Driver assistance and automated driving seen from the software and platform side rather than the showroom. Coverage follows perception and planning stacks, the compute they run on, validation and safety argumentation, and the approval routes that decide whether an automated system may be sold.
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The first mass-production units of the jointly developed T9 autonomous heavy truck came off the line at GAC Lingcheng's Conghua plant six weeks after its Hannover premiere, according to a report relaying the manufacturer's own channel.
Gasgoo reported that Zhuoyu Technology launched a commercial-vehicle brand called Panxing in Zhuhai, carrying a driving model trained on passenger-car data into trucks, buses and vans, with partnerships at seven Chinese manufacturers at varying stages.
Mobileye disclosed design wins with two unnamed Asian automakers for its front-camera-plus-cloud driver-assistance product, and said a Stellantis nomination covering US vehicles had been extended to European platforms.
Rivian's third-quarter filing dated its address-to-address supervised driving feature to an invitation-only program this year and a general release in 2027, as software and services revenue grew 45 percent to $605 million.
Edge Case said it had completed the first phase of what it described as an independent assessment of May Mobility's driverless safety case framework, and both companies published that May Mobility is acting on recommendations including formalizing its release decisions so independent assessment becomes a critical step in driverless deployment.
Aurora Innovation disclosed in its third-quarter shareholder letter that the Aurora Driver can now decide for itself whether a weigh station is open and navigate to a scale lane, while conceding that truck production is running about six weeks behind plan.
Kodiak AI announced a definitive agreement with the California long-haul carrier DTL Transport to deploy the Kodiak Driver in 75 driverless trucks that DTL will own and operate, paying a per-mile fee for the autonomous driving system.
NHTSA will hold a workshop on December 10 and keep a docket open until April 2027 on how changes to ride height, bumper geometry, body panels and wheel offset affect the calibration of driver assistance systems.
At its first Tech Day in Hefei, Volkswagen Group China unveiled VEGA, an in-house stack joining vehicle platforms, electronic architecture and driver assistance, and said its own AI toolchain had cut software feature testing from up to three days to two or three hours.
WeRide told the Hong Kong exchange that outside investors will put RMB70 million into Zhejiang Jingshuo Data Technology and that, once the deal completes and an employee scheme is fully utilized, its holding will fall from 100 percent to about 67.63 percent.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation filed into NHTSA's FMVSS No. 108 docket asking the agency to move the comment deadline from November 25 to December 10, arguing a 30-day window cannot cover lighting rules written for vehicles with no driver.
The Ningbo supplier's third-quarter report put nine-month new design wins at about RMB 61.5 billion in forecast lifetime value, and said price rises in memory chips and other electronic components added about RMB 370 million to raw-material cost against budget.
BMW Group and its Swiss software supplier Embotech said their Automated Driving In-Plant system has now guided one million vehicles across four plants, with Embotech describing a deterministic safety architecture certified by TUV SUD and kept separate from the AI stack.
The Japanese mapping company said it had entered Toshiba's open innovation program and begun a feasibility study on tying objects detected by roadside lidar to positions on its high-definition map.
A release dated October 26 reported the United Nations working party on automated vehicles expects to complete the guidance and interpretation document for the automated driving systems regulation in mid-January.
The non-binding memorandum would have the carrier own the trucks and pay for the autonomous driving software as a service, a structure Aurora called critical to its 2030 scaling plan.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation filed on the closing day of the comment period, saying the agency's planned research report could function as de facto guidance without notice and comment.
The group said the license allows compliant road testing and large-scale data collection in the Anhui city, and described it as a step toward Level 3 technology readiness in 2027.
The transport ministry said the doctrine would rest on step-by-step validation under the national vehicle reception centre, and that France intends to host projects that keep control of software functions and data in Europe.
The agency proposed an optional cyan lamp to identify a vehicle operating under an automated driving system, and would limit manual turn signal, hazard and beam-switching control requirements to vehicles that still have driving controls.
The three companies announced a France-based collaboration at a government forum in Paris, putting Wayve's driving software on NVIDIA's safety operating system and compute architecture inside Stellantis vehicle platforms.
The supplier said the SUV, which went on sale on October 23, is the first Dongfeng own-brand model to carry its R7 world model, active when the car is handed over and upgraded afterwards over the air.
Mobileye said it had received a TÜV SÜD inspection certificate confirming that its automatic emergency braking development process conforms with ISO 21448, the standard covering hazards that arise when a system performs as designed.
Expanding its work with NVIDIA, Aptiv framed the result as a thermal and cost claim rather than a capability one: supporting advanced AI models while relying exclusively on air cooling, which it called an industry first for Thor-based computing platforms.
Tesla's third-quarter update, filed with the SEC as an exhibit to a current report, put active Full Self-Driving subscriptions at 1.74 million against 1.04 million a year earlier, in the same table that recorded a 2 percent year-on-year fall in deliveries.
Opening the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing, a vice-minister of China's industry ministry said the mandatory national standards on autonomous driving now have to be implemented and that work on key standards for operation monitoring and data security would be accelerated.
Three days after announcing the system in the abstract, Mercedes-Benz said MB.DRIVE ASSIST PRO will be orderable in Germany from the first half of 2027, reachable by over-the-air update for existing cars, and portable across the EU on the strength of a UNECE regulation for driver control assistance systems.
The Japanese trunk-haulage developer said September runs took a truck automatically between two expressway-side hubs and the toll gates serving them, and that a worker dispatched it from a phone.
MLIT and NASVA said the 2026 assessment year introduces a collision-mitigation braking scenario drawn from intersection accidents and an emergency-call tier covering rear-seat occupants, and published Suzuki's e Vitara as the first model scored under it.
The quarterly letter to shareholders put a full-year figure on OnStar and Super Cruise revenue that appears in neither the Form 8-K nor the Form 10-Q filed the same day.
Daimler Buses said a new electronic architecture reaching Mercedes-Benz and Setra coaches from 2027 will carry remote software updates on selected control units, with the fleet operator deciding when and on which vehicles each update installs.
Huawei's carved-out smart-car unit signed a strategic agreement with CATL and Shidai Dianfu to interconnect the Qiankun assisted-driving stack with CATL's battery swap network at vehicle, station and cloud level.
Two of the five mandatory national standards China opened for comment cover parking automation, replacing a voluntary performance standard and adding a new one built around a documented safety case.
Scania inaugurated a SEK 975 million research and development proving ground in Södertälje that it said lets TRATON engineers build and escalate autonomous-driving and active-safety scenarios that previously needed external test facilities.
Twelve comments arrived on the deadline for NHTSA's ten-year rating roadmap, among them the main manufacturer trade body, three carmakers, a driver-monitoring supplier and Consumer Reports.
The two companies said they would jointly develop the next generation of driver assistance and automated driving, putting NVIDIA's compute and sensor architecture, full-stack driving software and parallel safety stack alongside the Mercedes operating system.
MIIT and three sister ministries spent October 15 explaining their draft test-validation rule to more than thirty key manufacturers, reporting problems found in earlier inspections, and setting out four requirements, one of them a code for how innovative designs may be marketed.
Nissan named the validation of centralized monitoring as a key aspect of this year's pilot, with Level 2 automated vehicles in both Kobe and Yokohama watched in real time from one control room in Yokohama.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety both filed against NHTSA's proposed ten-year roadmap for its crash-rating program, with the comment period closing on October 16.
A petition docketed on October 13 seeks the full five-year exemption from the federal rear-vision mirror rule so a camera monitor system can be fitted in place of exterior mirrors.
The registration statement behind PlusAI's $800 million Nasdaq listing stated substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern, and set out what TRATON received for its $25 million.
The French supplier and a Franco-German non-profit research lab said they would jointly train one driving model and release its code, trained weights and datasets as open source.
The agency's Office of Defects Investigation said it would evaluate a petition alleging that the automated driving system in about 1,000 Model Y and Cybercab robotaxis exceeds posted limits in active school zones.
The Korean perception-software company told the exchange that none of the 3.21 billion won is confirmed until Aptiv accepts each of five milestones, the fourth of which turns on hitting target KPIs within a compute budget.
Euro NCAP's October round scored three cars under its 2026 protocols and marked the X9 down to 20 percent on driving controls, while its speed assistance system fell below the threshold for being scored at all.
The European Commission said on October 12 that it had approved Samsung subsidiary Harman's acquisition of ZF Capri, the €1.5 billion carve-out of ZF's passenger-car ADAS unit, in a decision dated three days earlier.
The second year of an automated bus program in Ena City will test traffic-signal data feeding vehicle control, and whether a single monitoring center can cover several municipalities at lower cost.
The intelligent-connected-vehicle subcommittee put out a guidance document that would make the vehicle manufacturer prove its simulation toolchain is credible before leaning on it for validation.
The two companies demonstrated hands-free supervised driving in two unrelated vehicle platforms, and said each integration reached public roads in under four weeks.
A merger registration statement published the agreement under which the truck group bought Plus Automation's autonomy data, tools and models, with a perpetual license that bars it from on-road Level 4 use.
Four ministries opened comment on a joint notice that would put innovative-design and test-validation evidence inside China's vehicle product filings, and bar makers from accepting a supplier's own validation report for safety-critical software.
Kodiak AI and the cross-border carrier Charger USA are hauling refrigerated and dry freight with the Kodiak Driver between Dallas and Laredo, still with a safety driver, pending completion of Kodiak's long-haul safety case.
China's largest commercial-vehicle maker signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Zhuoyu Technology, backed by FAW Group, covering heavy-truck navigation assist, driverless logistics vans and a market-access pilot for Level 3 and Level 4 vehicles.
Waymo said a syndicate led by PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street had closed a $5 billion term loan, adding borrowing to the $16 billion of equity it raised earlier in 2026.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration granted Aurora Operations, and any other carrier running Level 4 trucks that notifies it first, a five-year exemption from the stopped-vehicle warning rules it had denied in 2024.
Zoox's third operational authorization under its federal exemption opened an operating area in Hayward, California, and re-based its defined terms on the September 2026 revision of SAE J3016.
The agency filed notice of a December automated-driving workshop covering the status of its guidance documents and its FMVSS modernization work, and said that session alone will go unrecorded.
A comment letter posted to a NHTSA docket on October 2 mapped the consortium's best practices onto the agency's planned guidance topics, and asked it to treat remote assistance and remote driving as distinct functions.
The transport ministry's research institute asked for partners to write service and requirements definitions for next-generation ITS services deployable in the 2030s, built on a new on-board unit improved from the ETC 2.0 device and required to work with a smartphone.
Valeo said it would act as lead system integrator for Nissan's next-generation ProPILOT and would integrate Wayve's AI Driver as the driving intelligence layer on its own sensors, domain controller and software.
Autoware's main developer said it had joined Arm Total Design for Physical AI, aiming to make the open-source driving stack available in ready-to-use configurations from Arm SoCs up to in-vehicle computers.
MIIT put 29 recommended national standard projects out for comment, headed by one covering cybersecurity requirements and test methods for the connected-vehicle supply chain, and including an identical adoption of ISO 34505.
The transport ministry added drowsiness and distraction warning requirements under UN R182 and R183 to the Safety Regulations for Road Vehicles, applying to new types from September 2031.
At its Capital Market Day the group said the zonal electrical and electronics infrastructure introduced with the Neue Klasse would be used across all vehicle segments, and dated navigation-guided assisted driving in Germany to next year.
A Shanghai-listed Chinese vehicle company is taking over 265 pieces of test equipment and three unfinished calibration and update-test facilities from Zeekr's research arm, in a related-party deal.
A Korean regulatory filing put a three-year minimum of 202.8 billion won on cloud capacity supplied to Hyundai Motor Group's autonomous-driving company, in a deal neither party announced.
A design win reported in August without its software layer now has one: the camera module going into a German carmaker's global platform runs QNX OS for Safety 8.0, and the stated export markets have changed.
An amendment to the recommended road-test standard would rewrite how test personnel behave and what counts as a pass, so that the test method stops contradicting the mandatory automated-driving safety standard taking effect in July 2027.
A proposal put to the World Forum's general safety working party in Geneva would make the event data recorder capture automatic emergency braking interventions and log drowsiness warnings issued up to an hour before a crash.
Shenlong Automobile Technology signed a global agreement with Momenta covering assisted driving, Level 3 development and cockpit and E/E integration, for models it plans to sell in Europe from 2027.
A convening of more than thirty commercial-vehicle and motorcycle makers extended an existing production-conformity campaign to component suppliers and testing bodies, with supervisory inspections and public naming to follow.
The company published the software, simulator and design information for an autonomous racing kart to a public repository, after the package served as the common platform in this year's JSAE competition.
The company's updated safety analysis covers fully autonomous operation through the end of June across five metropolitan areas, and rests its opening figure on an estimate with a stated assumption.
A rewrite of the national standard for commercial-vehicle lane keeping went out for comment with a new normative annex that turns architecture descriptions, signal priorities and software version numbers into deliverables to a test house.
An approval draft out for public comment would require nineteen vehicle functions, including the control that activates combined driving assistance, to exist as physical controls wired independently of the centre display.
The regulator is examining five crashes involving aftermarket driving-automation devices from comma.ai, two of them fatal, and said it will also consider incidents involving modified versions of the open-source software built by others.
Dongfeng launched the Voyah Dream 9 with what it calls a full-domain L3-grade architecture on every trim, carrying Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5 driving system and the HarmonySpace 6 cockpit rather than offering them as options.
A transport ministry release said its delegation had visited the Beijing Yizhuang demonstration zone and planned to draw on the operating framework and safety-management practice it saw there when shaping domestic automated-driving policy.
A pre-award notice from China's standards administration lists a Tianjin pilot for automotive intelligent-driving underlying support, to be run by the state test house that calls itself the country's first national intelligent and connected vehicle center.
The two companies said they had signed a definitive production agreement to integrate Wayve's driving system into future Mercedes-Benz vehicles within two years, running on the carmaker's own hardware, operating system and map interfaces.
General Motors introduced an all-new user interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, built on what it called a single scalable foundation spanning electric, gas and diesel vehicles.
A filing put the pre-money equity value at about $800 million and disclosed that the developer platform, not the driving system, has generated the company's $25 million in revenue.
The group said its data-collection-to-retraining pipeline is now in full operation, and set 2028 and 2029 production dates for two systems built on different silicon.
The supplier said a major Chinese carmaker had placed a series order for a brake system that runs electronically from the pedal through to its fallback level.
Nine ministries published the 2026-2030 plan for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, listing operating systems and industrial software among the technologies the country has yet to master.
The Japanese company released a camera-only driving model as open source and said its code, training and in-vehicle optimization were carried out by an AI development loop rather than by engineers.
The company put a figure on how much of its safety argument for driverless highway trucking is finished, and reaffirmed a commercial launch by the end of the year.
An automotive group the companies described only as one of the world's largest selected Hirain Technologies' imaging radar, built on Arbe's chipset, for an automated driving program covering several brands in China.
The transport ministry published the participants selected to run this financial year's demonstrations of the Autoflow Road, a dedicated lane for unmanned automated freight.
Japan's trade ministry picked the company for a large-scale demonstration grant to adapt its open-source driving stack to Saudi Arabian conditions for autonomous buses.
The regulator said it will examine the technical data and processes behind Tesla's self-certification that a vehicle without traditional human controls meets every applicable federal safety standard.
Uber passengers in London can now be matched with a car driven by Wayve's software, with a licensed driver on board to oversee the trip, in the first autonomous ride-hailing service offered in the United Kingdom.
The vision-chip supplier reported quarterly revenue of $108.1 million, up 13.2 percent from a year earlier, and named its 5nm AI chips as the source of the growth without publishing an automotive split.
NTT Mobility and Aioi Nissay Dowa will compare an automated vehicle's own driving data against the insurer's telematics records to build safety-evaluation methods for automated services.
The Chinese chip supplier said cumulative volume production of its Journey chips reached 15 million units, and separately that a single air-cooled part now brings urban navigation assistance to combustion cars.
The rating body published results for four models on September 2, scoring assisted-driving software, driver monitoring and the design of cabin controls alongside crash performance.
The steering supplier's interim report disclosed two steer-by-wire program launches, one in China that it says is the world's first full system launch certified to the highest automotive safety integrity level.
The California software company and the Saudi state-backed AI firm HUMAIN said they would put thousands of autonomous trucks on Saudi logistics corridors by 2030, running Applied Intuition's driving stack.
The Chinese driving-software supplier earned 62 percent of its first-half revenue from engineering contracts and the rest from per-vehicle licence fees, at a gross margin above 73 percent.
Licence and service income again passed chip-and-module revenue as the Chinese driver-assistance supplier sold more algorithms and intellectual property than hardware.
The carmaker's interim report recorded a 6.5 percent decline in research spending, alongside a described architecture change that consolidates cockpit, driving and electric-drive computing.
The revised Road Traffic Safety Law went out for public comment on August 28 with an official explanation that requires makers and importers of autonomous vehicles to guarantee network and data security, and bars exaggerated claims about self-driving functions.
The agency extended the comment period on both its autonomous-vehicle framework guidance and its rewritten Part 555 exemption rule to September 30, after the main US automaker association asked for more time.
A Hong Kong filing disclosed that seven investors, including a wholly owned Horizon Robotics subsidiary, will put 240 million yuan into the physical-AI and unmanned logistics venture Minieye set up this year.
SAMR approved a revised mandatory standard on vehicle dimensions that carves out sensing and communication hardware, removing a packaging constraint that has shaped where perception components can sit on a vehicle.
Bethel, Tuopu and Huayu each reported brake- or steer-by-wire systems reaching mass production in interim results disclosed on August 28, in a shift Bethel attributed to two national standards that took effect this year.
BMW Group said every new active safety, automated driving and parking function arriving with the Neue Klasse runs on one water-cooled computer carrying roughly 20 times the processing power of the outgoing system.
The agency asked OMB to approve an eye-tracked, on-road study of production cockpit interfaces, and said its own design guidance predates large screens, gesture input and in-vehicle commerce.
At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai gave dates for its software and autonomy programs, including a 100-megawatt training data centre due online from 2029.
Waymo set out in its own words the ten decisions behind the Waymo Driver, and used them to reject both camera-only sensing and pure end-to-end neural driving.
The Series D, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, came with delivery figures Gatik has not published before.
The Ningbo supplier's interim report records wins with European, Japanese and Korean carmakers for assisted driving, cockpit and automated-driving data recorder systems, while revenue fell 7.4 percent.
The agency asked for approval to run a study in Phoenix and Iowa City, saying no consensus method exists for testing drowsiness detection and that the European protocol leaves its own test conditions unspecified.
A vice minister tied recent quality and autonomous-driving incidents to aggressive designs fitted to vehicles without adequate testing, and set out a drafted five-year plan for intelligent connected new-energy vehicles.
A front-view camera module built on Horizon Robotics' Journey 6B took a design win across several models of a mainstream German group's global passenger-car platform, with production from 2027.
The Swedish driver-monitoring supplier reported 128 percent organic growth in its automotive business, with royalty revenue from cars already in production up more than 200 percent in the quarter.
A revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law given a first reading on August 25 adds a chapter that shifts enforcement to the manufacturer or importer when a violation happens with the autonomous function switched on.
Xiaomi was reported to have presented Xring D100, its first in-house smart-driving processor, at a chip briefing on August 24, with commercial use set for 2027.
Idaho National Laboratory is assessing whether Chinese-made lidar would create security risk if widely fitted to US vehicles, in a review reportedly funded by industry rather than government, according to TechCrunch.
Geely filed two recalls covering 92,915 cars whose lidar power chip may be damaged, and told the regulator it would find the affected vehicles by reading early diagnostic signals from its cloud platform.
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
Chinese outlets reported that GAC Aion showed a model built on what it calls a chip-level integrated drive-and-control architecture, with driving software it links to WeRide's automated driving stack.
The agency submitted a study design that would compare a carmaker's own interface head-to-head with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the same vehicles.
Seres Group's interim report disclosed what it paid Huawei's carved-out automotive unit in six months, in a half-year that turned a 2.94 billion yuan profit into a 1.72 billion yuan loss.
The company announced a certification it said makes virtual evidence from its toolchain usable toward UN R171 approval, without publishing a certificate number or the date the assessment finished.
The developer of the open-source Autoware stack said it is collaborating with Renesas to build an open computing platform spanning Level 2+ assistance through Level 4 automated driving.
The chipmaker disclosed that its entry-level driver-assistance processor has been designed into more than 50 models at over 25 carmakers, with Bosch, Denso and Aumovio building products on it.
The Swedish company said it will run 500 trucks built by another manufacturer through Saga AI, on the same morning its first results as a listed company disclosed driverless hours and planned distance.
A technical explainer set out how the company is validating the eyes-off driving system it plans to launch on the Cadillac Escalade IQ, disclosing for the first time how much simulated driving the program runs.
The three companies said their combined stack — Momenta's driving software, XHEART's X7 chip and QNX's safety operating system — has passed ISO 26262 ASIL D certification and is intended for vehicles sold under European driver-assistance rules.
A six-week Department for Transport consultation would write the UN regulation on driver control assistance, the widened automated lane keeping rules and the EU's new secure-diagnostics conditions into the British approval scheme.
The US sensing startup established Teradar GmbH in Wiesbaden as its European headquarters, and named updates to European regulation as the condition for vehicle integration from 2028.
Six weeks after Euro NCAP published the result, Qualcomm said the assistance stack it co-developed with BMW contributed to two of the four stages the 2026 protocol scores.
A notice that would drop two physical crash tests also pushes back the consumer rating system for driver-assistance technologies, which NHTSA attributed to resource constraints.
Cadillac and Momenta said the new XT5 PHEV would carry the R7 world model, the second vehicle program between the two after a battery-electric SUV.
The Gothenburg company said a major European automaker had selected its combined driver and occupant monitoring software for three models, moving the camera into the rear-view mirror.
CARIAD said HS8, developed with Horizon Robotics, was the Volkswagen Group's first in-house full-scenario Level 2++ driver assistance system for China, and is planned for seven new energy models this year.
The company said a formal safety clearance, combining quantified risk across autonomy, platform and operations, had to be met before any safety-relevant software release, hardware change or operations revision.
The autonomous driving company reported that revenue from the business it defines as driver-assistance research and development services grew almost twenty-seven times year over year, against a 47.3 percent increase in its Level 4 business.
A memo in the Engineering Analysis docket shows Tesla asked on August 5 for a partial extension of the August 12 deadline, and that the agency granted September 23 for eight questions, including the one covering modifications to the software.
The two companies opened a joint program to integrate Einride's autonomous driving system into DAF's electric truck platform, with Dutch research institute TNO working on the interfaces and on type-approval compliance.
The carmaker said the first major upgrade of its second-generation vision-language-action model would arrive as version 6.3.0, merging the driving and cockpit models and pushing part of its robotaxi behavior down into production cars.
Britain's CAM Pathfinder awards went to fail-operational braking, photorealistic simulation and a bus service moving from Level 3 to Level 4.
The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to build a development platform for production end-to-end autonomous driving models, with commercialization targeted around 2030.
The agency's information request, issued July 2, gave Tesla until Wednesday to hand over the design, testing and deployment history of the system meant to detect when Full Self-Driving's cameras are impaired.
Avatr's product page presents the five-seat sport utility vehicle as among the first equipped with Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5 on the WEWA 2.0 architecture, including a cruise mode the company said works with no destination set.
The Hong Kong-listed chip designer's first interim results announcement showed smart-vehicle revenue up 252.1 percent and 25 carmaker brands signed, alongside a loss for the period widening to RMB 688.0 million.
The union filed suit in Alameda Superior Court on August 5, arguing that the DMV wrongly treated the rules as too small to require the economic assessment California reserves for major regulations.
Chinese outlets reported that Huawei's HIMA alliance launched the Maextro V800 and V680 on August 5, with a fourfold-redundant driving computer on the larger car, a day after China's Level 3 safety standard was published.
The carmaker said on August 4 that the Uber and Nuro robotaxi project would sit inside Lucid Technologies, a business unit combining artificial intelligence, driver assistance and digital work.
The company said on August 4 that Alpamayo 2 Super was available for commercial use, and that the OpenMDW license now covered the whole model family rather than research use alone.
MIIT said on August 4 that GB 44721—2026 had been approved as a mandatory national standard, replacing the recommended version and setting a single safety baseline for conditional and high automation.
Owners running Tesla's older Autopilot computer reported overheating and dropped driver-assistance functions after an over-the-air update, in accounts collected by Electrek that Tesla has not addressed.
Volkswagen's software subsidiary closed a debt-to-equity conversion on August 3, turning a 2023 loan to the Chinese driver-assistance chip designer into a near-10 percent shareholding.
An interim final rule struck the provision limiting a temporary exemption to vehicles manufactured on or after its effective date, effective immediately with comments due August 31.
The company said its NGP (Next Generation Pilot) system, powered by the VLA 2.0 model it developed in-house, would begin a global rollout in 2027 as cumulative deliveries passed 1.2 million.
The notice sets out enhanced application instructions for automated-driving exemptions and discloses 517 alleged ADS crashes and 787 alleged Level 2 crashes reported from June to December 2025.
The agency will replace its nine-year-old ADS 2.0 guidance chapter by chapter, publishing drafts as they are ready and keeping the docket open until July 2027.
Ministry inspectors spent two days at three Anhui automakers, randomly selecting sample vehicles and battery packs on site for national-standard compliance testing tied to production access.
The Federal Register notice exempts Zoox's purpose-built vehicle from eight FMVSS requirements written around human drivers, clearing paid rides for up to 2,500 vehicles a year.
The US Transportation Secretary ordered NHTSA to accelerate national AV performance standards, update a set of federal safety rules and streamline exemptions.
HarmonyOS Zhixing started pushing the rebuilt Qiankun ADS 5 driving stack to the AITO M5 through M9 range, according to Chinese media reports.
The Cariad-controlled joint venture Carizon gains white-box access to Horizon Robotics' AI foundation model, with conditional Level 3 deliveries targeted for late 2027.
XPeng debuted the L03 simultaneously in China and Munich, built around the VLA 2.0 foundation model and headed for 65 markets.
China issued GB 47955-2026, its first mandatory national standard for combined driver-assistance systems, taking effect January 1, 2027.