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Driving to nowhere: Why we purposely use our cars for purposeless driving, and the impact for self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 30, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The drive to nowhere. The latest media reporting indicates that people are increasingly opting to go for drives to escape their...

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Why simulation is the cornerstone of autonomous vehicle development

Posted on Apr 30, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

A crucial component of ‘Vision Zero’ is thought to be the autonomous vehicle (AV). Not only are AVs likely to run on cleaner, electric...

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Self-driving vehicles get in on the delivery scene amid COVID-19

Posted on Apr 30, 2020 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Self-driving cars, trucks, sidewalk robots and shuttles are rolling out of the labs and parking garages...

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Cars could go completely driverless ‘very soon,’ says CEO of Chinese autonomous driving tech start-up

Posted on Apr 30, 2020 in Cars, News, Perspective

The time that cars could go completely driverless is coming “very soon,” according to Jianxiong Xiao, CEO and founder of AutoX, a...

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Do autonomous vehicles need LiDAR??

Posted on Apr 30, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

In Part 1 (published 4/12/2020), I explored the parallels between the automotive LiDAR and telecom optics investment booms, and posited...

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The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic

Posted on Apr 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

April 28, 2020 In the months since the coronavirus prompted shelter-in-place orders around the world, entire companies, industries, and...

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Delivery robots aren’t ready—when they could be needed most

Posted on Apr 28, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

AMERICANS CHOOSING TO —or forced to—stay inside during the Covid-19 pandemic are leaning heavily on food delivery. Instacart sales soared...

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Self-driving startups work through health crisis

Posted on Apr 28, 2020 in Perspective, Trucks

Investor-funded startups competing hard to commercialize highly automated heavy-duty trucks found themselves having to deal with...

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Tesla and owners go reckless again with new automated driving feature

Posted on Apr 26, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Let me be absolutely clear. Any manufacturer of any product that pushes out a safety critical feature that is not fully developed, tested...

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GlobalData: COVID-19 puts brakes on driverless cars

Posted on Apr 24, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

In recent years, the automotive industry has been addressing the megatrends set to transform long-term urban mobility and the industry,...

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With Baidu and Deepblue’sdriverless commercial landing, WIMI Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ:WIMI) is focusing on AI visual service 5G market

Posted on Apr 23, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The development of the automatic driving industry is becoming the focus of the competition among the first tier cities in China. After...

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Will autonomous vehicles always be a pipedream?

Posted on Apr 23, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Five years ago, almost every manufacturer was making presentations about autonomous vehicles and how they would be on the road by 2020....

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Why Waymo gave up on driver-monitored Autopilot

Posted on Apr 23, 2020 in Perspective, Technology

Around 6 months after Tesla’s Autonomy Day, Waymo CEO John Krafcik gave a presentation to German auto giants that he was seeking to...

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Dangers await self-driving car tryouts as post-pandemic roadway efforts get underway

Posted on Apr 23, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Many parts of the economy and commercial industry have been brought to a temporary halt as a result of the pandemic, including the...

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Cruise commits to delivering the Holy Grail: Self-driving EVs powered entirely by renewable energy

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

One of the promises of autonomous vehicles is that they will be safer for passengers, occupants of other vehicles, and bystanders, thereby...

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The autonomous car industry is about to get hammered

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

Good morning and welcome back to Speed Lines, The Drive’s morning roundup of what’s going on in the world of transportation. I...

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Surprise! 2020 is not the year for self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

In March, because of the coronavirus, self-driving car companies, including Argo, Aurora, Cruise, Pony, and Waymo, suspended vehicle...

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Putting autonomous driving back on the road

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

The self-driving car was a dream deferred even before the Covid-19 outbreak brought the U.S. economy to a standstill. By early 2020, plans...

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The underlying ethics of autonomous driving (6/6)

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 in Cars, Perspective

When we get behind the wheel of a car, we don’t really think about anything other than where we are going, how long the journey is likely...

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AV: Bringing standards together for safety

Posted on Apr 21, 2020 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

How many safety standards does it take to screw in the lightbulb in a highly automated vehicle? A few years ago, automotive market novices...

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