Legacy truck players: Ignore autonomous trucking at your peril
The conversation about autonomous vehicles has been hard to ignore over the past few years. Indeed, it’s been almost deafening at times,...
Read MoreComing release of Tesla Autopilot ‘red light’ auto-stopping could trigger a self-driving downward spiral
Human drivers seem to effortlessly be able to detect red lights at traffic signals. Well, most of the time. Sometimes, a driver is...
Read MoreLuminaries battle in Lincoln-Douglas style debate about the future of self-driving cars
Several self-driving car luminaries assembled online via a Zoom-casted battleground this week to undertake a Lincoln-Douglas style debate...
Read MoreThere’s a baby sea lion on Highway 101, what would a self-driving car do?
There was a bit of extra excitement in the San Francisco Bay Area traffic last year when a baby sea lion decided it was time to checkout...
Read MoreIs virus-inspired eNASCAR a glimpse at the autonomous racing future?
Former General Motors vice chairman and car guru Bob Lutz created a buzz in the auto world three years ago when he described a dystopian...
Read MoreStarsky Robotics failed. Does that mean automated trucking is dead?
I met Stefan Seltz-Axmacher for the first time in November 2015 at the Florida Automated Vehicles Summit. Not long after, we met at the...
Read MoreBreakthroughs in roadway edge computing are the missing link for self-driving car collaboration
Have you ever been driving a car and found yourself reaching a veritable sensory overload in the act of driving the vehicle? It can...
Read MoreWill truck convoying be the first viable commercial application for AV technology?
Industry Background: Trucking has long been seen as a potentially interesting application for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology. ...
Read MoreThe truth is that traffic lights won’t be shelved due to self-driving cars
It is a bit of a miracle that each day we drive around and encounter traffic signals that by the mere act of shining a light of differing...
Read MoreVoluntary temporary suspensions of self-driving car roadway tryouts due to Coronavirus have added payoffs
Many of the major self-driving car roadway public tryouts that are taking place on our highways and byways are temporarily being suspended...
Read MoreCoronavirus shows there’s still no such thing as a totally human-free self-driving car
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make human drivers obsolete. But the coronavirus pandemic is exposing how a technology designed to be...
Read MoreThe problems of medical emergencies while inside a self-driving car are going to be challenging
Jonathan got into his car that morning and was driving over to the grocery store. It was a day like any other day. He had driven the route...
Read MoreWaymo funding shows long road to AVs
There can be no doubt: The development of autonomous vehicles is going to require more — way more — time and money than people thought...
Read MoreMining industry laboratory for self-driving tech
As the debate continues about how – or even whether – to deploy autonomous vehicles in populated areas, lest lives be at risk,...
Read MoreWeRide resumes robotaxi service in China after COVID-19
WeRide resumes robotaxi service in China with extreme precautions to keep riders and drivers safe after COVID-19. I met the WeRide team at...
Read MoreHuman behavior and group dynamics can be reshaped by AI use, including via ai self-driving cars
Suppose you interact with an AI system, such as a robot, and in so doing your behavior changes based on that interaction. This makes sense...
Read MoreNavigant’s nonsense about Tesla autonomous driving
It is that time of year again. We see all the self-appointed experts extol their superior vision on the subjects that are most clickbait...
Read MoreYour weatherman says: “Your AV index for today is … “
Today’s automobile needs a great deal of infrastructure to be useful. A major part of the infrastructure is the civil transportation...
Read MoreNewest trend: Combining healthtech with AI self-driving cars for an upcoming boon in our health and wellness
Having to visit the doctor can be arduous. For those that don’t have a car, they oftentimes need to utilize multiple mass transit options...
Read MoreRoamin’ numerals: this Pi Day, celebrate how math is powering self-driving cars
While Pi Day may seem like a made-up holiday, March 14 – 3.14 – actually provides us with an opportunity to recognize the important role...
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