Brazil exemplifies the auto industry’s CASE challenge
Think of CASE—connected, autonomous, shared and electrified—mobility and you might picture a well organised street scene with dedicated...
Read MoreElon Musk says Teslas can be “superhuman” — rhetoric of AI sparks controversy, intrigue
A driver’s responsibility is to ensure that the vehicle is appropriately positioned within a designated lane and moving at the correct...
Read MoreThere must be 860 ways to build an AV LiDAR – part 1
DARPA started it all. With the Grand Challenge a decade ago – with researchers competing to drive robotic cars through unpredictable...
Read MoreIn Mount Vernon, Paccar develops automated trucks that could revolutionize long-haul industry
SKAGIT COUNTY — An engineer steered the cab of a freight truck onto a vacant track. The ride was smooth as the tires met a patch of light...
Read MoreHow safe is safe for an AV? The answer (expectation and communication)
Ken Ford is a wellrecognized expert in the field of artificial intelligence. In his talk “On Computational Wings: The Prospects &...
Read MoreIs progress in autonomous technology gated by research in animal communication?
Research in animal communications conjures up images of Jane Goodall studying the great apes in Tanzania. Indeed, a great deal of...
Read MoreElon Musk seemingly used the superhuman ‘false narrative’ in advancing Tesla’s self-driving car ambitions
Superhuman. What does that mean? What does that mean to you? Well, Elon Musk has suggested that Tesla cars outfitted with self-driving...
Read MoreAnalysts: Trucking ripe with opportunities for autonomous technology
Many headlines about autonomous driving focus on the consumer auto market, but the commercial and heavy-duty truck segment are where...
Read MoreFlexibility, platform-agnostic approach key to mainstream autonomous mobility
HD mapping will do to manual navigation what smartphones did to cordless phones, blueray did to cassettes, and Cloud did to CDs —...
Read MoreHow COVID-19 could open the door for driverless deliveries
The COVID-19 pandemic has put an incredible strain on global supply chains, from medical supplies to household goods, as spikes in demand...
Read MoreAutonomous cars are harder to design than any other, says BMW
If you think you’re frustrated with BMW’s current design direction, just wait until cars get even more autonomous. At the moment, the most...
Read MoreAutonomous driving: cities of the future
If there’s one thing Japan is famous for, it’s infrastructure. From the thousands of miles of high-speed rail tracks that duck and weave...
Read MoreGround-penetrating radar (GPR) sensors will be useful for AI self-driving cars, but not likely to strike gold
Recent news reports have heralded the latest research on Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) sensors and suggested that such devices will...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles: Driving regulatory and liability challenges
The development of autonomous vehicle (“AV”) technologies has been a recent focus of automotive and tech companies alike. One of the main...
Read MoreWhy you should wait to buy Tesla’s full self-driving option
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capability has the potential to change the automotive industry as we know it. However, it’s taking...
Read MoreCoronavirus puts ambitious plans for self-driving cars on the shelf
In two weeks, the coronavirus has brought the entire U.S. auto industry to a screeching halt. When it finally sputters back to life, many...
Read MoreWill a small open-source effort from Japan disrupt the autonomous space?
The article “Linux Beat IBM, will open-source software beat Waymo and Tesla ?” introduced the power of the open-source organizational...
Read MoreThe venerable upstream parable helps in these trying times, and applies to the future of AI self-driving cars
It’s parable time. Some of you might be familiar with a parable that many refer to as the Upstream Parable or alternatively the River...
Read MoreIt took a coronavirus outbreak for self-driving cars to become more appealing
Suddenly, a future full of self-driving cars isn’t just a sci-fi pipe dream. What used to be considered a scary, uncertain...
Read MoreCoronavirus: what differences could driverless vehicles make?
At the moment, it seems that every news story is covering the coronavirus pandemic. Considering this, it seems natural to question how our...
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