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Digital Trends sat down with Henrik Fisker to detail his plans for an autonomous electric shuttle bus, a mass-produced affordable EV, the new Fisker E-Motion luxury sports EV, and his patented new battery design. We also asked about the lessons he’s learned and how they shaped his new plan.

If you’ve ever seen a semi-truck crash, you know it’s bad. Even highly trained drivers have to manage unpredictable traffic and weather conditions while piloting an 80,000-pound rig. Here’s how lidar technology companies are helping make trucking safer today with the human driver as a partner.

Ridesharing is changing the way people around the world build their cities, design their cars, and choose to get around. As people choose shared rides, automakers will design their cars to accommodate new uses. Ridesharing is also driving advancements in autonomous and connected cars.

General Motors and the Society of Automotive Engineers created the AutoDrive Challenge, and a team of mechanical engineering students from Virginia Tech overcame technical and human obstacles to create a basic autonomous car in one year. Over the next two years, they’ll build a true autonomous car.

Volvo's recently-inaugurated tech fund has made its first investment. It backed an American company named Luminar that specializes in hardware and software for autonomous cars. Its Lidar helps cars see faster, and its annotating platform lets them better understand the data processed by on-board sensors.

Mobileye recently announced debuted a new fleet of prototype vehicles that would be able to make their way through cities and across streets without using lasers or radars. Unfortunately, at a press event in Jerusalem meant to show off the capabilities, a test car drove straight through a red light.

Uber has been conducting an investigation into its fatal March self-driving car crash, and now, a new report suggests that the self-driving car may have in fact seen the pedestrian crossing the street, but then decided against taking evasive measures. Uber has not commented further on these reports.

If you're in Vegas, you may want to pass taking a spin on the roulette wheel, but instead try out some self-driving wheels. As part of its partnership with ride-hailing giant Lyft, Aptiv has launched a fleet of 30 autonomous vehicles in Sin City, and they're now available for your commuting convenience.

Autonomous snowplows are clearing an airport runway in Norway, helping it stay open in adverse conditions while improving efficiency for the airport operator.

Toyota has suspended public tests of its autonomous cars, citing the emotional toll Sunday's fatal Uber accident may have had on its own test drivers.

Uber is in the process of negotiating a deal with Toyota in order to install a self-driving system in one of the company's minivans.

Meet the SnowBot Pro from Left Hand Robotics, a commercial-class, self-driving robot whose sole purpose is to clear the snow so you don't have to.

California's DMV granted Apple an autonomous vehicle testing permit last year, and now, it's expanding its fleet.

What's the difference between a car and a chair? In the future, not much, if General Motors has its way. Meet the Cruise AV.

Ford and Postmates will partner up to expand the latter's on-demand delivery of goods with the help of Ford's fleet of self-driving cars.

At CES 2018, TomTom and Zenuity announced its intentions to join forces on end-to-end autonomous driving system software

This week, Ford announced plans to move its self-driving and electric vehicle units to its hometown of Detroit.

Lyft joins a growing list of companies who have the green light to test autonomous automobile technology in California.

Uber is renewing its commitment to self-driving technology with the purchase of 24,000 sport utilities from Volvo.

The Las Vegas self-driving shuttle bus didn’t crash. It did exactly what it should have done. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement.

Autonomous introduced the SmartDesk 3, a desk that rises to the occasion when you need to eat, stay hydrated, or call an Uber.