Autonomous driving

INIT has acquired a 67.74% stake in Norwegian company Applied Autonomy, a specialist in software for the management and remote supervision of autonomous vehicles in public transport, airports and logistics. The transaction was completed on 1 October 2026 and announced by INIT on 8 October. The acqui...

Alexander Dennis will introduce full SAE Level 4 autonomous driving capability to its Enviro100AEV and Enviro200AEV electric buses under the £3.88 million Commercialising Connector project in Cambridge, UK. The programme, announced by Alexander Dennis in mid-August, has received UK Government grant ...

Waymo has launched a transit rewards program in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering $2.85 in ride credits to passengers combining its autonomous ride-hailing service with public transport. The initiative, announced by Waymo on 22 September 2026, covers 27 transit agencies accepting contactless Visa...

On 18 March 1895, at 6:25 in the morning, the world’s first motor bus line opened between Siegen, Netphen and Deuz. The vehicle was a Benz Landauer. It had eight seats, a one-cylinder engine of five horsepower, and fifteen kilometres of bad road ahead of it. On the steepest hill, the passengers had ...

MAN’s automated 12-metre Lion’s City E has started running on public roads in Munich, marking a new phase of the MINGA autonomous public transport project. The electric bus has been operating since early September on route 178 between Petuelring and Freimanner Hölzl, with passenger trials involving ...

RMV, Deutsche Bahn and HOLON have launched the KIRA+ project to test SAE Level 4 autonomous on-demand public transport with HOLON urban vehicles in Germany’s Rhine-Main region. Preparations for the test operation are underway, with the first mapping drives scheduled for 2027 in parts of Darmstadt an...