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Changan Automobile has officially obtained an L4-level Robotaxi testing license, having previously received China's first L3-specific license. Its dual-track strategy relies on the Tianshu end-to-end large model to achieve technological homology across L2/L3/L4, accelerating validation under Chongqing's complex road conditions.
Volkswagen Group China is advancing the in-house development of its advanced intelligent driving system. By cooperating with Horizon Robotics, it has abandoned the pure external procurement model and shifted to white-box licensing, achieving full-stack self-developed algorithms. The system will go into mass production in the third quarter of 2026, covering seven new models, and plans to launch L3 autonomous driving in the second half of 2027.
Lucid has begun rolling out an OTA software update for the Gravity SUV in North America, adding hands-free highway driving assistance and bringing improvements to navigation, lighting, and charging. Three independent sources point to this being an L2-level hands-free assist rather than L3 autonomous driving; some details on the rollout pace and feature specifics are not fully expanded in the source material.
Ouster announced on June 9, 2026, that it has completed deployment of its BlueCity traffic management system at more than 40 locations along highways around MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Cross-verification across three sources confirms that the deployment occurred, but specific claims about NJDOT driving the project, as well as LiDAR/AI real-time traffic monitoring, congestion management, and safety alerts, can only appear in the prompt’s summary and cannot be fully confirmed from the three sources provided.
Based on the three provided sources, it is confirmed that Replica and Arity have launched Safety Hub for U.S. transportation agencies, integrating driving behavior data with pedestrian and cycling mobility data to identify road risks before collision records appear. Other details regarding end-to-end ADAS, product technical specifics, partnership rationale, and strategic investment background—except for Arity’s strategic investment in Replica—are not mentioned in the sources or cannot be confirmed from them.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Boliden have completed an autonomous transport project at the Garpenberg mine in Sweden. Three sources consistently confirm that the project was related to strengthening and raising a dam wall; two sources put the transport volume at nearly 700,000 tonnes, while another source says it was the first delivery under the two companies’ 2023 MOU. More detailed information such as the transport period and distance was not mentioned in the sources.