Range Rover electric GT & Sport | Aurora Driver 2 | IIHS on Waymo | Pebble Flow milestones | Micron auto chips

Volume 6, Issue 21

Range Rover previews electric GT and Sport models

This week’s reveal of the GT marks the fifth member and the most car-like of the big Range Rovers, and it follows last week’s confirmation during the Goodwood Festival of Speed of the forthcoming Sport Electric, both of which are joining the range-topping Electric on the EMA platform.

Aurora launches second-generation automated driver

Deploying first on International and then Volvo trucks, the Aurora Driver 2 can complete 1000-mi hauls up to 40% faster than a solo human driver, while doubling revenue per truck and cutting fuel and insurance costs, and uses Nvidia-powered hardware that is 40% smaller and built for a million-mile service life.

IIHS finds that Waymo Drivers are involved in fewer crashes than humans

A new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows that Waymo vehicles were involved in 68% fewer crashes than cars driven by humans, and the leading autonomous vehicle technology company hopes to improve safety with a new Ojai vehicle and the sixth-generation Waymo Driver.

Pebble reaches milestones with Flow electric travel trailer

In about a year, the Flow surpassed 100 deliveries and 250,000 owner miles, with feedback from the owner community shaping the software-defined vehicle’s development focused on delivering a hassle-free travel experience with several new features delivered via over-the-air updates.

\Micron and customers lock in supply for auto memory and storage chips

As AI infrastructure scales rapidly, memory chip manufacturers are redirecting advanced capacity toward the high‑bandwidth memory used in data centers, so the auto industry is scrambling to ensure the supply of memory and storage chips from industry leaders like Micron.