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Steering Autonomous Vehicles From Curse To Blessing Via Autonomous Bus Rapid Transit

Posted on Aug 28, 2019 in Buses, Perspective

Autonomous cars are generating incredible hype, but whether they become a curse or blessing depends on how they are used. Car...

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Ford says its autonomous cars will last just four years

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The automotive industry has been promoting self-driving cars as a kind of panacea that will solve numerous problems that modern society is...

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A Novelist Takes Self-Driving To Its Illogical Conclusion

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The Fate of the Furious doesn’t really get crazy until the movie’s villain, played by Charlize Theron, tells her hacker minions to “make...

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The Road To Self-Driving Storage

Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

You’ve already noticed that the data center is in the midst of a revolution. It is no longer a world where you can simply unpack a server...

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The robo racing cars accelerating driverless tech

Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

For a start, he doesn’t get in the vehicle – it’s driverless. As a post-doctoral researcher, he is in charge of the...

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Tesla full self driving & the infamous 80–20 rule

Posted on Aug 25, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

For people working in software development, like I used to do, the 80–20 rule is infamous. It states that about 80% of the job is done in...

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Elon Musk’s physics mindset may underpin a misguided timetable for full self-driving Teslas

Posted on Aug 25, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Leaders often use specific mental models to guide their approach to leadership (see my book on business pivots and leadership for further...

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How do we stop driverless cars and autonomous delivery drones from becoming weapons?

Posted on Aug 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

As we look to the future of driverless cars and autonomous delivery drones, one of the most existential questions of their future is how...

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Grappling with risk-o-meters for self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

You are a finely tuned risk calculator.  That’s right, when you are driving a car you are in real-time having to figure out the risks of...

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China is betting on slow but steady to win the self-driving car race

Posted on Aug 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Over the past two years, China has been setting the stage for a revolution in autonomous driving. Just don’t expect that revolution to...

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Autonomous mobility and the mythical mass market

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, Markets, Perspective

In the fall of 2002, Microsoft announced the Smart Personal Objects Initiative (SPOT), which aimed to inject software into everyday...

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Researchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums

Posted on Aug 21, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

If you’re like me, and I’m just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you’re...

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Waymo: Building cars is a “distraction” from self-driving tech

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

When it comes to building and perfecting the self-driving car, some companies have elected to build a full vehicle from the ground up,...

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Autonomous technology requires caution — and a leap of faith

Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Historically, every wave of technological innovation — especially those that directly impact human well-being — has had...

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Exec warns of too much public road AV testing

Posted on Aug 19, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

A whistleblower who alerted Uber officials to safety problems in the company’s self-driving program days before a fatal crash has a...

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How Tesla’s path to self-driving cars is different from others

Posted on Aug 19, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The race to fully autonomous vehicles is on. In April, Elon Musk declared that Tesla should have over a million level 5 autonomous...

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The past, present, and future of self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 19, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Cars will eventually drive themselves. But it’s probably going to take longer than we hope. Realists in the industry, such as Gill Pratt,...

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When an autonomous car is in a crash, who’s liable? (Good question.)

Posted on Aug 19, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Who is liable when an autonomous vehicle is involved in a car crash? It’s a question yet to be answered, and one the Governors Highway...

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Deadliest summertime highways in the U.S. will be recast via self-driving cars

Posted on Aug 18, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Here’s a quick roadway tip for you. If you are heading on a driving trip this summer, please try to avoid the following highways:...

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Waymo’s self-driving tech needs one big thing to succeed: More humans

Posted on Aug 17, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo has built the world’s smartest vehicles with access to the world’s best artificial intelligence,...

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