Uber et la start-up Pony.ai lancent des essais de voitures autonomes destinées au marché européen. Ce partenariat vise à explorer le potentiel des robotaxis sur le continent, une étape stratégique pour l’essor de la mobilité sans conducteur en Europe.

La singularité technologique de Wayve réside dans sa pile logicielle « AV2.0 », qui s’appuie sur un modèle d’IA généralisée end-to-end. Contrairement aux approches classiques (architecture « sense-plan-act »), l’algorithme de conduite autonome traite directement les données brutes des capteurs (caméras, radars, voire LiDAR) pour piloter le véhicule. Concrètement, cela permet à un robotaxi équipé du système Wayve d’apprendre à circuler dans des environnements urbains variés sans recourir systématiquement à des cartes HD ou à une phase d’entraînement longue et locale.

Stellantis et Microsoft annoncent une collaboration stratégique de cinq ans visant à accélérer la transformation numérique du groupe automobile. Co-développement de plus de 100 initiatives d’intelligence artificielle, renforcement de la cybersécurité, modernisation de l’infrastructure cloud avec un objectif de réduction de 60 % de l’empreinte des data centers d’ici 2029 : l’accord couvre l’ensemble de la chaîne de valeur du groupe, de l’ingénierie à l’expérience client.

 Nissan has unveiled its ambitious future product strategy, as detailed by automotive journalist Alisa Priddle, on April 14, 2026. This plan highlights a transformative approach for the company, focusing on enhancing its global  vehicle lineup with a greater emphasis on hybrid technology, reducing the number of models offered, and integrating advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions into its operations. These strategic shifts are designed to position Nissan favorably amid the evolving landscape of the automotive sector.

Trajectory prediction is critical for autonomous vehicles, allowing them to anticipate the future movements of other agents on the road to ensure safety and smooth navigation. Traditional methods operate under the assumption of zero latency—an idealized scenario where predictions are made instantaneously without delay. However, in practical autonomous driving systems, latency is unavoidable due to the time required for data sensing, processing, and prediction calculations. The conventional oversight of this latency leads to predictions that are already outdated the moment they are generated, resulting in reduced accuracy and potential safety risks.

Le 15 avril 2026, Le Journal de l’Automobile a remis le titre de Personnalité Automobile de l’Année 2025 au directeur général de Valeo. Cette cérémonie a rassemblé les grands acteurs de la filière à la Maison de la Chimie, à Paris, pour saluer le rôle central de Christophe Périllat dans la transformation de l’industrie européenne et son engagement en faveur d’une politique industrielle ambitieuse.

A year ago, MOIA America and Uber unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service — using autonomous versions of Volkswagen’s electric ID. Buzz minivan — in multiple U.S. cities over the next decade. Los Angeles is the first city on that list.
Testing will start in the next few weeks with about 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles in Los Angeles, according to the company. The production version of the driverless vehicle seats four people.

While humans are responsible for killing animals with their cars all the time, this incident has brought negative attention to the new technology. Local media picked up on the duck incident after a resident posted in a Mueller neighborhood Facebook group that an Avride autonomous vehicle (with a human safety operator behind the wheel) ran over and killed a duck, and did not stop afterwards. “It didn’t slow down or hesitate at all, just steamrolled through,” the post, which KXAN reported on, reads.

A "system failure" caused a robotaxi outage involving multiple vehicles operated by Baidu's Apollo Go ​in central Chinese city of Wuhan, local police said on Wednesday, ‌re-igniting safety concerns over the fast-growing service.
Police received reports late on Tuesday that numerous Apollo Go cars had stopped in the middle of roads and were unable to move, ​according to an official statement.

Depuis l’annonce de leur collaboration lors du GTC 2026, NVIDIA et Bolt ambitionnent de transformer la mobilité urbaine européenne. À travers ce partenariat, la société de VTC accède à une panoplie d’outils d’intelligence artificielle et de calcul haute performance signés NVIDIA. De son côté, le géant américain met la main sur un flux conséquent de données issues des trajets réalisés par les véhicules Bolt, un atout non négligeable pour faire progresser ses propres modèles.

Derrière ces avancées se dessine une nouvelle donne : celle d’une clientèle plus autonome, capable de résoudre ses problématiques sans solliciter systématiquement un interlocuteur humain. Selon les chiffres avancés par CaixaBank, cette évolution pourrait augmenter jusqu’à 40 % la fidélisation des clients et réduire de 28 % les abandons lors du processus d’achat. Ainsi, c’est tout le modèle du commerce qui se trouve réorienté vers davantage de personnalisation, d’efficacité et surtout, un recentrage permanent sur les véritables attentes du client.

I’m not exaggerating: “Robotic AI Radio” is the exact phrase Jensen used during GTC 2026. What we are witnessing is a fundamental rewiring of how the world computes, and this groundbreaking development was showcased alongside 120 different robots at GTC 2026 today. This deployment is the first fruit of the partnership between Nokia and NVIDIA for building their Aerial RAN product. It is a massive architectural shift that incorporates GPUs directly into the RAN (Radio Access Network) for two critical purposes: improving RF signal processing and, crucially, enabling physical AI inference right at the edge. Although we are really early in the game, it is abundantly clear that AI has left the central datacenters and training labs. It is now all about the physical world and inference, where telcos can play a big role.

Uber has already partnered with major players in the space, including Baidu, Amazon’s Zoox, Nissan and British startup Wayve, and said it will invest more than $100 million to develop autonomous vehicle charging hubs as the sector races to commercialize driverless mobility at scale.

Le constructeur fait le ménage dans ses comptes et acte son coup de frein dans le tout-électrique. Tout comme Ford ou General Motors avant lui… Le titre a plongé de 25% à la Bourse de Paris.

The technology physically separates the terminals (electricity) from the pressure relief channels (fire). In essence, the pathways that carry electricity are isolated from the routes designed to vent heat, flames and gases during a failure. The design is intended to manage thermal runaway, a dangerous chain reaction in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries where rising heat overwhelms the cooling system and can lead to fire. Keeping these two systems apart also blocks hot gases from spreading toward the passenger cabin in the event of a battery malfunction.

Chinese car companies make more vehicles than anyone else on Earth and export more as well. But high tariffs and hostile US-China trade relations have kept them out of the American market.
That’s likely to change, according to experts, with Chinese autos hitting US showrooms in the next five to 10 years.

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Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our uncompromising safety standards. Designed for long-term growth across multiple vehicle platforms, this system’s expanded capabilities allow us to safely broaden our footprint into more diverse environments, including those with extreme winter weather, at an even greater scale.

Waymo announces its sixth-generation autonomous driving technology will eliminate steering wheels and pedals entirely, deploying purpose-built robotaxis with Geely in a bold move that could reshape transportation economics and accelerate the driverless future.

In late January, an Alphabet-owned Waymo self-driving car was cruising near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, when a young child suddenly darted into the street. Waymo’s LiDAR sensors detected the student, who had just emerged from behind a parked SUV, but it was too late. Despite slamming on the brakes and slowing from 17 to six mph, the driverless car struck the child, knocking them to the pavement. Luckily, reports show that the child only suffered minor injuries, but that’s likely little comfort to parents whose children live in the growing number of cities where driverless cars operate.