Nvidia has unveiled a new self-driving car platform, teaming up with Mercedes-Benz on a driverless vehicle set to launch in the US very soon.

Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.

Uber is using CES to tell the world that it’s still chasing the self-driving car dream. In Las Vegas on Monday, the ride-hailing company announced that it was developing a driverless robotaxi prototype with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle company Nuro.

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang reportedly announced on Monday Alpamayo, a tech platform which the company says will help self-driving cars think like humans.The recent revelations present a

Autoliv and Tensor just answered that dilemma with something straight out of a concept car: the world’s first foldable steering wheel for production autonomous vehicles. This breakthrough technology will debut in the Tensor Robocar, which is expected to begin production in the second half of 2026.

CES continues to change and adapt, and that spells a solid future for companies with big investments in the technology.

At CES 2026 on Monday, NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) unveiled a shift in autonomous vehicle (AV) development with the release of the open-source Alpamayo family.

The annual Las Vegas show always has the coolest car tech. I predict that the 2026 event will include flying vehicle prototypes and automotive AI that is practical and useful.

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