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Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 electric crossover will be Motional’s robotaxi

Lyft and Motional have selected the Hyundai Ioniq 5 for their forthcoming autonomous ride-hailing service. Motional, which is a joint venture between Aptiv and Hyundai, said the Ioniq 5 was chosen because it represents a “convergence of mobility’s two most transformative technologies — electrification and autonomy.” Motional hasn’t said how many vehicles it would acquire,… Read more

Motional is now testing fully autonomous vehicles in Las Vegas

Add Motional to the very short list of companies that have tested fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. The Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture announced that it has tested its vehicles without safety drivers behind the steering wheel on public streets in Las Vegas. The tests, which took place in February, came less than three months after… Read more

Embarcadero mother Idera buys Austrian API provider apilayer

The Texan company Idera has taken over the Austrian start-up apilayer, which offers API services for access to real-time data such as weather, geographic position and currency conversion. The Vienna-based company apilayer lists various reference customers on its website, including Airbnb, Amazon, Apple and Slack. According to the press release on the takeover, apilayer has… Read more

The ten most popular posts on heise Developer in 2020

The year 2020 was marked by the corona pandemic, which will continue to be with us. But what were the most important trends and the most interesting topics from the point of view of the readers of heise Developer ? In the following, the team takes a look back and presents the top – 10… Read more

Hitman developers are working on a James Bond game

IO Interactive, the developer behind the Hitman series, is working on a James Bond video game, it announced today. The news came with a short teaser today for “Project 007,” a new game coming to “a console and computer screen near you.” The Danish studio is best known for the stealth series Hitman and third-person… Read more

Hyundai-backed Motional to launch fully driverless cars in Las Vegas

Motional, the self-driving car operator backed by Hyundai and Aptiv, has received the green light to roll out a test fleet of fully driverless cars in Las Vegas. The state of Nevada has granted the company permission to operate its autonomous vehicles without a human safety driver behind the wheel. Currently, only a small handful… Read more