China's rising EV brands are a key market for automotive technology makers as they race each other to launch more automated driving functions

The smartphone giant’s chief Lei Jun said the company was aiming to become 'one of the world's top five automakers'

Earlier this month, BMW Group said it had received a test license for L3 self-driving on high-speed roads in Shanghai

Some Congress members say they are worried about how Beijing might use a fleet of robot cars in an armed conflict with the United States

Wang Weibao, who was indicted by the US this week for stealing sensitive technology, stole “the entirety of Apple’s 'autonomous' source code”

The indictment was part of five cases centred on allegations concerning the theft of trade secrets and other technology, of which two others relate to China

One of the proposed rules is aimed at pushing carmakers to use domestic cloud services by banning smart cars in the country from transferring data directly abroad

Pony.ai started driverless testing in Guangzhou in June 2021 and has accumulated nearly 200,000 fee-charging robotaxi orders globally as of this month

Tesla’s Autopilot team set out to engineer and record a “demonstration of the system’s capabilities” at the request of Musk, a senior engineer said

The Afeela EV demonstrates how automakers are increasingly focussing on the in-car cockpit experience, which presents greater monetisation opportunities

Nvidia said its technology, which includes chips to process information from sensors in real time, will help Foxconn overcome challenges in ramping up automobile production

The test flight of the Avic AR-500BJ near Qingdao suggests small autonomous helicopters could operate over the ocean