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The Arizona Commerce Authority received more than $1.7 million through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s SMART Grant program, which stands for Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation. The money will be used to work on the ACA’s ‘vehicle to everything’ technology.

Arizona is a hot bed for testing automated cars, but they also come with a host of safety concerns. Now, ASU researchers are exploring ways to make automated cars safer. Dr. YZ Yang, an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Fulton Schools at ASU, is working to understand traffic through monitoring and data collection to inform autonomous vehicles.

It’s not uncommon in many parts of the Phoenix metro area to see a car driving down the road with a large spinning dome on top, sensors near the headlights and on the back of the car, and nobody behind the wheel.

Evie Networks, a leading Australian electric vehicle fast-charging company, and TCRT, a fire-retardant ballistic rubber and product manufacturer, have selected Phoenix, Arizona as the site of their North American headquarters.

In 2017, The New York Times labeled Arizona the place “where self-driving cars go to learn.”

As autonomous vehicles continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, ensuring their safety is a main concern shaping the future of transportation.

As technology companies continue to invest billions in the testing and safe deployment of AV technology, Arizona promises to continue to be a leading center of innovation and discovery.

Engineering Partnership Develops Evaluation Metrics and Methods for Automated Vehicles

On SAE Tomorrow Today, we spoke with Aaron Jefferson, Vice President of Product at Luminar to discuss how lidar can spot, register and access objects in the road and react in ample time -- even through darkness or inclement weather.

A new report by the Transportation Research Board points toward more seamless and coordinated connections among all forms of shared mobility, such as buses, bikes, trains, scooters and more.

A State of Arizona proposal created by partners including the ACA’s Institute of Automated Mobility (IAM), the Arizona Department of Transportation, the Maricopa Association of Governments, and the Maricopa County Department of Transportation has been selected for a U.S. Department of Transportation Grant Award.

Leading bike, scooter and auto companies are developing communication technology aimed at making roads safer.

In a Monday interview at the virtual CES conference, Mobileye explained its strategy to stay on top as the industry shifts to fully self-driving vehicles.

The federal government’s program working with states and developers of automated vehicles has grown from a pilot operation to one with 52 participants.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Monday that it had released its “Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan” (AVCP).

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has just published a new report which investigates the results of its 2019 Connected Vehicle (CV) and Automated Vehicle (AV) Survey, which show that more than half of surveyed agencies (54%) are actively engaged with CVs.

There's only one place in the country where you can hail an on-demand, fully driverless vehicle from your smartphone--and it's here in Arizona.

Establishing whether automated vehicles (AVs) are acceptably safe is not straightforward, and continual technology modification adds complication.

Engineers and computer scientists at ASU are doing research that Arizona leaders envision putting the state at the forefront of automated transportation innovation.

Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has just released this video explaining the features of its now AZ511 app.

Ford is making big investments in autonomous driving -- now it's using Mobileye's vision-sensing technology to improve driver-assist features, such as forward collision warning and lane centering.

The Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) have announced the launch of its Public Sector Advisory Council, a group of public sector organizations that will assist with PAVE’s campaign to educate consumers about autonomous vehicles and their societal impacts.