automakers

Automakers are companies that design, manufacture, and sell motor vehicles, including cars, trucks, and buses. They are involved in the production of both traditional internal combustion engine vehicles and increasingly electric and autonomous vehicles.

Why it’s in the news: Automakers are in the news due to strategic shifts, including the commercialization of self-driving technology, regulatory changes, and new manufacturing competition, particularly from Chinese firms.

Latest on automakers

• XPeng shops its self-driving tech to automakers — Tesla found no takers
• China's Xpeng plans to offer tech solutions to foreign automakers
• US automakers could soon be forced to include AM radio for free
• Yokohama Rubber targets BYD, other China automakers with lower-cost tire plant
• Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
• Japanese automakers seen facing blow from Trump’s Canada tariff hike
• China's commerce and industry ministries and its market regulator have issued joint guidelines telling automakers to price overseas on costs and market demand, set clear price tiers and avoid frequent steep changes.
• The shift from rule-based driving to learned behavior changes who owns the liability when something goes wrong.
• they can deploy faster with learned systems
• Wayve, a London-based autonomous driving company, has developed an AI system that learns driving behavior similarly to humans by converting sensor inputs into real-time driving decisions. The company's machine learning framework differs from conventional autonomous driving approaches and has attracted investment interest from automakers.

Connections

8 entities linked to automakers across the news graph.