Vehicle software in the United States, where approval runs through manufacturer self-certification against FMVSS rather than type approval. Coverage follows NHTSA rulemaking, exemption petitions and investigations, federal action on connected-vehicle security and data, and the software programs of US manufacturers and suppliers.
The agency called the industry to a November meeting on why safety recalls go uncompleted, and its notice puts over-the-air software updates, connected-vehicle technology and automated vehicles at the center of the question.
The company's updated safety analysis covers fully autonomous operation through the end of June across five metropolitan areas, and rests its opening figure on an estimate with a stated assumption.
The regulator is examining five crashes involving aftermarket driving-automation devices from comma.ai, two of them fatal, and said it will also consider incidents involving modified versions of the open-source software built by others.
BRP's instrument-cluster campaign, which NHTSA records as failing two federal motor vehicle safety standards at once, became searchable by vehicle identification number on September 22, with the fix delivered over the air or by a dealer.
HARMAN joined SDVerse, the business-to-business automotive software marketplace founded by GM, Magna and Wipro, putting named software products and engineering services in front of carmakers as catalog items.
General Motors introduced an all-new user interface for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, built on what it called a single scalable foundation spanning electric, gas and diesel vehicles.
A filing put the pre-money equity value at about $800 million and disclosed that the developer platform, not the driving system, has generated the company's $25 million in revenue.
The company described release 2026.31 as the largest software change in the R1's history, and said it reaches every R1 on the road.
Two software recalls filed on the same day cover 441,107 vehicles, and the 2026 Ram 1500 appears in the vehicle list of both the new camera campaign and an August one.
Updates that complete after the driver locks the truck and walks away are now available across the United States and Canada on the company's newest tractors.
The company put a figure on how much of its safety argument for driverless highway trucking is finished, and reaffirmed a commercial launch by the end of the year.
The regulator said it will examine the technical data and processes behind Tesla's self-certification that a vehicle without traditional human controls meets every applicable federal safety standard.
The vision-chip supplier reported quarterly revenue of $108.1 million, up 13.2 percent from a year earlier, and named its 5nm AI chips as the source of the growth without publishing an automotive split.
The California software company and the Saudi state-backed AI firm HUMAIN said they would put thousands of autonomous trucks on Saudi logistics corridors by 2030, running Applied Intuition's driving stack.
The agency extended the comment period on both its autonomous-vehicle framework guidance and its rewritten Part 555 exemption rule to September 30, after the main US automaker association asked for more time.
The agency asked OMB to approve an eye-tracked, on-road study of production cockpit interfaces, and said its own design guidance predates large screens, gesture input and in-vehicle commerce.
Waymo set out in its own words the ten decisions behind the Waymo Driver, and used them to reject both camera-only sensing and pure end-to-end neural driving.
The Series D, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, came with delivery figures Gatik has not published before.
The agency asked for approval to run a study in Phoenix and Iowa City, saying no consensus method exists for testing drowsiness detection and that the European protocol leaves its own test conditions unspecified.
A US federal advisory said a stack overflow in Bendix's EC80 commercial-vehicle brake controller can be used to run code and inject CAN traffic, and named replacement firmware for all eleven affected part numbers.
NHTSA upgraded a two-year-old Cadillac Lyriq investigation into an engineering analysis covering an estimated 1.16 million General Motors vehicles built with the eBoost brake system, plus two Honda-badged models GM builds under joint venture.
Idaho National Laboratory is assessing whether Chinese-made lidar would create security risk if widely fitted to US vehicles, in a review reportedly funded by industry rather than government, according to TechCrunch.
The agency submitted a study design that would compare a carmaker's own interface head-to-head with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the same vehicles.
The remedy for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles is an over-the-air radio software update delivered across all four brands.
The company announced a certification it said makes virtual evidence from its toolchain usable toward UN R171 approval, without publishing a certificate number or the date the assessment finished.
A technical explainer set out how the company is validating the eyes-off driving system it plans to launch on the Cadillac Escalade IQ, disclosing for the first time how much simulated driving the program runs.
A display that can fail at startup takes the hazard lights, turn signals and seat-belt warning with it, and the filed remedy is a dealer-applied software update rather than one sent to the car.
A notice that would drop two physical crash tests also pushes back the consumer rating system for driver-assistance technologies, which NHTSA attributed to resource constraints.
The assistant reads a vehicle's real-time telemetry and its owner's manual through the owner app, and Ford said the in-vehicle version would follow by 2027.
onsemi told investors the Federal Trade Commission had granted early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period, leaving stockholder approval and other clearances still outstanding before the deal can close.
The company said a formal safety clearance, combining quantified risk across autonomy, platform and operations, had to be met before any safety-relevant software release, hardware change or operations revision.
The supplier said its EVO platform consolidates processing that commercial vehicles have spread across many individual control units, using Renesas silicon and a Green Hills software architecture that keeps safety-critical functions separated.
A memo in the Engineering Analysis docket shows Tesla asked on August 5 for a partial extension of the August 12 deadline, and that the agency granted September 23 for eight questions, including the one covering modifications to the software.
Two Car Hacking Village sessions on August 9 described cloning a fob from a brute-forced rolling code, and operating a commercially available relay attack tool against a car.
The agency's information request, issued July 2, gave Tesla until Wednesday to hand over the design, testing and deployment history of the system meant to detect when Full Self-Driving's cameras are impaired.
The conference program scheduled a Car Hacking Village talk for August 8 whose abstract described reaching a production vehicle's internal network through a rogue DHCP server on its OBD Ethernet port.
The in-cabin AI software maker reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $69.6 million on August 6 and disclosed a multi-brand Cerence xUI award from Stellantis, alongside the first share buyback in its history.
An advisory published August 4 said KARR anti-theft systems used one Bluetooth authentication key across devices, letting anyone within radio range open the doors and stop the engine.
The union filed suit in Alameda Superior Court on August 5, arguing that the DMV wrongly treated the rules as too small to require the economic assessment California reserves for major regulations.
The carmaker said on August 4 that the Uber and Nuro robotaxi project would sit inside Lucid Technologies, a business unit combining artificial intelligence, driver assistance and digital work.
The company said on August 4 that Alpamayo 2 Super was available for commercial use, and that the OpenMDW license now covered the whole model family rather than research use alone.
The supplier's quarterly report, filed August 4, put its Software and Services product line at $152 million for the three months to June 30, against $137 million a year earlier.
The chipmaker's second-quarter results, published August 3, listed Rivian's R2 platform as a zonal-architecture and on-board-charging design win alongside year-over-year automotive growth.
Owners running Tesla's older Autopilot computer reported overheating and dropped driver-assistance functions after an over-the-air update, in accounts collected by Electrek that Tesla has not addressed.
An interim final rule struck the provision limiting a temporary exemption to vehicles manufactured on or after its effective date, effective immediately with comments due August 31.
The notice sets out enhanced application instructions for automated-driving exemptions and discloses 517 alleged ADS crashes and 787 alleged Level 2 crashes reported from June to December 2025.
The agency will replace its nine-year-old ADS 2.0 guidance chapter by chapter, publishing drafts as they are ready and keeping the docket open until July 2027.
The Federal Register notice exempts Zoox's purpose-built vehicle from eight FMVSS requirements written around human drivers, clearing paid rides for up to 2,500 vehicles a year.
Second-quarter results put Rivian's software and services segment at $515 million, $308 million of it from the Volkswagen Group technology joint venture.
The US Transportation Secretary ordered NHTSA to accelerate national AV performance standards, update a set of federal safety rules and streamline exemptions.
Active FSD (Supervised) subscriptions reached 1.48 million, up 56 percent year over year against deliveries up 25 percent, with a record attach rate in North America.