Latest Volkswagen publications

Tie-up allows both automakers to integrate Argo AI’s self-driving system into their own vehicles at scale Ford and Volkswagen have announced they are investing $7bn in autonomous vehicle platform company Argo AI, with a view for both manufacturers to use the company’s self-driving tech in upcoming vehicles released in US and Europe. As part of… Read More

Mobvoi, the Google-backed AI company that first developed Chinese language voice recognition, has released a chatbot that can communicate with voice-activated smart home devices. The new product, which leverages Mobvoi’s advances in voice recognition and artificial intelligence, is envisioned to facilitate human-machine interaction in China much like Apple’s Siri personal assistant, or Alexa from Amazon…. Read More

Volkswagen’s deceptive practices over ‘defeat devices’ in its emissions-testing software might have come to light far earlier if its code had not been protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to a U.S. senator. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Ron Wyden, United States Senator for Oregon since 1996, contends [paywalled] that the DMCA’s blanket… Read More

A new report contends that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chose not to apply an emissions test that it developed a decade ago to car manufacturers due to lack of budget for the department – a budget which has been further cut by 21% in the last five years. Based on a number of interviews,… Read More

Faced with a slew of crippling lawsuits and recalls over its software-based evasion of emissions standards, German car manufacturer Volkswagen has a ray of corporate light today – it transpires that a loop in the U.S. 1970 Clean Air Act could stop the company facing criminal charges over use of ‘defeat devices’ in its cars…. Read More