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Autonomous Trucking Developments: AVs Continue to Expand Freight Operations

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On July 30, 2025, Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle (AV) technology company, announced that it has commenced full driverless nighttime operations on its Dallas-to-Houston freight lane, expanding its autonomous trucking...more

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NHTSA Closes Waymo Investigation: Key Takeaways for the AV Industry

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) closed its 14-month investigation into Waymo, the autonomous vehicle (AV) subsidiary of Alphabet, finding no systemic safety violations. The probe examined 22...more

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[Podcast] Rev Up! The Green Flag is Waved!

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Episode 1 – The Green Flag is waved! The transportation industry is undergoing a rapid evolutionary shift driven by technology developments, geopolitics, supply chain management, and consumer demands. In this episode,...more

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5.9 GHz Waiver Opens Road to Initial C-V2X Deployment

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On April 24, the FCC granted a joint waiver request to allow initial deployment of next-generation cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) technology. C-V2X technology allows vehicles to communicate with one another and with...more

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Q2 PE dealmaking fails to live up to record 2021

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In line with the global M&A trend, global private equity (PE) activity in Q2 continued to compare unfavorably to a blockbuster 2021. A total of US$429.4 billion in PE deals were announced in the three-month period—a 14%...more

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The Road Ahead: Examining the Outlook of Regulation for Self-driving Cars

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The market for fully autonomous vehicles is experiencing rapid growth. The global market size of self-driving cars and trucks is expected to grow from 670,000 units in 2020 to 4.223 million units in 2030 at a Compounded...more

A&O Shearman

Propel: "Secure first, then ride." V2X technology and enhancing the safety of self-driving vehicles

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New York partner Paul Keller interviews Jaeson Yoo, Chief Strategy Officer of Autocrypt, a leading V2X provider that offers services and solutions to secure communication lines between connected and autonomous vehicles and...more

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Propel: Under the hood with Uber

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In the latest installment of Propel, our podcast series on self-driving vehicles, New York partner Paul Keller interviews Lando Juarez, Uber’s Head of Legal for Autonomous Mobility and Delivery, about Uber’s historical and...more

Fisher Phillips

Flash Survey Reveals: Great Remote Work Migration May Be Largely Temporary and Isolated

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Most businesses are eager to return their workers to their physical workspaces and envision the majority of them putting remote work behind them once the pandemic is over. That’s according to a recent Flash Survey conducted...more

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As vehicle makers race into future, whither road- and product-safety issues?

The race to deal with the existential threat of climate change by making millions of vehicles smarter, more efficient, and environmentally friendly may be on a collision course with safety concerns....more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Developing Autonomous Vehicles -- Will Slow and Steady Win the Race?

Advanced driver-assistance systems, or ADAS, have flooded the car market in recent years, giving automobiles the technological wherewithal to decrease operator error during dangerous situations on the road. ADAS work to...more

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2020 Outlook for Automotive M&A: Will the Good Times Keep Rolling?

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Following a robust 2018, 2019 saw a modest slowdown in automotive M&A activity and a decline in deal value, due in large part to regulatory uncertainty, trade war impacts, declining global economic growth, abating automotive...more

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[Event] McDermott Business Brunch - March 6th, Germany

We are pleased to invite you to our McDermott Business Brunch, taking place on the occasion of the first IBA European Automotive and Mobility Services Conference! Our speakers will address current topics such as the IT...more

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Should This Be a "Mobility" Industry Blog?

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More and more, when people discuss the automotive industry, they refer to “mobility”. The word is not new. Even a quick online search will find it used as far back as 2016. Back then, an early proposed definition was...more

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Israel steps on the gas in the autotech race

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Despite not being an automotive hub historically, Israel has emerged as a hotbed of innovation for the industry. The convergence of technology with other sectors has been the driving force behind much of Israel’s tech boom...more

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Key Congressional Committees Appear to Revive Focus on Autonomous Vehicles Legislation

This week, the Senate Commerce Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee signaled that they may be reviving efforts to pass federal autonomous vehicle (AV) legislation. In a letter to automobile manufacturers and...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

What is the Future of Driverless Vehicles? -- Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Safety First for Automated Driving (SaFAD), a 146-page whitepaper authored by 11 companies from both the automobile and technology industries, has been published. Because the document is the first of its kind, it already has...more

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Automotive MarketTrends - June 2019, Issue 2

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Welcome to Foley’s Automotive MarketTrends newsletter. In each edition, we will focus on a different aspect of the automotive sector and highlight key trends in the industry. In this issue, we focus on collaboration and the...more

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Avoiding the Top 5 Potholes for Autonomous Transportation Startups

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Autonomous transportation technology was widespread at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show. Advances in object identification, mapping, machine learning, sensing and communication will continue for years as startups and...more

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The Driverless Future Isn't Disrupting Industries and Jobs… Yet

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John Stuart Mill once said that “[e]very great movement must experience three stages: Ridicule, discussion, adoption”. What matters to modern industry stakeholders isn’t how they approach each of these stages, but how...more

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Private Equity Takes the Driver’s Seat in Italian Automotive Deals

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Deal making is likely to surge as companies seek funding and private equity firms scour the market for buyout opportunities. Italy is poised to help steer automotive deal activity in the final weeks of what has been...more

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IoV Technologies as Patentable Subject Matter After Alice

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This is the second in a series of five articles written by WilmerHale discussing how the emergence of IoT technologies will impact the automotive industry. The first article, ‘‘The Developing Landscape of Internet of Things...more

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NHTSA Automated Vehicle Guidance 3.0 – Promote Autonomous Vehicles/Muddy the Way for Connected Vehicles and Infrastructure

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NHTSA just published the third iteration of its policy/guidance for automated vehicles. The focus of the guidance continues to evolve. In its initial form, the most significant focus of the guidance was on the safe...more

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Top 10 Things All Employers Need To Know About Autonomous Vehicles

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We’re living at a time when a unique convergence of multiple trends is ensuring that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon change life as we know it. On the technology side, vehicles are trending towards being electrified and...more

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Self-Driving Cars: Are You In or Out?

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Autonomous vehicle testing and development continues to accelerate. Problems and setbacks, however, have delayed technology advancement and assessment, and influenced public perception of this new transportation mechanism....more

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