Why ethics are paramount for autonomous vehicles
Philosophy professor Nick Evans, winner of a 2017 National Science Foundation grant to study the ethical questions that autonomous...
Read MoreOrlando poised to become capital of autonomous vehicle research
Autonomous vehicles represent the future of transportation. When they replace human drivers, the world will see far fewer accidents, less...
Read MoreFederal regulators want to know what you think of self-driving cars with no steering wheel
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking for comments from interested parties and the general public, whether NHTSA...
Read MoreNVIDIA ups the ante in self-driving but hits a roadblock
NVIDIA NVDA faced criticism from Intel INTC owned Mobileye after it introduced Safety Force Field (SFF), a policy to protect driverless...
Read MoreAutonomy: OEMs can prepare to thrive in changing world
Most public discussion of self-driving or autonomous vehicles has focused primarily on engineering, logistics and technical feasibility....
Read MoreLidar and perception startup Innoviz raises $132 million
Innoviz, the Israel-based startup developing solid-state lidar sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles, has raised $132...
Read MoreThe war to remotely control self-driving cars heats up
EVEN IN THE middle of the day, the 50-mile trip from San Francisco to San Jose is a pain. Like a toddler, Bay Area driving toggles between...
Read MoreSelf-driving test sites use virtual pedestrians to streamline development
For car manufacturers developing driverless cars, recreating critical road scenarios in testing sites can be a tedious experience. Moving...
Read MoreHow malevolent machine learning could derail AI
Artificial intelligence won’t revolutionize anything if hackers can mess with it. That’s the warning from Dawn Song, a professor at UC...
Read MoreVelodyne achieves $0.5 billion in lidar sensors shipped
Velodyne is the highest volume supplier of lidar sensors to the automotive industry. In an in-depth article, David Hall spoke to Forbes...
Read MoreGroundbreaking autonomous bus trial begins in Manchester
In a first in the UK a full-sized bus is being trialed which operates autonomously in a Manchester bus depot. The project is part of a...
Read MoreLidar gets rid of moving parts thanks to liquid-crystal metasurfaces
The market for lidar sensors for use in autonomous vehicles is now hotly contested; almost every month a new supplier appears on the...
Read MoreAutonomous driving: Safety first
MIT Technology Review, March 25, 2019 Safety is of paramount importance for operating autonomous vehicles. That doesn’t mean the safety of...
Read MoreMobileye CEO clowns on Nvidia for allegedly copying self-driving car safety scheme
While creating self-driving car systems, it’s natural that different companies might independently arrive at similar methods or results —...
Read MoreSafety now, self-driving later
I have no idea how long it will take for a safe, fully autonomous vehicle to enter production. I am sure that it will take a lot longer...
Read MoreRicardo develops technology to avoid motion sickness in autonomous vehicles
With a widespread public expectation that autonomous vehicles will offer comfort levels approaching those of a living room environment,...
Read MoreTexas two step: Drive.ai focuses self-driving efforts in Arlington
Drive.ai has reached a crossroads with its self-driving test program. The Silicon Valley startup will conclude testing in the north Dallas...
Read MoreLidar startup Ouster raises $60 million in production run-up
Ouster has raised $60 million as the San Francisco-based lidar startup opens a new facility that will have the capacity to assemble and...
Read MoreHow self-driving has changed since Uber’s crash and more car news
THINKING ABOUT THE fantastic pie-in-the-sky future is always a fun exercise. I, too, want a self-driving car. But some weeks, it’s clear...
Read MoreTransportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel
This week, we’re shoving as much transportation news, tidbits and insights in here as possible in hopes that it will satiate you through...
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