually work on public roads? Vehicle Tech Week sat down with Mircea Gradu ahead of his presentation on Day 2 of Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo Europe 2026 (June 23-25) on safe autonomous deployment to explore how a groundbreaking CAV AI research platform is solving critical industry, safety and infrastructure challenges, and why companies can’t afford to miss his presentation if they want to deploy intelligent vehicles

What’s one thing happening in the industry now that people can’t afford to ignore?

Continue reading SPEAKER INTERVIEW: Mircea Gradu, VP of vehicle engineering, Karma/chair of FISITA board at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

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.

UK-based developer of GNSS-enhancing software Focal Point Positioning has announced Precise+, a technology that it says delivers reliable high-precision positioning in tough environments where conventional carrier phase tracking fails.

Centimeter-level positioning depends on continuous carrier phase lock. When that lock is interrupted – a routine occurrence in dense cities, under tree cover and in multipath-heavy environments – receivers suffer cycle slips and force the system to reinitialize. For advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automated driving and robotics, these interruptions are the defining barrier to deployment at scale.

According to the company, Precise+ uses Focal Point’s Supercorrelation for precise global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning, improving performance in challenging environments: sub-meter performance in conditions where commercial receivers with live corrections deliver multimeter errors.

Continue reading Focal Point Positioning introduces Precise+ GNSS positioning technology at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Simulation software specialist rFpro has launched an engineering-grade digital twin of Japan’s Hakone Turnpike. The 15km toll road, which climbs through the forested mountains of Kanagawa Prefecture, is widely used by Japanese vehicle manufacturers for vehicle dynamics development. The model is commercially available and has already been adopted by a major Japanese OEM.

“Vehicle manufacturers are being asked to bring new models to market faster, at lower cost and with more variants than ever, and the only way to do that is to move more of their development work into simulation,” said Catherine Wood, head of content at rFpro.

Continue reading rFpro develops Japanese test route digital twin for virtual vehicle development at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Xpeng has announced that its first mass-produced robotaxi has rolled off the production line in Guangzhou, China.

The robotaxi, built on the Xpeng GX platform, is China’s first production-ready, pre-assembled robotaxi model developed entirely with in-house technologies and engineered to L4 autonomous driving standards. Powered by four self-developed Turing AI chips, it reportedly delivers an industry-leading, effective onboard computing power of 3,000 TOPS.

In January 2026, Xpeng secured a road-testing permit for intelligent connected vehicles in Guangzhou, formally entering routine L4 public road testing. In March, the company established its robotaxi business unit to oversee product definition, R&D testing and operations.

Continue reading First mass-produced Xpeng L4 robotaxi rolls off production line at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Recent analysis by Tech Insights indicates that demand for automotive ethernet is increasing significantly, with vehicle ethernet ports projected to reach 3.42 million sockets by 2032. However, fragmented strategies and regional differences may slow progress in standardization and deployment.

In summary, rising demand could contribute to higher development costs for next-generation vehicle systems, such as autonomous driving, if the industry does not converge on interoperable standards.

According to TechInsights’ Automotive Ethernet – Architecture Change Drives Growth report, adoption of automotive ethernet is expanding rapidly but remains uneven across original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and regions.

Continue reading Rapid adoption of automotive ethernet raises standardization and cost concerns at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative project at the Linux Foundation, has announced the initial availability of its open-source SoDeV reference platform. The project has also welcomed five new members: EMQ, Lineo Solutions, MediaTek, VA Linux Systems Japan and Very Good Ventures.

AGL SoDeV is an open-source reference platform for building software-defined vehicles. It combines the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) with Linux containers, VirtIO, the Xen hypervisor, Zephyr RTOS and other Linux Foundation projects in a single pre-integrated package that runs on automotive systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), on virtual machines or in the cloud. SoDeV enables auto makers and suppliers to decouple software development from hardware availability, accelerating SDV time-to-market.

Continue reading AGL releases initial SoDeV reference platform at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.