Hyundai put its driver-assistance data loop into production and dated two stacks
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.
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Volvo Trucks finished its North American rollout of unattended software updates
Updates that complete after the driver locks the truck and walks away are now available across the United States and Canada on the company's newest tractors.
TIER IV open-sourced an end-to-end driving model it said an agentic AI developed
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.
ZF linked bus telematics to workshop diagnostics over a CAN tunnel
The supplier connected its bus fleet platform to its workshop diagnostic software so technicians can run a full diagnostic session on a vehicle before it arrives, and said the connection is open to rival tools.
NTT and an insurer will grade an automated shuttle against telematics fleet data
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.
Marelli and Microchip sent central-computer video to displays over an open standard
The two companies demonstrated streaming graphics and video from a vehicle's central computer straight to displays over ASA Motion Link, an open alternative to the proprietary links that normally carry it.
ZF sets out its software-defined truck roadmap around updates, diagnostics and a data link
The supplier named secure software update management, vehicle diagnostics and a high-speed truck-trailer connection among the building blocks on its path to the software-defined commercial vehicle.
Neusoft's automotive revenue fell 14.7% as it picked Qualcomm for its next cockpit ECU
The Chinese software house reported its largest segment shrinking in the first half, while naming Snapdragon Ride Flex as the basis for its next-generation cockpit domain controller.
China's new size standard exempts radar, cameras and V2X antennas from vehicle limits
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.
BMW made its new active-safety suite standard on a single central driving computer
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.
NavInfo's vehicle-data compliance revenue rose 56% as its chip and ADAS lines shrank
The Beijing mapping and chip supplier said its automotive data-compliance service line grew to 618 million yuan, about a third of group revenue, while unit prices fell across its other businesses.
Hyundai set 2028 for Level 2+ on its first mass-produced SDV
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.
China set out a digital identity system for every traction battery
A vice minister said the 2026 to 2030 plan will attach a digital identity to each traction battery so that its origin can be traced and its destination checked, alongside new administrative regulations and joint enforcement.
DENSO launched a battery digital product passport service for the EU regulation
The Japanese supplier put its battery passport software into commercial service ahead of the European Battery Regulation's February 2027 deadline, built on a blockchain record and an industry data model.
China licensed Geely's satellite arm to sell IoT connectivity commercially
MIIT granted Geespace a two-year commercial trial licence for satellite Internet of Things services on Geely's own constellation, naming intelligent transportation among the target sectors.
GM said nearly 750,000 Super Cruise vehicles now feed its eyes-off development
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.
Korea would make carmakers hand inspectors the security keys to EV diagnostics
A draft amendment would require manufacturers to supply the national inspection body with the encryption source needed to build diagnostic testers, free of charge, ten days before a new model goes on sale.
Ford opened its AI assistant to 8 million owners and added Gemini in the cockpit
The assistant reads a vehicle's real-time telemetry and its owner's manual through the owner app, and Ford said the in-vehicle version would follow by 2027.
Volvo Cars puts a driving score in the car and ties it to a Volvia insurance offer
The optional Safety Coach app scores braking, acceleration and cornering on the infotainment screen, and drivers in Sweden and Norway who choose to share the data can take a usage-based offer from the insurer Volvia.
China's MIIT opens comment on a vehicle-cloud communication security standard
The ministry put the approval draft of a security standard for the car-to-cloud link in vehicle-road cooperative systems out for public comment, at the head of a batch of 50 communications-industry standards.
DENSO and TÜV Rheinland Japan publish a battery passport data architecture paper
The two companies released a joint technical white paper on August 7 setting out the data definitions and IT architecture requirements that carmakers and battery makers face under the EU Battery Regulation and the Ecodesign Regulation.
ITU-T consents its first software-defined vehicle Recommendation, F.749.22
The UN telecommunications standards body's Study Group 21 consented a Recommendation setting functional requirements for software-defined vehicle services built on vehicle gateway platforms, and South Korea's ETRI announced it on August 6.
EU calendar sets Cyber Resilience Act vulnerability reporting to start September 11
A European Commission factsheet published August 3 confirmed that reporting duties for actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents begin on September 11, with part of the Data Act following a day later.
Tesla puts ByteDance's Doubao model into its China cockpit over the air
A staged update released in China on July 31 installs ByteDance's Doubao as an in-car voice assistant, Tesla's first use of a domestic Chinese language model, according to CnEVPost and Sina Finance.
Zeekr pledges user control of its geofence lockout after stranding an owner abroad
After a 9X owner lost vehicle functions for about 30 hours while traveling abroad, Zeekr promised an OTA-delivered switch for its cross-border restriction, off by default.
Volvo rolls out Apple Music to more than two million cars over the air
A global OTA update adds native Apple Music integration to Volvo models back to model year 2020, with Spatial Audio on the newest cars.