Author: David Sedgwick

Magna CEO Don Walker says the company is gearing up to produce the cameras, radar and lidar units needed for collision avoidance systems that automakers have begun installing in conventional vehicles.

A number of key global suppliers have moved the ball on self-driving shuttles. Commercial vehicles might be an easier and more receptive starting point for the technologies.

The two countries have serious differences over issues like intellectual property, theft of trade secrets and other practices, Mary Gallagher told attendees Thursday at the Automotive News World Congress.

Automakers will turn heads with new technology at CES this week in Las Vegas. But parts suppliers are doing a lot of the heavy lifting on those technologies.