Can autonomous vehicles help shape the carbon emissions fight?
Policies to incentivise shared AVs are seen as ‘crucial’ and that disincentives be put in place to discourage single-passenger services
Trump pardons former Google self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski
Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months for stealing trade secret
Airbnb secures $1bn investment from Silver Lake, Sixth Street
Home rental company raises additional funds to help it weather the Covid-19 crisis
Volkswagen invests in Aeva self-driving vision start-up
Start-up claims it has invented new kind of sensor to detect light and range
Google co-founders quit as executives of Alphabet parent firm
Larry Page and Sergey Brin say they plan to stay active as board members and shareholders
Renault predicts electric car sharing is the future
Q&A: Renault’s executive vice president on elusive electric profits, the Nissan Alliance, and a hydrogen future
Ex-Google engineer indicted for stealing self-driving car secrets
Anthony Levandowski pleaded not guilty to the charges
Ford and VW not stalling on self-driving and electric vehicles
In an industry facing big changes both auto giants know future is about survive or die
Waymo to explore driverless services with Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi
But deal won’t extend to co-operation in producing robo-vehicles
Self-driving cars: Is the autonomous dream slipping away from us?
Ford and the PSA Group are the latest to back away from fully robotic vehicles
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Planet Business: Get to know vinyl lover Doug Putman and review the week in numbers
Alphabet shares dip as higher spending worries investors
Google’s parent company beat Wall Street’s estimates for revenue and profit
Toyota to invest $500m in Uber for self-driving cars
Both firms are widely seen as lagging competition in developing self-driving cars
Toyota to invest €850m in Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab
Toyota wants to offer data-based services to Grab drivers
Google cashes in if autonomous cars arrive
UBS bank predicts billions in revenue for Google if we all take up the robot car offer
Losses at the top of Tesla’s energy unit bring renewed focus on firm
Elon Musk is ready to reorganise top management team of electric car firm
Will autonomous cars make roads safer, or just make money?
The MobilityX conference in Dublin and Mayo will discuss the future for driverless cars, but some sceptics are questioning the hype behind autonomous vehicles
Uber apologises as company settles Waymo trade secrets lawsuit
New chief executive agrees to pay $245m to settle case brought by Google subsidiary
Web Summit moves on from Dublin roots as it matures in Lisbon
AI is hottest topic at fully-fledged international conference with 60,000 attendees
Web Summit: Google tests self-driving cars on public roads
Company did not say when it expected to roll out ride-hailing service on a greater scale
Alphabet’s driver-less car unit demands $1bn from Uber
Google owner has estimated damages in the case at about $1.9bn, which Uber disputes
Uber wins court appeal to push price-fixing case to arbitration
US appeal court decides that Uber can not be sued in court over passenger’s claim
‘Self-driving car’ actually controlled by man dressed up as a car seat
Tech blogs fooled by university ‘research project’ as a man pretended to be part of autonomous vehicle
Google’s EU fine drags down parent company’s profits 28%
Alphabet’s revenue boosted by robust demand for ads on mobile and YouTube
The car-driving robots are coming, but how quickly?
Technology for robotic cars already here, but next steps could be harder than we think
Apple gets go-ahead to test self-driving cars in California
Tech giant to trial autonomous vehicles as driverless transportation race heats up
Alphabet lawsuit against Uber cements end of uneasy marriage
Google’s corporate parent is suing Uber for theft of trade secrets
Uber accused of ‘calculated theft’ of Google’s self-driving car technology
Alphabet-owned company says former employee stole secrets before founding Uber’s self-driving truck brand
Google parent Alphabet profits below expectations
Company says it is broadening focus with growth in hardware, app sales and cloud
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